The North Arab Republic is a rump state, successor to The United Arab Kingdom, 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 butchered, its fertile land contaminated by chemical and bacteriological weapons, and its oil wells burnt to a crisp, all during the apocalyptic Black Sand War. As it stands, the pan-Arab dream has been thoroughly shattered by Anwar al-Sadat. And yet, Hussein's broken Republic is better off than The South Arab Security Zone which it borders.
Though technically independent, the North Arab Republic is diplomatically unrecognised by most states, and under heavy UN sanctions. Nevertheless, it maintains commercial and political relations with all other nations in West Asia 🌴, except of course Sadati Arabia. It is a nation in perpetual martial law, where infrastructure is crumbling and the environment remains poisoned by lingering biological and chemical contaminants, gifts from Anwar Sadat’s scorched-earth policy in the early 1960s. Nonetheless, under Hussein’s leadership, the Republic maintains internal cohesion through aggressive propaganda, land reclamation efforts, and youth mobilisation campaigns. Agricultural revival projects in the upper Euphrates Valley have seen limited success, and the Oil Recovery Corps, a militarised industrial arm, has managed to restart controlled extraction in untainted zones. Oil funds are primarily being reinvested in agricultural revival, healthcare, decontamination and covert actions against The Caliphate of Sadati Arabia, with whom the North Arab Republic has a promise to keep: the total annihilation of the Salafist dream. Some say that deep in Mosul, Saddam is experimenting with nuclear weapons. The truth is up to anyone's guess.