I-MAG STS    Corporation
  2007
 2012 - no maglev
 2012 - maglev
Population
 65,751,512
 77,678,069
 77,753,226
People/arable sq km
 871
 1029
 1014
Babies dying
 151,083
 178,488
 161,700
AIDS - adults
 1,443,640
 1,899,306
 1,881,745
Starving children < 5
 3,063,560
 3,619,254
 2,676,165
Illiterate adults
 11,319,452
 13,372,668
 11,833,652
Unemployed adults
 15,748,802
 18,605,451
 16,489,515
Living in poverty
 30,245,696
 35,731,912
 29,157,460
Drinking unclean water
 35,505,816
 41,946,157
 36,932,782
No Sanitation access
 37,478,362
 44,276,499
 38,798,860
Patients per doctor
 21,014
 24,825
 19,458
Malaria cases
 4,931,363
 5,825,855
 5,053,960
Internet users
 180,000
 392,847
 1,055,625
Cellular phones
 4,415,000
 4,828,821
 9,924,546
Inflation
 18.2%
 22.3%
 13.0%
GDP per capita US$
 700
 930
 1,010
Trade balance MM$
 -211
 -408
 -331
Government spending
 -1,300
 -2,870
 -1539
Reserves
 0
 -156
 -143
Currency rate to US $
 464.690
 835.075
 795.605
External debt
 10,000
 11,005
 10,734
Note that figures like babies dying are annual
- so in 5 years 90,000 or more babies would  
live past age 12 months. The cost of ongoing
intranational war in the northeast looks high
- to us. Perhaps there a hidden treasure at
stake.  It is not clear to us that the maglev and
supurbs can prevent an agonizing social and
economic collapse in the Democratic Republic
of the Congo.  What else can? Short of a name
change to the Republican Democracy of the
Congo, nothing.