Haiti (1983: Doomsday)

Pre-Doomsday
From 1957 to 1983, the Duvalier family reigned as dictators, turning the country into a hermit kingdom with a personality cult and excessive corruption. They created the private army and terrorist death squads known as Tonton Macoutes. Many Haitians fled to exile in the United States and Canada, especially French-speaking Quebec. In the 1970s the United States funded major efforts to establish assembly plants for U.S. manufacturers. In the mid 1980s the US continued military and economic aid to the regime.

Post-Doomsday
Following the total breakdown of communications between Haiti and the United States, the country decended into chaos, lacking desperately needed foreign aid. The Duvalier family's grip on the country quickly started to crumble and in early 1984, they were ousted and a new constitution was overwhelmingly approved by the population. Jean-Bertrand Aristide, having returned in 1983 for his ordination as a Salesian priest, quickly took the reigns of the failling country and won a landslide victory in the presidential elections of 1984.

Aristide presidency(1984-1996)
Aristide was supported by most of the population, as he acted on a platform of survivalism and creating closer ties with regional powers that were emerging. He graciously received the aid given to him by the East Caribbean Federation. Over the years, political and military circles started loosing hope in the President. Aristide developed an addiction to psychotropic drugs, and started murdering political opponents. Wanting to grab power themselves, a military-junta, under the guidance of Raoul Cédras took power threw the country farther into an economic crysis.

Economy
Haiti has remained the poorest country in the Americas. It is an impoverished country, one of the world's poorest and least developed. Comparative social and economic indicators show Haiti falling behind other low-income developing countries (particularly in the hemisphere) since the 1980s. About 80% of the population were estimated to be living in poverty in 2006. About 66% of all Haitians work in the agricultural sector, which consists mainly of small-scale subsistence farming, but this activity makes up only 30% of the GDP. The country has experienced little formal job creation over the past decade, although the informal economy is. Mangoes and coffee are two of Haiti's most important exports. Foreign aid makes up approximately 30%-40% of the national government's budget. The largest donor is the SAC followed by Siberia, and the ECF also contributes. Cuba also makes various contributions to Haiti's economy, especially after alliances were renewed in 2006 and 2007.

Demographics
Although Haiti averages approximately 360 people per square kilometer (940 per sq. mi.), its population is concentrated most heavily in urban areas, coastal plains, and valleys. 90-95% of Haitians (depending on the source) are of predominately African descent; the remaining 5-10% of the population are mostly of mixed-race background. A small percentage of the non-black population consist primarily of white Haitians; mostly of Arab, Western European (French, German, Polish, Spanish), and Jewish origin. Haitians of Asian descent (mostly of Chinese origin) number in at approximately 400.