Simulating Summary / drill down columns in OBIEE without actually changing Subject Area/Repository

Hi,
I have a requirement where I need to group certain columns and simulate drill down (expansion and collapse) for them without doing any changes in Subject Area / Repository.
We have measure columns revenues and a two geography columns Continent (values are Europe, Asia) and Country (Singapore, India, Japan, France, UK) in Subject Area.
Continent is heirarchial column. Europe includes France and UK. Asia includes Singaore, India and Japan. We need to create a Summary Region SIUK (containing Singapore, India and UK) and another Region FJ (containing France and Japan). Analysis output should not show original Continent names. Analysis output needs to have three columns Region, Country, Revenue. When region is expanded then Country column should show the different countries. Example (Result before expanding i.e. clicking + )
Region               Country            Revenue
SIUK(+)             ALL                 600
FJ(+)                 ALL                 400
Result after expanding i.e. clicking +
Region               Country            Revenue
SIUK(-)             Singapore         100
                        India                 200
                        UK                   300
FJ(-)                 France              150
                        Japan               250
Please guide me about how to achieve this.
Thanks, Atul

Atul,
If you really only want to use Answers / front-end approaches for this you won't be able to get the OLAP-style navigation rendered but would have to use navigation links or GO URLs.

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