Arab Commonwealth (Imperial Re-Uprising)

The Commonwealth of Arab States (Arabic: كومنولث الدول العربية) is a country comprising of the Arabian Peninsula as well as North Africa, as well as the Muejaza star system.

Most of the territory now part of the Arab Commonwealth was actually at one point, inhabited by non-Arabs, especially the Maghreb Region, home to Berbers, as well as Egypt, which changed hands through so many points in history.

After the dissolution of the Pax Islamica, the bulk of the former Pax Islamica became part of the secular Arab Commonwealth.

Today, the Arab Commonwealth is one of the major powers of the galaxy, owning 11 total planetary vassals.

History
In the Mogadishu Conference, five post-Pax Islamica states were formed, namely the United Arab States, United Berber States, Somalia and Turkey.

The UAS inheritated the Pax Islamica's legal obligation and etc., and was considered the legal successor to the Pax Islamica, angering Turkey very much.

However, the Arab and Berber states decided to unite to form the Arab Commonwealth.

In addition, the Arab Commonwealth also got to keep the Pax Islamica's vassal planets.

Under the presidency of Khalid bin Qassam, the Arab Commonwealth began to extent territories, including the Levant. President Qassam signed a series of agreements with the governments of the Levantine nations, and respected Palestine's decision not to join the Arab Commonwealth, not wanting to disturb the peace between Arabs and Jews of that country.

This greatly extended the Arab Commonwealth's earthly territories, causing more issues with Turkey. Like centuries prior, the Arab and Turkish forces would duke it out for influence, with Turkish forces re-igniting Islamist militias in northern Syria to prevent it from joining the Arab Commonwealth.

Arab and Russian forces however made this impossible, as the Russians, Persians and Indians supported and backed the Arab Commonwealth.

This eventually led to the peaceful dissolution of Iraq, in which the Assyrians and Kurds were given their own independent nation.

Much like SFR Yugoslavia during the cold war, Palestine and Lebanon chose a non-aligned path.

President Qassam's rule was met with some issues. Although while he respected freedom of religion, often-not urged Christian communities such as the Syriac, Coptic and others of non-Arab origin to consider themselves "Arab Christians".

Culture
The culture of the Arab Commonwealth is not as uniform as many think, every region has its own distinct culture, most often-not, originating from non-Arab origins.

There is a disintction between true bloodline Arabs, or "Mus'tarab", people of non-Arab origin whose ancestors long-adopted Arab culture, mostly notably being the peoples of North Africa.

The "Maghribi", the people of western North Africa have a culture very distinct from that of the Arabian Peninsula, and the peoples of Yemen too, have their own distinct culture to boast about. The "Mahribi Autonomous Region" is home to Berber culture. There have been many Berber nationalist groups who reject being "Arab".

In the Muejaza star system, the people are 70% bloodline Arabs. The planet Ibn Feyleb ("sons of Philip"), is ruled by self-proclaimed descendants of Philip the Arab, Roman emperor of Syrian Arab descent.

Religion
The majority of the Arab Commonwealth followers Islam, 70% Sunni, 25% Shiite and 5% other sects. Islam accounts for 68% of the Arab Commonwealth, the other 30% Christians and the rest follow other faiths or no faiths at all.

Economy
The great majority of the Arab Commonwealth's economy and power comes from the fertile and mineral-rich planets of the Muejaza star system.

Currently, agriculture, tourism, bladesmithing, technology and shipbuilding are the Arab Commonwealth's main sources of economic output.

Some of the galaxy's best dairy products come from the Arab Commonwealth, as it is one of the highest exporters of milk and cheese products, along with India, Persia and Italy.