Kais Saied

**Kais Saied** (February 22, 1958 - November 25, 2035) was a Tunisian and then later Arab politician and retired university university professor who served as the first President of the United Arab Republic from August 20, 2031 until his death on November 25, 2035 during the Decimation of Tunis, and as the 7th President of Tunisia between 2019 and 2029.

Running the African nation of Tunisia for a decade between 2019 and 2029, Kais Saied became a strong proponent of pan-Arabism in the aftermath of the 2027 Global Banking Crisis and spearheaded proposals to merge the failing north African Arab nations into a United Arab Republic, with the Treaty of Rabat in August 2031 allowing for the Unification of the Arab State and with Saied as the inaugural president of the nation. Over the course of the next two years, President Saied led the nation into political stagnation by effectively surrendering his executive powers to the legislature of the United Arab Republic, throwing the nation into gridlock as Saied became little more than a figurehead leader of an unstable union, propped up by the military of Major General Khalifa Haftar.

In 2033, the Bovido Imperium invaded nearby Egypt, beginning the Conquest of Africa and ultimately starting the United Arab Republic's downfall. With each subsequent invasion of Arab territory, President Saied offered little in the way of resistance, instead ordering his general Haftar to "do something about those infernal Christians", resulting in a massive build-up in the military although later during the Fall of Algiers it would be discovered that many of these new soldiers were merely members of ghost battalions, invented forces to allow the generals in charge to pocket the salaries of their fictional troops.

## History

Born in 1958, Kais Saied served as part of Tunisia's judiciary network and also worked as a university professor before in 2019 running for the presidency of Tunisia, winning re-election in 2024 before retiring from the role in 2029 upon the end of his term of office.

## Presidency

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Following the collapse of Uganda and the subsequent 2028 Ugandan Coup d'état by members of the Security Coalition as a result of state-wide bankruptcy, the nations of north Africa began to look towards each other for safety and a surge in pan-Arabism began to arise, especially as the expansionist nation of Ducist in the south of Africa began to make it's way up the continent under the presidency of Cyril Ramaphosa, leaving many people in the Islamic nations of the north to fear for their sovereign independence. Adding in to a cacophony of pressures on the Arab countries, the newly formed Bovido Imperium had merged with ST Joseph's Devotees in 2030, meaning that they could launch an invasion to conquer the region from both sides of the continent, from their foothold in Egypt and across the Atlantic ocean; furthermore, the increasingly aggressive rhetoric of Imperator Anton Ujung began to imply that an invasion was imminent, moving to place soldiers all along the boarders with Islamic Brotherhood controlled Saharan Egypt, gearing up for an assault.

Formalised by the Treaty of Rabat on August 20, 2031, the unification established the formation of the United Arab Republic, placing Kais Saied as the first President of the UAR and the Pan-Arab Council was established as the parliament of the regime; with the formation of the United Arab Republic, the Persian Republic began to support the regime to allow the Libirachi Empire to fund three of the four major African nations, financing Canto Haven and Ducist directly and through the Eurasian Union of States and Persian Republic, they also had a significant political stake in the United Arab Republic as so to prevent a Bovido Hassian invasion of the continent, thanks to the centuries old rivalry between the two nations.