Sultanate of Saudi Arabia

The Sultanate of Saudi Arabia is a country South of the Emirate of Jabal Shammar and North of the Kingdom of Yemen, South Arabia and the Sultanate of Oman and East of the Kingdom of Kuwait, the Kingdom of Bahrain, The Emirate of Qatar and the Trucial Sheikhdoms. The Nation is a Puppet State of the Italian Empire in Asia.

## Historical

### Origin

In the 16th century, the Ottomans added the Red Sea and Persian Gulf coast (the Hejaz, Asir and Al-Ahsa) to the Empire and claimed suzerainty over the interior. One reason was to thwart Portuguese attempts to attack the Red Sea (hence the Hejaz) and the Indian Ocean. Ottoman degree of control over these lands varied over the next four centuries with the fluctuating strength or weakness of the Empire's central authority. These changes contributed to later uncertainties, such as the dispute with Transjordan over the inclusion of the sanjak of Ma'an, including the cities of Ma'an and Aqaba.

The emergence of what was to become the Saudi royal family, known as the Al Saud, began in Nejd in central Arabia in 1744, when Muhammad bin Saud, founder of the dynasty, joined forces with the religious leader Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab, founder of the Wahhabi movement, a strict puritanical form of Sunni Islam. This alliance formed in the 18th century provided the ideological impetus to Saudi expansion and remains the basis of Saudi Arabian dynastic rule today.

The first "Saudi state" established in 1744 in the area around Riyadh, rapidly expanded and briefly controlled most of the present-day territory of Saudi Arabia, sacking Karbala in 1802 and capturing Mecca in 1803, but was destroyed by 1818 by the Ottoman viceroy of Egypt, Mohammed Ali Pasha. A much smaller second "Saudi state", located mainly in Nejd, was established in 1824. Throughout the rest of the 19th century, the Al Saud contested control of the interior of what was to become Saudi Arabia with another Arabian ruling family, the Al Rashid, who ruled the Emirate of Jabal Shammar. By 1891, the Al Rashid were victorious and the Al Saud were driven into exile in Kuwait.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the Ottoman Empire continued to control or have a suzerainty over most of the peninsula. Subject to this suzerainty, Arabia was ruled by a patchwork of tribal rulers, with the Sharif of Mecca having pre-eminence and ruling the Hejaz. In 1902, Abdul Rahman's son, Abdul Aziz—later to be known as Ibn Saud—recaptured control of Riyadh bringing the Al Saud back to Nejd, creating the third "Saudi state".

### World War I

Ibn Saud was one of the two organizers of the Arab resistance against Ottoman Rule as he organized it with Hussein, Sharif of Mecca. The two met with the Italians who decided to help them fight off the Ottomans the group then used revolts as they then revolted and bombarded various units aligned with the Ottomans.

### After World War I

Because of their victory the Saudi Sultanate with the other Arab nations had gained independence as puppet states of the Italian Empire. Later on they have discovered oil in the year 1926.

## Government

The Government of Saudi Arabia is a Autocratic Absolute Monarchy ruled by the Sultan who has a Autocratic role in the Government as commander in chief of the Military and rule over his people as an Autocratic Monarch. He rules with a Praetor who is appointed by the King of Italy who appoints a Prime Minister as they then create a cabinet and a royal diet. Other than that the Sultan rules over the whole entire Kingdom as a Autocratic monarch and his word is law. The Sultan appoints all members of the Royal Diet after they are elected by the Praetor and Prime Minister and the Prime Minister can't create a cabinet without the Sultan's approval.

The Succession is unlike the traditional Monarchy as the Sultan's heir is his brother instead of the son unless the Sultan has no younger brothers and the Sultan's son can take the throne. The Crown Prince is the deputy of the Sultan who has autocratic power other than the Sultan.

## Military

The military of the emirate is composed of three main forces; the men loyal to the House of Saud directly, the Ikhwan forces, and the forces if vassal lords, mainly concentrated along the coastline (because of the fact the Sultanate and the Indo-Persian Empire are in a fierce rivalry in the oil industry due to the Sauds wanting a monopoly in the Oil industry and Persian gulf oil).

## Foreign Relations

* Colonial Relations with the Italian Empire.
* Great Relations with the Kingdom of Yemen.
* Bad Relations with the Emirate of Jabal Shammar and the Indo-Persian Empire.