Tunisia

Tunisians have been oppressed by their government for a long time. The turning point came with a single man's actions. He was a fruit seller supporting with his family, but was using an unregistered cart to wheel his good around. A policewoman stopped him and, having been in the situation before, attempted to pay the fine of roughly $7. Instead of receiving the payment, she insulted his late father, slapped him, and spit on him. He snapped. That very day he went to the government office covered in flammable liquid and set himself alight.

This set off a chain reaction in Tunisia and the countries around. Many of them, Tunisia included, started revolutions. The Tunisian Revolution was successful in kicking out the oppressive leader and is now targeting his entire party. In 2011 their government stands in transition, with radio waves filled with political talk and foreign reporters being flash mobbed the moment they pull their notebook out by citizens eager to speak up. It's up to the people to decide their new government, and it seems to be heading toward becoming a multiparty democracy.