POPULATION:	2 million
LITERACY RATE:	30%
SELF DEFENSE FORCES:	US Armed Forces,
LANGUAGES:	French (official), Sangho (lingua franca and national language), Arabic, Hunsa, Swahili
ETHNIC GROUPS:	Baya-Mandja, Banda, Nzakara, Azande
BORDERING COUNTRIES:	Cameroon, Chad, Congo, Sudan, Zaire

CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC- This country has always been one of the poorest in Africa.  A country which has never had more than a 35   percent literacy rate, and a government that seemed to have never been able to establish itself the country seemed doomed to fail.  Then the wasting plague hit, and Central Africa was one of the ones hit the hardest, its population dropped by half, and the government, which was already ineffectual was caught completely unprepared.  It turned to foreign aid for help, and the US responded (The EC already had its hands full).

Unfortunately the people saw things differently, immediately raiding US relief camps, killing aid workers and stealing their supplies.  The Central African Army was little help, in many cases being responsible for the raids, so the US, with the blessings of the Central African government stepped in with the military, hunting down the raiding parties and destroying them, then redistributed the supplies.  While this sounds simple, it was not, fully half the Central African Armies leaders opposed this, and after seeing their government fail its country for years decided this was the last straw ad renounced their leaders, openly declaring war on all US military personnel.  After a drawn out conflict lasting 4 years, the US finally crushed the rebel forces and brought a tentative peace back to the nation.

Central Africa is still poor, even with the influx of American money from soldiers stationed on newly built US bases.  Things are looking up however.  Most of the surviving rebels fled to DRC to join the forces there, although their are still a few hiding up north, and terrorist attacks while rare still occur.  Even with the large number of tribes in the area, the country is relatively quite, mostly because no one can afford to fight.  And the Central African Army was completely disbanded, they now rely on the US solely for protection.