Desperate Dan's hour in country (8)
I believe the answer is:
honduras
'country' is the definition.
(I know that Honduras is a country)
'desperate dan's hour' is the wordplay.
'desperate' indicates an anagram (a desperate or pathetic spelling).
'dans'+'hour'='danshour'
'danshour' is an anagram of 'HONDURAS'.
'in' acts as a link.
(Other definitions for honduras that I've seen before include "Land" , "Central US country" , "US hadron in Central America, strangely" , "Central American state" , "Central American country, capital Tegucigalpa" .)