I wonder how the people of Nauru felt about having their entire nation obliterated on Madam Secretary? Wouldn't creating a fictitious pacific nation been a rather more sensitive approach? It might have enabled the writers to concoct a slightly more believable scenario around a nation being wiped out be a "typhoon". I don't know as much about geography and meteorology as the poster above, but I know enough to know the story was totally implausible for Nauru. I also had to laugh at the pretty, slim, light-skinned, vaguely Polynesian-looking actors cast as the Nauruans. Madam Secretary always takes this approach when dealing with Pacific nations. Never mind that Nauruans would be much darker and almost certainly much, much larger (they're the most overweight nation on earth). And the would-be new President had a distinctly Australian accent. But, hey, never let the facts get in the way of a good story, right?
