Have they made it to "The Former" Abracadabrastan yet? It's a very specialist little club – Syria's application has yet to be approved and I think Egypt's been waiting even longer? They do seem to have two things in common (all of them) which is the communism or another ism I've forgotten what it is now but I'm pretty sure Egypt was never a commie fordrough, from Lake Victoria to The Caspian, so whatever was going on in (the former kingdom of) Libya would fill in that blank.
This thread is about somewhere else though and I've just checked out their current status, which is "The Former Republic of . . ." now being "The Islamic Emirate of . . ." plus whatever denizens of the Hindu Kush are calling themselves now. Actually it's probably the same thing they've always called themselves, modern national delineations being both recent and imposed. The map circles some better-known locations for reference and is therefore bigger than I'd intended. The link
[above] provides border details and is zoomable.
Chelyabinsk: location of the Russian meteor
Tashkent: well-known silk road trade hub
Mazar Sharif: famous for agricultural exports
Tehran: Hell
Dubai: popular destination for gold-plated Rolls-Royces et al.