Similar challenges faced in most western countries. Our economy (for as broken as it is), 'works'. People have access to financial services. Our payment systems (mostly) work. Our dollar is very broken, but we're in denial. So there is limited incentive to adopt something like Bitcoin, becuase those in power are so naive to think that things are fixable.

Geographically, we are quite isolated too, so that probably doesn't help in terms of staying connected to the other parts of the world.