Chip and stans

I want to give kudos to Hi & Lois for a geography joke... but there are, in fact, only the five ex-Soviet Central Asian countries Chip mentioned... although how a typical US high school student would even be asked this, much less know it, is far fetched.... except that Chip was studying for this moment back in 2009.    Maybe she has a 25-year-old paper map on the wall and the students are looking up more current geographic info on the interwebs? If she's looking for Armenia or Azerbaijan she's got to take both, not just the one... and seriously consider Georgia.  If she's just punking them then it's a lame punk.  

Stans

Hi & Lois isn't a comic I thought would show up here. But this blatant shout-out to geography wins it a place here today.

For a more in-depth discussion of 'stans, see this.