Possible Clues:

• World's sparsest-populated country
• Landlocked Asian nation
• Neighbor of Irkutsk on a Risk board
• Country of the Gobi Desert
• Looming, a different Asian country
• Travel with oilman at sea around part of Asia
• Upset record number entering target country
• Land in gaol, bizarrely, after very short time
• Log Naomi into the vast Asian region
• A looming problem between Russia and China?