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111. Country Collapse

It's a World Fair nightmare
Puzzle by Miguel, Bellingcat. Part of the Data Digging series.
In late 1996, the official website of Lisbon's world fair proudly listed its first 100+ participating countries. One of them ceased to exist before the gates opened.
There’s more than one web archive where you can find the answer, can you go beyond the Wayback Machine? Do you know the Portuguese word for archive?
What was the name of the removed country, as spelled on the World Fair website?
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