Syria

Syria
Syria's Location Properties
Territories in-game
Continent	Asia
Syria's Properties
Required XP	0
XP Multiplier	1.5x
Releasables	Assyria Kurdistan
City Count	21
Square City Count	3
Capital	Damascus
Population	9,360,502
Demonym	Syrian
Consumers Required to Upkeep	9.36
Can Form	Arab League Islamic Caliphate Palmyrene Empire Kingdom of Syria
Income ($)	$649,737
Manpower Capacity	187,211
Starting Conscription Law	Volunteer
Starting Ideology	Non-Aligned
Syria's Natural Resources
Oil	10.87
Phosphate	1.22

Syria is a Tier III nation located in the Middle East. It is usually conquered by its neighbors and overshadowed by Turkey and Egypt. Syria is ranked 47th, behind North Korea. It is mediocre in its region; however, it has access to a formable which can be formed within the first year of the game and can quickly dominate the Middle East if played correctly.

Background

yria, officially the Syrian Arab Republic, is a country in Western Asia , bordering Lebanon to the southwest, the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east, Jordan to the south, and Israel to the southwest. A country of fertile plains, high mountains, and deserts, Syria is home to diverse ethnic and religious groups, including the majority Syrian Arabs, Kurds, Turkemens, Assyrians, Armenians, Circassians, Mandeans, and Greeks. Religious groups include Sunnis, Christians, Alawites, Druze, Isma'ilis, Mandeans, Shiites, Salafis, and Yazidis. Arabs are the largest ethnic group, and Sunnis are the largest religious group.

Syria is a unitary republic consisting of 14 governorates and is the only country that politically espouses Ba'athism. It is a member of one international organization other than the United Nations, the Non-Aligned Movement; it was suspended from the Arab League in November 2011 and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, and self-suspended from the Union for the Mediterranean.

The name "Syria" historically referred to a wider region, broadly synonymous with the Levant, and known in Arabic as al-Sham. The modern state encompasses the sites of several ancient kingdoms and empires, including the Eblan civilization of the 3rd millennium BC. Aleppo and the capital city Damascus are among the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. In the Islamic era, Damascus was the seat of the Umayyad Caliphate and a provincial capital of the Mamluk Sultanate in Egypt. The modern Syrian state was established in the mid-20th century after centuries of Ottoman and a brief period of French mandate and represented the largest Arab state to emerge from the formerly Ottoman-ruled Syrian provinces. It gained de jure independence as a parliamentary republic on 24 October 1945, when the Republic of Syria became a founding member of the United Nations, an act which legally ended the former French Mandate, although French troops did not leave the country until April 1946. The post-independence period was tumultuous, with many military coups and coup attempts shaking the country from 1949 to 1971. In 1958, Syria entered a brief union with Egypt called the United Arab Republic, which was terminated by the 1961 Syrian coup d'état. The republic was renamed as the Arab Republic of Syria in late 1961 after the December 1 constitutional referendum of that year and was increasingly unstable until the 1963 Ba'athist coup d'état, since which the Ba'ath Party has maintained its power. Syria was under Emergency Law from 1963 to 2011, effectively suspending most constitutional protections for citizens.

Bashar al-Assad has been president since 2000 and was preceded by his father Hafez al-Assad, who was in office from 1971 to 2000. Throughout his rule, Syria and the ruling Ba'ath Party have been condemned and criticized for various human rights abuses, including frequent executions of citizens and political prisoners, and massive censorship. Since March 2011, Syria has been embroiled in an armed conflict, widely known as the Syrian Civil War. A number of countries in the region and beyond have been involved militarily or otherwise. As a result, a number of self-proclaimed political entities have emerged on Syrian territory, including the Syrian opposition, Rojava, Tahrir al-Sham and Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. Syria was ranked last on the Global Peace Index from 2016 to 2018, making it the most violent country in the world due to the war. The conflict has killed more than 570,000 people, caused 7.6 million internally displaced people (July 2015 UNHCR estimate) and over 5 million refugees (July 2017 registered by UNHCR), making population assessment difficult in recent years.

Base Statistics

Economy

Syria produces $649,737 income. $540,188 from tax and $109,549 from resources.

Resources

Resources of Syria

Oil	+10.87
Phosphate	+1.22

Military

The nation has a home guard of 50k infantry. It also starts at Volunteer conscription with a maximum manpower capacity of 154,48 3and 880 manpower every 5 days making it mediocre in its region.

Base Manpower Capacity of Syria per Conscription Law

Disarmed [1% RP]	Volunteer [2% RP]	Limited [5% RP]	Extensive [10% RP]	Required [25% RP]
93,606	187,211	468,026	936,051	2,340,126

Geography

Terrain

Syria's biome.

Syria is completely flat.

Biome

Syria is mostly Arid with only two exceptions. Its tip in the north-east and its coastline have no biome at all.

Borders

Syria borders Turkey, Lebanon, Iraq, Israel, and Jordan; most of these nations being enemies to a Syria player.

Cities

Syria has a total of 20 cities. Its capital is Damascus, and its most populated city is Aleppo. Damascus has a base population of 2,466,000 people and Aleppo has 2,738,000 people. These two cities make up around half of Syria's total population. Syria has a total population of 9,360,107 people at the start of the game.

Threats

• Turkey wanting to form the Ottoman Empire.
• Egypt wanting to form the Mamluk Sultanate or the Khedivate of Egypt.
• France wanting to form the French Empire.
• Iraq wanting to form the Babylonian Empire.
• Iran wanting to form the Persian Empire.
• Any Islamic nation wanting to form the Islamic Caliphate.
• Any Arab nation wanting to form the Arab League.
• Italy trying to form the Roman Empire.
• Saudi Arabia being expansionist.

Strategies

Syria faces many threats, however, they can be repelled and maybe even conquered. Syria, if handled correctly, can stop its powerful enemies and send the nation into a golden age.

Fighting Turkey

Turkey, if it is a player, will often expand into the Middle East, especially Syria. To halt their expansion, you must take matters into your own hands, and attack first.

Industrialization

First, construct a steel manufactory, a motor factory, and 2 electronic factories. To ensure you don't plunge into immediate debt, buy the necessary resources for these factories post construction. After these factories are up and running, sell Electronic to any possible AI nation (preferably major/superpowers), and research Factory Output to get the most out of your electronic factories.

Preparations

Afterwards, spend as much money and manpower on tanks until you have at least 2k to be as prepared as possible for the Turks. If Turkey idles a bit and buys you enough time, you can invade Lebanon and build fortifications in your capital city of Damascus. Remember to keep building on your tanks in the process. After you're prepared for war, look for and ally strong player nations that are close proximity to you or Turkey ( Iran, Italy, etc.) and especially convince player nations under threat of a Turkish invasion to form a coalition with you ( Greece, Bulgaria, Iraq, etc.). The combined efforts of a strong and loyal alliance could mean the difference between an end to the Turkish threat or a crushing defeat. If there aren't any possible allies in your area, then you may want to invade alone.

War

After quickly pouncing on the Turks, they may send troops into Syria. If this happens, huddle in the safe place of your possible fortification. They will likely spam troops and will send them straight into Syria. Meanwhile, you will likely have enough manpower to squeeze new tanks into your army. Their troops will likely die to your entrenched tanks and will send more and more waves into Damascus. Now would be the perfect time to order your allies to start offensive moves if they haven't already. With the Turkish player already using most of their manpower and resources on defeating you, they will struggle greatly and will fail in holding off your ally's invasion, so now you should also start making offensive moves. Either way, Turkey will exhaust their war effort, and you can start offensive moves. With their forces now weakened in both numbers and strength, and also being scattered in both fronts, capitulating Turkey should be easy from here.

Ending the Egyptian Threat

Egypt usually tries to expand into the Middle East when they're a player, defending against Egypt is vital, and taking their lands also will give you the lands needed to form the Palmyrene Empire by this point.

1. Create a battleship and a destroyer. A proper navy will stop any Egypt player dead in their tracks. You'll be able to afford this by attacking nations around you and seizing their treasury as well as selling factory goods to AI nations.
2. Justify conquest and then attack Egypt once the justification is done (if they have not attacked you).
3. Bombard Egypt's troops using your navy and use your aircraft to weaken Egypt's troops. Then, gather over 3k tanks and blitzkrieg Egypt.
4. Once Egypt has capitulated/collapsed, peace out for all of their lands and go on as a dominant power in the Middle East!

Trivia

• Syria used to have 2 more formables; Hittite and the Levant but both were removed in the Middle East Update.
• The Syrian civil war, which began in 2011, has had a devastating impact on the country and its people, with millions of Syrians forced to flee their homes and seek refuge elsewhere.
• The capital city of Syria is Damascus, which is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world.
• Syria is home to some of the most important historical and archaeological sites in the world, including the ancient city of Palmyra, the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus, and the Krak des Chevaliers castle.