Short answers, pulled from the story.
Georgians primarily speak Georgian, a Kartvelian language that has no demonstrated relation to any other language family in the world. The self-designation for Georgians is Kartvelebi, first attested in the Umm Leisun inscription found in the Old City of Jerusalem, dated to the 5th or 6th century.
Modern scholarship derives the name Georgia from the Persian term Gurj, a historical ethnonym for Georgians, possibly connected to a region name meaning "land of wolves." The first written occurrence of the name appears in Italian on the mappa mundi of Pietro Vesconte, dated 1320. The native name for the country is Sakartvelo, meaning "land of Kartvelians."
King Mirian III adopted Christianity as the state religion of Iberia, eastern Georgia, in 337. This began the Christianization of the broader Western Caucasus region and anchored the kingdom within Rome's sphere of influence.
Tamar, who reigned from 1184 to 1213, was the first female ruler of Georgia and is considered the most successful in Georgian history. She was given the title "king of kings" and extended Georgia's empire across large parts of present-day Azerbaijan, Armenia, eastern Turkey, and northern Iran, and created the Empire of Trebizond as a Georgian vassal state.
The war grew from longstanding tensions over the separatist regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. On the 1st of August 2008, a bomb targeted Georgian peacekeepers and South Ossetian separatists began shelling Georgian villages. Georgian troops moved toward Tskhinvali on the night of the 8th of August, and Russia launched a large land, air, and sea invasion under the pretext of a "peace enforcement" operation. The war displaced 192,000 people and ended with a ceasefire brokered by French President Nicolas Sarkozy on the 12th of August 2008.
In 2018, the Constitutional Court of Georgia ruled that marijuana consumption is protected by the right to free personality, making Georgia the second country in the world to legalize cannabis and the first former socialist state to do so. Using marijuana in the presence of children remains illegal and punishable by fines or imprisonment.