Saudi Arabia

Flag of Arabia

### Motto

لَا إِلٰهَ إِلَّا ٱلله، مُحَمَّدٌ رَسُوْلُ ٱلله "Lā ʾilāha ʾillā Llāh, Muḥammadur rasūlu Llāh" "There is no god but God; Muhammad is the messenger of God."

### Anthem

ٱلنَّشِيْد ٱلْوَطَنِي ٱلسُّعُوْدِي "an-Našīd al-Waṭanīy as-Suʿūdī" "National Anthem of Saudi Arabia"

### Population (core territory)

Around 3 million

**Arabia,** officially the **Sultanate of Arabia**, is the controller of Mecca and is located within the Middle East. Arabia is a Unitary Absolute Monarchy with the monarch in full control over the affairs of the nation, it is ruled by the house of Saud. Arabia participated in the Arab Revolution as one of the main three powers of the war. Most of the fighting did not occur on Arabian soil and only limited Ottoman raids would occur here. Officially the current state was established in 1902, but the unification of Arabia took place in 1939 after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire. Arabia did not particiapte much in the Second Weltkrieg but out of all muslim states it may have benefited the most from it. As Arabia has the most oil out of anyone on the planet it is growing richer by the day and has the highest GDP per capita in the Middle east but the HDI could use a lot of work. Arabia is a member of the Cairo Pact and is the main proponent of a new Caliphate with a new house in charge of the Muslim world. This is in opposition to Egypt who wishes to try and secularize the Arab world to catch up with Europe and East Asia.

## History

Arabia in 1936 was split into two nations. Nejd and Hasa to the south and Jabal Shammar to the north. These two nations where in bitter rivalry with each other with one supporting the Ottoman Empire and the other, Nejd and Hasa, vehemently opposed to it. However the Ottoman Empire's presence in the region prevented the two from fighting each other as the Ottomans feared that a unified Arabia would be a massive threat to the Ottoman holdings in Qatar and the rest of the Gulf Coast. This would end up being correct when in 1936 with the Black Monday Crisis there was nothing holding back the two states and only a few months later they went to war. The War of Arabian Unification was brutal in all of its aspects with mass executions and tiring desert warfare across some of the harshest terrain on earth. However after a few months of nothing but skirmishes and stalemate Nejd and Hasa was able to score a massive defeat and was able to capitulate Jammal Shammar. This unified the Arabian people but the work of restoring the Arab state was not done yet as the Arabs began to prepare for potential war against the Ottoman empire. Throughout 1937 and 1938 more men were mobilized as an operation was planned for the quick seizure of Hejaz, Qatar, and the other Ottoman territories along the Gulf Coast. In 1939 the Arabians would get their chance for revenge against the Ottoman empire who was in the grips of the Rebellions in Syria and Iraq. This spurred on Arabia and they launched a massive offensive with the people of Hejaz turning over the region to Arabia and the other areas being too small to hold out for more than a couple of hours. Arabia's offensive was impressive with its scale and speed and this spurred the Cairo Pact to declare war on the Ottoman empire dragging in the rest of the Islamic world as the Arab Revolution began in full force. Arabia would quicky turn its forces around to support the Syrians and Iraqis as Arabia began its own offensive in through the middle hoping to split the Ottomans. However this would fail and Arabia was forced onto the defensive. Relations during this time soured between Arabia and its allies as Arabia hoped to make more gains than anyone was willing to accept. Soon however an agreement was made to give Arabia control over most of the Oil feilds in the Persian gulf in return for less concessions in terms of Territory. Arabia accepted this and with the internal fighting of the Cairo Pact temporarily dealt with the offensives in Syria and Iraq would commence. This would all culminate in the Battle of Antioch in witch Arab forces played a pivotal role in punching holes through the flanks as the Arabian cavalry despite its datedness was still effective. This would force the Ottomans into surrender and in 1940 the Treaty of Cairo would cement Arabia's position on the peninsula. However this arrangement was not soon to last as it was clear that all sides had very different visions on what the Cairo Pact should be. Egypt wished to focus on Nationalism and freeing the colonized peoples of the Arab world, and especially on Secularism. Persia wished to focus on Russia, freeing muslims across the continent and also on mending the Shia-Sunni split within the alliance. Arabia meanwhile wished to focus on centralizing the alliance as it is and also on founding a New Caliphate destroying the little legitimacy of the Caliph in Konstantinyye. This split has been nearly fatal for the Alliance but as tensions rose across the world as a whole there is one thing that has unified the Cairo Pact for now. Their hatred of the French Republic and support for Germany. Meanwhile Arabia has been selling so much oil that it is the richest nation in the Cairo Pact, and this has also lowered gas prices across the world in civilian environments causing cars and planes to be much cheaper to use for transportation.

## Military

The Military of Arabia is one of the less potent forces in the middle east as nestled in the middle of a wall of allies the Arabian's don't need much for defense. This is not to say that they do not invest in it however. Arabia's military has been upgraded into mechanized warfare witch has turned the already very mobile Arabian army into something nigh impossible to catch on the battlefield. However the lack of many large military naval bases has prevented the construction of a large navy however the Egyptians and Omanis provide this defensive layer for them. Arabia is also working on an air force albeit it does not have a large one currently.