POPULATION:	72,000
LITERACY RATE:	72%
SELF DEFENSE FORCES:	EDF
LANGUAGES:	English (official), French (official), Creole
ETHNIC GROUPS:	English, French, Seselwa
BORDERING COUNTRIES:	none

SEYCHELLES- Technically Seychelles is an independant country, compirsed of about 100 small islands just north of Madagascar.  However as a means of convenience and security Seychelles has allowed itself and its territory to fall under EEC protectorship along with Madagascar and Comoros.  And while the EEC has no direct power over the country itself, Seychelles has long enjoyed the prosperity and business brought in by the europeans, and of course the wealthy from the rest of the world.

Seychelles is really nothing more than a tourist attraction for the extremely wealthy around the world.  Its not as gaudy as Hawaii or the Philipines, and its not as poor as the caribean islands.  Actually the country is failry well off, and its wealthy natives are hard to distinguish from its average ones.  Most of the hotels and businesses on the island are independently owned by the natives, and their attitude towards tourists is almost always a friendly one.  A truely magnificent place to visist if you can afford it, and one of the safer places for tourists in the world.