A failed state is seen as a state that has failed to meet the essential needs, functions, conditions and responsibilities of a government sovereign. Signs of a failed state include loss of power, loss of regulation and control over one's own territory, corrosion of authority in decision-making and resolutions, incompetence in administration of services national, such as education, security or governance, and a failure to collaborate with other states as a full representative of the international community. All of these are disruptions that result in conflictual violence and extreme poverty emanating from a failed state. The recent Fund for Peace Index ranks failed states. Last year, in 2013, the top sixteen failed states were Somalia, Congo (DR), Sudan, South Sudan, Chad, Yemen, Afghanistan, Haiti, Central African Republic, Zimbabwe , Iraq, Ivory Coast, Pakistan, Guinea Bissau and Nigeria. A failed state is categorized as unfortunate, insecure, or intentional. Somalia is an example of an unhappy state. This country is unable to formulate and execute its policies and is therefore considered a collapsed state. There is no central form of government or effective policy to govern its people. The intentional state fuels violence between an autonomous territory and its perceived enemy. Pakistan is a good example of a country where clear and consistent policies have been maintained across the country; however, there are ungoverned areas in the Pashtun badlands along the Afghan border. One source states that "the country's military leaders made a strategic choice to allow the Pashtuns to govern themselves there, in order to better be able to use them against their supposed adversaries." The region is known for its approach of advocating assurance guaranteed by power sharing between competing groups within failed states. The United States and the United Nations appear convinced that international peace and security depend on the exclusive presence of independent states capable of controlling their territories, policing their societies, and fulfilling their global obligations. Failed states generate negative externalities within the international system by weakening and abusing their own national populations, or by allowing corrupt terrorist and criminal enterprises to operate on their country's soil. Interventions in the interests of dysfunctional states denigrate fundamental sovereignty, such interference can advance border concerns by using nation states as a unit of construction in the organization of international affairs and law..