After this post,
where I wondered if server logs showing a constant stream of visits from the "Unknown
Country" might be visitors from beyond the grave, I got a flood of
emails from people certain that they themselves were writing from the
Unknown Country.  I’m not sure this speaks well of one’s civic pride, but I appreciate the tips nonetheless.

So far, this claim has been made by people who live
in Ireland, Northern Ireland, South Africa, China, Ireland yet again,
and Canada, although I think this last one was kidding.

To all of you kind writers, thanks — but I don’t think it’s you.  And Ireland must be pretty damn depressing this time of year, since the island accounts for fully half of emailers who consider their own
land as a better candidate for the Unknown Country than death itself.

Even more puzzling, however, is this newer graphic, creating a new, even more delightfully ambiguous category of visitors:

Hello, visitors from the land of Miscellany!

You guys were nine
percent of our traffic for a while.  And yet you’re from places
apparently even more miscellaneous than Cyprus, Denmark, the United
Arab Emirates, and (of course) Ireland and the Unknown Country.

I greet you with miscellaneous body gestures, and welcome you with
miscellaneous words!  I hope someday to learn your miscellaneous
customs, eat your miscellaneous food, and do miscellaneous things in a
most miscellaneous way.

That all said, I am highly disturbed by news of your growing border
tensions with the Nondescript.  And I frankly question your treatment
of the Higgledy-Piggledy among you.

We all know that terror strikes are Random events.  It is unfair to slur the Higgledy-Piggledy and Nondescript by association.

Unless peace initiatives work, this could lead to many of you having to log in from the Unknown Country.