Quizzically Yours

The country _____ changed their flag, national anthem and their name recently. The changes were outlined in a new constitution proposed in 2008. The government ordered that the old flags be burnt after being lowered by a person born on a Tuesday. The new flags were to be hoisted by a person born on a Wednesday. The pic shows the new flag of _____.

In 1989, the then rulers changed the English translations of many places, including the name of the country itself to _____. This prompted one scholar to coin the term _____ to refer to the top-down programme of political and cultural reform in the context of which the renaming was done.

Fill the blanks. All the blanks need not be the same.

Prasanna gets this one
It's Burma or any variations of the name. The word is 'Myanmarification'. More here.