United Republic of Equatorial Guinea, São Tomé and Príncipe (1962: The Apocalypse)

Stats
The Equatorial Guinea is a African dictatorship that emerged rather well off after WW3.

Doomsday
The country, like Africa as a whole, was not nuked in WW3.

After Doomsday
The local links remained intact during Doomsday, but things would be tough as the colonial eliet tryed to hijack the situation for there own gain in the early years. The horrors of the the Batepá Massacre re-occurred on 3 February 1953 in São Tomé would occer in the town on the 5th of May, 1965, due to unfair labour and food distribution.

Fist Contact
First contact was made with fishing boats from Spain, Portugal and Morocco of the coast of Ghana in 1979.

Present day


Relations with Spain, Portugal, Gabon and Congo (Brazzaville) still good.

Agriculture, foristry and fishing
Subsistence farming and fishing at the core of the economy. There is a small scale forest industry.

Mineing
Petroleum and iron exploration and production for Portugal, Spain. Neo-Roam and Morocco is a major part of Equatorial Guinea's economy, and accounts for over 30%. Historically, the peoples of Equatorial Guinea produced gold and iron before being colonized by Spain. The government believes that at least 2.3 tons of gold were collectively produced from these small operations. About 25 kg of gold was produced in Equatorial Guinea in 2009. Coltan (columbite-tantalite, a tantalum ore) has been found near Aconibe and Akamiken.

Transport
Travel is mostly by horse and bicycle, since there are few motor vehicles. A minimal number of petrol driven vehicles used by the military and the government clique.

Education
Education in São Tomé and Príncipe is compulsory for four years and in Equatorial Guinea for 5 years of childhood. There is a heavy shortage of classrooms, insufficiently trained and underpaid teachers, inadequate textbooks and materials, high rates of repetition, poor educational planning and management, and a lack of community involvement in school management. The Domestic financing of the school system is lacking, leaving the system highly dependent on foreign financing, especially from Portugal, The Canary Islands and and Morocco.

Sports
The national sport is football.