 And another example of limited government is the former British colony of Hong Kong. And after China ceded the territory of Hong Kong to the British Empire in 1842, the British installed a colonial government consisting of a governor, a court system, and little else. In the years that followed, based on global trade centered on Asia, Hong Kong grew to a land of 7.4 million people. And Hong Kong's a tiny island, so 7.4 million people is a lot of people.