Another solution would be to reorder the data with the first in the USA. You can find the corner of the cake layout to be more readable.
var data_values = [48, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 4]; var titles = ["USA","Pakistan", "Israel", "Netherlands", "Italy", "Uruguay", "United Kingdom", "Austria", "China"]
http://jsfiddle.net/rocky1616/oLzsrd4o/
Musically_ut solution will also work well here. You can even raise the corner a bit if that works in your design.
var getAngle = function (d) { return (180 / Math.PI * (d.startAngle + d.endAngle) / 2 + 45); };
http://jsfiddle.net/2uT7F/26/
You will need to create an if else block to take care of the US position, but this is the beginning, if that helps.
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