It is an astonishing windfall for a country with fewer than three million people.
That may not necessarily be good news for a country trying to slim its collective waist.
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For a country obsessed with people's life stories, Indians don't write absorbing autobiographies or biographies.
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Especially for a country with an aging population, schlerotic economy and burgeoning government debt.
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Belgium is infested with politicians (it has six parliaments for a country of 10m people).
Merritt's second record, Tambourine, was nominated for a Country Album of the Year Grammy in 2004.
For a country that pioneered liberalised energy markets in the 1990s, that is quite a reverse.
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That kind of notice is rare for a country that's not (yet) a military superpower.
For a country which still hangs wreaths on its Lenin statue, that is alarming.
For a country slowly emerging from dictatorship, those are good concepts to start getting rid of.
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Invasion, he said, was not an option for a country still recovering from the Vietnam War.
The only stimulus measure for a country with 24% unemployment was a cut in social-security contributions.
Its welfare state represents a defensible political choice for a country of yawning inequalities.
That makes sense for a country with an aging population, at least on paper.
But 100 years is a mere pin-prick for a country that dates back over two millennia.
Not bad for a country with a fairly poor history of workers rights and opportunity.
It bodes ill for a country that needs to tackle rapidly worsening finances and sluggish growth.
And I think we should not underestimate how liberating economic growth can be for a country.
For a country such as South Korea, buying dollars is both costly and possibly inflationary.
Their request: justice for a country that lost its shirt to traders and money managers in 2008.
That is still a catastrophe for a country that seemed to be rushing towards prosperity and pluralism.
For a country as small as Israel, even a small-scale nuclear attack could be an existential threat.
But rising house prices do not represent an increase in wealth for a country as a whole.
Balancing a budget is hard work, particularly for a country with the largest budget in the world.
For a country with an envious unemployment rate of 4.9%, it seemed an odd change in priorities.
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It means real interest rates are abnormally high for a country just emerging from a crunching recession.
It is an ironic twist for a country with a reputation as a high-tech and cyber-warfare powerhouse.
And if it is also inflationary, so much the better for a country still gripped by deflation.
For a country that has grown used to an ever brighter economic future, that is a nasty shock.
This is a significant step forward for a country that has been in a devastating crisis for years.
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