I already tried this one.

I'm using quotes due to the brackets {}, if I don't use them, nginx fails to read the config, as {} are used by nginx config.

I have:

location / {
some-non-rewrite-rules-only-basic-config-rules
if (!-e $request_filename) {
go to index.php
}
rewrite ^/([a-z])/?$ /index.php?country=$1 break;
}

And it still doenst works.

Thnx for your help.