Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Lesotho

Lesotho is a nation of some two million citizens surrounded on all sides by South Africa. It is the southernmost landlocked country in the world, and presumably there's someone out there who thinks that's an interesting fact. (Author's Note: Not me though. I couldn't possibly care less.) Lesotho's national languages are English and Sesotho, and its name is Sesotho for "Land of the people who speak Sesotho." There's probably a joke to be made about how that's not a very original name, but it's pretty hot out today and I really can't be bothered. Despite being one of the most impoverished and AIDS-ridden nations on the planet, Lesotho's constitutional monarchy is pretty decent in terms of civil liberties, allowing for freedoms of speech and the press, or as it's written in the Mosotho constitution: "Say what you want. You still gotta live here."

The capital is Maseru, a city that none of you have ever heard of before. I swear it's real though. Seriously. Look it up.

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