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Episode 229: The World’s Smallest Nations

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Ru's History and Culture

Now Ru has been dominated by australia ever since it was captured during the first world war. Now Ru's population fell from 1400 to just 900 people as a result of infighting and civil war in 1878 until 1888. In 1900 phosphate was discovered on the island and the Germans ripped as much of it as they could out of the ground. Even today now Ru's natural environment is struggling to recover from the damage done by the phosphate strip mining that lasted well into the 20th century. i am deeply ashamed to say are a big part of what props up now Ru's economy which without australia's money would almost certainly collapse but rather than support a regional neighbor a small nation in

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