I have assigned 198 countries a number. The countries I've chosen are the 193 members of the UN plus those recognised by at least 20 UN members. Each week I will pick a country using a random number generator and we will discuss that country.

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Country of the Week for week 25: Georgia

Population: 3.7M

Location: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/67/Georgia_%28orthographic_projection_with_inset%29.svg

Flag: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0f/Flag_of_Georgia.svg

http://i.imgur.com/hqaUuRq.png

They really hate Russia.

exsoviet country

Someone needs to take it up against the opression of the ethnic Belgian minority here in Georgia. I demand Wafflomaniacstan to be created.

Abkhazia used to have a big Greek minority. In the 1989 census: 2.8%. In the 1897 census: 5.1%.

Edited 3/24/2016 23:25:50

One of the oldest existing nations.

Since when do states count as countries?

Stalin is from Georgia.

lets get this thread going:

more irrelevant than belgium, and thats saying something

Faced an invasion from Russia, and people from Georgia (US) thought their own state was being invaded.

How Georgia and Georgia came to have the same name by the way?

US Georgia was named after King George of Britian

As for the country, I have no idea. They do have a pretty nice flag, though.

It's time from enlightment and from getting out of traditional media lies by uncle Russian Juggernat. It went as following:

US army were training Georgian soldiers in Germany, things were getting pretty good, the two presidents (of USA and Georgia) got pretty close and well Georgians thought it was a step forward to becoming part of the whole Europe stuff.

Then they thought they can pull stuff off that no one else could: president Saakashvili really hated Russia together with his ministres and well Russia was transporting some stuff with a warship to Sochi and the smart Georgians thought, that they can attack this ship to get some ressources and sent 5 small range ships to get the big Russia carrier (lol)

Then they have drowned 1 smaller ship which was protecting the big ship and that's when shit went down. Russia started mobilising it's armies and Mr. Saakashvili started chewing on his tie :)

Then Russia invaded and Saakashvili asked Europe and US to join this war against Russia (lol).

We all know how it went later. Georgia lost catastrophally and US and Europe did not join to defend the fags. I meant Georgia :D

That was a lesson from uncle Russian. P.S. I know because I was in Georgia in 2008... I was indeed there until 2012 (awful times - the ones I was there, not the war times. During the 2008 miniwar it was actually different than people interpret. Me and my grandma were sitting in a park and eating some stuff :D Seriousely, we only got the information about that "war" 5 days after the war was over...).

Btw in 2016 the population is under 2 million, because everybody is trying to get out of there. No jobs, new government is shit (yes, even worser than Saakashvili :D) - under their regime many people lost their jobs (including my uncle) because, as they said, old companies were corrupting the government to stay running...

This is insider info, so be careful what you do with it xD : the youth there is awful. People say Georgians are friendly and stuff, it is kind of right in a way, or as I see it the older generation (who is over 25) is friendly and follows their old traditions, but the never ones... Well I went to school there and it was awful. I am not even gonna talk about the infrastructure. They repair the city centers, but the outskirts are the same as in USSR times and people don't have money to repair their homes, which are partially collapsing. So back to youth: they don't even try anymore... Instead of going to search for jobs they buy beer with their parents money and they stand outside and well look on women's asses... I don't really like those youth of theirs xD

But hey - they have got a welfare system for people who have no jobs - 1,80 lari a day! That's almost 1€ a day :D Anybody can agree that you can't survive with 1€ a day... Simple bread costs about 0.50€, so half of the daily allowance per person...

There is no more actual food control subsidy tho - no one controls what they are eating anymore, which results in companies selling stuff that people in Europe throw away when they are on their last days of being good - then they change the stamp and sell it as new.

Landscape is pretty beautiful tho, I must say :) Also their food is great :D