A country and its doubles.

For the ones who didn't recognize Tibet in the previous post, you still missed the point, guys. Now, you may object:
"- hey, Fluff, Tibet is not really a country, it is not recognized as such by the Chinese, it is officially a province;
- which Tibet are you referring to anyway? it's had several borders along history, so how did you choose along them?
- You didn't make it look like someone Tibetan!"

Look, hey? What? no TIbetan person would be likely to recline in front of a 16/9 screen teevee with a remote in their left hand, in a luxurious lounge-room where ancient and modern art cohabitate in an (almost) kitsch harmony? Even if they were not deemed "representative"?

But what is representative? What we perceive through the global media? the official history of a place? people we know from there, even if they don't look like clichés we accept as such?

A country is mostly the vast amount we imagine from the little we knwow.

M-A-P.

If you hadn't recognized the map of Kuwait in the last message, that's 0 point for you. Now, a map is the shape of a country at a given moment of history. For example this beautiful pouting odalisque watching teevee from her sofa has the opulent shape of a country that does not really exist as such nowadays. It's just the reminiscence of some period of its history. Which country-which-is-not-a country?
Once you find which country hides behind this character, you will think, isn't it bizarre to represent that country by that character? What is the common point? Well, does it HAVE TO BE a common point? Can anyone deduce the reality of a country by its mapped representation? Is it because you watch a country on google earth that you actually KNOW that country?