I vote for Iceland for the islandy-country. Fascinating ancient history (vikings, Irish hermits), volcanoes that changed world politics (Laki's eruption caused crop failure all over Europe, and amongst other things, resulted in peasants starving and revolting - voila La French Revolution), political firsts (first parliament in the world, first openly gay prime minister), occupation by the US from WW2 til just a few years ago, a sneaky separation from Denmark during WW2 ('they're looking the other way - lets secede, quick!'), most environmentally friendly developed country in the world (100% renewable energy use), economic sagas (big contributor to the GFC), and they even eat all sorts of 'strange' foods (puffin, rotten shark, whale, guillemot eggs).
I think you should do the Philippines...mainly because I am going there and I have no idea about the place OR I could be your delegate and suss it out for you
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