The total population of Iraq is 38.43 million and there are no dips in population over the last 50 years.
https://www.google.com/search?q=iraq+population

As an interviewer of technical people, my favorite question is, "Tell me about the most interesting technical challenge you went through in the past couple of months, and how you overcame it." Peel through a couple of those and you can really get a feel for the depth of a person. It's a challenge that the person worked through, so they should really understand the details. You aren't putting someone on the spot to think of something in 1 minute. If it's someone in a semi-leadership position that is theoretically coding and leading, and they have nothing except things their team did.. you understand what the true mix of their activities are. If someone says that they are an Enterprise Architect but the most interesting challenge was fixing a low-level memory leak, it's a bit of a red flag. Not that a good architect can't fix a memory leak, but it prompts some follow up questions.. is EA more aspirational but you've been doing other things?

This also works for things that are non-technical. Project Managers should have interesting and detailed stories about interpersonal issues, or schedule risk.. etc.