• Kabul
• Hamid Karzai
• East side of middle east
• Ancient center of the silk road.

• Tirana
• PM - Sali Berisha
• In NATO
• At one point Nazi protectorate

Algiers

PM - Abdelmalek Sellal

Economy is mostly based on oil and suffers from Dutch Disease due to it's lack of manufacturing.

Andorra la Vella

PM - Antoni Marti

Known for beautiful tourism due to its location on the border of Spain and France.

Luanda

Jose Eduardo dos Santos

Among the lowest standards of living in the world.  Located in SW Africa.

Saint John's

PM - Baldwin Spencer

Popular Caribbean destination.  Still sort of part of English empire.

Buenos Aires

Yerevan

Pres. - Serzh Sargsyan

Sovereignty is not recognised by Pakistan.  Alleged genocide by Turkey.

Canberra

PM - Julia Gillard

Founded as a penal colony. 13th in GDP PPP.

Vienna

Pres. - Heinz Fischer

In 1955, declared permanent neutrality.

Baku

Pres. - Ilham Aliyev

Done comparatively well compared to other Eastern European & CIS states since the fall of the Soviet Union

Nassau

PM - Perry Christie

It is a Commonwealth Realm of the UK.  Destination for thousands of Loyalists after the American Revolution.  They brought their slaves with them.

Manama

King - Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

Little island off Saudi Arabia. Petrostate.  Trying to diversify.  Major U.S. ally.

Dhaka

PM - Sheikh Hasina

Split off from India and became East Pakistan.  Then split and became Bangladesh.

Bridgetown

PM - Freundel Stuart

Although technically an Atlantic Island, it is one of the most economically developed in the Caribbean.

Minsk

Pres. - Alexander Lukashenko

PM - Mikhail Myasnikovich

Most of the pollution from the Chernobyl Disaster was dumped on Belarus due to winds.

Brussels

PM -- Elio di Rupo

Folk lore plays a large role in the country and it has a relatively high number of processions, festivals, etc.

Belmopan

PM -- Dean Barrow

Only country in the region with a British colonial history.

Porto-Novo

President -- Yayi Bono

30% of its exports are edible nuts.

Thimphu

PM -- Jigme Y. Thinley

As of 2006, rated as the happiest country in Asia and the 8th happiest in the world.

Sucre

President -- Evo Morales

Working Bolivarian socialist government.

Sarajevo

President -- Zeljko Komsic

PM -- Vjekoslav Bevanda

Split into two regions by the war.  Republika Srpska is 49% while the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina is 51% of the total area.

Gaborone

President -- Ian Khama

One of the most sparsely populated countries on earth and 70% covered by Kalahari desert.

Brasilia

President -- Dilma Rousseff

Colony of Portugal after the pope split the New World into two.  Still speaks Portugese.

Bandar Seri Begawan

Sultan -- Hassanah Bolkiah

Little island near Indonesia with a filthy amount of oil wealth. Sultan has largest private plane on earth.

Sofia

PM -- Plamen Oresharski

Spends 0.25% of GDP on research giving it one of the largest R&D budgets in Europe.

Ouagadougou

President -- Blaise Compaore

President basically came to power through a coup and is a glorified dictator.

Naypyidaw

President -- Thein Sein

All of their ATM traffic is run through St. Louis b/c they do not have a developed enough infrastructure.

Bujumbura

President -- Pierre Nkurunziza

Over 90% of the people are involved in agriculture.