Greater Arabball

Greater Arabball officially name is Federative Republic of the United Arab States but is better known simply as the Greater Arab, is an Arab state that was born after victory in a rebellion against Ottomans. It's the second Pan-Arab nationalist state after the death of old United Arab Republicball. He is known as the stronger Arab country that ever existed.

Beginning
The Greater Arab at the beginning wasn't a planned thing, most nationalist leaders never thought that one day something like the Greater Arab would emerge from their rebellions.

After Ottomans banned Arab nationalism and other organizations allowing only Neo-Ottomanism as form of Islamic nationalism to remove Arab nationalist feeling, the things never became calm again in the Arab world. After the Ottomans tried to distract Arabs inviting them to remove Judean Empirecube and later Holy Roman Empireball that came to occupy Palestine, the ottomans lost excuses and they known they would have to fight against all those Arabs.

The civil war began together with the one that happened in iranian countries. After 160 years of Ottoman domination the Arabs were finally free again, the center of the revolution was in Damascus, to celebrate the victory, a new mosque was built for both Sunni and Shia pray together and a new monument in commemoration of the revolution was built.

Alliance with anti-Ottoman islamists
Even tho the Arab nationalists were secular and claimed religion was for god and the Arab motherland was for all Arabs independent of religion. They got engaged in Islamic nationalist rhetoric in order to raise support from conservative Arab muslims to their cause.

Shia islamists and Sufis by nature hated the Ottomans, so the nationalists had them on their side already. But to get the Sunni islamists on their side, they portrayed the Ottomans as foreigners who perverted islam in order to enslave the Arabs, saying its banner was something that only the Arabs could hold for themselves. Their propaganda was succesful and many Sunni islamists turned against the Ottomans and helped the nationalists.

There were also Islamic militias and legions of non-Arab muslims who fought for the nationalists. They were made by muslims of South Asian, Sub-Saharan African and Southeast Asian origin who were already living in Arab lands for a long time, some of them were dissidents who had served in Islamistball for some time before defecting. The Arab nationalists said they would give citizenship to these muslims as long as they fought for them and could prove their families were living in Arab lands for some generations. At the end, a lot of those who were not even born in the Arab lands were allowed to stay, though they didn't recieve citizenship.

All these Islamic militias (were them Sunni, Shia or Sufi) who fought for the nationalists were disbanded after the war and integrated into the national army. Even though most religious leaders of these militias accepted to follow the laws of the state after the war, some broke with it and launched their own jihadist insurgencies, but they had no success and were all defeated. The government was officially secular and authoritarian as said before, militant islamist activity was not tolerated, though compared to the previous United Arab Republicball, there was more tolerance with islamist ideology in general.

Consolidation of power in the Arab world
After expelling Ottomans from Syria and Iraq, the leaders of the Levant revolution met with the leaders of North Africa revolution to discuss about the situation, they both saw remnants of Ottoman influence in Arab lands. The Ottomans kept loyal elites in power, but not even these elites were 100% loyal, an example of it was that considerable part of the bourgeoisie sided with the nationalists as they thought they would bring more development to their lands as the Ottomans were unable to do so.

The first uprsing was in the Gulf, provinces led by Arab elites loyal to the Ottomans started to rebel against the nationalists. Same thing happened in the North Africa, Ottomans were still keeping their allied elites against Arab nationalists. A bunch of elites in Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria and Libya tried to launch a joint initiative together with islamist organizations to crackdown on the nationalists and re-join the Ottomans.

In Algeria they were stopped by the local forces, but in Libya they were strong, so nationalist troops from Egypt came and defeated the rebels and their leader was executed together with the islamists of Egypt. In Tunisia and Morocco they were mostly defeated but continued holding some strongholds.

In the Gulf, these elites formed numerous private armies, a lot in these armies were foreigner islamists but not all, a lot were also poor indebted workers whose elites promised to forgive if they fought for them, most were from South Asia. These elites moved their armies to conquer Mecca and Medina that were under nationalist control after the Ottoman imam fled and an Arab mufti assumed control of the city. The mufti made an alliance with the nationalists that didn't touch in the status of the city and sweared they would protect it from any kind of invasion. The elites decision in invade Mecca was a mistake, their armies were annihilated and their territories were taken by nationalist troops in offensive.

After nationalist rebels managed to unify their movement from Morocco to Egypt they began to find for ways of union. A lot of territories in Morocco were still under control of Ottoman loyalists, one of these loyalists that used to the governor founded said he would fire missiles around civilian areas without mercy if the nationalist troops came. However he was very old and beside being crazy was also sick, so he ended up dying in the middle of the revolt. The nationalists cracked down on his revolt as soon as he died

In Tunisia, the nationalists launched a joint offensive from all sides against the Ottoman loyalists that when their last bastillion was taken, there were only common soldiers defending it, the elites and commanders had all fled to Turkey but nobody knew about it at that time.

After the former Ottoman vassals and puppets were either killed or exiled, the nationalists leaders began to negotiate again.

Unification of Arab lands
After two months of negotiation the Greater Arab was finally founded and this was celebrated with a lot of happiness in all corners of the Arab world.

Federalism was partially adopted. The government was officially secular and took a series of strict stances to crackdown on pro-Ottoman sentiment and religious fundamentalism. The state supported Islam, Christianity and other religions along the lines of Arab nationalism. Although the state was secular and people of all religions participated in the government, the president was required to be Muslim always, although that would be just a label as some politicians were not even religious in fact.

Religious laws would be tolerated in a regional scale, religious courts were reduced to deal only with personal status. The army was seen as a national pride and everyone was required to serve on it, those that were part of ethnic or religious minorities would have their communities rewarded by the state if their members reached high positions in the army, this was a government strategy to always keep these minorities loyal to the nationalist ideology. Some claimed that was also a strategy to avoid people from realizing that the top command of the army was made mostly by Sunni Muslims, and that there was a military elite made of by some Sunni families.

Outside of that, the elites were expropriated, though a small bourgeoisie was allowed to exist and develop under state control for most part, although they would always be expropriated as well when the state determined so.

Ideology

 * Pan-Arabism
 * Arab Socialism
 * Arab Nationalism
 * Left Wing Nationalism
 * Secularism
 * Ba'athism (factions)
 * Nasserism (factions)
 * Islamic Socialism (factions)
 * Communism (factions)
 * Marxism-Leninism (factions)
 * Anti Imperialism
 * Anti Capitalism
 * Anti Zionism
 * Anti Ottomanism

Family
Greater Arabball is a member of the great historical arab countryballs that include:
 * Rashidunball
 * Umayyadball
 * Abbasidball
 * Fatimidball
 * United Arab Republicball
 * Greater Arabball (current one)

“And ottomans never were part of our family!!!!! Their khara roach caliphate is a piece of more khara compared to glorious old arab caliphate!!!” -Average Greater Arabball supporter.