Pidgin has 1,500 words mixing indigenous, German and English sounds. Wantoks bind these communities. Because of the strength of the wantok system, there are no orphans and no concerns about old-age security. Land ownership is widely dispersed. There's no clawing to get ahead.
People know each other intimately.
In the morning a villager can step out of his house and identify who walked by during the night by the footprints in the sand. There's a oneness with nature as well as each other. The core of a typical village has a school, church, clinic, and sports field. It has about the same total wealth as Haiti but no squalor. While a wander through Haiti is a downer, PNG is an upper.