The 20 countries that Anthropic won't do business with:

  Afghanistan
  Belarus
  Central African Republic
  China
  Congo, Democratic Republic of 
  Cuba
  Eritrea
  Ethiopia
  Iran
  Libya
  Mali
  Myanmar
  Nicaragua
  North Korea
  Russia
  Somalia
  Sudan
  Syria
  Venezuela
  Yemen

I took their list here[1] and diff'ed it with Wikipedia's list of sovereign states.

They don't accept the Democratic Republic of Congo, but the Republic of Congo is OK. There are indeed two Congos with ridiculously similar names, and apparently the one that calls itself democratic is the bad one.

Anthropic is fine with Taiwan.

[1] https://www.anthropic.com/supported-countries (They give two lists, one for API and another for Claude.ai, but the lists are identical.)

▲ notpushkin 2 days ago | parent [-]

> There are indeed two Congos with ridiculously similar names, and apparently the one that calls itself democratic is the bad one.

Similar to Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and People’s Republic of China, hmm.

	▲	cantrevealname 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Before the Berlin Wall fell, East Germany, the communist side, was the German Democratic Republic. (West Germany was the Federal Republic of Germany.)