The dictator encouraged all women have five children to try to increase population. Along their southern border lie oil reserves that are now nearly exhausted. Yugoslavia is an example of Balkanization, which means the fragmentation of a region into smaller countries. Yugoslavia consists of three major antagonistic faiths, Catholicism, Orthodoxy, and Islam. The Czech Republic is not only the western most country but also the most Westernized country.
Bohemia is the mountain-enclosed core that contains the capital of Prague.
Prague always has had a great deal of contact with the west. Czechs have been the leaders in technology and engineering skills. Belarus covers about the same amount of land as Kansas. It has a population of about 10 million people. The capital, Mensk was an industrial center of the Soviet Union.