What sort of inherent difficulties come with a larger country?

[AmericanforAmerica]

Taking a small look at the map, anyone can easily notice the fact that a country (just an example)like Singapore works far better than many of it's peers.

What are some of the problems that come with a larger country (Both in terms of size & population) that make it more difficult to operate?

[Silent Hunter]

The fact it takes longer to move goods and services around.

[John Dibble]

When you have a larger number of people scattered through different regions of your country you will have greater differences in culture and political views, which makes consensus on many issues difficult to achieve. (though this is not necessarily a bad thing, as consensus in the wrong direction is preventable through this)

[Famous Mortimer]

It depends on how uniform the country is demographically.

The United States doesn't have any large ethnic minority majority regions. It doesn't have any large regions that are third world in terms of income and infrastructure.

So there aren't many problems.

Conservatives love that trope about how socialized medicine can only work in Sweden because Sweden is small but it would never work in America because we're big. That's just a load of nonsense. As long as the population increase is matched by a tax base increase (and of course it always will be because of two things are the same thing), it could work fine.

It's a different matter when you're like Russia where you have separatists and Asian regions where people still live in tribal situations.

[politicus]

It depends on how uniform the country is demographically.

The United States doesn't have any large ethnic minority majority regions. It doesn't have any large regions that are third world in terms of income and infrastructure.

So there aren't many problems.

Conservatives love that trope about how socialized medicine can only work in Sweden because Sweden is small but it would never work in America because we're big. That's just a load of nonsense. As long as the population increase is matched by a tax base increase (and of course it always will be because of two things are the same thing), it could work fine.

It's a different matter when you're like Russia where you have separatists and Asian regions where people still live in tribal situations.

You can take this line of reasoning too far, as the US right does rearding healthcare, but it still has some merit. Its just easier to govern small countries efficiently (not talking microstates here, units can get too small).

Besides the US is not exactly homogenous