The Chosun Ilbo featured an article in Foreign Policy magazine that has rankings for the sustainability of the different countries in the world:

North Korea has been ranked 14th on a list of ¿failed states¿ compiled by the U.S. global policy journal Foreign Policy together with the Fund for Peace. The two gave countries number grades in areas like government authority, legitimacy, public peace and basic public services.

In the results published Monday, Sudan topped the list for being in the middle of a civil war. It was followed by the similarly afflicted Democratic Republic of the Congo, Cote d’Ivoire, Iraq and Zimbabwe. Among the 148 countries, 11 in the top 20 were African nations.

Take a look at this map:

I have to wonder about the data to create this map when the US and most of Europe are not considered sustainable governments?