FIN is for Finish Mystery Cache
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I was driving down the road the other day when I saw a country code
sticker on a vehicle - you know the ovals with country
abbreviations in them - and I remembered when I was traveling
abroad the fun I had trying to figure out where vehicles were from
by looking at these stickers. By the time you finish solving this
one, you will know more about country codes that your average
counter-person at the DMV!
I spent some time in Germany and in the Middle East and even had a
few layovers in Africa. I remember stickers from a few of these
trips including one from American Somoa
to Lybia, during which I saw stickers
from Somolia to Ethiopia at the
airport. I spotted them from as far away as Norway
all the way to the U.S. Minor Islands on my return
flight from neighboring Tonga back to
Algeria.
The tricky part of interpreting the abbreviations is when the code
doesn't match the country name like you'd think it would. Just as
the term "for example", is abbreviated "e.g" because it derives
from the Latin translation, "exempli gratia". But sometimes it's a
direct abbreviation and the difference is obvious, "i.e.,"
(that is) a term derived from the same phrase in a different
language like the german, "zum
beispiel", which is abbreviated "z.b." just like you'd expect it to
be.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
n srnefbzr sbhe fhz (gura fbzr bgure shapgvba)
guvf chmmyr vf HA-oryvrinoyr
sbyybj "guebhtu" jvyy trg lbh "sebz" gur chmmyr "gb" gur pnpur