Western Sahara

Population - A handful.
Located - West of the Sahara.
Known for - Sandy, sandy, bastards.

Western Sahara is a sandy slither of land located south of Morocco, sort of west of Algeria and north or Mauritania. It is controlled by Morocco though it is the home of the Saharawi people, who, with Algeria's backing, have been engaged in a sometimes armed struggle against Morocco.

I am not interested in this struggle, as it seems to me a pointless waste of time, for god's sake it is only sand, and though there is a little oil there, or maybe even a shitload of oil, some company from somewhere more civilised is going to grease in and steal all the profits anyway.

But I also understand why it is taking place, as pointless wastes of time are what people in this region engage in, it's what they ENJOY doing, what they get their KICKS out of.

So I am going to wade in and get my big nose in this one. I'm going to back the Saharawis. Why? Because they are the more aptly named participant in the conflict. They are not called the Congolese, nor are they the Uzbeks. They are neither the Saami from Suomi, nor the Sumatrans from Sumatra.

They are the Saharawis from the Sahara, even the SaharaWis from Western Sahara. See what they've done there? Taken the W from Western and chucked it on the back of Sahara, with an I that gives it a nice ring. Saharawi.

Bloody legends.

Sandy, sandy, bastards, but bloody legends.

The Moroccan Royal family has said they won't ever relinquish the Saharan territories they claimed, but it is hardly called Western Morroca, now, is it?