Possible Clues:

• Nation governed by a Communist Party
• Where you may have a friend from the north-east of India
• Country gentlemen take up opera and travel, finally
• Plane crashed in mountainous country
• Where Katmandu is
• Kingdom until 2008
• Land south of Everest
• Himalayan kingdom that became a republic in 2008
• Where Mount Everest is called Sagarmatha
• Style of writing about gangster in Asian country