We suggest you turn to the Tao Teh Ching:
61 The great land is a place To which the streams descend; It is the concourse and The female of the world: Quiescent, underneath, It overcomes the male. By quietness and by humility The great land then puts down the small And gets it for its own; But small lands too absorb the great By their subservience. Thus some lie low, designing conquest's ends; While others lowly are, by nature bent To conquer all the rest. The great land's foremost need is to increase The number of its folk; The small land needs above all else to find Its folk more room to work. That both be served and each attain its goal The great land should attempt humility. -- tr. R. Blakney