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It is always before us, but we cannot see it. What is it?

The future.

Excellent. What is the question?
I understand. The number is the sequential number of the letter.

It is always before us, but we cannot see it. What is it?

You seem to be guessing in parts. I understood how to decipher it, I didn't hesitate to translate it into text, but I didn't guess the word.
It's the future.
However, you still give the most complete answer.

The main thing is, why encrypt the question, but not with a very complex, just slightly tedious cipher?

Next time, I might encrypt it with a more complex one. And in reality, it's to make a simple question more complicated.

you're kind of guessing in parts.

consequences of "What? Where? When?", teamwork, and blah blah blah.

you're the one asking.

Well, you know better, but I don't think I was the one who answered.

Question:
Several chemical elements are named after countries. But in one case, the situation is reversed - a country is named after a chemical element.
Name the country and the element.
This is more of a trivia question than a "What? Where? When?" question; there's no point in looking for hidden clues in the wording. And you don't have to be a techie to answer it.

Actually, the future is not before us, nor even behind us. It resides in that part of the space-time continuum where our wretched three-dimensional hyperplane has not yet been...

Lithuania is definitely named in honor of Lithuania. In general, I don't know. Is this a trick question? Does "country" specifically refer to a state? And does "named in honor of" necessarily mean that the name of one is contained within the name of the other? There's a chance that this "honor" was bestowed in some other way. Also, the country should be young or, at worst, the result of a revolution. These aren't questions for the host; he's not obligated to answer them. Rather, these are just thoughts out loud.

Actually, I vaguely remember reading something on Lurkmore that Poland might have been named after Polonia.

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I think Lithuania already existed by the time lithium was discovered as a chemical element.

Poland too, right?

Maybe Germania? I don't remember seeing Germany on a map before the 20th century.

with Poland, it seems, it was the other way around – an element in honor of the country.
okay, I have another idea that it's Argentina and argentum. Although I'm not sure about who is honoring whom. Maybe it's just a random similarity in names.

Logically, this is due to the country's silver reserves.

Okay, I have another idea: maybe it's about Argentina and argentum. Although I'm not sure about who is named after whom. Maybe it's just a random similarity in the names.

Oh yes, you're probably right.

Yes, Sesama is right. Silver and Argentina.

here's another simple riddle for you: Ω3bS#eΘ@z 4Wn8Rо&$g, Ω3bS#eΘ@z Δ7rVYu9Nk, 77a 7ΣWdU42v00FeSΨWр#24i №I$o1ZQt^RFk1QGрӋQDыZ5ӨvN6ZaLRWеΔQ3t.

Okay, this cipher is a bit more complex.
We assume that 1 symbol corresponds to 1 letter, especially since we already have spaces and punctuation marks. Well, almost – the last word is quite long, so it might be several words.

The most interesting part is the sequence "77a." There aren't many three-letter words where the first two letters are the same, and it comes after a comma.
Mostly, these are abbreviations like ООН, ФФА. The dictionary also says that there exist ААВ, ААЛ, ААХ, but I doubt they are used here.

Another possibility is that a space is also a symbol, not just a word separator (and the comma too, which would make things even more complicated).
Anyway, I haven't made any progress with this approach.

Another approach, remembering "The Gold Bug," is to count the number of symbols – the more frequently used letters should appear more often, give or take. Let's use Excel. Hmm, a simple count of the symbols shows that there are over 50, so the theory that each symbol is a letter is unlikely.

But I'll still calculate the number of repetitions, since I've already started.
7 4
Q 4
W 4
е 4
3 3
4 3
# 3
R 3
S 3
Z 3
р 3
, 2
0 2
1 2
2 2
@ 2
$ 2
F 2
N 2
Δ 2
Θ 2
Ω 2
а 2
б 2
в 2
з 2
к 2
о 2
т 2
5 1
6 1
8 1
9 1
^ 1
. 1
& 1
D 1
G 1
I 1
L 1
№ 1
U 1
V 1
Y 1
Σ 1
Ψ 1
г 1
д 1
и 1
н 1
Ө 1
у 1
Ӌ 1
ы 1

Maybe there are uppercase and lowercase letters, but I'm not sure I can distinguish them at this point. So, let's try another approach – for example, by analogy, but I can't figure out the system yet. For example, if we understand "6" as an analogue of "b," then why do we need "b" itself?
Or maybe one letter is encoded with one or more symbols, in which case counting the number of symbols doesn't really help.
Of course, it could also be a simple transition from one encoding to another, but again, there are over 50 symbols, and they don't repeat very often.

The combination of symbols Ω3бS#еΘ@з repeats in positions 1 and 3 (if we consider the space as a word separator); this is clearly not a coincidence.

Uran, don't rush to post the solution, let others struggle a bit. )
However, I don't think providing only the final answer without intermediate steps will discourage others from being interested.

I haven't even come close to figuring it out.