The flag of Liberia is red, white, and blue; it has one star and 11 stripes. Liberia has a very young population, with the average age being 18, and there are over 28 different ethnic groups.
Daily life is quite different there. For food, cassava and couscous is a very common combination that people mix together, and meat and fish are common ingredients they use. Because of a lack of refrigeration in Liberia, you have to use your milk within a week. They also don't have very fancy movie theaters. If you want to see nature, you can go to man-made waterfalls there. When shopping, they use United States dollars because they are much more valuable over there. On a broader scale, Africa is doing very well when it comes to finance; a lot of people in Africa are wealthy, and the natural resources are rich as well.
The education system struggles a lot. Liberia has more private schools than public schools because a lot of stuff was destroyed in the past, and their government is corrupt, so they put the least amount of money into schools. In fact, the Liberian government doesn’t give a single book to their citizens for education! Schools have to get their money from churches and donations. The schools also have a high classroom population—a single class could have 50 to 60 students. Because of that, the slower students don't get to catch up easily, so drop-out rates are high.
Family life is also very different. It’s common to have more than one or two wives in the household. The husband (obviously...) gets the power in the household, and then the first wife, and then, you know, so on and so forth. Women can only have ONE husband, while the husbands can have AS MANY as they WANT.
So basically... Liberia doesn’t sound like your dream country unless you’ve already graduated school, you have 28 wives in your harem, you're stinking rich, and you’re part of the corrupt government.
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