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Nationstates Name - Fascist Republic of Bermuda
Nation Name - Republic of Iraq (جمهورية العراق)
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Capital - Baghdad
Type of Government - Federal parliamentary republic
Head of State(s) - Lukman Faily
Image of Leader - Portrait of his time as Ambassador to the US, 2013-2016.
Party in Power - Victory Alliance
Executive Title - President of the Republic of Iraq
Religion Breakdown - 66% Shia Islam, 29% Sunni Islam, 3.7% Christianity, 1% Gnosticism/Yazidism, 0.3% Other Religions
Flag - Flag
National Anthem - Matwini ("My Homeland")
Public Goals - Retake Iraqi Kurdistan, diversify the economy, improve living conditions, root out corruption
Private Goals - Frame Iraqi Kurdistan's retaking as a victory for secular democracy
Total military size - 70,000 active professional soldiers. About 100,000 soldiers in Popular Mobilization Forces.
Breakdown of ground sector - About 60,000 soldiers in active service.
Breakdown of naval sector - 3,000 sailors and 2,000 marines in active service
72 dedicated warships in service. 2 corvettes, 50 patrol boats, 20 response boats,
Breakdown of airforce sector - Roughly 5,000 active personnel.
169 total fixed-wing combat aircraft in active service. 96 Multirole fighter jets, 48 light fighters (used primarily as recon and light attack aircraft), and 25 dedicated attack aircraft.
Major foreign military suppliers- United States of America, Russian Federation
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Currency - Iraqi dinar (د.ع, IQD)
Currency and value of currency compared to USD 1 Iraqi Dinar equals 0.00090 USD
Major import/export partners - Top Five Export Partners: China, India, South Korea, the United States, Italy
Top Five Import Partners: China, UAE, South Korea, the United States, India
Major Domestic Issues - the Kurdish uprising, corruption, religious tensions, maintaining Iraqi democracy, women’s rights
Major Foreign Issues - Turkish Civil War, balancing Saudi and Iranian influence, balancing relationship with America and Russia.
History - Iraq, the cradle of civilization, has been unstable ever since the US invasion in 2003. This culminated in the rise of ISIL in the mid-2010s. It took five long years, but Daesh was finally defeated in 2019. In the Islamic State’s defeat, a new nation emerged: the Kurdish state. Iraq, having none of this “secession” business, ordered a new offensive. The Zab Offensive ended in stalemate, and Iraqi Kurdistan remained de facto independent. Opting to cease offensive operations, Iraq set about rebuilding the territories seized by ISIS.
Sweeping military reforms were put in place, mostly standardizing the mess that had become of the Armed Forces, but also- controversially- standardizing the politically-charged Popular Mobilization Forces as a semi-regular militia, a la the American National Guard. Economic programs were incentivized to drive the economy away from the production of crude oil, even if the programs did tend to incentivize the development of a petroleum refinery industry.
Now, with the economy growing and the GDP per capita steadily climbing, politics chose to rear its head. The 2022 election of the centrist Victory Alliance marked a shift in the atmosphere of politics of the country. The ideals of the Western-style democracy and of conventional Iraqi culture are hotly debated. While not particularly important on a global scale, the last two years of this parliament have the potential to shape the young democracy of Iraq for decades to come.
