Kiribati

Kiribati is a nation made up of everything that happens to be sticking out of the Pacific Ocean in an area of about 1,300,000 square miles near the equator. Most of its 98,000 inhabitants are the descendants of a bunch of credulous dupes who were tricked into living there by meanspirited merchant sailors way back in the day (like, at least thirty years ago). "Kiribati" comes from a terrible mispronunciation of "Gilbert," and is the root of a long-running I-Kiribati inside joke that everyone thinks is kind of annoying now. The Gilbert part comes from the Gilbert Islands, an island chain (in turn named for actor and comedian Gilbert Gottfried) the makes up most of the shit that people are able to build houses on there.

Kiribati Gottfried at an awards show in 1991.