What can you do if you are located in a country that still does not support paid apps? Please include solutions for non-rooted users as well.

Is there a way to see some stats about the top apps in the Android Market across all categories? The Google Play Store gives me some top paid and free apps per category. How do I get the overall stats?

Possible Duplicate: What are the alternative Android app markets? I've had issues downloading paid applications from the Android Market and it seems I'm not the only one. I've set up my account correctly (I've been billed) but the download sticks on "Authorizing credit card...". I've tried cancelling and rebooting, but without success. I see that some in the linked thread got it working after leaving it on overnight, I left mine on for more than a day and still no …

I live in scandinavia and the Market for paid applications is not available here yet. Is there any way I can enable it? Or a workaround?

Now that Google has extended the number of countries from which developers can sell paid apps, have they also extended the number of supported currencies? I know that the Market now shows prices in the user's local currency; what I want to know is can developers now set prices in currencies other than US dollars, Sterling, Euros and Yen? For example, what currency is used when an Australian developer sells an app? Do they set the price in US dollars …