It’s an age old question: Does size matter? Of course among the enlightened the answer is a resounding NO! Because enlightened people lie too. Among those men of less stature, not so much. Literally. Whether it’s in centimeters, inches, by a wish or a prayer, how well you measure up matters. Especially when you don’t have a lot of matter to begin with. But then for many who are not interested in being short changed, the size of one’s partner’s talents matters too. And for those who prefer the small countries in SE Asia for their stomping grounds, that often means a night of expectations not met. Sure there are those guy who stand tall in every country, but grading on a bell curve, when you head to the East, there’s a good chance that there just won’t be much of a curve there.

But now, thanks to the formation of the political/economical Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) block, a smaller view of the state of those states can help you decide which country to visit to best fill your needs. And despite Kim Jong-Un using Dennis Rodman as a ringer to bring his country’s numbers up, it ain’t North Korea.

While the official ASEAN can’t manage to get its act together and keeps pushing integration back by yet another year, ASEAN DNA, a website dedicated to promoting a better understanding and appreciation of shared values and common characteristics of SE Asian nations has gotten to the heart of the matter by publishing an infographic of member nation’s member’s size. And because the interests of neighboring countries are always of interest too, their global sphere of influences delves into the less than prodigious arenas of other Asian countries too. Which graphically shows why China will never be considered to be a super power.

As for the ASEAN members themselves, being from Burma is a bit of a bummer, and Bali’s high, eking out a wet spot just slightly above the sausage fest of Malaysia, Singapore, and Vietnam, while the boys of the Philippine Islands inch out a win over those from Thailand, Cambodia, and Laos. Even if that is only a third of an inch.

To be fair, numerology is not an exact science and ASEAN DNA’s graphic is somewhat suspect, claiming as its source the user-generated content of an on-line pop-statistics site which references a couple of studies published by a few dubious ‘health’ sites. Though the ASEAN average of 4.6 inches, which falls short of the global average of 5.5 inches, is a fact of life that Asian men just have to live with.

But then who’s counting.

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