Talk:The Extraterrestrial War - (Map Game)/@comment-26031225-20160330215253

Saudi Arabia
 * Backstory: During the late 2010s, the Islamic State was defeated and islamic extremism heavily declined around the world as a result of this. Because of that, the image of Saudi Arabia internationally started to decline a bit, as it was seen as an extremist state with the use of Sharia law and the poor relevance of Civil Rights within the country. Between 2017 and 2019 an huge wave of protests occured all over the nation, the objective of said protests was the creation of a Constitution, more civil rights for women, and the removal of religious influence in the goverment. The goverment reacted violently and crushed the protests, which resulted in even more riots and disapproval of Saudi image around the world, tensions reached a critical level in 2019 when the country was at the border of a civil war and King Salman was forced to abdicate and his son Ahmad became the succesor. King Ahmad started his mandate by trying to calm down the tensions in the country, and in 2020, he approved a political reform; The country would not longer be under the Sharia Law but Islam would still be the only religion allowed, with others being illegal and a constution would be made, women would not longer be forced to wear the burka and they got the right to vote, but they're still not completely equal to men in the civil rights question, homosexuality would still e illegal but no longer punished with death, at the most an homosexual would be jailed for 5 years. The country was also reorganized into provinces, and the citizens are allowed to vote for a province governor, which caused the creation of the first political parties, but only to a local level. National elections still don't exist. The power in the King is now absolute, the influence of religious leaders in the goverment has been removed. With this huge reform, the country became stable once again. After having stabilized the country, Ahmad started a policy to make the country stronger and the military budget was increased to catch up with other nations like Iran and Pakistan. He also focused on modernizing cities and expanding them, with Ryad becoming a big metropolitan center. (If the admins think any of this stuff is unrealistic, tell me)
 * Goverment & Politics: Currently, King Ahmad is the current head of state and goverment of Saudi Arabia and holds absolute power. However, he rules with a fair hand, compared to previous Saudi Kings who were way more authoritarian. The goverment is quite centralized as there isn't a parliament or senate, only province governors. There are only political parties present at a national level are the New Arab Party of progressive tendency and mostly supported by the youth, and the Authentic Islamic Party, of islamic-conservative tendency supported by the most religious sector of the population. Currently the AIP governates 9 of the 15 provinces and the NAP governates the remaining 6.In late December, the King announces that a referendum for the creation of a parliament will be held next year, if it is succesful, Saudi Arabia would ensenrually become a Constitutional Monarchy rather than an Absolute Monarchy.
 * Military: The military of Saudi Arabia is one of the most decent ones in the world, though not better than the ones of major powers, so it could be said that it is above average and one of the strongest in the region, only challenged by Israel, Iran and Pakistan. The total number of active armed forces is 450,000, with reserves reaching 360,000. As for military technologies, they have been modernizing their air force lately building new models of cpmbat helicopters and jets. They have also started project for developing railguns, but it will most likely take a while since Saudi Arabia is not a major power.
 * Economy: The economy has been growing at a good rate unlike other countries that had trouble with their economies in the 2000s and 2010s. Oil exports are the main source of economical growth, along with infraestructure and industries.
 * Diplomacy: Saudi Arabia improves relations with the other countries in peninsula; UAE, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and Bahrain and propose open borders with all of them. They also accept Palestine's alliance proposal. An alliance is requested with Indonesia, Malaysia, the UK and France.