Nauru, a tiny island in the Pacific Ocean, was once the wealthiest country in the world in terms of GDP per capita, with its ...

Nauru, a tiny island country in Micronesia, was once one of the wealthiest nations in the world in terms of GDP per capita, ...

There was a trust made up of royalties from mining to manage the island’s accumulated wealth, but it was quickly squandered away and Nauru desperately turned to other methods of making money.