POPULATION:
245,000
LITERACY RATE:
40%
SELF DEFENSE FORCES:
 US  Armed Forces
LANGUAGES:
Spanish (official), pidgin English, Fang, Bubi, Ibo   
ETHNIC GROUPS:
Pygmy, Bantu, Spanish, 
BORDERING COUNTRIES:
Cameroon, Gabon  
EQUATORIAL GUINEA- This has been more of a yo-yo than a country, with the Spanish originally controlling it as a convenient port for the slave trade, when it finally did win its independence it got no better.  One tyrannical despot after another which at one point had murdered half its population finally came to head in 2002 when the entire population openly rebelled in a massive coup and seized the country.  Unfortunately its current president had fled with all the countries money to Europe (he was later assassinated in Brussels).   Left destitute and without rules the country decided to accept US aid and was one of the first countries to come under US protectorship, coming under just after Cameroon and followed shortly by Gabon.  This has worked out well for the US as the many islands that make up the offshore Equatorial Guinea provide for strategic naval bases, and it has worked out well for Equatorial Guinea as well as the American protection and funding has allowed the country to re-establish its Cocoa plantations, fishing industries, and wealthy petroleum reserves.  Still the country is behind, and with the exception of American military personal and foreign corporates automobiles and other modern necessities are very rare.  If you happen to possess these resources you will be very popular  here, you will also be a target for disenfranchised bandits.

(Written by Deric "D" Bernier)