A country filled with poverty, oppression, a raging drug trade, deforestation, and human rights abuses. Buffeted by the cruel sea on one side and banked in by mountains on the other, it is a series of steaming swamplands and cruel lowlands inhabited by a polite but isolated people who look to the savage past for inspiration, and fear a future of change. Football is not played there, and never has been. Malaria is endemic, as is cruelty.