It is often said that of a country that economists call "unviable" but that should not be used for any case because a country never fails but its governments, unfortunately many times voters are not to blame for the bad things they do who elect although there would be some co-responsibility, however there is usually fraud and therefore with less reason the voters are to blame, countries do not fail but their senior leaders leading their peoples to failure, case of some South American countries that were previously successful and now struggle in the most ignominious poverty fruit of the erroneous policies of those who want to adapt reality to their theories that everywhere have proven to be wrong Some synonyms , Similar words or expressions can be unviable country , backward country , underdeveloped country