Solution to Countries
Each paragraph describes a journey through a landscape modeled after a country’s flag, with the most obvious assignments of colors to types of terrain:
- blue areas are water, with darker blues corresponding to deeper water; their shapes and boundaries also determine the meaning of words like “peninsula”, “shore”, and “island”
- white areas are snowy regions
- yellow areas are desert or sandy regions
- green areas are grassy
- the one red area is a volcano
- the one black area is a coal deposit
In addition, the journey follows a path that traces a number. Indexing the number into the country name produces the answer, HABITUAL.
| Map | Country | Index | Extracted Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Marshall Islands | 5 | H |
 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 6 | A |
 | Brazil | 1 | B |
 | Finland | 2 | I |
 | Djibouti | 7 | T |
 | Nauru | 3 | U |
 | Kazakhstan | 2 | A |
 | Lesotho | 1 | L |