Azerbaijan

= Azerbaijan =
Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan
Official Language 	Azerbaijani
Capital 	Baku
Head of State 	Rajib Kulbenzhian
Head of Government	Suleyman Rustam
Establishment
  - independence	
  May 28 1918
Government 	Semi-presidential republic
Currency 	Azerbaijani Manat
Area 	86,600 km²
Population 	About 3 million
Azerbaijan is a country in East Europe / West Asia. It is bordered by the Don-Kuban Union to the north, the Caspian Sea to the east, Persia to the south and Armenia and Georgia to the west.
== History ==
Azerbaijan is generally regarded as 'just another' of the small Caucasian states to rise out of the ruins of the Russian Empire. Since then the small nation has only managed to maintain her independence by carefully balancing its political and economic links with both Russia and the Ottomans - ensuring that neither can gain hegemony over them. With neither Great Power able to secure dominance, Azerbaijan has seen a stable, but precarious, regime in the form of a secular and technocratic dictatorship (which by regional standards, is fairly 'mild' and tolerant), and as a result, economic prosperity has followed.
Thanks to foreign investment in the exploitation of the vast Baku oil fields, Azerbaijan has become the largest oil producer in the region - and rival even to Ploesti. However, this very prosperity may in fact be the country's undoing. In an age in which the consumption of oil is becoming the dominant need of both industrial society and modern warfare, Azerbaijan is increasingly finding herself the battleground of both foreign corporate and national interests.
== Politics ==
President: Rajib Kulbenzhian
Prime Minister: Suleyman Rustam
Foreign Minister: Arash Bubul
Minister of Armament: Rajib Kulbenzhian
Minister of Security: Rasul Reza
Minister of Intelligence: Soultanov Khosrov Ebk
Chief of Staff and Navy: Samed Bey Mehmandarov
Chief of Army: Marmud Nuri Berkoz
Chief of Air Force: Kambiz Krasnoshapka
== Military ==
=== Army ===
The Azerbaijani National Army is a small but determined army, composed exclusively of infantry division trained for the defence of the country. The Chief of Staff Samed Bey Mehmandarov is responsible for their training.
== Foreign relations ==
Very good relations with the Ottoman Empire.
Friendly relations with Alash Orda, Persia and Union of Britain.
Unfriendly relations with Armenia, Georgia and Russia.
Despite the good relations with Persia, Azerbaijan claims the province of Tabriz, now a persian region.