Reserve Bank of Vanuatu
Vanuatu made me feel ignorant to the extreme every time it was mentioned on the news. I couldn't decide if Vanuatu was a moon of Venus, or the very special village where Vishnu grew up, or something else entirely. Mind you, Vanuatu is a collection of smallish islands in the Pacific Ocean, grouped together for administrative purposes by England and France. Too insignificant to make them worth fighting over, the islands were administered jointly by both colonial powers. Click on the link and read all about Vanuatu in Wikipedia. However (this is the salacious part), Vanuatu was also shared as a tax heaven. This tax heaven industry was the reason Vanuatu kept appearing on the news. But it is all in the past. Vanuatu has been thoroughly out-classed and out-competed by the likes of the City of London and Ireland and Luxembourg and the American state of Delaware. As a matter of fact, I very strongly suspect (this is the conspiracy part) that Vanuatu and other far flung places were used