Mongolia’s economy has tripled in size since becoming a democracy 30 years ago and the sudden growth has brought many challenges. It's a nation of sweeping grassland pastures and an ever-growing Gobi desert, sealed between Russia to its north and China to its south. Such large autocratic neighbours bring a sense of threat to this fledgling democratic nation. All those issues and more are raised by the public and debated by a panel of politicians at the moment a new coalition government is being formed.

Presenter Jonny Dymond is at the Chinggis Khaan Museum in the Mongolian capital, Ulaanbaatar. He is joined by:

(Photo: A nomadic Mongolian herder leads his camel and livestock over sand dunes beneath the Altai mountains. Credit: Timothy Allen/Getty Images)