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 20: Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia

Population: 99M

Location: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/dd/Ethiopia_%28Africa_orthographic_projection%29.svg

Flag: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/71/Flag_of_Ethiopia.svg

Dude, get a membership. I need the pictures! Links are trashy.

poor as fuck

they may be poor, but they can run!

http://www.jokeped.com/category/57/Ethiopian-Jokes

They defeated the Italians once.

Is that really an achievement?

Has Italy ever won a war (without changing sides at the end)? They might be even worse than France

If you polish over the unstable political situation, its a beautiful country.

Try feeding your people... oh wait you can't.

The synonym of starving people.

Ethiopia- Having a more destructive Berg than the Titanic iceberg.

I'm pretty sure the Italians defeated the French once.

Also they eventually won against the Ethiopians in a different war.

Other than that.....

Somehow managed to maintain their independence and lost it to Fascist Italy

They were one of few African countries that weren't shit before the Europeans/Arabs came

Hamites who join every religion

>Haiti of Africa

They were one of few African countries that weren't shit before the Europeans/Arabs came

There were no African countries before the Europeans/Arabs came.

What a very Eurocentrist attitude - of course there were - few, but Kingdom of Ethiopia one of them.

Dude, get a membership. I need the pictures! Links are trashy.

No.

What a very Eurocentrist attitude

What were you expecting on the WarLight off-topic forums?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Aksum
I was mainly talking about this