Not sure where else to put it, so I dropped it here. Some time in the past, I made a rant about the trend on this site to assume a nation's power directly correlates to their size, a kind of "well they must've gotten that big by being powerful" sort of mentality I suppose. But it does get particularly annoying when some nation the OP wants to wank swallows all its neighbors and promptly (usually in pre-1900 threads) summons a navy out of nowhere to conquer half the globe from every tribe they now of. So now I've got it in my head to create a thread where people can list prime examples of what they think the most underrated or overrated countries are by virtue of their size or popularity. And don't forget tribes, which I'll let people include. Name a tribe that did quite well and still gets screwed over to often if you can think of one.
To start, I shall name Paraguay as one "crouching tiger" that suffers quite a lot in a great many map threads and other threads to be sure. It is just a random South American backwater asking for invasion to most people. To be fair, that is almost completely true for threads in specific time periods, but history shows that Paraguay fought more than its own weight back in the day. In the mid-1800's they were quite industrialized by South American standards but through the stupidity of a dictator started a war with Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay for good measure. And they came close to winning at points. They lost that war due mostly due to the stupid decisions made by the same man dragged them into it. And then lost most of their population. Ouch.
Another nation in the same category of "crouching tiger" would be Chile, to name another South American example. To be fair, I don't see it getting screwed over nearly as often as others, just that for being the actual Prussia of South America (rather than the wannabe Prussia Paraguay was trying to be) they are quite often underestimated.
So, any underestimated or overestimated tribes or nations any else want to list? Because I don't want to be alone in one of my list threads...