Laos

Sparsely populated South East Asian country unfairly maligned for drug-trafficking, people-smuggling and having the temerity to object to being cluster-bombed back to the neolithic age by a country with whom they were not at war. Late-onset Communism was not entirely good to the former jewel in the French Indochinese crown. Laotians have traded trying to swim the expansive and dangerous Mekong to Thailand to boating European and Australian backpackers the other way. Mosquito repellent worth more than gold.