Italy

Italy is a European country. Rome is in Italy. There are tensions between the developed North of Italy and the less developed South.

[edit] Famous Italians

Silvio Berlusconi, businessman, politician and all-round ~~scheming, corrupt bastard~~ swell guy.
Leonardo da Vinci invented everything that the Chinese and Thomas Edison didn't, as well as being quite good at painting. Michelangelo Buonarroti was an artistic equal and contemporary of leonardo. As the reigning artistic geniuses of the Renaissance, and sharing the same city at the same time, naturally they hated each other.
Niccolo Machiavelli, author of The Prince, the ultimate political "how-to" book. His name is now a byword for deviousness.
Garibaldi united Italy and had a biscuit named after him - it turned out to be a massive advertising campaign for United Biscuits.
Sophia Loren and Gina Lollobrigida had many fine qualities.
The Three Tenors, except only one of them was Italian.
Primo Levi deserves an article, deffo.