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Brunei
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Member of the *Commonwealth since 1984, on the northwest coast of Borneo. A powerful Muslim sultanate from the 15C, it became a British protectorate in 1888. With great wealth from oil and natural gas, its population (less than 250,000) has an exceptionally high per capita income and the sultan is often said to be the world's richest man.
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