Nauru, located in the South Pacific, a country with an area of 24 square kilometers and a population of more than 10,000 people, once became the country with the highest per capita income by selling dung, but now it can only rely on touching porcelain and making prisons for other countries.
Nauru
Once a colony
Say that Nauru is an island, but it is not like an island, because the place where people can live on the island is very small, most of it is mines. But the history of this island is quite long, thousands of years, if it were not for the British landing here, I am afraid that the Nauruans are still the era of long knives and spears.
In 1798, when the glorious British Empire entered the era of global colonization, the British captain came here with a large ship and gave the island a happy name - "Happy Island".
Nauru
Although it was named Happy Island, the people on the island were very sad, because the British colonized them and did not develop the island's economy. We were poor when the British didn't come, and we were still poor after the British came, so didn't the British come in vain?
However, the British are not in the mood to manage this happy island, after all, I have so much territory in the British Empire, how can a small place like yours enter my eyes.
The British occupied the island of Nauru
Happy Island people boiled ah, survived for 90 years and finally boiled into Ashanbo, in 1888, in the spirit of the fly legs are small and meat, the Germans occupied Happy Island, the British abandoned the Happy Island masses, since then, Happy Island became Nauru Island.
Soon, the British Empire that abandoned the island was remorseful, because the Germans found a lot of phosphate resources on the island, which were quite valuable, how did the phosphate come from? This is to mention the seabirds, after all, this island has existed for tens of thousands of years, generation after generation of seabirds continue to fly around here, flying tired here to rest their feet, over the years down to accumulate a lot of bird droppings, with the passage of time, these bird droppings continue to decay into the ground, forming phosphate mines, and relative to other places, the phosphate mines on this island are high-quality, dung smelly, is a superior mineral.
Phosphorite
However, the British Empire was also a decent person, and since the Germans had taken it and were not embarrassed to come back, the Germans began to mine continuously, but the Germans also paid attention to etiquette, mined only a small part, and did not share the money with the people on the island. In World War II, it was occupied by Japan again, and those who had a good life did not care about you, directly occupied the whole island and began to dig wildly. After World War II, when it was administered by Australia and Australia was digging wildly behind its back, the people of Nauru became angry and declared independence in 1968, driving the hateful colonists out of the island.
Sell guano and make a fortune
The Nauruns who founded the country said that because the country had just been established, the whole country was in ruins and had to dig up more dung to replenish the country's economy.
However, in the first year of excavation, the Nauruans dug out more ore than the previous 30 years of total, this feeling of having mines at home made the Nauruans feel happy, and the Nauruans at that time should be the mood of the current top of the head, the mood of my richest dog in the world.
A large household
The people of Nauru are like a demon and have begun to mine bird droppings on a large scale, what sustainable development, love for the environment is all to see the devil, I still want to achieve wealth freedom as soon as possible.
After several years of mining, So that Nauru's per capita GDP reached three or four hundred thousand US dollars, looking at the world at that time, Nauru can be said to be the world's largest per capita GDP, this money is not falling from the sky, but dug out of the ground, a proper real-life version of the land is wealth.
What do you do when you have money? Of course, drinking the strongest wine, riding the wildest horse, and buying the most expensive house, so in 1972, the wealthy Republic of Nauru spent a huge amount of money to buy a piece of land in the city center of Melbourne, Australia, which had bullied him, and began to build the "Nauru Building", determined to build Australia's tallest building to achieve the effect of deterring Australia. After the building was built, the Nauruans held a grand completion ceremony, which lasted for ten days, and the scenery was beautiful and lively, which made the citizens of Melbourne envious.
Nauru Mansion
Is the United States the best country in the world? Ok, bought 2 million square kilometers of forest directly in the United States.
What the? I have no media in a country as rich as I am? Three television stations are set up to broadcast on a rotating basis.
Don't have entertainment? Build a golf course in the only green space on the island.
Nauru Ring Road
Inconvenient to get around? Build a 20-kilometer-long ring road.
What should I do if I am sick? Of course, it is necessary to receive the best treatment, build an airport, buy a few planes, fly to the United States and Australia every day rain or shine, even if you have a cold, you have to go to a big hospital.
Can't farm on the island? Who said that? What kind of land to plant, take money to eat abroad, but also to change the habit of eating staple food, eat lobster abalone can be full.
In the case of eating hay plugs every day, the entire population of Nauru suffered from obesity, and the obesity rate of up to 97% made the people of Nauru belly roll.
Debt crisis
In the 1990s, the Nauru government suddenly saw that there were not many bird droppings, how to feed so many people, and there were several large projects abroad that were being developed.
By 1995, the National Bank of Nauru had collapsed, and what had been bought before was bought and sold.
The forests bought in the United States were sold, the buildings in Melbourne were sold, the money was not enough, and all the planes and ships in the country were sold, but after all, they were second-hand goods, and the financial loopholes could not be filled.
Nauru aircraft
The house in Australia was supposed to cope with the rise in sea level in the future, but in this crisis, it directly sold the back road.
Side door for money
However, as the saying goes, Wolong Phoenix can be safe for one person, so Nauru's version of Wolong came out of the mountain, suggesting that the government can use the advantages of the island to engage in tourism, just when the 10,000 people in the country are excited, they are hit by the potholed land in the country.
However, Wolong is Wolong after all, and proposed that now is the global economic integration, the countries of the world are engaged in the financial industry, we should also engage in a financial industry, so that the Republic of Nauru into a pearl on the sea, but because there is no domestic resources to sell, the original friendly partners not only did not take Nauru to play, but also joined forces to sanction Nauru, so that Nauru, which was already a pot, made Nauru worse.
In 2005, the Republic of Nauru was completely bankrupt, and when the ten thousand chubby people in the country were about to starve to death, the phoenix had no choice but to go out of the mountains, and the Republic of Nauru changed its style and began to touch porcelain.
Nauru people
So a paper was handed to the International Court of Justice, demanding that Australia compensate for the ecological damage caused by the mining of ore in Nauru before independence, the two sides fought back and forth for four years, Australia was really impatient, found Nauru for an out-of-court settlement, and finally paid 107 million Australian dollars, cash payment of 57 million Australian dollars, the remaining 50 million points repaid in 20 years.
However, touching porcelain is not a long-term solution after all, you need to find soft persimmons to pinch, but also to think of reasons, it is too troublesome, so Nauru's think tank has thought of a new way to make money - to become a tax haven.
To provide tax avoidance services for enterprises in other countries, as long as you give 25,000 US dollars, you can get a passport from Nauru and open a bank in Nauru.
As long as you come to this place, you can turn illegal income into legal income, and many criminal gangs have rushed here, which has greatly displeased the world's financial institutions and been blacklisted by financial organizations in many countries.
Bank of Nauru
However, nauruans believe that the way to make money cannot be too single, so they have launched diplomatic relations services, such as which country has disputed sovereignty, which country needs to support, which country has an organization against the government, as long as you give money to support you.
Frog gave Nauru $130 million in order to prevent Nauru from establishing diplomatic relations with China, and in 2002, frogs established diplomatic relations with China and broke off diplomatic relations with Frog Frog. In 2005, Frog frog took out a lot of money to let Nauru and China break off diplomatic relations and establish diplomatic relations with Frog Frog.
In 2008, Nauru declared that it recognized Kosovo as a sovereign state, and the NATO countries gave him a lot of money.
In 2009, he received another $50 million from Russia.
Although these acts of death have made other countries angry, they are afraid of falling into the hands of a bullying small country, so they ignore it except condemnation.
U.S. knife
Become a prison in Australia
Even if this funding is not enough for the lavish people of Nauru, and the domestic economy is deteriorating, there is no source of income but on the government, 90% of the people work in the government, and the rest can only live on government subsidies.
Australia's reluctant stowaways were all housed in Nauru, and Nauru, in return, established a detention facility, and they found that ordinary criminals earned too little money, so they began to provide services to the world to hold political prisoners, who lived in good prison environments and high fees, so that these people could stay in it happily.
Prison built in Nauru
Hate China
In June 2021, China's project to lay submarine cables between island nations in the South Pacific was stranded due to malicious obstruction by the United States, while Nauru responded positively to the United States, slandering the security problems of the cables built by China, and took the initiative to find Australia to build the cables.
epilogue
There are many ways in which a country is famous all over the world, but it is really rare to be as famous as Nauru.
Throughout Nauru's decades of founding history, words such as death and strange flowers have always run through it.
Nauru Airport