ill-starred
— Adjective
– English
~ marked by or promising bad fortune; "their business venture was doomed from the start"; "an ill-fated business venture"; "an ill-starred romance"; "the unlucky prisoner was again put in irons"- W.H.Prescott
Islamic State of Afghanistan
— Noun
– English
~ a mountainous landlocked country in central Asia; bordered by Iran to the west and Russia to the north and Pakistan to the east and south; "Soviet troops invaded Afghanistan in 1979"
Independent State of Samoa
— Noun
– English
~ a constitutional monarchy on the western part of the islands of Samoa in the South Pacific
Independent State of Papua New Guinea
— Noun
– English
~ a parliamentary democracy on the eastern half of the island of New Guinea; in 1975 it became an independent state within the Commonwealth of Nations