Evil aliens have decided to kill everyone on Earth! Fortunately, they've given you two minutes to save as many as you can. All you have to do is name a country to save everyone in it.
Since Quizmaster has decided to feature this quiz, I've composed a sequel--with a whopping 29 countries in it (and each letter being used by an average of 4.8 words).
Very awesome! A lot of close calls, I think you ve done a brilliant job here. I do feel there should be more time to appreciate this brilliance ;) to discover more near misses.
I first tried to solve in like a word search, which was impossible, re-read the instructions, and then tried to only use orthogonal connections. I only realized my mistake in the last 30 seconds.
Almost-correct answers are really distracting. I kept seeing Turkistan - the cross between Turkiye and Turkmenistan. Didn't kept that MENI was present elsewhere.