Upper Arabia

Upper Arabia, officially the Republic of Upper Arabia, was a country on the Middle Eastern region of Earth. It bordered Palestine and Syria to the northwest, Iraq to the northeast, Oman to the southeast, and Yemen to the southwest. Its capital and largest city was Riyadh.

History

Origins

Stabilization and Oil Crisis

Social Progress and Space Colonization

Great Armageddon

Geography

Upper Arabia had a surface area of 2,269,218 km², making it, back then, the largest country in the Arab Coalition. The majority of the country lay within the Arabian Desert, the Hejaz and Shammar mountain ranges being its only other sizable landforms. The Jordan River, as well as the oases inside the desert, were Upper Arabia’s main bodies of water outside the seas. They provided sustenance to local communities and were hotspots of terrestrial biodiversity.

For over a century, oil was the most coveted resource in the Arabian Peninsula, to the point it was the backbone of Upper Arabia and its predecessors’ economies. The few other resources found therein did not have as much value as oil, which deepened the effects of the Oil Crisis on Upper Arabia. At first, the country had to rely on foreign aid, but gradually, the secondary and tertiary economic sectors took over as the leading sources of revenue.

Government

Demographics

Population Hubs