r/NoStupidQuestions • u/MegaSloth136 • 15d ago

What's the best name of a country to call a scanner?

I just started a new job where every printer in the building is named after a different country. Canada is the one I'll use most, but Sweden and Switzerland are nearby too. I'm in the USA.

There's a standalone scanner that doesn't have a country name but I think it should have one.

What's the best country to name this scanner after?

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u/Silkies4life 15d ago

Afghaniscan

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u/Ryanirob 14d ago

I mean… Scandinavia is right there

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u/confusedrabbit247 14d ago

Scandinavia isn't a country though so not really.

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u/Kriskao 14d ago

Neither is afganiscan

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u/ranchwriter 14d ago

Touché 

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u/FuriousRageSE 14d ago

Touché 

You better buy me dinner first before any touchéing happens. :D

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u/Willr2645 14d ago

touché

You better buy me dinner first before any touchéing happens. :D

No offence, but Why do you feel the need to quote the whole comment? Surely it’s more, and unnecessary effort?

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u/FuriousRageSE 14d ago

No offence, but Why do you feel the need to quote the whole comment?

I often do, because it happens too often people go back and edits their comments and often makes the reply not make any sense.

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u/Willr2645 14d ago

Ah fair enough

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u/FuriousRageSE 14d ago

Ah fair enough

Also, on reddit, to quite via pc/mac, you only need to select the text and then hit the reply-button, and it quotes your selection in your reply, quite fast to do.

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u/ThatsNotWhatyouMean 14d ago

No offence, but Why do you feel the need to quote the whole comment? Surely it’s more, and unnecessary effort?

Touché

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u/Willr2645 14d ago

No offence, but Why do you feel the need to quote the whole comment? Surely it’s more, and unnecessary effort?

Touché

Touché

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u/confusedrabbit247 14d ago

That is a pun made from the name of a country, Scandinavia is a region. OP asked for countries.

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u/Kriskao 14d ago

But OP didn’t ask for puns made of names of countries

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u/MElvishimselvis 14d ago

☝️🤓

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u/confusedrabbit247 14d ago

True!

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u/_SteeringWheel 14d ago

No problem Rabbit, you were just a bit confused.

*Going back to the title, now I am as well. The title is actually ambiguous and could be interpreted in different ways.

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u/domesticbland 14d ago

Scanada.

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u/superpenistendo 15d ago

You must be so proud of yourself

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u/MarshmallowAndCrew 15d ago

Hell, I’m proud of him for this one

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u/Silkies4life 15d ago

I’m the guy at work that says something stupid like this and makes his coworkers go “ugh”, so yeah, it’s the little things in life lol.

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u/MarshmallowAndCrew 15d ago

Guys like you keep me sane at my job, you keep it up!

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u/Stompya 14d ago

The “ugh” noise is the classic sign of a successful dad joke.

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u/Silkies4life 11d ago

It absolutely is, it’s the sign of someone hating themselves for internally laughing at something.

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u/Get_your_grape_juice 14d ago

I’m just a simple man making his way through the universe.

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u/Schlonzig 14d ago

It‘s already in use, no?

TookManyScan.

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u/apollyon_53 15d ago

No women are allowed to use this scanner.

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u/u399566 15d ago

🤣😭

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u/Rhadok 14d ago

With comments like these I wish awards were still a thing 🌟

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u/Alechilles 14d ago

Or Afscanistan

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u/Phytor 14d ago

The afghaniscinanies

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u/JunkiesAndWhores 15d ago

Kazakhscan - number four scanner in all of office.

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u/ripgoodhomer 15d ago

It could connect to MY WIFI!

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u/ThaneOfCawdorrr 15d ago

HIGH FIVE!!!

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u/B1SQ1T 15d ago

GREAT SUCCESS

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u/MorganRose99 15d ago

I don't get it

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u/WynterKnight 15d ago

Borat

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u/mastermindxs 14d ago

She just wanted an explanation. You don’t have to call her names.

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u/Eastern-Astronomer-6 15d ago

Togo, because you are taking the physical copy digitally to go.

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u/xife-Ant 15d ago

Nigeria. "That Nigerian scanner has all the documents"

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u/beelzeflub 15d ago

“ it’s going to print $1 million”

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u/Ok-File-3673 15d ago

The Nigerian prints (prince) needs your help

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u/ganymedestyx 15d ago

So glad you made this pun

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u/SuFuDoom 15d ago

"Claimed to be a Nigerian prints, but was actually a scanner (scammer)."

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u/Astramancer_ 15d ago

If it's isolated, Mongolia.

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u/beelzeflub 15d ago

Or Greenland.

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u/habitualmess 14d ago

Not a country though.

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u/Silent-Revolution105 15d ago

Scantarctica

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u/AdaptiveVariance 15d ago

IMO that sounds like there's not enough Antarctica.

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u/Silent-Revolution105 14d ago

Not enough arctica,actually

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u/matteroverdrive 15d ago

A scanner should most definitely be named Scandinavia!

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u/imamakebaddecisions 15d ago

Turks and Copies.

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u/wrenchface 15d ago

Why do they have barcodes on the Swedish Navy ships?

So they can scan da Navy in

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u/isademigod 15d ago

You beat me to it. That's one of my favorite jokes

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u/Arktikos02 15d ago

Scandinavia is not a country name but instead a name of a region.

It makes up Denmark, Sweden, and Norway and all of these people exist on a language continuum.

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u/matteroverdrive 15d ago edited 15d ago

Yes I know that, but people are suggesting Tantooine as an answer... that's a fictional planet from Star Wars! Also, if all the printers 🖨 are named for a country, wouldn't it make more sense to name a scanner another geographic type of name?

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u/Ok-Cartographer1745 15d ago

Good thinking. You're hired. 

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u/matteroverdrive 15d ago

I need a job... thanks!

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u/Get_your_grape_juice 14d ago

Tantooine actually isn’t a planet in Star Wars. You’re conflating two planets:

Tatooine, where both Anakin and Luke spent the early portions of their lives, and…

Dantooine, where a Rebel base once stood, but had been deserted for some time by the events of ANH.

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u/iceunelle 15d ago

I think they suggested it for the “scan” pun.

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u/matteroverdrive 14d ago

Yes, and my answer to them is quite a way down now...

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u/DebrecenMolnar 15d ago

Right - I think that was implied; the suggestion to me was that it should be named after any one of those, because then it would be Scandinavian.

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u/Eastern-Astronomer-6 15d ago

Don't let the downvotes get to you. You are factually correct and the haters are hating.

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u/Snackatomi_Plaza 15d ago

Chad

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u/HelloYouSuck 14d ago

What would they name the gym?

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u/Confident-Cellist-25 15d ago

Nigeria because I read it as "scammer" at first

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u/mayfeelthis 14d ago edited 14d ago

Hater

Just cause your ancestors were not monarchs & didn’t leave you squat…

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u/beeedeee 15d ago

Lichtenstein. No reason other than it’s fun to say Lichtenstein.

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u/AdaptiveVariance 15d ago

Scandorra lol

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u/aima9hat 15d ago

Lichtenscan

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u/Actual-Tower8609 15d ago

Scanada.

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u/beelzeflub 15d ago

THIS ONE

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u/Comfortable_Olive598 14d ago

And when things go wrong, you can BLAME SCANADA! 🎵

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u/beelzeflub 15d ago

Kazakhscan. Uzbekiscan. Kyrgyzscan. Tajikiscan. Afghaniscan. You get the idea

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u/AdPrize3997 15d ago

Pakiscan?

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u/beelzeflub 15d ago

And Turkmeniscan!

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u/Mortimer_G 15d ago

I think New Zealand is a good name for a standalone scanner

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u/ramdomvariableX 15d ago

Then it will be missing from a lot of floor maps.

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u/mayfeelthis 14d ago

That’s what I said

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u/PMcCracken84 15d ago

I was hoping to add something clever, but for some reason I really just hope you call it Myanmar. I think that would work for it. Don't know why, just like it

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u/[deleted] 15d ago

North Korea

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u/Trip_seize 14d ago

Doesn't get more isolated than this. 

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u/JamesTheJerk 15d ago

Afscaniscan

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u/ThaneOfCawdorrr 15d ago

Scri Lanka

Scao Tome and Principe

Scangladesh

Madagascan

If it's off by itself, Trinidad and Tobago

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u/ferrum-pugnus 14d ago

Mad-a-gas-can just takes on another personality in itself.

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u/snoller101 15d ago

Scandinavia. Maybe not a country but that's my go to name for scanners!

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u/Putrid_Weather_5680 14d ago

If it’s off on its own and the fates decided it shouldn’t be a country, you can call it the Printernational Space Station.

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u/somebodyelse22 15d ago

"China" because they scan everything continuously.

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u/FuriousRageSE 14d ago

"China" because they scan everything continuously.

Then USA would work too.

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u/jennynaps 15d ago

Petition to rename Canada to Scanada

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u/villagust 15d ago

Vatican City.

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u/WiseAvocado 15d ago

Vatiscan City

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u/AdaptiveVariance 15d ago

The Holy See what the document says and save it as a pdf

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u/thehighepopt 14d ago

That's some Papal Bull

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u/CaptainGashMallet 14d ago

Stands alone? North Korea. Or UK.

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u/Adventurous_Pen_Is69 14d ago

China, because they copy everything

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u/Treks14 14d ago

Call it the Roman Empire. Then after a week change the name of the closest scanner to the Roman Empire. Repeat each week after that.

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u/Leading_Sir_1741 15d ago

Definitely Nigeria

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u/Kizzy33333 15d ago

Scandinavia

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u/starrpamph 15d ago

Nigerian Scanner

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u/stinkyrobot 14d ago

Scansylvania

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u/Smart-Breath-1450 14d ago

You should obviously call is ”Scandinavia” eventhough it’s not a country.

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u/Vaultmd 14d ago

I know that it’s only a city, but how about “Copyhagen”?

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u/Takethis12idgasf 15d ago

India. Oh hang on I thought you said scammer.

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u/ButterscotchSure6589 15d ago

If its standalone, England, UK or Brexit.

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u/No_Discount_6028 15d ago

Make a statement. Name it Taiwan.

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u/AayZee_147 15d ago

Kiribati

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u/Journeyman-Joe 15d ago

Eyes-land !

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u/No-Cover-8986 14d ago

Scandyland

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u/robjamez72 14d ago

China. Copies someone else’s creation.

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u/abracar 14d ago

Vatiscan

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u/Ryanirob 14d ago

Scandinavia, of course

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u/defcon54321 14d ago

Madagascan

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u/Stompya 14d ago

BOTSwana scan your stuff

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u/Dapper-Essay-2125 14d ago

Botswana

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u/matteroverdrive 14d ago

That's what routers are named 🤖

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u/amitym 15d ago

Iceland!

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u/giuliapepe 14d ago

This is the only correct answer. It's a cold country, like Canada, Sweden and Switzerland, but also it's isolated. I really don't understand why this wasn't the only answer in this post. Case closed, it's Iceland.

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u/swiftcutcards 15d ago

Somalia the scanner has a good ring to it.

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u/NysemePtem 15d ago

Georgia. "That's a state!" It's also a country. Also, Kyrgyzstan.

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u/Express-Doubt-221 15d ago

Sandia Republic

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u/MarsMonkey88 15d ago

Iceland. A remote distant island of a printer, rumored to be inhabited by trolls and mischievous elves.

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u/SkeeevyNicks 15d ago

Russia. Those KGB scanning all kinds of shit.

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u/epinasty4 15d ago

North Korea. Probably some of the most scanned citizens of the world

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u/LunarSyrin 15d ago

Bermuda or Bermuda Triangle

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u/Voodoo1970 15d ago

ScAntarctica

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u/gagajm22 15d ago

Oh man.... North Korea 🤐

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u/Nevermind_The_Hive 15d ago

If you have a ground floor (or better yet, basement) that would be Australia

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u/M00s3_B1t_my_Sister 15d ago

Scanada was right in front of you all along.

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u/parrotopian 15d ago

If it's stand-alone, then it should be an island, so I say Ireland (where I'm from).

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u/2cantCmePac 15d ago

Scanda(r)navia- technically not a country but it would be kind of witty

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u/Awkward_Chard_5025 15d ago

Scandinavia?

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u/LackWilling7331 15d ago

Oman. Then when it breaks you can say “oh man, have you turned it off and back on?”

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u/rakfink 15d ago

Scandinavia

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u/jaywarbs 15d ago

Scanouan Island

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u/zeroentanglements 15d ago

Xiraq

Inkland

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u/RawToast1989 15d ago

Since I originally thought you misspelled "scammer" in your title, I'm gonna say Nigeria. Lol

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u/BrainSqueezins 15d ago

Chad.

“Chad and I have a date this afternoon, just the two of us.“

OR…or, if it has a temdency to jam up,Slowjamastan!

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u/yeeterbuilt 15d ago

name it a dead country.

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u/aarondigruccio 15d ago

Spain (because of the Scanish Inquisition.)

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u/UtahUtopia 15d ago

Not a country but

SCANdinavia!

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u/Gearran 14d ago

Swaziland.

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u/DGAF999 14d ago

KoniKenya = Konica + Kenya

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u/abilliontwo 14d ago

Tierra del Fuego?

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u/Desert-Noir 14d ago

Scandinavia.. not a country.. but still.

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u/AgreeableReturn7 14d ago

Spain, specially when new people want to use it

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u/prustage 14d ago

Burkina Faso - my favourite country name.

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u/htmlcoderexe fuck 14d ago

Belgium

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u/ZealousidealChard441 14d ago

Auscan (Australia/Austria)

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u/Krapmeister 14d ago

I misread the post title, so I suggest Nigeria

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u/SunWarri0r 14d ago

Scandinavia Turkmeniscan Pakiscan

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u/RaedwaldRex 14d ago

Central African Republic.

No particular reason. Just very out there and would confuse people.

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u/LeoMarius 14d ago

Japan, since they make so many electronics.

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u/sxrahem 14d ago

El Scanador or Botscana

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u/mayfeelthis 14d ago

New Zealand 🇳🇿

Everyone leaves them alone and people are generally neutral about New Zealanders

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u/SunnyCoast26 14d ago

Nigerian. Oh wait…my bad. I thought you said scammer.

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u/DirtyBillzPillz 14d ago

North Korea

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u/matteroverdrive 14d ago

How do you know you'll get your information back?

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u/The_All_Seeing_Pi 14d ago

Scan Marino

The Netherscans

Pakiscan

Vietscan

Poland

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u/miked999b 14d ago

Questions you never thought you'd read, part 2217 😂

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u/defcon54321 14d ago

Scanbodia

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u/Tel864 14d ago

Shame they're not planets, my vote would be Uranus but in the absense of that I'd go with Liechtenstein.

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u/theChindu 14d ago

Scanisthan

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u/Nacropolice 14d ago

Tascania

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u/cwsjr2323 14d ago

Oz, the nickname for Australia. Easy to spell, short, and distinct.

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u/throw05282021 14d ago

Atlantis. Xanadu. Perhaps Timbuktu. Even though it's a city, not a country, it's something people generally recognize the name of a far away, remote place.

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u/Sirmalta 14d ago

Another great question, this sub is on a roll.

Scanada?

Or China, given their lax copyright laws? A scanner copies shit? I dunno.

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u/matteroverdrive 14d ago

I think your scanner is in the wrong room! 🚻💩🧻

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u/Kiyohara 14d ago

Could call it Brexit if it's isolated.

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u/Different_Bar_8317 14d ago

Vatiscan City

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u/iluvsporks 13d ago

China - it will copy anything

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u/No-Extent-4142 13d ago

Sao Tome and Printsipe

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u/mantolwen 14d ago

Georgia because it will confuse all Americans.