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I've re-read this comment three times and can't get over "Morocco, Africa". I've never seen a country referred to like this in my life.
You're right, it's a strange way to refer to a country, I only wrote it that way to emphasize the fact that an African country already has more HSR than the US. The truth is that many outsiders still carry a default impression of Africa as just desert and savannahs and TV ads asking for donations to famine-striken villages, rather than a diverse continent with some impressive cities and growing modern infrastructure already. Western mainstream media doesn't really expose us to Africa often beyond war and conflict news, and wildlife documentaries.