Salutations from Turkey. We are so badass, we have city named Batman. However, our country's name is the English name of an animal which may not be badass but let's not go over there.
Of course, our politics are shit like every other country. Fistfights at The Turkish Grand National Assembly are common. You are either Communist (for the people!) or Nationalist (one flag, one religion, one nation!). Our country's greatest tool is retractable batons. Our president always brings a police army with him whenever he visits an university. We love to throw eggs at politicians so much, police sometimes confiscates them. Bodyguards of politicians also use umbrellas as shields when the egg-attack commences. We have organizations like far-leftist Revolutionary Highschool Students which sounds kinda funny when translated to English.
We also have the occasional military coup to clear things up once in every few decades. It was usually Communists vs Nationalists vs Military free-for-all fights going on all around and it was dangerous to leave your house. We used to bring guns to universities and gun down those who oppose our ideological views but that communists vs nationalists stuff used to happen like 30-40 years ago. Also, "%99 of the population is Muslim" is bullshit in my experience because most people I met are very paranoid (like me) when it comes to religions. We do not like getting assassinated, lynched or simply being hated for having a different religious view. Non-muslim-but-still-faking-it Turkish people tend to be one of the following: Deist, Agnostic, Atheist, Pagan. You show me poll that questions my religious belief, I'll suddenly become the most religious Muslim in the world.
I really want to move out from this country before the government declares Sharia or something.