As you add more modifiers it gets worse; the Republic of the Congo is hanging out with Russia and Vietman on the EUI Democracy Index, but the Democratic Republic of the Congo is all the way down, one point above the Democratic Peoples' Republic of Korea (three modifiers; extra-evil!).
DRC was my first thought when I saw the parent comment! An aside, if you want one of the most amazing and thoughtfully written travel stories of recent conditions in DRC, check out this overlanding thread by a couple who went from
Lubumbashi to Kinshasa. https://expeditionportal.com/forum/threads/democratic-republ...
