Is the case for an Autistic country really that implausible?

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Will not say how insane or not the idea is (personal fan of quasi-tribalism)
But... There is plenty of space in space, or on/in the sea.

Nations do not need "cases", it's not like they need to justify their existance before the UN.

The above said, I personally think discussion of an Aspie nation is....considerably premature. In the current globe, I doubt any other country would recognize it anyway. South Sudan and East Timor are not exactly formation stories you'd like to emulate.

It appears that if the DSM5 had not changed the criteria substantially there might eventually be no need to establish a new country, specific to males, as what was once identified as an actual disorder at 1 in 10,000 has most recently been reported as 1 in 50 by the CDC in a survey of over 65K parents, with 1 in 33 for males overall, ages 6 to 17, and about 1 in 150 for females.

That doesn't include the 10 to 15 percent already identified on the broader autism phenotype, and 30 percent of people in the population measured with at least one autistic trait in studies in the US and Sweden.

It appears that a society like the Amish is a good place for people to exercise special interests in well planned out social roles, where what might be a broader autism phenotype that exists in all human societies and a counterpart perhaps even reaching to 20% of all social animal populations, at the fringe edges, is less likely to become a limit of a major area of life functioning.

Door to door diagnostic scans done in two Amish Countries resulting in preliminary results in a study of a prevalence of 1 in 271, provides pretty good preliminary evidence that environment of culture plays a substantial role in what may be diagnosed as disorder. It was a much more comprehensive study than phone calls that people did not have to answer, in the national survey of parents where over 60K did answer the phone.

This was only a survey of people actually diagnosed. An actual full population scan based on DSMIV diagnostic tools would likely result in prevalence of 1 in 15 or less among males in some areas of the country. It is already at 1 in the high twenties per actual surveillance of children in New Jersey and another state that I can not remember, that is listed in the CDC, 1 in 88, official surveillance results.

For whatever reasons the 10 to 15 percent, perhaps 20% of broader autism phenotype is becoming more likely to exist as an ASD diagnosis in the US, South Korea, and Japan. Greater awareness and the loosely required criterion elements per DSMIV and later standards in these countries has a lot to do with it, but numbers in Amish counties indicate that there is some type of cultural/environmental phenomenon that is resulting in higher rates of diagnosis.

When people leave Amish counties they often do not fare well in adapting to modern society. The answer is likely to be found in culture instead of environmental toxin.

Unfortunately, vaccine hysteria has limited research in this more appropriate area of study among the Amish. The preliminary study of the 1 in 271, presented in the International Meeting of Autism Research IMFAR, was never published in a peer reviewed journal.

I think it was likely considered as politically incorrect and difficult to publish, per vaccine hysteria, as some would point to a factor of lower rates of vaccination among the Amish, along with the lower prevalence rate, as a type of evidence of an autism-vaccine link, if the results were available in a peer reviewed study.

Countries do require diversity of minds to function well, but without appropriate cultural niches for differences in abilities in social roles that can be found, some fare better than others.

Unfortunately one usually is born into Amish Culture, and it is not usually a club of culture that one can just drop in and join. Not likely that many raised on fast paced technology of instant gratification, would want to make that kind of change.

And there may lie one of the answers as to why the prevalence numbers are so different in Japan, South Korea and the US, as compared to Amish Counties. And why the big increases have occurred in the 90's and beyond, other than loosely defined diagnostic criteria and better awareness and access to diagnosis.

Circling back to the OP...