United Arabia (Frozen War)

Category:Frozen WarArabia, officially the Hashemite Kingdom of United Arabia (المملكة العربية المتحدة الهاشمية), or United Arabian Kingdom (UAK) was an authoritarian federal monarchy governing the Middle-Eastern state between 2023 and 2027, when Bashar al-Assad and the Ba'ath Party-SSNP coalition seized power and transformed the region into an authoritarian regime under the de jure rule of Abdullah II and de facto control of Assad. The UAK stretched from the Levant to Mesopotamia, with the notable exclusion of Israel and Kuwait. 
On 30 January 2023, Bashar al-Assad was appointed Prime Minister, head of government, by King Abdullah II, the head of state. On 23 March 2023, a referendum was passed that effectively gave total control of the legislature to the SSNP and Ba'ath Party which then voted to centralize more power into the hands of Prime Minister Assad. Although the king had control over the military, more and more military heads were replaced by Ba'ath Loyalist and Social Nationalist generals. The King was practically held hostage by the Assad government, no more than a symbolic figurehead by 2024. 
In 2027, after engaging in multiple military campaigns with Russia, the Assad government collapses as pro-monarchy loyalists seize control of the military and parliament. Rogue units would continue asymmetric warfare campaigns against UN forces, but by 2028 Arabia had surrendered to the Allies, and left its Russian ally in the dirt.
After seizing power in 2023, pogroms and ethnic cleansing began against Iraqis and Kurds in earnest, with vast concentration camps set up across Iraq. Although in the minority, the Syrian and Jordanian institutions engaged in systemic repression of the Iraqi majority and Kurdish, Black and Turkish-speaking minorities as well as migrants from other conflicts. The Assad government engaged in war crimes that left millions dead, and displaced tens of millions more. 
==Etymology==
The common name Arabia most likely refers to the Arabian Plate, as most of the territory claimed by the Hashemite Kingdom encompassed the Arabian Plate. This likely extents to its short-form proper name United Arabia as well, referring to the state of being united across Arabia. This namesake also likely contributed to the border clashes it would frequently engage in with neighboring Saudi Arabia, most of whose territory it laid claim to.
==History==
===War in Syria (2011–2022)===
The Syrian civil war (Arabic: الحرب الأهلية السورية‎, al-ḥarb al-ʾahlīyah as-sūrīyah) was a multi-sided civil war in Syria fought between the Ba'athist Syrian Arab Republic led by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, along with domestic and foreign allies, and various domestic and foreign forces opposing both the Syrian government and each other in varying combinations.
The unrest in Syria, part of a wider wave of the 2011 Arab Spring protests, grew out of discontent with the Syrian government and escalated to an armed conflict after protests calling for Assad's removal were violently suppressed. The war, which began on 15 March 2011 with major unrest in Damascus and Aleppo, was fought by several factions: the Syrian Armed Forces and its international allies, a loose alliance of mostly Sunni opposition rebel groups (including the Free Syrian Army), Salafi jihadist groups (including al-Nusra Front), the mixed Kurdish-Arab Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), with a number of countries in the region and beyond being either directly involved or providing support to one or another faction (Iran, Russia, Turkey, the United States, as well as others).
Iran, Hezbollah, and the CSTO supported the Syrian Arab Republic and the Syrian Armed Forces militarily under the Axis of Resistance umbrella, with Russia conducting airstrikes and other military operations from September 2015 until February 2023. The U.S.-led international coalition, established in 2014 with the declared purpose of countering ISIL, conducted airstrikes primarily against ISIL as well as some against government and pro-government targets as well as deployed special forces and artillery units to engage ISIL on the ground. From 2015 to 2022, the U.S. supported the Democratic Federation of Northern Syria and its armed wing, the SDF, materially, financially, and logistically. Turkey was directly involved in operations against the Syrian government from August 2016 until 2022, not only supporting ISIL alongside token support to the U.S.-led coalition, but also actively supporting the Syrian opposition and occupying large swaths of northwestern Syria while engaging in significant ground combat with the SDF - particularly against the Syrian Kurds and YPG/YPJ, in an outpouring of a spillover from the Turkish government's ongoing war against the Kurdish minority in Turkey - as well as the Syrian government. However, Turkey and Jordan would begin rapproachment with the Assad regime in late 2021, despite being traditionally American allies. Between 2011 and 2017, fighting from the Syrian civil war spilled over into Lebanon as opponents and supporters of the Syrian government traveled to Lebanon to fight and attack each other on Lebanese soil, with ISIL and Al-Nusra also engaging the Lebanese Army. Furthermore, while officially neutral, Israel exchanged fire with Hezbollah and Iranian forces, whose presence in southwestern Syria it views as a threat. It has also carried out repeated strikes in the rest of Syria since the start of the war, mainly targeting alleged Iranian and Hezbollah militants.
International organizations criticized virtually all sides involved, including the Ba'athist Syrian government, ISIL, opposition rebel groups, Russia, Turkey, and the U.S.-led coalition of severe human rights violations and massacres. The war ended in a stalemate, with Assad remaining in power (although greatly weakened) until January 2030 and with Russia and Turkey maintaining a foothold in the region until the 2040's. Over 900,000 people die with over 29 million refugees displaces across the region. The devastation, akin to the Iraq War, leads to a power vacuum that would later be filled by ever more fervent extremists.
Assad would concede major influence to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan in 2023, following renewed interest in the Arab Federation by Iraq. The Hashemite Kingdom of United Arabia is formed in early 2023 and would last until 2028 under the rule of Jordanian King Abdullah II, with a population of 78,367,000 and a military nearly 500,000-strong, wielding 70 attack helicopters, nearly 6,000 tanks, 14,000 armored fighting vehicles, and 5,500 artillery including nearly 1,000 rocket projectors.
===World War III===
====Russo–Arabian Imperialism (2019–2027)====
:See 2018 Brazilian intervention in Venezuela, Russian involvement in the Syrian Civil War, 2023 Russian nuclear bombing of Crimea, Abkhaz–Georgian conflict, Ukrainian Crisis, Russo–Georgian War, Kerch Strait incident, Francesco De Luca, Colombian Civil War, Verdean–Venezuelan Invasion of Colombia, Eurasian Union State, Val Verde Crisis, & Bosniak–Croat Uprising
====Chinese–Arabian Invasion of Ryukyu====
At the same time of Chinese troop buildup in the Western Hemisphere, Arabian Syrians, Jordanians and Iraqis were arriving in Hainan in preparation for a major joint offensive in the region. On 30 March 2026 Chinese and Arabian missiles struck Northeastern Taiwan, Miyakojima and Yonaguni, following a land occupation by Chinese and Arabian special forces and armored landing divisions of the latter two locations. In preparation for an attack on Taiwan from Ryukyu, the CSTO forces were met with U.S. and Japanese counterattacks 24 hours later. 
Although the counterattacks by air and land are successful, the battle at sea takes a different trajectory, with a Japanese destroyer and two U.S. corvettes being sunk by Chinese submarines before falling back. After the invasion was repulsed 36 hours later, the remaining Chinese and Arabian forces retreat to South America and mainland China. With the attempted invasion of Ryukyu a failure, Chinese and Arabian forces reoriented toward the West and the United States as tensions between Russia and Japan accelerated over the Kurils and Rebun Island, where Russian forces had been building up since the start of the invasion.
====Conflict Escalates====
:See: Fall of Norfolk, Eurasia, Latin America and Serbia Attack the United States, Serbian–Turkish Siege of Greece, Russian–Belarusian Invasion of Scandinavia, Romanian Civil War & Central-East African Conflict
:(November 2026)
[[File:TurkishEnglishFleet.jpg|center|thumb|500px|Chilean–Eurasian warships and aircraft (led by the Russian supercarrier Shtorm) from the Latin American and Eurasian countries of Chile, Arabia, China, Serbia and the Russian Union State en route to attack the United States. (11/14/26)]]
November – The Japanese government declares the Axis of Resistance an illegal organization, and that China's expansionism and allying with Russian and Korean expansion into Europe and Asia respectively was a violation of international law. The Independence Front (citing their policy of non-alignment and prevention of nuclear arms race), along with the states loyal to the “Pact” – abstain, although this does nothing to prevent the continuing Russian–Belarusian imperialism, and thus, the CSTO-spearheaded Axis and their allies. The US embassy is closed in China, further gaping the already massive rift between NATO-aligned and IF-aligned countries. With the suspension of U.S.–Chinese relations, Shanghai quietly gives SCO and ASEAN member-states a silent nod of approval for their support of the Pact (although only Myanmar and Laos would formally join), and soon after retract their statements critical of Chile, Serbia and Russia. As China retreats into isolation, dealing with internal uprising and continuing conflict with the H.K.-Taiwanese Republics, the Pact expands from its founding members to include all of the former-Shanghai Pact nations (except SK), all of Southeast Asia, including New Zealand and all the countries of the MERCOSUR as observers. The MERCOSUR, however, had fallen into a deep state of recession as Brazil, the largest country in the region, erupted in civil war that would last until the 2030's.
With an international and intercontinental military alliance of nearly 30 countries, the PLA and CPS had effectively leveled the playing field with no more than a quick 30 minute meeting and no more than a few sentences. Unfortunately for the CPS, this calculated move would turn out to be an unforced error benefiting the neighboring Modi and Kim regimes and their loyal, incredibly extremist, government and sleeper cells.
Belarusian-Russian Eurasia and Chile were 2 of only 3 naval powers to field Cruisers, while Russia and Arabia had among the largest and most powerful air forces respectively supported by a fleet of over 300 commissioned vessels spearheaded by 2 aircraft carriers and a supercarrier. In addition, Russia possessed thousands of ICBM, mounted on a fleet of dozens of submarine warships and hundreds of other warhead-delivery platforms, and untold supplies of other chemical, mechanical and biological weapons.
With the US sanctioned, Africa in turmoil, and NATO forces bogged down in the conflict overseas, when NORAD goes dark barely any military forces active there realize. With the North American continent blind, isolated and wide-open, and 4 of the 10 active US supercarriers (one had gone missing in the Mediterranean a half-hour after the nuking), along with nearly 100 (nearly a third) of the U.S. surface fleet docked at Naval Base Norfolk, and roughly a quarter of America’s Air Power stationed there as well – what happens next would remain burned into the collective unconscious of Western Civilization for centuries...
November 14th – The Nuclear Bombing of Colorado Springs was at first attributed to terrorism, but later found out to be Grey Wolves extremists with assistance from the Belarusian KGB. Over 200,000 people are killed instantaneously and another 100,000 by the Wars’ end, the nation is paralyzed. Before anything can be done to alleviate the absence of NORAD and air reconnaissance, with roughly half of America’s military in North Africa fighting against the Serbs and Syrian Arabs backed by China, Oman and Russia alongside an international effort to curtail the damage of the bombing’s fallout, literally beyond the radar, 4 carriers, the 1,100-foot-long, 100,000-ton "Project 23000 E" "Shtorm" supercarrier from Russia, the former-Juan Carlos and a strike group of dozens of other Belarusian-Russian and Chilean warships of various class show up along the horizon beyond Naval Station Norfolk, supported by an air fleet of many warplanes belonging to Arabia, Chile and Russia. All now flew the flag of the Chilean, Russian and Arabian States. The sleeping giant is, poetically-speaking, slain in his slumber. The flagship, the dreadnought battleship formerly known as the Peruvian battlecruiser "Almirante Grau," and now known by the Chileans as the infamous Cóndor de Hierro ("Iron Condor"), launches a missile bombardment – with accompanying strikes from the carrier strike group – effectively neutralizing the base’s and docked carriers’ shoreline and air defense systems in one fell swoop. Following this – a joint-squadron assault of Russian, Belarusian, Serbian and Arabian air forces, fighters, bombers, and attack helicopters bombard, and destroy, the four docked supercarriers, and over the course of a half-hour (even amid a hastily thrown-together counterattack from Norfolk forces stationed there and abroad), with staggeringly-high levels of ballistics support from the surface battalion (nearly 300 ships “spilling” out of the canal, able to be seen from orbit) the entire base is wiped out – along with every man, officer and military asset – down to the last scrap of equipment – erased from existence.
Knowing full-well the staggering level of martial power the United States possessed, the entire continent of North America is paralyzed in terror. The Union State, Serbia and their allies in Chile and Arabia had effectively yanked the titan that was once the U.S. military down to their level by its Achilles’ tendon, while simultaneously allowing the Atlantic State the opportunity to assert its sovereignty and control of the region, starting with Naval Base Norfolk. Every strategic move made by the Union State, Serbia and China had been executed perfectly and without error – and now the U.S. was fighting an almost even battle with Russia alone, and China had officially eclipsed U.S. military prowess. To make matters even worse – a naval strike battalion of hundreds of Kim-loyalists composed of the North Korean navy was on its way across the pacific, the Russian puppet-state of Korea was positioning the 655-vessel-strong fleet it now had power over into a threatening geographically-strategic formation at premeditated locations across the world, and U.S.-backed Korean Republicans were powerless to do anything about it.
Less than 24 hours later, NATO invokes Article 5 of the Collective Defense Treaty and multilaterally declares war on Arabia, Chile, Serbia, and the Union State of Russia and Belarus for attacking NATO, and thus attacking their territorial integrity, as well as the theft of nuclear weapons from the US – originally attributed to the nation in question.
"Eleven-Fourteen" or "11/14" is seen as the second-major military defeat of the U.S. in WWIII, much like its counterpart catastrophe, Nine-Eleven "9/11", wherein thousands - both military and otherwise - perish at the hands of hostile actors due to U.S. government ineptitude.
Arabia, Chile and the Russo–Belarusian Union State emerge as the Germany, Italy and Japan of the ongoing Third Global Confrontation. With NATO on one side and Eurasia on the other, our embattled planet Earth’s various warring nations, territories and governments had solidified into two, roughly three, adversarial factions vying for control of said associated territories.
This was the Apex of World War III.
====The Apex of WW3====
:See: Bolivian–Brazilian Territorial Crisis, NATO Declares War on Brazil, NATO Declares War on Chile, NATO Declares War on Russia, Belarus and Russia Declare War on the United States, Arabia declares war on the U.S., China Declares War on the U.S., NATO Invasion of North Bolivia, Chinese–Turkish invasion of Central Asia & Russian Invasion of Ukraine
February – Guerrilla and asymmetric warfare being waged by Chilean, Cuban and Brazilian military forces and insurgents in Bolivia, Uruguay and the Falkland Isles against Islander military and U.S. elements since the culmination of the Second Korean War, and the South America and Balkan Offensive proxy conflicts between the United Nations and North Korea, escalates to a new all-time high when a high-ranking Islander politician and ambassador to the IF is assassinated by pro-Brazilian and Chilean militia via carefully-placed moles in the Falklandic and Uruguayan governments. The outcry causes the Falklands and United Kingdom to declare a state of emergency, and it isn’t but a few days later that public demonstrations against the executive order spread like wildfire. The Chilean and Brazilian-backed movement `Grupo de Amigos Personales (GAP) was discovered to be what the antigovernmental demonstrations primarily consisted of after investigations into the nature of the controversy were launched by the CIA, MI6 and RECON. Further investigations revealed obvious war-crimes and human rights violations, all of which were being ignored or covered up, or both, by Cuba, Peru, and other Chilean and Brazilian allies. Discovering this, the US deployed immediate reaction groups based around RECON and NATO primarily associated with regional disaster relief response and political crises. 
The alarm sets in throughout South America, with revelations that Chile, Peru, Cuba and Brazil had been supporting the movements financially, and cooperating clandestinely under the careful cover of Kremlin and Beijing whitewashing for closer military cooperation, and plans to cripple the South American, and by extension, the US economy and gain a long-sought foothold in the Western hemisphere for their allies in Russia and China. With efforts put forth by the Atlantic and Colombian governments, all of South America rally behind Bolivia and the Falklands in opposition to the GAP strike-teams. Left-wing and syncretic ultra-nationalism sees the opposition to GAP only increase its power and influence in Chile and Brazil, and by the early months of the very next year, GAP and the Pincer both indirectly and directly controls the Peruvian, Chilean, Cuban, Tunisian and Venezuelan governments. Russian-occupied Hokkaido, and GIS units led by Volkan Jamakovic, assisted heavily in this endeavor. The revelation of this to all of America, including the North Americans, results in widespread condemnation of English Chancellor Pharaoh, China, Chile, Cuba and the Brazilian far-right government and an intense territorial crisis between Bolivia on the defense, and Chile and Brazil on the attack, as the latter begins deploying the Brazilian Army and GAP insurgents respectively across Amazon, quickly establishing military superiority in the region and temporarily halving the country of Bolivia. Their efforts are discovered and cut off by the end of the second day and beginning of the third night of Brazilian military exercises. The result is full-blown conflict and an intense Bolivian Civil War. Said Verdean-instigated conflict reverberates throughout Latin America for years to come.
With the Russians and Hungarians terrorizing Europe, South America in flames, Pakistan and Iran on the verge of attacking India and Saudi Arabia, the worst was yet to come. Proxy wars wrought havoc across Africa and Asia as the Russian and Chinese bears leveraged their satellite states across Europe, Asia, Africa and South America - descending the following continents into protracted and asymmetric yet interconnected conflicts. There were no neat "fronts" as in the other World Wars, rather a collection of concurrent wars across the globe, confined to their various regions, Southeastern and Eastern Europe were under attack by Russia, Hungary, and to a lesser extent, China. Although the Chinese tried to stay out of most of the fighting, limiting their involvement to just outside their sphere of influence, attacking Taiwan, Ryukyu and South Korea. The front lines of the war became the Korean DMZ - against China, the Hungarian-Slovak border - against Hungary, and the Saudi-Iraqi border - against Russia. But as time would tell, these were mere pawns in the greater strategy.
====Arabian–Russian War Bots====
:See: Liberation of the Balearic Isles, India declares war on Pakistan, Cuban–Chilean Invasion of Mexico, Russian DEMO Strikes on Sicily and Scotland, Russian–led Invasion of the EU, MAWS & Russo–Hungarian Invasion of Germany
June – The Scottish Prime Minister and the House of Commons call on RECON for an emergency summit between IF and NATO powers in regards to a massive buildup of troops and armor on the border between Scotland and England. NATO declines the invitation, but the IF attends with rigor, still at odds over Pharaoh’s justifiably unfulfilled demand that the US cede Virginia, Georgia and the Carolinas back to the Crown. Just a week ago Queen Elizabeth II had died, and Great Britain, transformed by the British Civil War, Rebel England and Third Global Conflict, splits the Monarchy down the middle between those loyal to England and those supporting a reunification of Britain. The latter are forced into exile, but Scotland and Ireland pledge to defend them from their political opponents.
The highlights at the meeting are Pharaoh’s steady – but gradually declining – cooperation with Libya and Arabia invading the islands of Malta, Minorca and Majorca. Apparently, Pharaoh had cooperated with the Arabian Monarchy and Arabian SOF, Islamist and JaF assets to sow conflict in the Middle-East and Central Asia to distract from the invasion of the islands, due to the presence of anti-Pharaoh rebels on the island. Through cooperation with RECON, the British government-in-exile begins plans for a coup to overthrow Chancellor Pharaoh and his supporters in London. Meanwhile, RECON-Unit 1-11 and NATO forces arrive in Majorca to beat back Arabian and Russian-backed forces attacking the island. Unit 1-11, with heavy assistance from France and Spain, defeat the Libyans and free the Spaniards from enemy hands.
August – The EU and U.S. declare military action, steamrolling Malta and Western Bosnia and invading Arabian-occupied North Lebanon, Greek Cyprus and Crete, before Arabia's launching of an ICBM barrage at French and Italian bases across the Adriatic and Sicily from forward operating bases off the coast of Bosnia and Dalmatia, in addition to the detonations of two nuclear warheads in Kashmir and Kaliningrad by China and NATO out of retaliation against a NATO–U.S. invasion of Tunisia and an unsuccessful Chinese-led Invasion of Turkey. Nearly a million are killed almost instantaneously. NATO and IF are on-site within the hour, with Canada, France, Italy, Germany, Poland and Spain committing a majority of their amenable military forces supported by the 67 NATO-Allied UN (as well as the other 20 Nations openly opposing COSECTOR) into UNTAES and UNMIK zones in Serbia, where a Hungarian–Serbian Joint-Force led by Transylvanian Dictator Dragomir Radu is waging guerrilla warfare. Hungarian partisans, supported by Serbia and Szekely ultranationalist paramilitary and armed battalions and armies led by Radu and the Russians, attempts to establish a foothold, but Coalition forces are able to beat back the invaders by September.
[[File:ArabianSOF.jpg|thumb|300px|right|Arabian SOF working in conjunction with the Wagner Group and Russian VDV were crucial to the CSTO Summer 2027 offensive in the Mediterranean, Balkans and Central Europe]] 
Late August – Russo–Arabian infiltrators seize upon the finance-weary Balkans to bolster and erect an effective bulwark powerful enough to threaten most of Eastern Europe. An international summit convenes between the EU, Scotland, NATO and beleaguered Ukrainian opposition in Bratislava, Slovakia, at the behest of the Slovak President in Grassalkovich Palace - the last stronghold of Czechs, and Slovaks of the Slovak Republic of Central Europe - Slovenská Stredoeurópska Republika (SSR). It is when the leaders of NATO are convened that a bombing eliminates most of NATO’s command structure… immediately followed by an occupation and invasion of Slovakia and the Czech Republic by Russian Ground Forces. The invasion of Europe by a Russian force and the Russo-Serb offensive earlier that month provides a distraction, putting the entire region into shock. 
Russia, China, Arabia and Serbia's carrier task force enter and occupy the Balkans, utilizing 2 million soldiers, 8,000 AFV, 5,000 tanks, 500 MLRs, and 600 SPGs, as well as half of their air force – roughly 5,000 craft to push the Allies back. The Serbs and Russians, led by Radu, Beijing and infamous Serb Secret Police Chief Nikita Kravychko, shut down the Romanian communes by pouring over a third of their entire military strength into the regions, quickly locking down the city and setting up a forward operating base to allow their air craft to join in on the bombardment and invasion of the communes. Before anything can be done, the Serbs and Russians quickly shut down Austria, sending half of the invasion force north, and the other half south – back into the Russian-occupied Austrian South. Their MLRs and SPG – as well as all air powers – remain in Austria, but are suspiciously ordered northeast shortly thereafter. With over a third of their missile strength aimed for mainland Europe, the Russo–Arabian force drives home their implied message with one final saber-swing. The top-secret U.S. orbital strike (Directed Energy Munitions Orbiter – “DEMO”) program (stationed in orbit over Western Europe to safeguard the United States’ NATO allies from potential Eurasian attack in the 21st Century) went offline in early August and by August 11th it was made abundantly clear that this was a Russian-caused problem. Controlled by Jordan in 2027 and, later, - via Arabian infiltrators - Moscow and Belgrade by this time – the Serbian government faced a sizable NATO-spearheaded invasion from European forces roughly a week later and used the weapon at the request of Serbia on the resistance in Zilina and Brno, destroyed and rendered vast areas of the region uninhabitable, killing an estimate 286,664, a still-devastatingly-high body-count that could have been as high as 1,000,000 had RECON not done their part to get as many civilians and resistance fighters to safety.
Unfortunately, their actions prove for naught. A few minutes later, before the weapon can be shot down, King Abdullah II orders a DEMO strike on Malta, Majorca and the Northern Isles out of retaliation for the EU's threats. The islands are destroyed, and rendered uninhabitable – 651,023 people are killed instantaneously. Turkey immediately after invades Serbia and Hungary from Bulgaria and Romania leading to the Siege of Novi Sad that lasts through varying, tapering degrees of escalation throughout WWIII, and the destruction wrought by this time provides enough of a distraction to allow Al-Maquar, which had been (unknowingly) cooperating with the Kremlin, Palácio da Alvorada and Zhongnanhai since the end of the Cold War to pioneer the penultimate orbital WMD, to unleash a monster upon their enemies the likes of which nobody to ever walk the Earth has ever before witnessed.
September 2027 – Hidden amid the thousands of satellites and pieces of debris orbiting Earth, a weapon system far beyond the level of technological advancement of any combination of dominant economies or militaries the forces of Earth could ever hope to bolster sat just beyond the prying eyes of the Human Race. Arabia, Russia and China gain official jurisdiction over the COSECTOR’s secret joint-army of MAWS – Mechanized Autonomous Weapon Systems – pledging to use them against their enemies. Whereas about half of NATO’s forces were tied down in the Middle-East, Europe was left without much defense at home, and most European nations had virtually no standing military left, economically dependent on the United States after the Cold War. In major European capitals and cities – Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Cologne, Bonn, Geneva, Oslo, Istanbul, Strasbourg, Manchester, Yorkshire and Zagreb – as well as Mexico City, Panama City, Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa and Washington, D.C. on the American continent (although all inbound for North America are shot down by US ICBM barrages) 29 MAW units deploy from orbit all across the planet into standby mode, bearing the flags and insignia of the countries of China, Arabia and Russia (all found to be under the control of Palácio da Alvorada), as well as a cadre of smaller MAWS from Ecuador, Serbia and Chile (also under the control of the Casa Rosada). Upon activation, just 1 MAW is able to lay waste to an entire city district. The death toll tops 600,000 within just 48 hours of global MAW activation. It isn’t a moment later; however, that RECON and NATO are assembled for an emergency summit at the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. It is here that it is discovered that not only do China, El Verde and Russia possess an estimate 20-strong MAW force – but as do the French, British, US, Japan, India and South Korea (Scandinavia, the Netherlands and Belgium also possess smaller, cheaper MAWS), with a combined force of 32 – the U.S., France and Japan possessing a combined 16 of the units prepped and ready to go as was the Koreans' (whose had been kept secret since the early 1970’s) Archer One (1,892). With units inbound for Europe, and some deployed into America, the Joint-Chiefs assess that although the two sides’ MAW forces are evenly matched, they denote that unlike the NATO and IF MAWS which involve some form of human interaction into the Autonomous equation, the hulking Chinese, Arabian and Russian MAWS are 100% literal, AI-powered killing machines.
==Geography==
===Climate===
Much of Arabia was hot and arid with a desert climate. Summer temperatures average above 40 °C (104 °F) for most of the country and frequently exceed 48 °C (118.4 °F). Winter temperatures infrequently exceed 21 °C (69.8 °F) with maxima roughly 15 to 19 °C (59.0 to 66.2 °F) and night-time lows 2 to 5 °C (35.6 to 41.0 °F). Typically, precipitation is low; most places receive less than 250 mm (9.8 in) annually, with maximum rainfall occurring during the winter months. Rainfall during the summer is rare, except in northern parts of the country. The northern mountainous regions have cold winters with occasional heavy snows, sometimes causing extensive flooding.
===Biodiversity===
The wildlife of Arabia includes its flora, fauna and their natural habitat. Arabia has multiple and diverse biomes which include the mountainous region in norther to the wet marshlands along the Euphrates and Tigris rives, while western part of the country comprises mainly desert and some semi-arid regions. Many of Arabia's bird species were endangered, including seven of Arabia's mammal species and 12 of its bird species. Little progress has been made by the government to tackle the issue. The Mesopotamian marches in the middle and south are home to approximately 50 species of birds, and rare species of fish. The marshes are home to millions of birds and the stopover for millions of migratory birds, including flamingo, pelican and heron. At risk are some 50% of the world's marbled teal population that live in the marshes, along with 60% of the world's population of Basra reed-warbler at the time (2020's). An essentially experimental draining of the Mesopotamian Marshes, by Saddam's regime, caused there a significant drop in biological life and heated many paddies and fields to higher consumption of water and low productivity. 
==Politics and government==
Arabia is a federal state under a semi-constitutional monarchy. Arabia's constitution, adopted in 2023 and amended a number of times between then and 2026, is the legal framework that governs the monarch, government, bicameral legislature and judiciary. The king retains wide executive and legislative powers from the government and parliament. The king exercises his powers through the government that he appoints for a four-year term, which is responsible before the parliament that is made up of two chambers: the Senate and the House of Representatives. The judiciary is independent according to the constitution.
The king is the head of state and commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces. He can declare war and peace, ratify laws and treaties, convene and close legislative sessions, call and postpone elections, dismiss the government and dissolve the parliament. The appointed government can also be dismissed through a majority vote of no confidence by the elected House of Representatives. After a bill is proposed by the government, it must be approved by the House of Representatives then the Senate, and becomes law after being ratified by the king. A royal veto on legislation can be overridden by a two-thirds vote in a joint session of both houses. The parliament also has the right of interpellation.
The 200 members of the upper Senate are directly appointed by the king, the constitution mandates that they be veteran politicians, judges and generals who previously served in the government or in the House of Representatives. The 709 members of the lower House of Representatives are elected through party-list proportional representation in 92 constituencies for a 4-year term. Minimum quotas exist in the House of Representatives for women (15 seats, though they won 20 seats in the 2016 election), Christians (9 seats) and Circassians and Chechens (3 seats).
Courts are divided into three categories: civil, religious, and special. The civil courts deal with civil and criminal matters, including cases brought against the government. The civil courts include Magistrate Courts, Courts of First Instance, Courts of Appeal, High Administrative Courts which hear cases relating to administrative matters, and the Constitutional Court which was set up in 2012 in order to hear cases regarding the constitutionality of laws. Although Islam is the state religion, the constitution preserves religious and personal freedoms. Religious law only extends to matters of personal status such as divorce and inheritance in religious courts, and is partially based on Islamic Sharia law. The special court deals with cases forwarded by the civil one.
The capital city of Arabia is Amman, located in south-west Arabia. Arabia is divided into 45 governorates (muhafazah) (informally grouped into three regions: northern, central, southern). These are subdivided into a total of over 200 districts (Liwaa'), which are further divided into neighbourhoods in urban areas or into towns in rural ones.
===Foreign policy===
 In the 2000's and 2010's, Jordan was pro-Western with a US, Saudi and EU-focused foreign policy while Iraq and Syria - the larger two constituents of the Hashemite Kingdom - leaned toward Iran and Russia. Although neutral at first, in early 2024 the government of Assad began to skew towards Russia and China. Although Abdullah II was personally pro-American and pro-Western, his government and military - due to being largely made up of Iraqis and Syrians - would express a Russian-friendly position. Additionally, Abdullah II and Assad both had close, personal ties with Russian President Vladimir Putin and others in the Kremlin. In 2025, while maintaining its connections and diplomatic channels with Russia and China, Amman recalled its ambassadors from Washington, D.C., they would never return from the same nation-state.
====G6====
:See: G20, G8
In 2022, U.S. President Joe Biden, facing catastrophically-waning and flagging approval ratings, particularly among liberals, leans hard into the more moderate to conservative wing of his party, criticizing the United Nations and NATO, akin to Trump's foreign policy rhetoric, but more measured in tone and nuance. Working with the Kingdom of United Arabia, Brazil, Egypt, Italy, Turkey, and South Korea Biden forms a us-spearheaded defensive and intergovernmental alliance of four of the G20 plus Arabia and Egypt. Intended to appeal to blue collar and working-class Americans and the military - Biden faces backlash from liberals the world over, protesting the formation of the G6, alongside China and NATO, who protest against the move as an expansion of American hegemony.
Until the mid-2020's Arabian imperialism in Southeast Europe and Israel, U.S. military presence began to expand in Italy, South Korea and Egypt throughout the early-to-mid-2020's. Although relations weren't bad between the G6 and the U.S., the populace of those countries began to speak out against U.S. Military, particularly in Egypt and Italy. Together the six countries formed essentially the core of the U.S. empire... that is, until 2025. The US Civil War and Cold War would hurt the U.S. cooperation with the G6, and lead to the rogue state behavior of Brazil and Arabia, who are eventually suspended due to their actions in Latin America and the Middle-East.
====R9====
King Abdullah II was known for his close ties with the monarchs, initially so intimate he saw his country become part of and form the Royal Nine together with the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Oman and Belgium in late 2023. The United Kingdom, Netherlands and Japan would join several months later. When Arabia under the Assad government began taking stricter lines against minorities and neighboring Israel and Lebanon, the Kingdom would be suspended, although Abdullah II would keep in touch with other monarchs, particularly in Europe, throughout the war.
====Triple Axis====
The UAK was known for having good relations with the West, at first. Although it's relations with the G6 and R9 were initially front-and-center, it maintained excellent relations with China and Eurasia throughout the majority of its existence as a country. China was its top financial partner while Russia was its top arms dealer for the entirety of its status as a country.
The Triple Axis was founded in 2023 between China, Eurasia and Arabia as an informal military alliance. China, Eurasia and the UAK began supporting one another's territorial claims in 2024, and in 2025 Arabia began its regional push for dominion over its neighbors. Military operations would accelerate for both Arabia and Eurasia in 2026 and 2027, and by 2028 the Triple Axis was in open war with NATO and the West.
It's overall worst relations were with the State of Israel. Beginning in 2022, prior to the founding of United Arabia, Jordan would begin laying claim to the West Bank in lieu of a two-state solution. Israel, being under a right-wing nationalist government at the time, decided to treat this as an attack on their territory akin to Russia in Ukraine. 
When the UAK was established under the leadership of the Hashemite royal family and the Syrian Ba'ath Party, relations with Israel deteriorated to the point of war. Israel and Arabia would engage in frequent skirmishes over the West Bank and even Gaza, as Arabia launched precision naval strikes on Gaza from its port in Tartus.
Israel would collapse in 2027, leading to a Turkish-led NATO operation in conjunction with Egypt to liberate most of Israel from Arabian hands. The invasion was largely botched, as pro-Russian Israelis launched attacks on the NATO invading force, and set back the liberation into the 2030's, and the region would not settle its differences even after the federalization of the Arab League in the 2030's.
===Military===
With an active manpower of nearly half-a-million by 2023, the Arabian Armed Forces were further bolstered by a paramilitary force of 205,000, with Iraqis comprising nearly two-thirds of this number. A vast majority of the country's 22,000 tanks and armored vehicles come from Jordan and Syria, while two-thirds of the 1,268 self-propelled guns also come from these states.
While possessing 1,144 aircraft, 268 of which were fighters and 64 were dedicated attack aircraft, with 26 special-mission units, 509 helicopters and 111 attack helicopters, the Arabian Navy was a paltry 163 ships, 154 of which were patrol vessels. Although it possessed with 8th largest and around 10th strongest air force, its fleet was lacking, with minimal power projection and function beyond coastal defense.
Arabia had the 10th largest standing army, the 3rd largest fleet of tanks (behind Russia and the U.S. and just ahead of North Korea), the 4th largest force of armored fighting vehicles (behind the U.S., China and Russia), 5th largest collection of self-propelled guns (behind Russia, China, South Korea and the United States) and the 8th largest fleet of aircraft (behind the U.S., Russia, China, India, ROK, Japan and Pakistan while ahead of Egypt), with the 10th largest fleet of fighters/interceptors. Arabia was a military armed and equipped to do battle on multiple fronts simultaneously, while being one of the most powerful armed forces on the planet.
===Law enforcement===
===Administrative divisions===
 Arabia's second or "main" level subdivisions are governorates, of which there are 49. These are in turn governed by one of five major jurisdictions, with Iraq governing the most at 19, and North Lebanon and Palestine the least with 4 and 2 respectively. From largest to smallest these are; the Republic of Iraq, the Republic of Syria, the Kingdom of Jordan, Palestine and the Republic of Lebanon. Most of the army and political class were Iraqi and Syrian, while Syria and Jordan provided most of the advanced military technology and heavy weapons.
==== Iraq====
The Republic of Iraq was the largest of the four states comprising United Arabia, with over 40 million people and roughly 12 major ethnic groups; the three largest being Arabs, Kurds and Turkmen. Iraq was a relatively stable state with occasional skirmishes between the Iraqi state and militant insurgents, although their standard of living was considerably lower than their neighbors. Iraq was the closest ally of the Kingdom of Jordan prior to unification, and Iraqi Kurds typically experienced more rights than in neighboring Syria. Most of the Arabian military was comprised of Iraqis, and Iraqis were the largest of the three major demographics of United Arabia.
Al-Anbar
Babil
Baghdad
Basra
Dhi Qar
Al-Qādisiyyah
Diyala
Duhok
Erbil
Halabja
Karbala
Kirkuk
Maysan
Muthanna
Najaf
Ninawa
Salah Al-Din
Sulaymaniyah
Wasit
==== Jordan====
The Kingdom of Jordan was the original territory ruled by Abdullah II and his family prior to unification. Jordan was a small country of 11 million, possessed the highest standard of living and most stability and peace of the three major states that comprised United Arabia. The Jordanian Armed Forces were the most professional and most advanced in the region, and also one of the largest, with the second-largest standing army and the second-largest tank fleet and the strongest air force of the five countries.
Amman
Ajloun
Aqaba
Balqa
Irbid
Jerash
Karak
Ma'an
Madaba
Mafraq
Tafila
Zarqa
==== Lebanon====
Four of Lebanon's regions were administered from Amman, and the southern four by Beirut. Lebanon was never a large country, with only 5 million people living within its borders, but it was the most religiously diverse, with the largest share of Christians at 32.4 percent, and Druze at 4.5 percent, with Sunni and Shia Muslims split almost evenly at roughly 27% of all Muslims each.
Tripoli
Akkar
Baalbek-Hermel
Beqaa
Unrecognized
Mount Lebanon
Beirut
Nabatieh
Tyre
==== Palestine====
While never formally recognized as a country in its own right, movements such as BDS, International Solidarity Movement, PLO, Fatah and more controversial Baathist and nationalist movements such as the Free Palestine Movement and Hamas, emerged in the late 1950's and 1960's to challenge Israel and fight for the rights of Palestine. With 5.1 million people, Palestine was a small state and one of the few regions without full representation at the federal level.
West Bank
Gaza Strip
==== Syria====
The Republic of Syria was the second-largest country of United Arabia. With over 21 million people, Syria was a moderate-sized country covering roughly 71,500 square miles. Syria was the most unstable and violent of the territories that would come together to form United Arabia in 2023, experiencing an 11-year civil war, alongside the path of destruction carved by ISIL. It was the known site of the largest fighting around the world up to that point, with an international coalition against ISIL of nearly 70 countries, including most of Europe and NATO. Contributing most of the tanks and armored fighting vehicles to the Arabian Armed Forces, Syria was the single most heavily-armed of the four countries comprising United Arabia.
Aleppo
Raqqa
As-Suwayda
Damascus
Daraa
Deir ez-Zor
Hama
Hasaka
Homs
Idlib
Latakia
Quneitra
Rif Dimashq
Tartus
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==Demographics==
===Largest cities===
Although the capital of Arabia was Amman, Baghdad was larger by a margin. The next three largest cities were Damascus, Aleppo and North Beirut.
*1. Baghdad
*2. Amman
*3. Damascus
*4. Aleppo
*5. North Beirut
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