Countries Are Scrambling for Vaccines. Mongolia Has Plenty. By playing off its big neighbors, Russia and China, Mongolia has emerged as a positive outlier among developing nations on the hunt for shots. A Covid vaccine site at a school in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia’s capital. The government is offering each citizen 50,000 tugriks — about $18 — to get fully vaccinated. Credit...Khasar Sandag for The New York Times May 20, 2021, 3:00 a.m. ET Mongolia, a country of grassy hills, vast deserts and endless skies, has a population not much bigger than Chicago’s. The small democratic nation is used to living in the shadow of its powerful neighbors, Russia and China.