@Cierzo Don’t know where you got that from, but it’s unlikely to be the case. Nobody would have cared about Gaddafi or taken him seriously, he was a clown. He just had issues with suppressing rebellion in his country like most authoritarians. But countries need to portray stability and have a credible financial system, communication, central bank etc. And only 2 options are the USD and the euro, but the first is used for historical reasons. You can even see that some countries from Latin America use the dollar instead of their own currency. It’s the new version of gold, something you can be sure to be relatively stable. Very much not the case with the countries you mentioned, most of them being a joke economically