South Africa
From Memory Alpha, the free Star Trek reference
South Africa is a former nation-state on Earth. Nelson Mandela was president of South Africa during the 1990s.
When the USA launched an orbital platform armed with nuclear weapons in 1968, ground stations in South Africa and on Bermuda monitored the flight of the rocket carrying the platform. (TOS: "Assignment: Earth")
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