POPULATION:
3 Million
LITERACY RATE:
20%
SELF DEFENSE FORCES:
 Sierra Leone Armed Forces
LANGUAGES:
 English (official; regular use limited to literate minority), Mende (principal vernacular in
the south), Temne (principal vernacular in the north), Krio (the language of the re-settled ex-slave population of the
Freetown area and is lingua franca) 
ETHNIC GROUPS:
English, French, Seselwa
BORDERING COUNTRIES:
Guinea, Liberia
SIERRA LEONE- Sierra Leone has always been one of the wealthier coutnries in Africa, which was long the source of its problems.  After years of corrupt government, military and violent rebel groups, the country went through an abrupt and surprising turnaround.   The  government was radically reformed, the military was taken out of power by free election, and peace treaties were signed with the rebels.  This shaky peace seemed to go on a few years, with everyone waiting for the hammer to drop.  The hammer did drop, but not in the form everyone was expecting, it was the Wasting Plague, which decimated the population.  And after it was all over with Sierra Leone picked itself up, brushed itself off and started over again.  This time it did it right somehow, redistributing its wealth among the people, and building its country up to almost modern standars.  There are few homeless in Sierra Leone, and even fewer unemployed.  National pride is at an all time high, and it people are content.  However the troubles of the countries around it have not gone unnoticed, and Sierra Leone has begun to move into a somewhat Isolationist direction.  It has refused aid to neighboring Liberia, but still trades with them.  It has also kept good ties to Guinea, following in its Isolationist footsteps.  Although trade with US and EEC still flourishes here, for the time being at least.
 
 

(Written by Deric "D" Bernier)