No, not Panem. This year’s winner makes “The Hunger Games” look like a day at the beach. The nation in question describes itself as a

“Genuine workers’ state in which all the people are completely liberated from exploitation and oppression.”

 You probably know it as North Korea.

According to Gallup, fewer Americans approve of North Korea than any other nation.  More seriously, the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights recently released a report accusing North Korea of

“Systematic, widespread, and gross human rights violations.“ 

So what did North Korea do to deserve this denunciation? To summarize the United Nations:

1. North Korea does not allow its people the rights to freedom of speech, freedom of association, freedom of religion, or even “freedom of thought.”

2. The government educates children and adults in its “all-encompassing indoctrination machine.” No independent sources of information are permitted. 

3. Hunger is widespread, but the government frequently refuses aid organizations’ offers of assistance. Food is used ”as a means of control over the population.”

4. Anyone accused of dissent, and sometimes several generations of their families, can be sent to a labor camp indefinitely without trial. Torture, starvation, rape, and executions all occur regularly in these institutions. (Google recently began labeling these camps on google maps.)

The full list is far longer, but even four bullet points should deter any would-be North Korean immigrants. Sadly for its current citizens, emigration is another practice forbidden by the government. North Korea has long been considered something of a joke by outsiders: just check out the Onion’s remarkably successful “sexist man alive” parody. Inside its borders, however, nobody’s laughing.