Name a country that was once a Soviet republic: rare answers

Answering “Name a country that was once a Soviet republic”? Our list has 15 answers, sorted below from the deepest cuts to the picks everyone types first. Russia, Ukraine and Azerbaijan only score 10. Deep cuts such as Turkmenistan and Tajikistan score 85 points.

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Accepted answers: 15
Category: Geography
Deep answers (85–100 pts): 2 (13%)
Alternate spellings accepted: 1 answers
First letters: 10 different; A is the most common (2)

🦑 Midnight Zone: 2 answers (13%), 85 pts each
🐠 Twilight Zone: 4 answers (27%), 60 pts each
🐟 Sunlit Zone: 5 answers (33%), 30 pts each
🌊 Surface: 4 answers (27%), 10 pts each

The rarest answers

This list has no Abyssal tier, so the Midnight Zone is as deep as it goes: Turkmenistan and Tajikistan, worth 85 points each.

🦑 Midnight Zone answers (85 points)

Turkmenistan, Tajikistan

🐠 Twilight Zone answers (60 points)

Uzbekistan, Moldova, Latvia, Kyrgyzstan

🐟 Sunlit Zone answers (30 points)

Georgia, Kazakhstan, Armenia, Lithuania, Estonia

🌊 Surface answers (10 points)

Russia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Belarus

Other spellings we accept

Type any of these and the game counts it as the same answer. Small typos are forgiven on longer answers too.

Russia: Russian Federation

Rarity tiers are our own estimate of how few people would think of each answer. For strategy, read how to find One in a Krillion answers.

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