[martin_fierro]

Its isolation is so complete that no one is even sure who the country's president is any more.

And yet ... civilization goes on.

<|:)~

[princess leah]

Well, this sounds like some place those 3 mysterious ships might go since they are also without radio or other communications with the outside world...maybe Saddam is planning a takeover of this Island and moving his WMD closer to America?

[wildbill]

Apparently all the banks in Naaru are shells (no pun intended--well, maybe a little one.)

Sixty Minutes did a piece on them some years ago. Seems Naaru is an island that sold off most of its land area which consisted mainly of nitrate rich bird droppings (I swear I'm not making this up) to fertilizer companies. This left the islanders with an island that looked like a donut because of the big hole in the center, surrounded by a narrowing strip of land holding back the Pacific.

The banking scam came as a result of trying to broaden their economic base.

[AmericanInTokyo]

This is stupid. Certainly there are amateur ham radio operators in that country that are talking with the 'outside' world!

[strela]

A cautionary tale for those who think that AOL and a McDonalds are available behind every tree and bush on the planet.

[RightWhale]

its telecommunications network collapsed.

It's 2' satellite dish fell over.