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Tetro Kornbluth
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« on: October 04, 2015, 08:50:43 PM »

Wikipedia has a thing, usually in the articles entitled 'economy of [insert country here]', where it displays in the form of multiple squares put together to make a big square the exports of each country (each square representing one export, the bigger the square the greater weight of the export proportionally). I'm wondering how many people here, without looking at the link, can figure out which country has which export square. I will start below



Any guesses?
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« Reply #1 on: October 04, 2015, 08:58:54 PM »

Moldova
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« Reply #2 on: October 04, 2015, 09:00:29 PM »

I looked at the link, and it's definitely not the one I would expect...
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« Reply #3 on: October 04, 2015, 09:22:13 PM »

Ukraine? Curly
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« Reply #4 on: October 04, 2015, 09:36:49 PM »

A Central Asian country?
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« Reply #5 on: October 05, 2015, 01:39:32 AM »

A landlocked saharan African county with a low population, but enough infrastructure to support a mining industry. Majority of the population are tribal or poor farmers living on less than a dollar a day and not part of the economy. Probably has a decent Berber population, thought that comes with the region.

Mauritania, Mali, and Niger (pronounced differently in French) all come to mind. I originally thought it might be sub-saharan, but such a country would have more diverse exports like tropical crops.

Australia has a beef industry (it's a country I think of when uranium exports is mentioned) and is way too developed to just have an export economy.

If I'm wrong it's probably some -stan former USSR country but I doubt it.
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« Reply #6 on: October 05, 2015, 01:57:47 AM »

Niger, perhaps? I'm thinking of Colin Powell's speech at the UN.
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« Reply #7 on: October 05, 2015, 02:45:12 AM »

Kyrzygistan?
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« Reply #8 on: October 05, 2015, 07:33:24 AM »

It's clearly one of the least developed economies in the world - essentially no diversification; and the primary export is an unprocessed raw material.

I presume sub-Saharan African - indeed, I presume the Sahara is a factor, there's no sign of any agricultural exports.

I'm not sufficiently aware of major sources of radioactive elements to go any further.
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« Reply #9 on: October 05, 2015, 08:00:56 AM »
« Edited: October 05, 2015, 08:02:34 AM by Crab »

A landlocked saharan African county with a low population, but enough infrastructure to support a mining industry. Majority of the population are tribal or poor farmers living on less than a dollar a day and not part of the economy. Probably has a decent Berber population, thought that comes with the region.

Mauritania, Mali, and Niger (pronounced differently in French) all come to mind. I originally thought it might be sub-saharan, but such a country would have more diverse exports like tropical crops.

Australia has a beef industry (it's a country I think of when uranium exports is mentioned) and is way too developed to just have an export economy.

If I'm wrong it's probably some -stan former USSR country but I doubt it.

Of the countries mentioned, Niger has the most uranium. So that's what my guess is - I change my answer from Central Asia as those countries are at least somewhat industrialised.
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« Reply #10 on: October 05, 2015, 09:08:38 AM »

I think probably Niger or Chad.
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« Reply #11 on: October 05, 2015, 12:08:14 PM »

First guess was Mongolia, though that would probably have a more diverse economy than that... A -stan country? Some people's arguments for Niger or similar countries make a lot of sense, too.
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« Reply #12 on: October 05, 2015, 12:40:13 PM »

First guess was Mongolia, though that would probably have a more diverse economy than that... A -stan country? Some people's arguments for Niger or similar countries make a lot of sense, too.

Yeah, Mongolia exports a lot of copper, coal, etc.
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« Reply #13 on: October 05, 2015, 04:17:10 PM »

A landlocked saharan African county with a low population, but enough infrastructure to support a mining industry. Majority of the population are tribal or poor farmers living on less than a dollar a day and not part of the economy. Probably has a decent Berber population, thought that comes with the region.

Mauritania, Mali, and Niger (pronounced differently in French) all come to mind. I originally thought it might be sub-saharan, but such a country would have more diverse exports like tropical crops.

Australia has a beef industry (it's a country I think of when uranium exports is mentioned) and is way too developed to just have an export economy.

If I'm wrong it's probably some -stan former USSR country but I doubt it.

Niger, perhaps? I'm thinking of Colin Powell's speech at the UN.

It's clearly one of the least developed economies in the world - essentially no diversification; and the primary export is an unprocessed raw material.

I presume sub-Saharan African - indeed, I presume the Sahara is a factor, there's no sign of any agricultural exports.

I'm not sufficiently aware of major sources of radioactive elements to go any further.

A landlocked saharan African county with a low population, but enough infrastructure to support a mining industry. Majority of the population are tribal or poor farmers living on less than a dollar a day and not part of the economy. Probably has a decent Berber population, thought that comes with the region.

Mauritania, Mali, and Niger (pronounced differently in French) all come to mind. I originally thought it might be sub-saharan, but such a country would have more diverse exports like tropical crops.

Australia has a beef industry (it's a country I think of when uranium exports is mentioned) and is way too developed to just have an export economy.

If I'm wrong it's probably some -stan former USSR country but I doubt it.

Of the countries mentioned, Niger has the most uranium. So that's what my guess is - I change my answer from Central Asia as those countries are at least somewhat industrialised.

Congrats everyone who said Niger that is the answer. Next round:

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« Reply #14 on: October 05, 2015, 04:25:54 PM »

Some Caribbean county, maybe Jamaica?
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« Reply #15 on: October 05, 2015, 04:30:55 PM »

Unclassified transactions lol.

I will say the Cayman Islands.
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« Reply #16 on: October 05, 2015, 04:37:59 PM »

Gold, fish, and tropical agriculture... Fiji?
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« Reply #17 on: October 05, 2015, 04:46:23 PM »

Ugh, which islands have gold deposits? Anyway, it I think this place sounds too diversified and therefore too large for the Caymans. Possibly Jamaica, although I would have thought they would export alcoholic beverages.
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« Reply #18 on: October 05, 2015, 04:57:16 PM »

Surinam?
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« Reply #19 on: October 07, 2015, 12:37:20 PM »

The not neglectable portion of industrial produce (textiles, most obviously; but there are also aircraft and televisions specially mentioned!) make the Carribean island country, which tropical fruits and fish would make think of, a bit more unlikely, imo. As Crabcake said, it has to be a larger one, otherwise it would not be so diversified, and what else is there around the equator and outside of the Carribean? Nothing but the bigger South Sea nations, so either Fiji, Vanuatu, Tonga? Probably Fiji, but I could be totally wrong of course.

(Most likely I am, and maybe I'm just saying this to have a different one than all of the people saying something Carribean Tongue)
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« Reply #20 on: October 07, 2015, 03:19:24 PM »

Dominican Republic?
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« Reply #21 on: October 07, 2015, 05:26:14 PM »

A few people called it.... It was Fiji

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« Reply #22 on: October 07, 2015, 05:33:42 PM »

Switzerland
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« Reply #23 on: October 07, 2015, 05:58:56 PM »

Sounds like a first world country. Am I the only one that finds the "Recorded gramophone records" baffling?

LOL, maybe the UK making good use of all those Beatles LP records?
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« Reply #24 on: October 07, 2015, 06:38:50 PM »

Switzerland and especially UK exports must be well above $134 billion, unless the chart is very outdated. And there are no watches or oil.  At first I thought Czech republic but was intrigued by the size of the pharma sector and the absence of cars, it was the CDs mention that put me in the right track.

Tetro, I'd scrap the dollar amount to make the game funnier. Too big of a  hint.
 
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