Comparative ideology on the prowl

Sometimes I wish I could have little nations, nations no one would miss, to test out particular ideological ideas and observe the resulting effects. The procedure would go something like this: 

One would seal the borders. One would ensure that compliance with the test run ideology was met with enthusiastic support from the populace. One would then begin to watch the test subjects actually conducting their economic affairs as though they were implementing or even just trying to implement any of dozens of ideologies, as happy as clams. Even trying counts! Trying is data. 

"You, Lithuania! Yes, you. Steady-state economics. And you, Guatemala. It's Henry George's Single Tax for you! Good luck!" one would say encouragingly, as if blissfully unaware that a freshly-sharpened Sword of Damocles was now hanging over the inhabitants of the test areas.

After the first series of test runs it would be possible to refine the run design so as to take observed factors into account. "Mmm, yes, mm, so social credit policies managed to control inflation in the Neu Sealand test area better than expected before that final incandescent crescendo, but maybe if we tweak some of the policies of the Economics Directorate..."

Some of the test areas might experience difficulty, but we at the Ministry of Comparison and Contrast see the information thus gleaned as of supreme importance to the cause of constructing eudaemonic social patterns in the noise of human flux. Any victims may be assured of their contribution to the advance of empirical comparative ideology. Let the tests begin!