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A few bright spots: our country of the year

The Intelligence from The Economist

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The World's Youngest Country of the Year

This year we've all spent so much time in virtual locations that aren't real places at all. And there's been so much buzz about the meta ves that i think it would make a good winner, right? So your task then was o narrow that email chain down into a short list. Which countries were the top tenders? The cases seem strongest to us. Included lithuania, i markodiastrowski and am russia and eastern europe. We had one perhaps frivolous vote for a place to which a huge portion of the world's young are clamoring to go. I'm going to nominate fortnight island as country of the year. It does have quite a serious problem

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