From a reader the center of the universe:

Your reader wrote: “Jonah, The reason Georgia is blank on Google Maps is because Google has yet to add detail data to it. This is the same reason Armenia, Paraguay, and Samoa are blank too. I don’t see any bias here (even though Google clearly has political bias elsewhere).” I finished work on a Masters a couple months ago, a few months before that I had reason to be looking at Ossetia as we were discussing something about Kosovo and the tendency these days for ethnic groups to get all nationalist and separatist. There were all kinds of pictures and close-ups available then.
Since the present unpleasantness began I have lumped this strange coincidence into my pile of proof that the world is all about me!
Thanks,