Kahanistan
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| Motto: Lex Asinus Est. (The Law's an Ass.) | |
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| Region | Graveyard of Deleted Nations |
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| Capital | Najaster |
| Official Language(s) | Arabic, English, Hebrew, Latin |
| Leader | Mohammed bin Yusuf al-Za'if |
| Population | 800,000,000 |
| Currency | Racist Shekel |
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History of Kahanistan
The Rogue Nation of Kahanistan originated in 2037, when murderous Zionist extremists were banished to the desert to further peace in the Middle East. Between 2037 and 2053, more than two million extremists killed each other and were killed in battles with the far better equipped Egyptians. In 2047 it changed its name to the Murderous Zionist Entity of Kahanistan, and has kept that name ever since, although it has been neither murderous nor Zionist in fact since 2062.
In 2071 Kahanistan wrote a new socialist constitution guaranteeing universal human rights. Ostracism from the rest of the world ended within months, and by 2098 Kahanistan was a world power. In 2115 Kahanistan became a superpower, a status it has held for nearly 100 years.
Resources
Kahanistan's major natural resources are farmland and petroleum, which its industries convert to plastics. Its energy is supplied by nuclear fusion, the byproducts of which it dumps on the barren Moon, where nothing lives anyway. Kahanistan's scientists have experimented with dumping pigshit on the nuclear dumps, to see what kind of mutations take place in the bacteria, however.
President
President Mohammed bin Yusuf al-Za'if was born in Najaster in 2171. He became president upon the assassination of Moshe K. Abramovitz in 2210. Little is known of his past, but it is known that he was a general and later a member of Parliament before being mysteriously appointed vice president in 2204.
Miscellany
Origin of the name
In the late 20th century, a Zionist extremist group known as Kahanists became visible on the Middle Eastern political scene. (Kahanistan's history diverges from RL history circa 2010.) After the partition of Eretz Yisra'el in 2010 between a Jewish and Arab sector, the Jewish sector was bisected by the Arab sector. The southern half of the Jewish sector was mostly desert. Kahanists were banished there to make peace. Despite being poorly armed, they committed numerous terrorist attacks against both the Jews, whom they saw as betraying the Zionist ideals, and the Arabs, whom they saw as invaders. They suffered far heavier casualties than they inflicted in their attacks. In 2037, they officially stated their existence as a politically separate nation, which they dubbed "Kahanistan."
Military of modern Kahanistan
The Kahanistan military consists of the Republic Guards and the Imperial Marines, as well as a small navy. It generally employs about one percent of the total population, and accepts all those between the ages of 12 and 96. While sending twelve-year-olds into battle may seem barbaric, it is important to note that recruits so young spend years in training, and are usually 20 years old before they even complete training. Soldiers who have completed the eight years of training are commissioned as officers, Second Lieutenants in the Imperial Marines or Republic Guards, and Ensigns in the Kahanistan Navy. Recruits 18 or older can choose the officer program or an enlisted program, making them combat ready in four months.
Foreign policy of Kahanistan
Kahanistan is generally friendly to its neighbors, but its interventionist policies with regard to human rights violators have earned it criticism that it is "a 23rd century America" in the eyes of many of its critics. Notorious examples of Kahanistan militarism include the Invasion of Xirnium and the conflict with Jenrak.
Distances between cities in Kahanistan
The following data is intended to convey the size of Kahanistan.
Najaster - Al-Bahr 126 km
Najaster - At Tahrir 134 km
Najaster - Al Qamar 137 km
Al-Bahr - At Tahrir 160 km
Al Bahr - Al Qamar 255 km
At Tahrir - Al Qamar 272 km
