Fun break project. It's a new version of the classic song: Animaniacs - Nations of the World.
CURRENT VERSION IS AVAILABLE HERE
The original song missed around 50 states, included various padded sentences that now are unnecessary/silly, and states that no longer exist. See inconsistencies for the full breakdown on these.
Thus I thought I'd have some fun forking the original song and adding the new states / deleting the old. It's cool how much sense it makes to fork a song. It's a very good project for memorizing geography, and also very fun. Impress your friends with your encyplopedic knowledge of this perhaps useless song!
It needed an extra verse and a slightly elongated fast end list, and some multi island names have been shortened slightly to get a nicer flow (documented in test.js).
- Rhyming MUST maintain the rhyming rules implicitly defined in the original song.
- Song MUST fit original melody (though we may add extra verses)
- State names pronunciation SHOULD conform to the first phonetic suggestion on English wikipedia
- State names SHOULD be aligned in the song such that emphasis occur on correct parts
- Song must contain every UN Member states or observer states (no more, no less)
This song is obviously never going to be correct for long with how the world is evolving. So feel free to raise issues when new states appear/disappear etc and maybe we can keep it up.
I also tried my best to keep the flow nice and smooth, but it's clear that other solutions exist. If you find cleaner variations, feel free to pull-req sensible changes!
When installed, you can require this as a module, but it just returns the latest version of the song as a string. It is debatable whether this is allowed to have on npm so it has been removed. You can depend on it by referencing this git repo in "dependencies" if you really want.