POPULATION:	1.5 million
LITERACY RATE:	18% to 23%
SELF DEFENSE FORCES:	CDR
LANGUAGES:	French (official), tribal languages belonging to Sudanic family, spoken by 90% of the population
ETHNIC GROUPS:	Burkinabe
BORDERING COUNTRIES:	Benin, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Mali, Niger, Togo

BURKINA FASO- This country is still independent only because no one else wants it, no one travels there, and those that could have fled.  The people remaining are diseased, poverty stricken or both, its leaders looted and squandered the coutries moeny until there was nothing left, this led to one bloody coup after another, when in 2015 the last president was assassinated.  It was too late, now the countries borders are used as a dumping ground, drought plagues the countrym its main waterway, the non-navigable  Volta River, is a main source of river blindness and other diseases and pollution.  The soil has eroded to nothing, and the land is ravaged with disease,  meningitis, malaria, measles, and (to a lesser degree) leprosy run rampant and unchecked.  Burkina Faso is dead, it just hasn't laid down yet.

Burkina Faso has no military to speak of, instead it consists of a civilian militia called the Community of the Defense of the Revolution.  Of course the revolution is long over, defense is a joke, and there is no committee to speak of.  What the CDR really consists of is anyone with a gun, anyone, from the old man with the 120 year old rifle, to the warlords with automatic weapon stores.  Stay out of this country, there is nothing here but desperation and death.