1.   Is their country going to be a credit to them?

2.   The government has let the whole country go to pot.

3.   The organisation was set up to deal with balance of payments and current account problems, when countries go heavily into debt.

4.   The two countries went to war over a small, but important, area of land.

5.   Which country is going to host the next World Cup?

6.   They sit in impotent opposition while the country goes to the dogs.

7.   The country was going down the tubes economically.

8.   ...when the country was going through the final throes of civil war.

9.   The country went to war with its archenemy.

10.   The two countries had gone through an up-and-down relationship over natural gas exports from Iran to the USSR.