Actually, it was 10% of the population and 30% of GNP.
And please don't use the term ex communist country :), if you know the situation of yugoslavia - which was one of the nonaligned movement countries, you'd know we had socialism with almost none of the communist persecution traits. (Tbh, I loved the cross europe school trips :).
Slovenia is nice :) of course taxes are high (but the current government is working on it), but you actually get something out of it.
a bit of info
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/si.html
(and don't worry about the 2,4% muslim... they can't even decide who to follow ^_^)
and a blog of an american about slovenia
http://www.carniola.org/theglory/index.htm
(I'd especially recommend the things you'll probably not see in the US category + slovenia/slovakia mixup)
Before you go on making such outlandish comments I suggest you read up a bit on Slovenia. When it was part of Yugoslavia with only 20% of the population they accounted for 70% of it's GNP. They have also the highest number of computer engineers per capita in Eastern Europe, I believe it is even higher than Italy or France. It is the fastes growing economy among the ex communist countries.
I am currently in Italy and when I change dollars to Euro or vice versa the exchange rate is horrible that is why I said that the Euro is currently stronger than the dollar.