Curmustan is a small state, in sub-saharian America, on the Bengala Gulf. It's the sum of all the problematic countries in the world. If a threat to democracy, human fundamental rights, environment, cultural traditions, freedom of speech, health and prosperity exists, it is also in Curmustan.

Curmustan suffer from century-long endemic purple stripe-green dotted fever plague, which have never been defeated. Simple treatments exist in all developed countries from decades, but Curmustan has no internet or public information bradcasting so they don't know this, and nobody has told them.

It has an harsh climate ranging from 75° Celsius in its arid Summers, when spits vaporize before reaching ground, to permanent -10° Celsius in Winter, not to mention the terrific 17kg hailstone rains in Spring. The hailstone are so big they give them names, usually taken from dismissed clothes coming from the rare Red Cross aids, this is the only contact common curmustans have with outside world so they think the writings on the clothes are very important. It's very common in Curmustan to hear people talking about "Adidas", "Fruit of the Loom" or "Benetton" killing a parent or a friend.

Curmustan is ruled by His Former General and Now Supreme Ruler of Curmustan Dictatorship M. K. Batuu. He is somehow 419 years old (as the official government records say), even if every 7-8 years it seems to change eye or hair color, height, facial traits, pronunciation and a couple of time also skin color.

Curmustan has an advanced deeducational program, to keep people unaware of their poor condition. Soldiers go village-by-village, seeking hidden means of learning. They burn books, radios, old men telling tales, and so on. If a child is found "acculturated", as they say, they have developed a very effective method of rapid deeducation. They place a empty book, with all pages blank, on top of child head, and tie it with a tight rope. Then they pour strangeflowers powder on it, while speaking a misterious mantra. This is said to make the child forgot all. This, and "Napapijri", a record-breaking 36kg hailstone they drop on the child head from 3 meters of height at the end of the treatment.

Curmustan has no official language. This is not, as one may think, because there are a lots of different regional dialects, but because the deeducational program works so well that most of the people can only speak with gestures after being deeducated (if they can move at all). Only high government members usually speak british or american english, french, chinese, russian or arabic, depending on when they studied at the university.

Vacuu, a local ant-like insect, is Curmustan national animal, and it's also present in the nation official flag, just under the animated M. K. Batuu portrait in napoleonic posture. A vacuu is a nomadic vermin, with an average 8kg of weight at birth, that eat crops, domestic animals, clothes, wooden houses and unattended sleeping people. Usually a swarm of vacuu can vanish an entire village (both buildings and living beings) in 3 to 20 minutes, but thanks to curmustan lack of any birth control notion, in that time another 200 person village is founded just 100 meters away from the other.
Former Curmustan culture used to lit great warning beacon when vacuu swarm where spotted, so that nearby village can be evacuated, but in the last years great effort was made by the government to reduce air pollution so now these fires are forbidden. In a continuous effort to eradicate pagan habits of the Curmustan countryside, it is now also illegal to notice a vacuu, once considered a pagan god incarnation, so now most people die without knowing what is eating their legs, but with the relief they no longer go to infidel's hell.

Curmustan is divided by millennia-old internal conflicts. More than twelve different factions battle inside its border, all financed by the government. This is a very innovative way of lowering unemployment and rise wellfare. The government feeds them with dismissed weapons and good reasons to keep fighting one against each other, so nobody has the time to think about common modern world problem such as finding a stable job, a house, or pursuing self-determination. Curmustan dictatorship can proudly say unemployment and job instability are actualy the last concern of Curmustan.

The Curmustan economy is based on manifacture. Its main exports are despair, hungry childrens and genocides. They sold them to foreign nation news channel, government leaders and no-profit organization interested in quick fundraising stories or a pretence for military operations. Curmustan average month salary cannot easily be determined because most of the curmustanian answered "what?" when asked about retribuition. Curmustan main imports are land mines, humanitarian aids and western world toxic waste.

In 2007, considering the flooding that killed 45% of Cumustan population and bring Curmustan under the world's eyes, His Former General and Now Supreme Ruler of Curmustan Dictatorship officially stated that he's very concerned with the population problems and promulgate a law in favour of children working in Curmustan mines. Mine owners are now forced by law to allow children sleep on Monday and every two Wednesday, provide the worker can refound the owner for the hours of work he spent sleeping. The same law could also have been extended to multinational industries factories in Curmustan, but M. K. Batuu stated Curmustan is not ready for this and the curmustan society structure would have been endangered by such a big change, so for the good of Curmustan families this proposal was refused.

You think Curmustan is a fictional state?

Sadly, this is not a joke. This is real world

In 2007, 297.000 children under 15 died of AIDS, and 2.100.000 are infected. In that year, only in subsaharian Africa, 12.100.000 childrend lost at least one parent because of AIDS. In Swaziland almost 20% of the population is infected by AIDS. Think of it as for every ten friends you have, two of them are infected by AIDS.
In 2007, in Afganisthan, one child every four born doesn't reach 2 years, while in Angola one every four doesn't reach 5 years, and in Uganga one every six. In Liberia, one mother every four die during childbirth. In Timor, 49% of childrens suffers from malnutrition, while in Burundi 53%, 28% in Etiopia, and malnutrition is the top cause (55%) of childrens dead in Kenya.
In Somalia, after the intesification of the conflict in 2007, only 29% of the population has access to safe drinkable water, and in Congo, after 10 years of war, only 22%. In the whole Gibuti there are no permanent rivers, they only exists in the rain season; childrens must walk, in the worst case, 30 km to access water.
Source: UNICEF 2008 Report

According to UNICEF, 26,500 children die each day due to poverty. That is, if you count loudly from 1 to 10, when you reach 6 an average 144 children have died since you begin.
Half the world, nearly 3.000.000.000 people, live on less than 2 dollars a day.
The poorest 40% of world’s population accounts for 5% of global income. The richest 20% percent accounts for 75% of world income.
Around 27% percent of all children in developing countries suffers from malnutrition.
About 72 million children in school age were not in school in 2005. Nearly 1.000.000.000 people at the beginning of the 21st century were unable to read a book or sign their names.
Less than 1% of what the world spent every year on weapons was needed to put every child into school by the year 2000 and yet it didn’t happen.
In the United Kingdom the average person uses more than 50 litres of water a day flushing toilets (where average daily water usage is about 150 liters a day). The highest average water use in the world is in the US, at 600 liters day. But 1.800.000.000 people who have access to water, not in their house but within 1 km from where they live, survive with 20 litres per day. Almost 50% of the population of developing countries is constantly suffering from disease caused by lack of healty water and sanitation.
Source: Global Issues

World conflicts at the beginning of 2007

• Iraq 80.000 dead from 2003
• Israel-Palestina 5.000 dead from 2000
• Liban 1.200 from 2006
• Turchia-Kurdistan 40.000 dead from 1984
• Afghanistan 25.000 dead from 2001
• Pakistan-Waziristan 3.000 from 2004
• Pakistan-Balucistan 450 dead from 2005
• India-Kashmir 90.000 dead from 1989
• India-Nordest 50.000 dead from 1979
• India-Naxaliti 6.000 dead from 1967
• Sri Lanka-Tamil 68.000 dead from 1983
• Birmania-Karen 30.000 dead from 1988
• Thailandia-Sud 2.000 dead from 2004
• Filippine-Mindanao 150.000 dead from 1971
• Filippine-Npa 40.000 dead from 1969
• Russia-Cecenia 250.000 dead from 1994
• Georgia-Abkhazia 28.000 dead from 1992
• Georgia-Ossezia 2.800 dead from 1991
• Algeria 150.000 dead from 1991
• Ivory Coast 5.000 dead from 2002
• Nigeria 11.000 dead from 1999
• Ciad50.000 dead from 1996
• Sudan-Darfur 250.000 dead from 2003
• Central African Republic 2.000 dead from 2003
• Somalia 500.000 dead from 1991
• Uganda 20.000 dead from 1986
• Congo R.D. 4.000.000 dead from 1998
• Colombia 300.000 dead from 1964
• Haiti 1.500 dead from 2004

Source: PeaceReporter

Countries that still use death penalty

Botswana, Burundi, Camerun, Ciad, Comore, Egitto, Eritrea, Etiopia, Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, Lesotho, Libia, Nigeria, Rep. Democratica del Congo, Ruanda, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbawe, Antigua y Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Cuba, Dominica, Jamaica, Guatemala, Guyana, St. Christopher e Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent e Grenadines, United States of America, Trinidad and Tobago, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Cina, North Korea, South Korea, Japan, India, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Laos, Malaysia, Mongolia, Pakistan, Singapore, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Tailandia, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Bealorus, Saudi Arabia, Palestinian Authoriti, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Giordania, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Libano, Oman, Qatar, Siria, Yemen
Source: Amnesty International