Australia

Racist island nation, peripheral, both geographically and emotionally. Struggling with its own identity, due largely to the relative newness of the country (as opposed to the former colonies). Prone to sporadic and generally short-lived dalliances with progressive socialist government, before reverting to right wing populist fundamentalism more south Texas than the south Pacific. In common with its American regular comrades-in-arms, it has a deep-rooted passion for sport the rest of the world doesn't understand or play. Climate as unpredictable as a traveller's wedding.