The North Arab Republic

The North Arab Republic is a rump state, successor to the United Arab Kingdoms, the Hashemite dynasty's grand pan-Arab project. It is led by President Saddam Hussein of the Ba'ath Party, the youngest person in such a post in the world. The Republic's population has been massacred, its fertile land contaminated by chemical and bacteriological weapons, and its oil wells burnt to a crisp. As it stands, the pan-Arab dream has been thoroughly shattered by Anwar Sadat. And yet, Hussein's broken country is better off than the UN Security Zone which it borders...