If our "country of the year" award went to the place that grabbed the most headlines, Russia would be hard to beat. But we do not wish to honour military adventurism, domestic repression and the burning of perfectly good foreign cheese, so Vladimir Putin will have to make do with the Chinese peace prize he won in 2011. Likewise, Islamic State, though it forced itself into the news more than most countries in 2015, is disqualified because it is not a nation but an abomination.
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