Venezuela

This is a new country for me. Previously I've known people who know people, but not one directly from there. Now I do. It is a fantastic country in the way that my acquintance comes from there and is proud of it, in other ways it's ruled by a dictator. Not that he's called a dictator, Venezuela claims to be a democracy but in reality is not. From what I'm told.

As usual, I looked it up on CIA world factbook: http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/ve.html

PS. Funny, when you search for V in the list, the first country that comes up is Vanuatu. Have you ever heard of it? I hadn't. I am now wiser, since it apparently is located between Hawaii and Australia!