Switzerland is an "ultra-localist" country according to Nassim Nicholas Taleb and I'd agree. The Kantons have more power than the federal government. So in essence, Switzerland and the USA are much alike. It's just that the USA has a flavor of this localism so extreme and chaotic that the resident in a way is supposed to relocate to a better place if they don't like it (see residents fleeing California for better places). Switzerland seems to have a more orderly form of localism where instead of the resident, the representative moves.