POPULATION:
15 million
LITERACY RATE:
9%
SELF DEFENSE FORCES:
 EDF
LANGUAGES:
Portuguese (official), indigenous dialects 
ETHNIC GROUPS:
Makua, Tsonga, Malawi, Shona, Yao
BORDERING COUNTRIES:
Malawi, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe 
MOZAMBIQUE- The poorest country in the world, as it has been for the last 50 years.   For decades bloody civil wars, conflict with Tanzania and South Africa, disease, poverty, and corrupt governments drove the country into the ground.  U.N. efforts aided for a short while, then once again in 2002 civil war broke out.  This time the rest of the world simply ignored it, they had too much to deal with already to waste anymore time on a country that never learned its own lessons.  Finally, after a few years years of extreme atroes and mass refugee exodus' to neighboring countries Mozambique had exhausted itself completely.  In 2009 Europe moved in again, and dominated the country over night...... it imposed martial law, rounded up all the weapons they could find, and began a policy of executing violent criminals.  The EEC doesn't even claim Mozambique as a protectorship, they simply took it over fully.  The rest of the world ignored it, as EEC influence on the eastern coast of Africa was already evident.  Under EEC control corporations are slowly moving back in, but it is tedious work, that will show little profit for years to come as the conflicts in Mozambique have completely destroyed the infrastructure of the country, as well as the eco-system.  Even the largest es have been reduced to rubble strewn shanty towns, and the majority of new construction has been for strictly EDF military purposes only, while Bio-Technica has been called in to attempt to repair the ecology, and a few construction firms have been contracted to begin building a new resort city.  Many of the native who opposed the EEC takeover have fled to the western borders, joining up with  Zambian and Zimbabwean forces to combat the EEC.  Relations with the U.S. are a bit easier, as Zibabwe does not currently see them as a threat, and most of the country still enjoys a large tourist market.  Chinese and other asian countries are welcomed open armed, as China supplies the military with weapons and supplies.  Beware, if you are an
 
 

(Written by Deric "D" Bernier)