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Lyrics	% Correct
{Bangladesh}? No, {Bangladesh} looks like a wizard! (You think everything looks like a wizard!)	90%
Cuba's very long and thin and both {Koreas} are short and squat.	80%
Hmm... {Italy}'s a boot.	80%
And {Australia}'s a cat-dog, and Japan we must reject.	75%
And so is {Papua New Guinea}!	75%
Both the USA and {Canada} have squares in large amounts, but we're only counting countries, and states don't count.	75%
But it's not the only one, it's joined by {Sierra Leone}.	75%
Little Rwanda? Doesn't stand a hope in hell. Nor does {Israel}. (Are we seriously going to go through every country? Yes, I think it's important.)	75%
{France} is famously a hexagon, that fact is quite well known.	75%
Mozambique has got too many sides, {Uzbekistan} as well.	75%
Not in {Oman} or the UAE.	75%
What about {Benin} and Togo? No, they're both far too skinny.	75%
Burundi looks quite like a heart, {Qatar} looks like a bean.	70%
{India}'s a diamond and Slovenia's a splot.	70%
{Malaysia}? Jay, {Malaysia}'s not a square! But there must be one somewhere!	70%
{North Macedonia}? Too round.	70%
{Poland} would look like a square if it invaded to the south.	70%
{Slovakia}? No.	70%
Tajikistan's quite funky, as is elephant head-shaped {Thailand}.	70%
There's no square in {Indonesia}'s 18,000 tiny islands.	70%
They're not square and nor are Denmark, Finland, China, or {Iran}.	70%
And Nauru's nearly a circle and {Somalia}'s a sock.	65%
And {Yemen}'s more of a rectangle! Yes I can see.	65%
{Guatemala} has two squarish sides in this bit in the north. But it won't meet our criteria 'cause it needs a third and fourth.	65%
If you have a lot of coastline then your sides will not be straight, so the squareness of the Philippines, Greece, and {Ireland} won't be great.	65%
{Kazakhstan} looks like a turtle with a leaf stuck in its mouth.	65%
{Kuwait} looks like a little thumb, Madagascar looks quite lean.	65%
Little {Paraguay}'s no paradigm, Mauritania's an L.	65%
{Luxembourg}ers are all squares which their borders don't reflect.	65%
And Malawi's like a seahorse, {Guinea-Bissau}'s a weathered rock.	60%
{Burkina Faso} is irregular, four-sided it is not.	60%
{Chile}'s very, very, very, very, very, long and thin.	60%
Despite a square's efficiency, the {German}s don't come close.	60%
{Ghana}? Too long.	60%
Is {Morocco} square? No, it's more of a stair.	60%
{Mali} starts off strongly, but right here it goes to pot.	60%
Moldova? {Guinea}? Don't be silly.	60%
Norway, {Sweden}, and New Zealand all have far too crinkly edges.	60%
There's no square in Singapore, Brunei, {Mauritius}, or Gabon.	60%
What about these little countries, {Costa Rica}, Lebanon?	60%
Ethiopia and {Switzerland} look like potato wedges.	55%
{Georgia}? No.	55%
Little {Monaco}'s so tiny you can see the piers within.	55%
There's Ukraine, Venezuela, Eritrea, Cyprus and {Kosovo}!	55%
{Timor Leste}? Doesn't pass the test.	55%
And {Peru} is like a resting dog, Guyana's like a ghost.	50%
{Russia}'s nothing like a square. Too long as far as I'm aware.	50%
The Gambia, {Vietnam}, and Panama all look like snakes.	50%
The {Vatican}? The {Vati}-can't.	50%
What about these landlocked countries like {Nepal} or South Sudan?	50%
And Iberia would pass but {Spain} alone's not square enough.	45%
{Kiribati}? Not square, alas.	45%
{San Marino}? {San Mari-no}!	45%
South Sudan has left behind a very square North {Sudan}ese.	45%
{Uganda} cannot be a square because of all the lakes.	45%
{Chad} looks like Jay Leno, Eswatini couldn't be rounder.	40%
Greenland's not a real country even though it's really big. The {UK} looks like an old witch sitting sideways on a pig.	40%
If your country's made of islands, then a square you'll never be. There are loads of island nations that are mostly empty sea: Trinidad and Tobago, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, the {Solomon Islands}, the Seychelles,	40%
{Liberia}? No.	40%
{Senegal}? Not square at all.	40%
Some parts of {Tuvalu} look rude.	40%
So the winner of our contest, Fitting all our tight prescriptions, It's the squarest of the squarest! The nation of the Pharaohs! The land of Cleopatra! The country where the Sphinx is! It's the land of the {Egypt}ians!	40%
While {Iraq} and Jordan's lines are straight, the angles just aren't right.	40%
And the following are countries with a sticky-outy bit: There's Afghanistan, {Namibia}, the DRC's got two.	35%
But add Ecuador and {Bahrain}, and it's massively improved.	35%
{Cameroon} is like a chicken with a huge badonkadonk.	35%
{Equatorial Guinea}'s very square, but unfortunately, since its capital's on an island, then the squarest it can't be.	35%
{Myanmar}'s like a genie and not even slightly boxy.	35%
The {Netherlands} is flat although its edges do not fit.	35%
{Turkey} is too rectangular.	35%
{Brazil} is too triangular,	30%
{Mexico}? No, no, no, no.	30%
{Nicaragua} would look square if you viewed it in 3D.	30%
Syria's just a bit too slopey, and {El Salvador}'s too long. (That doesn't rhyme!)	30%
The angles in {Angola} mean it's nearly good to go.	30%
The CAR so near, so far, {Botswana}'s like a flounder.	30%
The {Dominican Republic}, that just tapers to the east.	30%
The Maldives, Micronesia, {Fiji}, the Marshall Islands, St. Kitts and Nevis,	30%
This monkey is Armenian, this shooting star's {Laotian}.	30%
Tunisia and {Albania} look like each other.	30%
And Cote d'Ivoire and {Suriname} do well in our exam.	25%
{Belize} has one edge here that's straight but this bit's rather lumpy.	25%
If {Bolivia} expanded, then a square it just might be.	25%
Little {Liechtenstein} and the Argentines are not square in the least.	25%
{Mongolia} looks like a bat, the Congo's kind of foxy.	25%
Now the only countries left are ones whose squareness are the best. If you know which ones are coming, we're incredibly impressed! Little {Montenegro}'s square if you rotate it some degrees.	25%
{Samoa}'s like a butterfly whose wings have been removed.	25%
And {Nigeria} comes close, although it bulges down below.	20%
{Azerbaijan} looks like a bird that's been run over by a truck.	20%
{Comoros} would if it were glued.	20%
{Libya} is nearly square, it's more a parallelogram.	20%
{Portugal}? Too thin, too tall.	20%
São Tomé and Príncipe, {the Bahamas}, Cape Verde, Tonga, Vanuatu!	20%
Algeria and {Kenya} are pentagons, Honduras is too bumpy.	15%
{Bulgaria}'s too knobbly,	15%
Haiti, Croatia, and {Zambia} all have shapes that wrap around.	15%
Listing every country by its shape is not an easy job when inevitably loads of them look only like a blob. So to make things more efficient, as I'm sure you've got the gist, here are all the blobby countries in a quick compiled list: Andorra, Antigua and Barbuda, Austria, Barbados, Belgium, {Belarus}, Bhutan, Bosnia and Herzegovina,	15%
{South Africa}'s too wobbly,	15%
Sri Lanka's like a raindrop, {Kyrgyzstan}'s a bird in flight.	15%
Cambodia, Czechia, {Djibouti}, Dominica, Estonia,	10%
{Colombia}'s kind of squarish though its borders are quite rough.	10%
Grenada, {Hungary}, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania,	10%
Jamaica, {Malta}, and Niger are creatures from the ocean.	10%
{Lesotho}'s sort of squarish but the angle's on the wonk.	10%
{Palau} looks like a jellyfish, Pakistan looks like a duck.	10%
The {Saudis}? Too much on a slant.	10%
{Turkmenistan} looks like something or another.	10%
Serbia, St. Lucia, Tanzania, {Uruguay}, Zimbabwe!	5%