Egypt

Flag of Egypt

**Egypt**, officially the **Sultanate of Egypt and Sudan** is the major power of the Cairo Pact and aside from Mittelafrika (Should Mittelafrika be considered its own country) it is the strongest nation in Africa. The nation is a Representative Parliamentary Constitutional Monarchy having been underneath the Saadists since 1936 and is currently underneath the house of Muhammad Ali. Egypt was one of the main fighters during the Arab Revolution despite little fighting occurring on Egyptian soil, this war has secured Egypt's position as the leader of the Arab world for know but Arabia is beginning to challenge this. Egypt declared independence in 1925 and is the youngest regime in Africa compared to its neighbors like Ethiopia and the colonial administrations. Egypt did not join the Second Weltkrieg in order to help Syria and Iraq stabilize and this peace has allowed Egypt to become a very rich and powerful nation in the current Kalterkrieg. Egypt is the leader of the Cairo Pact and is a staunch rival of the French Republic. This has lead Egypt to align the Cairo Pact with the Reichspakt witch is a common position taken by most of the Cairo Pact.

## History

In 1936 Egypt was a rising star on the world stage with only the Ottoman dominace over the Middle east keeping Egypt from rising to being a true regional power. However with the advent of Black Monday causing massive uproar in the Ottoman Empire Egypt began to take the opportunity to try and subvert the Ottoman empire. However Egypt first had to deal with its own internal politics as several competing ideas for the future of Egypt would fight for control over the nation during 1936. However with wide spread public support for the Saadist party it became only a formality when the nation began its transition into a constitutional and secularized republic. This also cemented the victory of Pharaohism the idea in witch Egypt would become a leader amongst the Mediterranean as a trade power. In 1937 Egypt would mostly continue in its industrialization but it would also support the changing of neighboring Cyrenaica's government to that of something aligning with its liberal ideals. However it would be 1938 that would be the year of major change for the Egyptian and wider islamic worlds. The Cairo Conference was held witch marked the official beginnings of the Cairo Pact with Egypt, Persia, and Libya being the initial signatories. The conference was held as an attempt to check Ottoman power by creating another power block in the Middle East. This would lead in 1939 when the revolt of both Syria and Iraq to the north caused debates around intervention in the war. But this debate would be settled with the entry of Arabia into the war witch convinced many that victory would be possible. Egyptian forces would advance into Syria supporting defensives lines around Jerusalem while simultaneously supporting the Libyan offensive into Ottoman Tripolitania. After a battle at Jerusalem the Egypto-Syrian forces would advance in a long and brutal offensive capturing Damascus and later Aleppo. After linking with Arabian, Iraqi, and Persian forces a large scale battle would take place at Antioch witch would firmly destroy the last hopes of an Ottoman resurgence and a Treaty would be singed in Cairo witch would divide up the spoils. Out of all the prizes that Egypt would receive the biggest and most important of them was the Suez Canal witch was now in the hands of the Cairo Pact. They would make use of this fact during the Indian War of Unification to allow for the victory of one of the non-Entente factions hoping for the victory of the Empire of India. However during the Second Weltkrieg the Cairo Pact would take advantage of its position along important trade routes to make a lot of money allowing Egypt to push up prices for going through the Suez Canal making it a lot more money but drawing the ire of the Entente and Internationale. In recent years however Egypt has had to deal with the rising leadership crisis within the Cairo Pact as competing ideas for the middle east clash with each other. Egypt wishes for a secularized middle east and wishes to focus most of the attention of the pact onto freeing their fellow brethren in Africa. Arabia wishes to establish a new Caliphate and centralize and stabilize the Cairo Pact. While Iran wishes to fix the Sunni-Shia schism within the pact and focus their attention on their brothers suppressed in Russia. Whatever the case it is clear that the future of Egypt will be tailored to that of its allies, but will not all together be bright or dark. Egypt has also begun the development of Nuclear weapons in hopes to use them as a deterrence against foreign powers trying to seize the canal, and France.

## Military

The Egyptian military is the most modernized and most potent force in the Middle East being stronger than most of the members of the Cairo Pact. The Egyptian army is well known for its professionalism and it's skill in desert warfare. However its anti-insurgency capabilities are quite lackluster given the main purpose of the army's construction. Egypt also has a burgeoning naval presence as in line with its pharaohist philosophy. However once again this is mostly to protect the Suez Canal from other foreign powers. Egypt is also the only member of the Cairo Pact with a respectable air force that is mostly geared towards the defense of the Cairo Pact as a whole and not just the Canal.