Tibet. Any country can be referred to as the italy of its region, if it is crappy, rundown, was once famous and has a lot of shitty leftover culture from like a thousand years ago. But now a days its basically indian reservation.
hey look at this neato Temple, its been here for a thouand years, everybody can read and write, but they have to resort to eating birdguano to survive.
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)