Och hoots mon, Edinburgh innae a wee burgh. Only xxxxxxx (that city's a swear word in Edinburgh) is bigurgh. Dundee is wee, Inverness is even less, Ayr innae there. Noo it's taim to goo to the Government Commissioner and divaide xxxxxxx into tairn tainy pieces and maiark Edinburgh the grairtest, which it is anyway but ye gnaw what ae mean...
You said Country of the Suez, but later you said major Egyptian Canal, so those don't work great. Maybe make it country of Cairo or land of pharaohs or something.