Czechia

Actually true

• Beer really is cheaper than water in some pubs

  Czechia has the highest per-capita beer consumption in the world, and pilsner was invented in Plzeň in 1842.

• It's one of the most atheist countries in Europe

  Decades of communism plus a historically rebellious relationship with the Church left most Czechs non-religious.

• Puppetry is a genuine art form here

  Czech marionette theatre is UNESCO-listed and dates back centuries, still performed nightly in Prague.

• The country makes some of the world's best glass and crystal

  Bohemian glassmaking traditions stretch back to the 13th century and remain a prized export.

Commonly believed, wrong

• "Czechia is the same as Czechoslovakia"

  Czechoslovakia split peacefully into Czechia and Slovakia in 1993, in the so-called Velvet Divorce.

• "It's a small, unimportant country"

  Czechia has a deep industrial and scientific history, from Škoda automobiles to Nobel laureates in chemistry and literature.

• "Prague is all of Czechia"

  Moravia, in the east, has its own wine country, dialect and folk traditions distinct from Bohemia.

• "It's landlocked and boring geographically"

  Czechia has dramatic sandstone formations, deep gorges and karst caves like Moravian Karst.