"mud wizard" is his English name. In the original sindarin his name is „der Mönch von Lützerath“

Somalia. There isn't really a functional government to speak of, so if the people even acknowledged the UN-backed central government exists, that would be something.

It's not continously true for Germans tho. When the green party makes it into the ruling coalition it always feels they care and a few good things happen for the benefit of most.

Pretty sure Americans hate themselves

Minenbau

Bagger 288 can never be defeated. Not even by time or entropy. That is not dead which can eternal lie.

And iirc it's something like 500m deep... absolutely awesome human achievement apart from the tiny little problems with it (it keeps eating up neighboring villages plus it produces brown coal which is the worst kind, environmentally speaking)

They will fill it up with water once they are done mining. It'll take about 40 years to fill though, between ground water and extracting water from the Rhine river.