POPULATION:
maybe 7,000
LITERACY RATE:
8%
SELF DEFENSE FORCES:
 none
LANGUAGES:
 none
ETHNIC GROUPS:
Rads (irradiated survivors)
BORDERING COUNTRIES:
Algeria, Chad, Egypt, Niger, Sudan, Tunisia
LIBYA - Libya is worse than dead, it is an irradiated wasteland, with the exception of a very small area of the northwestern coast around Tripoli and the southern border.  Libya was literally wiped off the face of the earth in the Mid-East Meltdown.  The few survivors in Libya have either fled if they could, or stayed in the little remaining areas of the country where the radiation isn't lethal enough to kill you immediately.  Among the survivors cancer spreads like wildfire, and they are covered in tumors in addition to other diseases and malnutrition which are out of control.  There is no help for these people, even if aid were sent it is too late for most of them.  Most of the children born of the survivors are deformed and mutated, looking more like monsters than human beings.  As far as the inner country is concerned there is virtually nothing left, planes attempting to fly through the area experience electronics malfunctions, compasses don't work, and the red dust which constantly obscures the ground in most of the country makes flying by landmarks virtually impossible.  One odd thing, pilots who have made it through have given sporadic reports on a large pillar of rock, at least a half a mile wide and two miles high,  but these reports can be neither confirmed or denied as atmospheric interference prevents getting positive coordinates, and as yet satellite surveillance has been able to find nothing.  Another odd thing is that much of the desert floor of libya has been turned to solid glass according to reports of the few expeditions sent into the area that survived to make it out.  Libya is lost, no matter what you do, do not enter this region.  Desert windstorms constantly shift radiation clouds back and forth, what one moment will have a Geiger reading well in the tolerable areas (with a rad suit of course) can the next be so flooded with radiation as to kill even through protection within hours.  Currently there is a joint Japanese, US, EEC, expedition in the planing phases, the goal is to attempt to send a squad of Full Conversions specially outfitted to withstand severe radiation into the area to study and gather information.

(Written by Deric "D" Bernier)