Germany
Maybe because it's the only foreign language I can (sort of) speak? Maybe because German girls are good looking? Maybe because they drink beer by the litre rather than the pint?
I really don't know why I like Germany.
Maybe it's because of their economic growth?
National product:
Germany: GDP - purchasing power equivalent - $1.3446 trillion (1994 est.)
western: GDP - purchasing power equivalent - $1.2363 trillion (1994 est.)
eastern: GDP - purchasing power equivalent - $108.3 billion (1994 est.)
National product real growth rate:
Germany: 2.9% (1994 est.)
western: 2.3% (1994 est.) eastern: 9.2% (1994 est.)
National product per capita: Germany: $16,580 (1994 est.)
western: $19,660 (1994 est.) eastern: $5,950 (1994 est.)
Inflation rate (consumer prices):
western: 3% (1994) eastern: 3.2% (1994 est.)
Unemployment rate:
western: 8.2% (December 1994)
eastern: 13.5% (December 1994)
Budget:
revenues $690 billion; expenditures $780 billion, including capital expenditures of $96.5 billion (1994)
Exports: $437.0 billion (f.o.b., 1994)
commodities: manufactures 89.3% (including machines and machine tools, chemicals, motor vehicles, iron and steel products), agricultural products 5.5%, raw materials 2.7%, fuels 1.3% (1993)
External debt:NA Industrial production:
western: growth rate 2.8% (1994)
eastern: growth rate NA
Electricity: 115,430,000 kW capacity 493,000 million kWh produced, 5.683 kWh per capita (1993) Industries:
western: among world's largest and technologically advanced producers of iron, steel, coal, cement, chemicals, machinery, vehicles, machine tools, electronics; food and beverages eastern: metal fabrication, chemicals, brown coal, shipbuilding, machine building, food and beverages, textiles, petroleum refining
Agriculture: western:
accounts for about 1% of GDP (including fishing and forestry); diversified crop and livestock farming; principal crops and livestock include potatoes, wheat, barley, sugar beets, fruit, cabbage, cattle, pigs, poultry; net importer of food
eastern: accounts for about 10% of GDP (including fishing and forestry); principal crops - wheat, rye, barley, potatoes, sugar beets, fruit; livestock products include pork, beef, chicken, milk, hides and skins; net importer of food
Illicit drugs: source of precursor chemicals for South American cocaine processors; transshipment point for Southwest Asian heroin and Latin American cocaine for West European markets
Economic aid:
western: donor - ODA and OOF commitments (1970-89), $75.5 billion
eastern: donor - $4.0 billion extended bilaterally to non-Communist less developed countries (1956-89)
Currency:
1 Deutsche Mark (DM) = 100 Pfennige Exchange rates: Deutsche Mark (DM) per US$: 1.5313 (January 1995) 1.6228 (1994) 1.6533 (1993) 1.5617 (1992) 1.6595 (1991) 1.6157 (1990) 1.8800 (1989) 1.7562 (1988)
Fiscal year:
calendar year
Ok, so it's more likely to be one of the 1st three options!