talked about a little bit, bulgaria, romania, armenia, albania, azerbaijan, kazakhstan, serbia, cabo verde, bosnia herzegovina, croatia, and montenegro. one thing about this list, you don't really see any latin american countries on this list. and you'll see, if you look at our index, and i assume you've all picked up copies of our index now, we have sections focusing on each region of the world individually. and i invite you to take a look particularly closely at the section dealing with latin america, because i think there's some interesting conclusions that can be drawn by the relative stagnation in economic freedom in that region. a final shoutout to the importance of trade. and i think my colleague jack spencer, who is going to follow me, may want to talk about this a little bit as well. the decline in economic freedom in the index of economic freedom this year was driven by two categories, really. one was judicial effectiveness. and that's a category that uses a lot of survey data. and the major declines in that category showed up in eastern europe, countries like poland, hungary, cz