Costa Rica

Popular as a playground for the US upper middle class before particular parts of Mexico were sanitised. Cleaner, more western, slightly more expensive, and much less interesting that most of its immediate neighbours. Boasting nice beaches and an "African American" population which has known freedom longer than in any country except Haiti. Relies largely on legal enterprise, having been commercially undercut as a drug trafficking stopover by other countries in the region. Generally good at football and tourism, less so at infrastructure, and completely rubbish at war, having disbanded its army following a less than impressive stint as American stooges for invasions into southern Nicaragua. Like many countries, mispronounced by Americans, "Costa", not "Coasta".