There was a Faroese dentist down the street from me who was some sort of honorary rep for the Faroes.

Re: the Czech/Philippines thing, there is one connection I can think of. Some big oil companies and oil service companies I can think of have outsourced their Accounts Payable to accounting firms in the Philippines and Czech republic. One I can think of has branches in both places. Not India, China or Mexico: just Czech and Philippines.