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A frequent occurrence in 20 Minutes into the Future settings, especially those with some version of The War on Terror. A strange coalition that seems to consist of most Islamic and/or Arab nations or just of numerous terrorist organizations (often themselves funded by a Western Ancient Conspiracy of some sort) excluding Pakistan, Turkey and Iran. Sometimes, writers who don't know better have Shi‘a Persian Iran uniting with Sunni Arab states like Saudi Arabia. 1 In real life, the mullahs of Iran hate Saudi Arabia even more than they hate the West. 2 Often overlooked in this mix is Oman, which is Arab but mostly follows the otherwise-rare Ibadi sect of Islam and tends to stay unaligned in Gulf geopolitics. This seems to often be used as a strange version of an Anonymous Ringer for nations like Iran, Saudi Arabia, Libya and other Southwest Asian or Middle Eastern states. Prior to the 1980s, these tended to be secular military dictatorships or socialist/nationalist regimes (like the real-life abortive attempt to set up a United Arab Republic combining Egypt, Syria and Iraq, as well as Libya's attempt). Since the rise in fundamentalism, the Iranian Revolution, and especially 9/11, a more popular idea is to combine it into one huge poorly defined "Randomid Caliphate" theocracy. This is al-Qaeda's and ISIL's primary war aim, but it is probably not in the stars — at least not if Iran and Turkey have anything to say about it. Beyond that, al-Qaeda and ISIL are, at the end of the day, lunatic fringes; most other Muslims are not violent nationalists who probably have a worse view of Osama bin Laden than most Westerners ("You're making us ALL look evil!" is what they usually say), and al-Qaeda itself – according to the CIA, MI6, French Intelligence, Russian Intelligence, and pretty much everyone else – is down to about 300 guys on the run in the mountains of Pakistan and Yemen. Israel's state with this power around is rarely mentioned. If Persians and Arabs are being conflated, there's often no mention of what the Kurds or Turks think of all this, and the Arab Christian population is... er, wait, there are Arab Christians? Often portrayed as a sort of Spiritual Successor to Red Scare, for fairly obvious reasons on the writers' part. May or may not be a Qurac. Compare United Europe and Expanded States of America. Contrast Balkanize Me.note Ironically, both of these tropes have a shared history, as their respective Trope Namers (the Middle East and the Balkans) were under control of the Ottoman Empire at various points in their history before the Ottoman Empire itself was Balkanized (as in "dissolved", not "made more Balkan in culture", as the Balkan (and, aside from the predominantly Muslim Albania and Bosnia, predominantly Christian) parts of the Muslim-majority Ottoman Empire had declared their independence in the late 19th and early 20th centuries to form Greece, Serbia, Montenegro, Bulgaria, and Romania) into most of the modern countries in the Middle East after World War I - an event that is still a sore spot for al-Qaeda, ISIL, and other Islamic fundamentalists well into the 21st century See also Space-Filling Empire. |
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Legend Series mentions that the Middle East has merged into one country in the far future. | |
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The Middle Eastern Coalition from Battlefield 2 is the Trope Namer. In fact, their combined forces prove to be so powerful, that they actually have the ability to invade the East Coast of the United States! They are also allied with China which may explain how they got so powerful. A more polished, professional-looking version appears in the Project Reality mod. They also make a brief appearance at the end of the first Battlefield: Bad Company, when the player character and his squad, while tracking an unaffiliated third-party in search of gold, accidentally stumbles their way into the middle of a battle between the MEC and the US Army proper, which they're not technically part of anymore. Squad, a spiritual successor to Project Reality, pays tribute to the Middle Eastern Coalition with the Middle Eastern Alliance, which despite the small change features many of the same equipment choices as their predecessor. |
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UFO: Alien Invasion has the Middle-Eastern Alliance. Its existence is a major surprise to its founders, Iran, Syria, Jordan and Afghanistan, who originally created it to defend against expansionist China. By the end of the Second Cold War "their position was simply too good to allow it to crumble." Incidentally, Turkey, along with Israel, is part of the Greater European Union rather than the Middle-Eastern Alliance, which isn't that strange since the EU has very close relations with both countries in Real Life. | |
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The Simpsons: In "Mypods and Broomsticks", Homer is concerned about Bart's new Jordanian friend, simply because the boy is Muslim. Homer has a dream where "their kind" takes over the world, and turns Springfield into a Qurac... and wakes up screaming. Eventually (emphasis on "eventually"), he learns that Bart's friend and the parents of Bart's friend are just regular people, not terrorists bent on world domination. | |
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The Global Liberation Army from Command & Conquer: Generals is supposedly a terrorist organization, but in reality it goes far beyond that, with armored divisions, entire armies of soldiers, a (small) airforce, chemical and biological weaponry, weapons factories, and most of the Middle East and Central Asia under their control. They're so powerful that they conquer the Middle East and launch a full invasion of Europe! | |
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The Outer Limits (1995): In "Phobos Rising" and its sequels "The Human Factor" and "Human Trials", the Coalition of Middle Eastern and Pacific States is one of the two major power blocs on Earth and Mars, the other being the Free Alliance. | |
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Subversion: The Ten Rings organization in Iron Man appears to be this (despite speaking languages such as Urdu and Romanian), but the novelization refers to the head of the organization, Mandarin, who is Mongolian. Of course, this is blindingly obvious to anybody who know anything about the comics. | |
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Iron Man 3 reveals that the Mandarin is unaffiliated with the Ten Rings (although he wears them) and is actually an actor hired by Aldrich as a cover for his failed experiments and to drum up the need for his Super Soldiers. | |
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FTL Newsfeed has a Holy Islamic Federation covering the whole of Africa (except Fortress Israel). | |
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The Caliphate in The Big One actually subverts this trope in that the stories show the proposed caliphate to be unworkable due to its internal contradictions and it collapses in barely more than a decade. By the time of the last story, set in 1986, "The Caliphate" has collapsed and the ruling authorities are trying to rebuild their relations with the rest of the world. | |
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The first Civilization II expansion pack includes two scenarios that feature a unified "Middle East" bloc, although one of them is a post-apocalyptic scenario in which the Middle East is overrun by terminator-style robots. Various Arab and Turkish empires are seen in the other games and scenarios in the Civilization franchise, but they're all historical. | |
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The Al Falah in Civilization: Beyond Earth was created by a coalition of wealthy Middle Eastern powers - Egypt, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey are all mentioned - pooling their resources after the Great Mistake and exhaustion of the Middle East's oil resources. They had to make do with more primitive starship technology than the other interstellar expeditions, launching a Generation Ship rather than the cryogenic stasis systems everyone else uses, meaning the Al Falah in the game have only myths of Earth. | |
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In Worldwar: War of Equals, as the aliens come closer and closer to Earth, every nation within the Middle East agree to help each other fight The Race invaders. Hell, we even have Israelis teaming with the Egyptians (not that strange, in Real Life, Egypt is one of the two Arab countries Israel has a peace treaty with). | |
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Marvel Cinematic Universe: Subversion: The Ten Rings organization in Iron Man appears to be this (despite speaking languages such as Urdu and Romanian), but the novelization refers to the head of the organization, Mandarin, who is Mongolian. Of course, this is blindingly obvious to anybody who know anything about the comics. Iron Man 3 reveals that the Mandarin is unaffiliated with the Ten Rings (although he wears them) and is actually an actor hired by Aldrich as a cover for his failed experiments and to drum up the need for his Super Soldiers. Then it's revealed in All Hail the King that there is a real, genuine Mandarin — and he's not happy with Trevor's depiction of him. |
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In Executive Orders, the ayatollah leading Iran manages to unite his country and Iraq with an eye towards further expansion, but it doesn't last. Note that Iraq doesn't do this willingly –- Saddam (the book was written prior to the 2003 invasion of Iraq) is assassinated by an Iranian deep sleeper agent, paving the way for Iran to move in and take over. | |
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Both The Last Crusade and In the Year 2050: America's Religious Civil War by Ira Tabankin feature these. | |
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In the backstory of Fallout, due to the increase in the price of oil (of which there was a shortage in the world at the time) by the states of the Middle East in 2052, the European Commonwealth declared war on them. It is not known how many and which states of the region were involved in the war, as well as whether they were united before the start of the war or as a result of it. | |
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In Tropico 4, "the Middle East" is one of the external powers you need to deal with. | |
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Code Geass has the "Middle Eastern Federation". Not given much depiction; conquered by Britannia fairly early. | |
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In Victoria, the various Muslim nations all unite to invade Boston, along with a Black Muslim uprising, with the full approval and backing of the United Nations. Almost a decade later, all forms of Christianity unite to invade the Middle East (which isn't exactly the totality of Islam) and end the Islamic faith forever. | |
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Caliphate: While the core Middle Eastern lands do become a Caliphate, it does not take part of the story, and with good reason. | |
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WitchCraft: In Armageddon, the Middle East's held by a military alliance against the Church of Revelations, aided by the largest single group of the Heavenly Host in the world. The main players in the alliance are Israel, Saudi Arabia and Iran — an Enemy Mine that would not have been possible if the world weren't literally coming to an end. | |
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Shadowrun: Turkey, Cyprus, and Syria were taken over in the mid-2030s by militant Muslim sects (under the umbrella of "Alliance for Allah") and formed an alliance called the Second Jihad to launch an invasion of Europe. It ultimately failed, and the three countries have since broken free from these militant sects' control. The countries of the Arabian Peninsula* (Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, and Bahrain) merge in 2055 after prodding by the Islamic Unity Movement, forming the Arabian Caliphate. It then absorbed Jordan in 2063 (again this overlooks that majorities in Oman, Bahrain, and North Yemen do NOT follow Sunni Islam). |
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A distant future version was the Global Caliphate in Dan Simmon's Illium. It was a genocidal evil empire hellbent on conquering the world and destroying the Jews. Eventually they became so insanely fanatical that they tried to destroy the world using black hole loaded missiles. | |
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In Legacy of the Aldenata, an alien invasion causes one of these to form that includes Israel. Which is destroyed off-screen and only given an offhand reference after the fact. | |
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In The Second Renaissance, one of these pops up in the 2040s, though unlike most examples, it's led by Turkey. It allies with a now-powerful Japan to become a major enemy of the US during World War III. | |
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In Wild Cards, the Caliphate of Arabia runs from Sudan to Egypt, although some independent Arab states still exist. The Caliphate becomes a real problem when it decide to stop selling oil to western countries. | |
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In Dark Future there's the The Pan-Islamic Congress. Due to the books primary setting being North America, they only get a passing mention in the news bulletins in Krokodil Tears and Demon Download, but the capital is Tehran, the Congress is currently occupying Greece, Kosovo, Macedonia, Albania and Montenegro. They're also pursuing Neil Gaiman for his blasphemous work ''Tintin In The Land of The Ragheads.'' | |
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Squad, a spiritual successor to Project Reality, pays tribute to the Middle Eastern Coalition with the Middle Eastern Alliance, which despite the small change features many of the same equipment choices as their predecessor. | |
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Then it's revealed in All Hail the King that there is a real, genuine Mandarin — and he's not happy with Trevor's depiction of him. | |
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One of these is mentioned in the Star Carrier series. They're barely tolerated by the Terran Confederation of States because Islamic terrorists were responsible for World War III in the backstory, started by their nuking several major Western cities. They also refuse to adopt the White Covenant, forbidding proselytization, a requirement for joining the Confederation. In the fifth novel, they ally with the USNA, Russia, North India, and China in the war with the Terran Confederation, demanding that the other powers agree to include them in the new Confederation with the White Covenant repealed. | |
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AlternateHistory.com frequently parodies this trope (especially if it's linked to bad research on the author's part), resulting in hilarious Memetic Mutation terms like "the Randomid Caliphate", "the Obligatid Caliphate", and so on. Judea Rising never got that far, but a map created by the author indicated that after World War II, several Middle Eastern states (including the Jewish Free State, the Hashemite Caliphate, and the Kingdom of Egypt) would form a military alliance known as the Jerusalem Covenant. |
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There's a reformed Islamic Caliphate in GURPS Transhuman Space. Sunni only, and a bit of thought has gone into how it happened; it was formed by a number of moderate middle eastern countries. By no means does this cover the entire region. Iran (which has become secular by 2100) is specifically excluded. Despite this the author has gone on record that he wishes he'd thought of a different name. | |
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The Canton-Protocol Strategic Alliance Treaty (CSAT) from ARMA III is something like this; their actual membership (including some South American and East Asian members, including China) and sphere of influence (having boots on the ground on a Mediterranean island just east of Greece in the main game, and with the Apex DLC hitting a South Pacific island between Vanuatu and Fiji) stretches out far further than most examples, and they've also got heavy support from Russia (including a lot of weapons and vehicles), but the primary players involved are Middle Eastern powers, mainly Iran (the faction was even originally meant to just be Iran). They're also more professional and better equipped than most examples, as pooling resources from the numerous member states has allowed them to make incredible leaps in military technology; in fact, in some cases like the protection offered by helmets and armor or the power of the weapons their Pacific forces use in Apex, CSAT equipment is actually superior to their NATO counterparts. | |
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The Footprint of Mussolini: While in OTL, the United Arab Republic never amounted to more than a personal union between Egypt and Syria that ended when the latter seceded, it's much more than that here. It starts as a merger between Iraq and Syria, with Lebanon later being voluntarily annexed; later, Egypt and Oman officially join, but matters of distance separating them from the main UAR territory sees them be far more autonomous. Also, while Yemen and Saudi Arabia never join, they remain close allies of the UAR, increasing its influence. After Operation Samson at the end of the Second Arabian War, the UAR collapses, with its constituent members being carved up into weaker states by Israel and the Roman Alliance (save for Lebanon, which was taken over by rebels beforehand). | |
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The setting for Ground Zero Games's Full Thrust, Dirtside II, and Star Grunt II have something called the Islamic Federation as one of the factions, which evidently controls the Middle East and north Africa (having swallowed the territory of Israel along the way), along with a number of colony planets. In a bit of a twist, the IF has problems with the breakaway Saeed Caliphate. Israel in the setting was destroyed by nuclear terrorism, but has a (literal) Spiritual Successor in the form of the New Israel colony at Epsilon Indi. |
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Present in Wolfish Nature with the nation of Turan (some amalgamation of Turkey and Iran) effectively running the show. It's more like EU in Real Life than an actual government. | |
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A more polished, professional-looking version appears in the Project Reality mod. They also make a brief appearance at the end of the first Battlefield: Bad Company, when the player character and his squad, while tracking an unaffiliated third-party in search of gold, accidentally stumbles their way into the middle of a battle between the MEC and the US Army proper, which they're not technically part of anymore. | |
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The Ender's Shadow series has one of the main characters made Caliph. This one's borderline, since the Caliphate is not formally a government; instead, it's a secret, pan-Islamic shadow government that counts Israel as its closest ally. It becomes more public in Shadow Puppets, when the Caliph conquers India and defeats China. | |
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The monumentally tasteless cult film Americathon parodies this trope, featuring an anti-Western, oil-hoarding Hebrab coalition of Middle Eastern states, that includes both Islamic nations and Israel. | |
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