Comment by MilkMp

11 hours ago

Hi there, I have located the root cause and will be fixing the issue:

Root cause: CIA uses FIPS codes (CanonicalCode), which differ from ISO Alpha-2 for many countries. Templates and SQL queries prioritized CanonicalCode over ISOAlpha2, so URL codes like /archive/2025/AU matched the wrong country.

Australia (AU) -> American Samoa (AS = CIA FIPS for Australia) Singapore (SG) -> Senegal (SG = CIA FIPS for Senegal) Germany (DE) -> Gambia (GM = CIA FIPS for Germany)

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roysting  41 minutes ago

Thanks for the follow up, I figured it was semantic collision. I noticed the “GM”.

This is a good example of the importance of strong toping patterns. The GDP of Germany just tanked, we didn’t lose a mars climate orbiter this time. :)