My group builds the sortie software for NATO. Once the wall came down, we had mix of east and west Germans in the room. One of the former east Germans looked at a practice training exercise and asked, "Who the hell is targeting Germany?". We responded by creating an imaginary set of islands west of Europe in the Atlantic. Various features of the real target area were transplanted and renamed. The NATO pilots were then able to create practice sorties to the imaginary island and still have a realistic set of distances, targets, refuel rendezvous and defensive elements. Until we invented the imaginary area, it was like walking on eggshells in a multi-national NATO military environment.
Good story.
People tend to freak out when you paint a bullseye on their back.
But with some people, sometimes that is not an entirely bad thing.