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This is a Fanfiction/NationStates repost based on a line from MGNQ, a WH40k fanfiction based on PMMM.
It is highly advised (after reading MGNQ) to read this blog chronologically (via https://syrakhanistan.tumblr.com/tagged/syrakhanistan/chrono) - this pinned post is first, and then move ahead.
I've also attempted to number every post in chronological order via tags (e.g.: this post is 1) for ease of access; Don’t read from the top/most recent unless you want to be confused, and PLEASE watch Madoka Magica, Rebellion and then PLEASE read MGNQ, unless you want plenty of spoilers going forth!
Without further ado: a brief introduction…))
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<<Taken from a private United Nations dossier, believed to have been provided to the United States representative in roughly 20XX.>>
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Subject name: Glorious United People’s Imperium of Syrakhanistan
Capital City: Neo-Kirkukihara
Largest City: Neo-Kirkukihara (~30,000,000)
Official Languages: None (various)
Ethnic groups: Mixed (largest populations by percentage include Arabic, Turkish, Persian Iranians, Kurds, Pashtuns, Azeris, Armenians, Punjabis, Sindhs, Berbers, Amazigh, Sahrawi, and Baloch; at least fifty besides)
Official Religion: None (various; state policy is vague but tolerant)
Demonym: Syrakhi, Syrakhani, Syrakhanistani
Government: Stratocracy with democratic decentralised elements
Current leader: Officially - N/A (divided federal framework); Unofficially - “The First” (real name currently unknown)
Land Area: ~16.2 million square kilometres
Population: ~600-700 million (estimated)
GDP: Officially - Unknown (state does not release economic statistics); Unofficially/Estimated - $28.9 trillion total, $124,532 per capita
GINI: Officially - Unknown (state does not release economic statistics); Unofficially/Estimated - 26.3 (low inequality)
HDI: 0.918 (29th)
Currency: Internal - N/A (dubious and fragmented - see below); External - Syrakhani riyal
Armed forces personnel: ~1,600,000 (2nd)
Armed forces strength: 0.0772 (2nd)
Nuclear weapons capability: Full Triad
Nuclear weapons numbers: Unknown - estimated at 3,000 (3rd)
Subject profile:
Syraqhanistan, officially the Glorious People's Imperium of Syraqhanistan and commonly known by the more antiquated terms "Syrakhanistan" or "Greater Arabia", is officially one of the youngest nations on Earth, and is a... unique nation, to say the least. Nobody, least of all the people living there (especially given the mysterious individual's reported Japanese origin), expected a single figure - "the First" - to rise from an old city with a Kurdish majority in the North and lead an economically far left, culturally progressive but militaristically jingoist movement that eventually spread from Morroco on the Mediterranean to the lowlands of Karachi on the Indian Ocean.
An extremely powerful - toeing the line between merely strongly authoritarian and totalitarian - state governs with almost patient leniency, in a notion some have taken to call (in both a farcical and a literal sense) "totalitarian democracy" - where the governing party is elected directly by the people every five years, but those elected have absolute and complete power; and, in every single election in the nation’s history, despite a functioning multiparty system, the majority of votes have gone to the central leading party. This is despite international observers, as well as interviews with both members of the public plus expats outside of the nation, all saying that the elections are free and fair. There is, of course, no official comment nor mandated line from the state's rather opaque government; indeed, interviews only managed to get the phrase "we are a western democracy, just like you!" from one spokesperson - who promptly disappeared from state television.
Direct democracy is crucial to the nation's survival; with a cultural, political and ethnic powder keg, the level of devolution seen - based upon "expertly drawn" borders and precise demography, and called by critics as the insane ramblings of a lunatic - is second to none. In what critics call genocide via forced resettlement, and what supporters call the strengthening of identity through homogeneity, people are randomly tested and moved based on political, cultural, linguistic, ethnic and many other criterion. Understanding this, one notes that the People's Imperium of Syrakhanistan has what some have described as a haphazard patchwork of a party system, although most observers also note that the state has eschewed traditional partisan politics for more personal and direct democratic initiatives.
With such a vast nation, and with such high levels of decentralised governance despite ostensibly existing within a totalitarian quasi-monarchist semi-stratocracy (particularly with regards to the Imperial Marines [See: [REDACTED]]), there do exist some recognisable elements of partisanship; for example, the vast majority of the State's upper echelons remain nominal members of the long de-facto-defunct group of the MSF (the organisation largely responsible for the nation's unification); and a large number of the highest echelons have also been identified as potential [REDACTED]. However, it must be simply stated that partisanship and the traditional party system don't typically apply across the nation, though this probably can't be said the same for some region-level and provincial divisions.
Religion is often debated in the halls of the nation. Whilst there remain large minorities of various world religions here, the State endorses only one “religion” - irreligion, or humanism with a focus on personal cultivation (predominantly from due to the MSF’s origins as a far-left organisation, prior to it’s late-Unification Period reforms; it acts as less of a religion, and more of an autarkic idealism - particularly as it grew in size). However, in an almost laughably egocentric manner, the State has also organised the creation of a single unifying concept (an attempt at monotheism, perhaps?) known as the Great Blessing, inferred to be by outsiders as essentially a cult of personality around the nation's leadership - although in one of the leader's rare addresses, she rejected such a notion while implying she had contact with, and worshipped, a higher power. Our research has found that worship of this new phenomenon is exceedingly rare outside of government circles, however.
Whilst the central state rules with an iron fist in matters of justice, military and national welfare (among other things), much of the day-to-day business of nation building is left to the devolved governments. Whilst this may lead some to call this less a nation and more a loose alliance controlled by a single all-powerful state, upon closer inspection the nation-state relies heavily upon it's underlings, and the devolved states require constant nurturing - and punishment - by their father figure.
The laws of the land are highly progressive; equal rights based on gender, race and identity mixed with needs required by each of the devolved governments allow for a unique blend of freedom and tradition based upon location. Whilst in theory the state advocates for traditional Marxist autarky (and, indeed, some devolved areas do follow strict autarky, particularly in the mountainous regions), in practice a fairly lenient welfare state exists to support any and all people regardless of situation, to the point of which that both economists within the nation and internationally renowned economists have called it the first nation to take true steps towards achieving a post-scarcity economy (although this is certainly up for discussion; further investigations lead to many of these being paid for by unknown sources - and, indeed, there is significant debate due to how the government classifies some citizens). Housing is free, but allocated based upon need and contribution to society; however, the state is still committed to combatting poverty and homelessness, particularly in urban regions.
There is, of course, an exception to all rules, as is always the case. In what critics call shameful "monarcho-communism", wherein all are equal under the crown, but the supreme leader and those close to them, particularly within the Imperial Marines and the former MSF faction, enjoy all possible freedoms, wants and needs to an extreme degree not extended to all others. This isn't to say that the rest of the population is in dire straits - indeed, polls show that most citizens are content with this status quo.
Despite the harsh landscape, the nation has been keen to develop high technological standards; from large investments into transportation and infrastructure, including a nationwide maglev system as well as extensive air and underground developments, to developing a fruitful space-faring establishment such as the near-complete Space Elevator, technology is becoming a speedy commodity in a once barren locale.
What is more worrisome to those in the UN is the Syraqhanistani military. The governing state tends to lean into a proto-stratocracy, with military decision making being the number one priority of nation building. Whether it be from internal tensions, or from external threats due to the nation's high resource reserves, the nation contains a formidable arsenal of armed forces. Despite assurances of retaliation-only policy, the excursions often seen by their military prove otherwise - indeed, international observers liken the scorched earth policies used by the military in one of their recent campaigns to the surface of the Moon.
Thus, we must emphasise that this nation an inherent paradox. Simultaneously nationalist and communist, helpful to others externally and internally but also prone to extreme and often random violence towards any perceived or possible threats, signs of progressive policies often unseen in the neo-conservative world view mixed with a terrifyingly totalitarian state with one of history's largest execution rates; a state with almost extreme progressive civil rights, at the cost of virtually all political freedoms, an ambiguous and almost miraculous economy, and a quasi-theocracy centred around the leadership...
It remains to be seen if this place is heaven, or hell, on Earth.
<<End of Report; the reader notes that the end of the page is tarnished by an odd black substance.>>
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Addendum: Attached Images:
Image A: Map of Syrakhanistan upon unification
Image B: Flag of the Glorious People’s Imperium of Syraqhanistan
Image C: Flag of the Military Salvation Front (MSF)
Image D: Map of Syrakhanistan and bordering nations, including territorial changes due to administration and/or conflict, as of 2011.
Notice: All images, including maps and flags, are subject to change, and are simultaneously accurate and inaccurate, predominantly due to the highly [REDACTED] nature of [REDACTED] and then [REDACTED].
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((Hello. This is the official "roleplay" or "informative" Tumblr account for the nation of Syrakhanistan/Syraqhanistan. It's mostly a spare backup incase NationStates bans my account again, but it also gives me the opportunity to interact with anyone interested in the subjects I look at. The original NationStates profile of the nation can be found at https://www.nationstates.net/nation=syrakhanistan.
Syrakhanistan is a thought experiment based on a throwaway line of world-building dialogue in a long dead fanfiction, that asks the question: “What if Warhammer 40k was on Earth, set in the 21st century, involved magical girls, and then said magical girls decided to conquer and create their own nation? What would a nation for magical girls, by magical girls, and influenced by the Incubators they work for, look like? How would it function, mixing magic and technology? What would militarised magical girls running a nation think of government? And how would the average person feel about it?”. The location is based off a single line of worldbuilding background noise of a news broadcast mentioning a unified Middle East, which I took and ran off with.
MGNQ may be in a coma much like the Emperor of Mankind atop the Golden Throne, but I most certainly am not. And, well… things are in motion.
Again - PLEASE also read the original fanfiction of MGNQ (Magical Girl Noir Quest), which can be found at http://wiki.magicalgirlnoir.com/index.php/Thread_index - the vast majority of stuff I post will make NO sense without it. The index is extremely useful, but the wiki itself also hosts a plethora of information. I beg of you to take a look if you’re even remotely interested.
This will be the pinned post. Feel free to like and reblog if you so choose. If you want to interact with me, feel free to send me a message or an ask. If you're not signed in and want to interact, but Dumblr won't let you because they're prudes now, you can send me an anonymous email on [email protected] using various anonymous email sending sites, such as AnonymouseMail.
Yes, I did make a fanfiction of a dead fanfiction of a decades old anime based on a single line of throwaway dialogue in a 4chan fanfic. I may, in fact, be a bit of a muppet.
Please send asks. I beg of you.
This should be fun. I look forward to it.
Update July 2026: Things are in motion. I’m planning a grand unveiling for Walpurgisnacht’s release. Stay tuned.))
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