Originally Posted by Dave (Post 8470034)

I was trying to think of the most obscure countries.

Originally Posted by Rain Man (Post 8470003)

Okay, I'll share my theory now. The main crux was proven, I think, and the tertiary crux was possibly proven, but maybe not.

I read alnorth's thread about the soccer protest in Turkey, and I was thinking, "do people pay much attention to Turkey"? It seems like a country that is more or less off the radar of most Americans.

Turkey is the 17th most populous country in the world. I was wondering if you had Americans start listing countries, where would Turkey show up? Unless I missed an earlier reference, it looks like ks smitty mentioned it in Post 92.

So that's pretty low visibility. However, it's not necessarily proven that Turkey is ultra-low, because I think it was mentioned before the Philippines and Nigeria unless I missed them, and those countries have larger populations.

But the main crux of my theory is proven. I was pondering what country might have lower visibility relative to its size than Turkey, and the country that popped into my mind was Indonesia. No one ever talks about Indonesia, and it is the 4th most populous nation on the planet, ranked behind China, India, and the U.S. As I'm typing this, no one has yet mentioned Indonesia.

I expect that small countries like Moldova and the Central African Republic will be low visibility, but Indonesia is huge. And no one, including myself, ever pays attention to it. Interesting.

Originally Posted by Dave (Post 8470034)

I was trying to think of the most obscure countries.

Originally Posted by Bugeater (Post 8470047)

Same here, less chance of reposting that way.

Originally Posted by Bugeater (Post 8470016)

Huh, I thought Indonesia was listed.

Originally Posted by KS Smitty (Post 8470059)

So do I win a prize?

Originally Posted by milkman (Post 8470066)

I stuck with the more obvious, knowing that over half of you dumbasses would be doing this.

Originally Posted by KS Smitty (Post 8470059)

So do I win a prize?

Originally Posted by Rain Man (Post 8470090)

Trip to Turkey? But not the nice part. Too expensive.

Originally Posted by Talisman (Post 8470086)

Not sure a theory of which countries come to mind first works on a BB where some people are trying to pick the most obscure country they can think of (or find on a list of countries they got from Google).

It is odd that I just came from the thread about strange soccer fans in Turkey and didn't think of Turkey at all. I'll give you that.

Originally Posted by milkman (Post 8470108)

I do think it's a flawed experiment, since people are going to try to think outside the box, so to speak.

I mean, think about it.

The U.S isn't mentioned until post 34.

Originally Posted by Talisman (Post 8470116)

You think about different things than I do.

I was thinking about whether to watch some more Breaking Bad on Netflix or fire up the 360 for a game of something.

But the country visibilitilization thingie is cool too.

Originally Posted by Rain Man (Post 8470174)

Have you considered reading about the history and geography of Indonesia?

Originally Posted by Rain Man (Post 8470115)

Admittedly, implementation wasn't perfect, but at the same time it seems like with a large number of people some would've started with big countries. And China and India were named right off the bat.

I think we as a BB should make an effort to learn more about Indonesia. We would all be better as a result.