While being that diverse is obviously going to make a country worse, the thing that compounds with this is the retarded confessional system. In short, the confessional system allocates a certain number of seats in the Lebanese parliment to members of the major religions, and this is allegedy done with population in mind. Except of course for the fact that the president has to be a Maronite AND they get the most seats in the parliment despite the fact that they're clearly NOT the slight majority they were initially. This obviously bred resentment among the other religions (particularly muslims) which led to people hating the central government and only identifying with their religious sect or foreign nationality and the corresponding militia that represented for them (Hezbollah, Ouwet, PLO, etcetera). Obviously some groups like the SSNP desired to shed this blatantly ridiculous system, but they were unfortunately brought into the sectarian shit as well by default since every other group mostly only associated with their militias which is why a majority of their supporters are non-maronite christians like the greek catholics or orthodox. You can look up shit about the Lebanese civil war and Israeli expulsion from the south to see why half of Lebanon isn't a part of Syria anymore or why Hezbollah is the only militia with weapons, but this is the general gist of why shit is so fucked up here. (2/2)