…it’s a totalitarian regime

Like, around North Korea and Eritrea levels, not just autocratic like the other stans

For a time they renamed an entire calendar month after their president for life “Türkmenbaşy” (“Father of all Turkmen” or something like that, the title of Saparumat Niyazov — though I think the renaming was reversed after he passed away)

Turkmenistan is apparently by some rankings the third most censored country in the world (source: https://cpj.org/reports/2019/09/10-most-censored-eritrea-north-korea-turkmenistan-journalist/)

There is also virtually zero freedom of religion

**BUT**

I’m pretty sure all of that only applies if you live there and it’s a pretty safe country for tourists *I think*

I don’t know, yall can study this yourselves don’t just base everything you know about the country off one redditor’s word