So uhhh... since ST wants me to suffer... here I go. Sufferia has quite literally suffered its entire existence. It started off in middle-of-the-desert Africa, and since then has.... well.... suffered. When the first tribe formed in the area, it was constantly attacked by other tribes, wild animals, and rarely got any food or water, no one stayed there for long. When the hunter-gatherers faded out and humans began to settle places, Suffer people tried to farm and plant things, didn't work, too dry and sandy, despite it, they were surrounded by opposing tribes, so they stayed there. Plagues, constant wars, and natural disasters plagued the tribe, yet they managed to survive. They lagged behind others by a lot in technology, as the iron age started, they just discovered bronze. They were deeply religious and superstitious. They only stayed alive but unity and pure unluckiness. Eventually though, disaster struck, the Europeans began to colonize Europe, ancient Suffer tribesmen were no different. The British colonized them first, enslaved them, burned down their village, then the French did the same thing, AND then the Germans took over during WW1 and did the SAME things. they were the very last African place to finally be free of the slave trade. but they were still a puppet of the British. until the empire fell. Then, they couldn't even rely on their slight support with food. so, half their population died of disease and hunger. If that wasn't bad enough, they had 4 civil wars at this time, 3 revolutions. and has been through two dictatorships, Communism when the USSR took over, anarchy for a bit when the government completely collapsed, and even became a part of another country for a bit, completely annexed. However, they eventually became free.. just for the USA to accidentally nuke them. Only now have they began healing, a tiny suffering, starving African country which is still a protectorate of Belgium of all countries. they have a population of a mere 1,492. their biggest village (none of their settlements can be considered towns) has 500 people at most.
Also, some other things they suffered from: During the civil wars, Libyan troops quite literally committed war crimes and terrorized the population. The only reason they are even independent is because no one cares enough to annex or even puppet them properly. There really isn't any Belgian presence in Sufferia other than an occasional troop of soldiers via truck who would check up and make sure the chief isn't about to defect or anything. Which, in the meantime, Sufferians used to come up to them and beg for food, but then they just got nearly beat to death so they stopped doing it. Also, yes, Sufferia is quite literally their name. It comes from a word in S'haletch' (their language) that means "suffering of the people". Their land area is just a bit smaller than Luxembourg.
