diff --git a/src/js/utilsSlave.js b/src/js/utilsSlave.js
index f12cd3a9ede5a709931252c14738d0efd432f0b0..f70c055af6385f460d145e3dd5f1595dffaaf223 100644
--- a/src/js/utilsSlave.js
+++ b/src/js/utilsSlave.js
@@ -1674,7 +1674,7 @@ globalThis.nationOf = function(nation) {
 			country = "Saint Kitts and Nevis";
 			break;
 		case "Kurdish":
-			country = "Kurdistan"; // should we say "the Kurdish people" or something instead? Kurdistan is either a vaguely-defined transnational region, or a very tenuously self-governing part of Iraq
+			country = "Kurdistan"; // We can presume Kurdistan has become a relatively more independent sovereign state than in real life at time of writing
 			break;
 		case "Laotian":
 			country = "Laos";
@@ -1769,7 +1769,7 @@ globalThis.nationOf = function(nation) {
 		case "Vincentian":
 			country = "Saint Vincent and the Grenadines";
 			break;
-		case "Zairian":
+		case "Zairian": // this is a little anachronistic, as the country hasn't been called Zaire since the 1990s, but FC-Author chose to keep it more distinct from the other Congo, and we're sticking with it
 			country = "Zaire"; // other options: the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Congo-Kinshasa, DR Congo, Big Congo
 			break;
 		case "Rhodesian": // no slave's nationality should ever be directly assigned Rhodesian, but it is occasionally used as an alias, so catch it just in case
@@ -1780,7 +1780,7 @@ globalThis.nationOf = function(nation) {
 			country = "no country"; // best we can do, shouldn't ever come up
 			break;
 		default:
-			country = "an unknown country"; // if any new nationalities are ever added, catch them so they can be added
+			country = "an unknown country"; // if any new nationalities are ever added, catch them so we know to account for them here
 			break;
 	}
 	return country;