Possible Clues:

• Busy actor turned sloth? Split evident here
• As if this country could be construed to be Afro-Asiatic!
• Some raita, or chutney, over in republic
• Balkan state
• Nation on the Adriatic
• Island area or cape — climbing country
• Cracked actor, one American in land
• Native American people almost as tribal, oddly, in European country
• Where Dalmatia is
• Rijeka Carnival nation