POPULATION:
7 Million
LITERACY RATE:
65%
SELF DEFENSE FORCES:
Zambian Peoples Army
LANGUAGES:
 English (official), Bantu 
ETHNIC GROUPS:
Bantu, Afrikaans
BORDERING COUNTRIES:
Angola, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Tanzania, Zaire, Zimbabwe 
ZAMBIA- Once called Rhodesia, Zambia is home to some of the most untouched land in the world, mostly because it is useless for agriculture    and the country itself is too poverty stricken to exploit it.  In the mid to late 20th century Zambia was on the verge of success, however they chose to import goods instead of becoming self sufficient and when copper prices (Zambia's main export) dropped so to did Zambia as a nation,  Poverty and political unrest followed.  But in 1991 elections were held (the fairest and most decisive ever held in Africa) and a new president was elected.  The country began looking up.  Education reforms were passed and Zambia achieved on of the highest literacy levels in Africa.  Still poverty stricken but making progress.  Then the wasting plague hit and the country fell into chaos.  Fiercely independent and proud Zambia rejected aid from the west (due to the fact that accepting western aid would lead to foreign control again) and struggled on.  When its neighbors began prospering under EEC protectorship Zambia became bitter and resentful, and was soon making raids over the borders along the east and hijacking EEC food, medicine and supplies.  It was one of these incidents in 2018 that led to the death of a group of EEC medical personal treating an outbreak of Cholera in Mzuzi Malawi.  Open aggression between Zambian troops and the EEC has been slowly escalating ever since.  However this has not stopped the raids, and along Zambia's eastern border armed conflict between raiding Zambian troops and the EDF is becoming a common thing.


(Written by Deric "D" Bernier)