The undecideds are a mixed bag ranging from Chile, one of the front-runners among emerging economies, led by a respected social democrat, to Guinea, one of the most backward of nations, ruled by an ailing despot.
It is the kind of disorderly succession we normally associate with island nations ruled by individuals with the official title of "strong man," but this is really how the Jaguars conduct business.
First, at a time when western nations ruled vast tracts of the globe, it was agreed that companies would be taxed at the place of their residence rather than where the economic activity took place.
Not one of the encyclopaedias of Pliny or his predecessors paid much attention to religion; if it was discussed, the approach was antiquarian, the gods of the different nations ruled by Rome being named and described in a dispassionate spirit that reflected both the tolerance and the noninvolvement of the Romans in these matters.
Both European nations ruled through the kings and perpetuated a pro-Tutsi policy.
The California Fair Political Practices Commission and the Maryland State Board of Elections, two independent state agencies that oversee campaign finance, recently approved first-in-the-nation rules permitting low-dollar text message contributions to political campaigns.
With Australia also travelling to India in the new year, there is scope for more movement at the top of the world Test rankings, continuing the confusion surrounding which nation rules the longest form of the game.
A nation ruled by the anarchy of unconstrained desire.
It is over whether we are a nation ruled by law, or the whims of men in power.
Welcome to the "pirate state" of modern Russia, a nation ruled by a "criminal conspiracy" of Soviet-era ex-spooks.
Syria has a liability not found in the successful uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt — it is a majority Sunni nation ruled by a religious minority.
