Laos

 Vientiane is their capital.

Laos is in the "golden triangle", which is where most of the world's opium are grown.

Laos has a lot of unexploded ordinances which are bombs and leftovers from the Vietnam war, and they mostly came from the US. The idea is that the US wanted to destroy the Ho Chi Minh trail supply routes to Vietnam, and they used bombs to do that without warning they dropped about 260 million tons of bombs on Laos, making Laos the most bombed capital per capita in history.
About 1/3 of the bombs did not explode but they are still there, they even recycled some of them into plant pots and made their own economy selling these unexploded shells. And Boats are made of these now.

Laos's highest peak Phau Bia is actually not allowed to be climbed as that mountain has unexploded bombs that might cause a threat to the climbers.

On the Mekong river, there is a phenomenon called the Naga fireballs, which are "fireballs" that come rising from the water of the river, although some say it's fake if it is real, scientists say that it might be Phosphine guesses are limited by bacteria that combust under the water.

A population of 8 million people.

They use Lao kip they also accept Thai Bhat, and USD.

They were also colonized by the french so baguettes are sold here.

It is also rude to touch a person on top of their head, as that is considered sacred.