Bangladesh
Bangladesh (a.k.a. The Artist Formerly Known As East Pakistan) is a country in South Asia. During British rule in India, Bangladesh was the most prosperous part of India. However, mismanagement hatred by (The Artist Formerly Known As West) Pakistan (prior to Bangladesh's initial name) and corruption since have made it one of the poorest places on earth.
It gets hit by natural disasters fairly often, generally of the monsoon variety. And, when it gets hit, it gets hit hard. Unfortunately, due to its location in a low, swampy delta, the country is highly vulnerable to climate change and the melting of the icecaps. As though that weren't bad enough, the funnel shape of the Bay of Bengal and the gentle slope of both the offshore seabed and the onshore land produce large storm surges from cyclones that cover large areas of some of the most densely-populated low-lying real estate in the world. Bangladeshi death tolls from cyclones have many times reached into the tens of thousands; at least 7 cyclones are known to have each killed over 100,000 people and rendered millions homeless, and one in 1970[wp] killed at least 500,000. For comparison, the most deadly hurricane ever to strike the U.S. killed around 8,000 people.
Bangladesh has the highest religiosity it the world, at 100% 110% (though there are other contenders).
[edit] 2013 persecution of atheists
In April 2013, three atheist bloggers were arrested by the local police and charged with defaming Islam and the prophet Muhammad online. If convicted, they can be sentenced to 14 years in jail.[1][2]
[edit] 2015 hacking of atheist blogger
On February 27, 2015, atheist writer Avijit Roy was hacked to death in Dhaka by two machete-wielding Islamists. Roy was "the second Bangladeshi blogger to have been murdered in two years and the fourth writer to have been attacked since 2004."[3] The government reacted to the murder by arresting some atheist bloggers.[4]