Nauru is a country that is critically lacking in resources of any kind. There is very little in Nauru that anyone wants to buy. At one point, Nauru’s phosphate mining industry made it one of the wealthiest countries on Earth by GDP per capita. The phosphate ran out in the 1990s and the island was left with very little. For several years Nauru attempted to extract phosphate from bird droppings on the island, though this venture proved unsuccessful. The trust that had been set up to save some of Nauru’s phosphate mining wealth was horribly mismanaged. This included failed investments in Leonardo the Musical and several hotels in Australia. Eventually, all of these hotels and Air Nauru’s only Boeing 737 would be repossessed. Nauru eventually turned to finance, specifically as the least discriminatory tax haven in the world. Nauru flew too close to the sun, however, when they drew ire from the United States for engaging in money laundering and managing bank accounts for suspected terrorists and international criminals. Presently, Nauru has few serious revenue streams. They play host to an Australian migrant detention facility and still retain their tax haven status. Nauru recently drew significant ire after they legalized deep sea mining. Aside from having no economic prospects whatsoever, Nauru is a country that is doomed to sink in the very near future. Saving Nauru from being the lowest-scoring country in Oceania is its strong democracy, solid free expression, and passable human rights situation.