As religious capitalism continued to spread, the economics of scale proved compelling. This forced several smaller countries to consolidate. Few noticed the disappearance of the tiny European countries of Andorra, Lichtenstein, Monaco and San Marino; but when Sakhalinia, Bornholm, and Palawan gave up their hard-won independence from the Siberian Republic, Denmark and the Silawesi-Borneo Philippine Union, respectively, the trend became noticeable, and by the time Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Greenland, Iceland, Svalbard, and Finland formed the Atlantic Scandinavian Rabbinic Capitalist Union in 3021, with its capital in Oslo, the trend was unmistakable.