text: A novel set in this country includes a woman who frequently denounces "highbrows" and orders her servants to burn the smelly leopard-skin rug gifted to her by the protagonist, who has a blue birthmark on his cheek.
full_question: A novel set in this country includes a woman who frequently denounces "highbrows" and orders her servants to burn the smelly leopard-skin rug gifted to her by the protagonist, who has a blue birthmark on his cheek. In a story set in this country, the narrator sees a prisoner step around a puddle and hears him mutter "Ram! Ram! Ram!" while standing on the gallows. In this country, a crowd yells "with hideous laughter" after a character is tripped during a soccer game. A novel set in this country follows John Flory, who tries to get a non-white person admitted to the European Club. "A Hanging" is set in this country, as is an essay which notes that "When the white man turns tyrant it is his own freedom that he destroys" and describes how the narrator finds an animal that had killed its mahout calmly eating in a paddy field. For 10 points, name this setting of "Shooting an Elephant", a country whose "Days" are the subject of a George Orwell novel.
first_sentence: A novel set in this country includes a woman who frequently denounces "highbrows" and orders her servants to burn the smelly leopard-skin rug gifted to her by the protagonist, who has a blue birthmark on his cheek.
raw_answer: Burma [or Myanmar]