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** Demographics **
**Economic Resources**
 * ** Median Age: 24.5 **
 * ** 1.05 male/female **
 * ** Berb and Arab 97%, Greek, Maltese, Egyptian 3% **
 * Geography **
 * ** 1,759,540 sq. km. **
 * ** 90% desert **
 * ** Imports: machinery, semi-finished goods, food, transport equipment, consumer products  **
 * ** Exports: crude oil, refined petroleum products, natural gas, chemicals  **
 * ** Jobs: Agriculture-3.6% **
 * Industry-56.7% **

= **HISTORY** =
 * Services-39.7% **
 * ** GDP: $14,100, world rank 88. U.S. world rank 12 **
 * Political Structure **
 * ** Government is changing. No information available since government is currently under transition. **
 * ** 1956 - Libya grants two American oil companies a concession of some 14 million acres **
 * ** 1969- Muammar gaddafi becomes king. **
 * ** 1973 - Col Gaddafi declares a "cultural revolution" **
 * ** 1977 - Col Gaddafi declares a "people's revolution", changing the country's official name from the Libyan Arab Republic to the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriyah and setting up "revolutionary committees" - heralding the start of institutionalised chaos, economic decline and general arbitrariness. **
 * ** 1980 - Libya and Syria agree on a merger, but this too fails to materialise; Libyan troops start intervening on a large scale in civil war in northern Chad. **
 * ** 1995 - Gaddafi expelled some 30,000 Palestinians in protest **
 * ** 2011 August-Uprising began **
 * ** 2011 20 October - Col Gaddafi is killed. **
 * ** 2011 November -son of Muammar Gaddafi, is captured, becoming the last key Gaddafi family member to be seized or killed. **

= = = **Maintaining order** = ** in March, screaming of gang rape by Col. Moammar Gadhafi's thugs. When Al-Obeidi was 16, her brother's hunting rifle went off accidentally. She lost her little finger and doctors sewed 22 stitches across her belly. **
 * Maintaining order is not fullfilled.The world knows her as the Libyan woman who walked into Tripoli's Rixos Hotel **


 * Those scars should have helped save her reputation last year, she says. **
 * After the hotel incident, Libyan state television aired a video of a belly dancer, sayingit was al-Obeidi. The smear campaign hurt her almost as much as the gang **
 * rape. **
 * "That woman had 10 fingers and no stitches on her stomach," she says. "I went to the police to ask about the video. But they did nothing." **

=**Individual Rights: **=

Individual rights of the people is not fulfilled.Libyas media has had a new revolution.
=== Deprived of free speech for 42 years, Libyans have seized the opportunity to publish and broadcast with energy and enthusiasm. Hundreds of newspapers, countless websites, television and radio stations have sprung up from nothing. ===

= ** NATIONAL DEFENSE ** = ===**Poorly fulfilled. Gadaffi's army was pretty weak and were also poorly trained to fight. The military did help take down Gadaffi in the end. The military did do a good job of protecting its people though.**===


 * DIRECT ECONOMIC DECISION : **
 * DIrect economic decisions was fulfilled since income is being made in the country.The Libyan economy depends on revenue from hydrocarbons, which make about 95% of export earnings, 65% of GDP, and 80% of government revenue. Libya in the past five years made progress on economic reform as part of a broader campaign to reintegrate the country into the international fold **

** PROVIDE PUBLIC SERVICES: **
** Providing Public services is not fulfilled. ** 
 * ** There are schools that have been completely destroyed in Misrata, Zawiya, Zintan. a mine-awareness campaign has trained 280 teachers to help children avoid mines planted by Qadd **
 * ** [[image:https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/7ypeE-1vY3G0BM9k7hvMmDJF6edofbSISRd02CcxwOqJwxHNXj9THDrDIkNZuyN7mmtotOIcupG4rpF-gwCD7-kZvyzxFQj1IiC6N1yN67iSRrJWwg width="511" height="131" align="right"]] afi's forces.Libya's schools are packed because Qaddafi stopped school construction from the late 1980s until 2010 the History was completely distorted with Qaddafi's anti-Western world view. Libyans don't know anything about World War One, World War Two or the French Revolution because Qaddafi was scared of any story that might make people stand up for their rights. A few months after the uprising the rebels made a committee of education experts to take out Qaddafi's ideas from the curriculum, . The new schools, will teach more Western languages like French and English **


 * In line with text | Fixed position **

=**RANKS**= > 2. Providing a National Defense > 3. Maintain Order > 4.** Protecting Individual Right ** > 5. Providing Public services >
 * 1. Making Economic Decisions


 * ** Who revolted? 1 995 - Gaddafi expelled some 30,000 Palestinians in protest at the Oslo accords between the Palestine Liberation Organisation and Israel.  **
 * ** Why did they revolt? They revolted because they were tired of not having the freedom that they deserved. **
 * ** How did they organize?the voice of Free Libya broadcasted through out libya and on February 17,2011 they all revolted against Gadafi. **
 * ** How did the people overthrow the government? The people overthrew the government by doing very violent protests even though they were being shot by the army they still continued to protest **
 * ** How did the government respond? Things were turning into anarchy. Gaddafi went into hiding as other countries got involved when they saw the palestinians revolting. Once seized and captured, Gaddafi was killed. **
 * ** How was the government the same or different following the revolution? Gaddafi is now dead, and the government is currently in transition. **

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