The Summerian Calender was based off the movement of the moon.
The English turned down the plan because they feared that it would giver more power to the colonies. The colonies disliked it because they felt skeptical about central taxing.
They are Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korean and Taiwan. they got their names by earning very high growth rate ( they became rich very fast ) and fast industrialization between the early 1960s and 1990s.