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Could Switzerland Become the First Country to Cap Its Population? | The New Yorker

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The Swiss will soon go to the polls for a novel initiative that could upend the nation’s economy and rupture ties with the European Union.

Save this story Save this story Once upon a time, in the town of Maienfeld, high up in the Swiss Alps, there lived an orphan with a heart of gold. A cruel aunt sent her off to seek her fortune in crowded, sooty Frankfurt, but city life nearly killed her, so she was swiftly returned to the fresh mountain air. Since then, the world has come to Heidi. From the train station in Maienfeld, near the border with Liechtenstein, a footpath leads up to Heididorf, a reproduction of the idyllic farm where Johanna Spyri’s beloved children’s novel—named for its protagonist and published in 1880—is set. On a

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