Burkina Faso

Burkina Faso is a former French colony in west Africa, a nation which, along with Niger, appears on maps to be getting fisted from the south by Benin. Known until 1984 as the Republic of Upper Volta (a far cooler name), then-president Thomas Sankara changed the name to Burkina Faso, meaning "Land of Honest Men." Soon thereafter, he was killed in a military coup and replaced by a president who has now overstayed his term limit by five years and counting. That's irony on a pretty basic level, but I like it. The capital is Ouagadougou, and I don't know anything about it except that it is a tremendous amount of fun to say. Ouagadougou. Ouagadougou. Heehee.

Curren Burkinabé President, Blaise "Don't look at me, I didn't name the fuckin' country" Compaoré.