What's so Special About Mauritius?

I had to go down to Shanghai the other day to get my Visa for India. The Indian visa service place was some outsourced thing so the whole place was just Chinese people giving visas to other Chinese people. I was the only person there who wasn't Chinese in fact. I got the three month single entry visa, since that's all I really need, but Ken told me after that when he was there the person he talked to told him that all the visas were the same price so he got a six month multy entry visa instead. I tried to ask the person there what the difference between the visas was but she seemed a little confused by my question. The visa was expensive, unlike Thailand which doesn't require a visa, but there was a really funny list of a couple of countries that got free visas including such travel mainstays as North Korea, the south didn't get it, and Mauritius which is a couple of islands off the coast of Madagascar whose only claim to fame is that it was once the home to the Dodo bird. I don't know why exactly these countries get free visas but I bet it's simply because they give Indian people coming to there country free visas. The whole visas system is so much about reciprocity. That's why Americans end up paying so much in a lot of places sine we charge a lot for our visas. Around Asia the only countries that can be counted on to give us free visas are the ones we either saved of conquered, as Americans don't need visas for Japan, Korea, or Taiwan. The funniest visas situation though has to be Hong Kong which Americans can go to without any visa but Chinese people need a visa, a not so easy to get one at that, to go there. But remember there's only one China.