Google Time Machine or...
As usual, Google know something I don’t. Unless this is some weird Department of Defense tie-in. I got these country choices when signing up for a Google product:
1991: The USSR ceases to exist as an entity.
1997: Google.com is first registered as a domain.
2008: Google leaks plans to reestablish Soviet Union. Sergey is a closet Stalinist?
I, for one, welcome our time traveling galactic overlords at Google.