POPULATION:
235,000
LITERACY RATE:
15%
SELF DEFENSE FORCES:
 none
LANGUAGES:
French (official), Arabic (official), Somali, Afar 
ETHNIC GROUPS:
Afars, Isaas,
BORDERING COUNTRIES:
Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia 
DJIBOUTI- Djibouti no longer exists, at least not officially, it was taken over by Eritrea, mostly because no one else wanted it.  The former independent country found itself which had been wracked by bankruptcy for years found itself caught in the crossfire between the two warring nations of Ethiopia and Somalia, with neither side really caring if their conflicts brought them over the Djibouti borders.  Fallout from the mideast meltdown and pollution of the Red Sea also played a serious hand in the fall of the country, as the narrow funnel between Djibouti and Yemen seemed to collect the contamination, almost completely killing of the fish and wildlife that needed the waterway to survive.  In 2016 the high ranking govt. officials simply packed up and called it quits, most emigrating to Egypt or Europe and left their country for dead.   Although Djibouti is technically now part of Eritrea, the country itself is a wasteland, and has almost completely reverted back to a tribal society.  Even in the the larger es technology was 20 years behind at the countries heyday, now the buildings are all that remain of the modern world.  The poverty stricken people having either fled or reverted to primal cultures as the only means necessary to survive.  Djibouti is extremely dangerous, as the rebel population was what led to its initial bankruptcy in the first place, now for the most part those rebels are all that remain, and in an area as small as this country the natives know it like the back of their hand, usually swooping in in large tribal parties and slaughtering any they find.
 
 

(Written by Deric "D" Bernier)