Bedou
04-11-2004, 01:37
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Flag description:
three equal horizontal bands of green (top), black, and yellow with a red isosceles triangle based on the hoist side; the black band is edged in white; centered in the triangle is a yellow five-pointed star bearing a crossed rifle and hoe in black superimposed on an open white book.
Population:2,184,000,000(as of last census)
Capital City Freeport, Sweden.
The City of Freeport was a preexisting city to the arriva lof the Bedou in Southern Sweden. A large port city(as the name implies) was throw back to the days of Wazzu rule in the area. The bedou have since turned the City into the center for trade in the Bedou community, business men from all over flock to Freeport to conduct their deals.
Whle the Bedou might choose the City of Freeport to do business in, none, save for a few thousand choose to live with in the city. A second City which the Bedou refer to by the name Ahbin-Freeport lays all around the Wazzu constructed City of freeport, and comprised entirely of traditional Bedou tents. The undisputed largest Tent city in the world, Ahbin-Freeport has mean number of between two and half million to four million tents at any iven moment.
The tents are seen from the city to dot the land of into the horizon.
Since the Bedou shift constantly, the veiw is always changing, the Wazzu that remained with in the City have seemed to have little trouble couping with the Bedou way of doing things, some (though very few) have even converted to Islam(though the Sultan makes it explicitly known that no active missionary work is to done, unless invited by the host government.
Geography:
The Bedou are not a people of common land but rather an agreed ideology.
This union trancends racial and religious bounds.
The Bedou currently Govern: Southern Sweden(Land Grant by Wazzu), Burkina Faso(Bloodless Coup), Tajikistan(Daylami Land Grant coupled with Military Intervention), they hold Stewardship over Kyrgyzstan(in cooperation with Huzen Hagen), They Occupy a region of East Yemen(in cooperation with Granzi), a Portion of Nicaragua(the Port City of Brito-WIth permission of Kopparbergs ) , this does not include the many nations who allow Bedou nomads free movement with in their borders.
Note: Earth V-Bedou Control Yemen,Oman, and Kyrgyzstan.
Map references:Pending.
Natural resources: petroleum, rock salt, iron ore, copper, lead, zinc, gold, silver, tungsten, uranium, arsenic, feldspar, timber, hydropower ,manganese, limestone, marble; antimony, copper, nickel, bauxite, phosphates, some petroleum, mercury, brown coal,
Agriculture - products:barley, wheat, sugar beets; meat, milk, cotton, peanuts, shea nuts, sesame, sorghum, millet, corn, rice; livestock;cattle, sheep, goats , grain, fruits, grapes, vegetables, coffee, qat (mildly narcotic shrub), bananas, sugarcane, sesame, soya,
Industries:Information Technology(Primary Industry) , iron and steel, precision equipment (bearings, radio and telephone parts, armaments), wood pulp and paper products, processed foods, motor vehicles, cotton lint, beverages, agricultural processing, soap, cigarettes, textiles, gold,aluminum, zinc, lead, chemicals and fertilizers, cement, vegetable oil, metal-cutting machine tools, refrigerators and freezers, crude oil production and petroleum refining; small-scale production of cotton textiles and leather goods; food processing; handicrafts; small aluminum products factory; cement
Natural hazards:ice floes in the surrounding waters, especially in the Gulf of Bothnia, can interfere with maritime traffic, earthquakes and floods, sandstorms and dust storms in summer
Religions: Muslim 87%, Lutheran, Roman Catholic, Orthodox, Baptist, Jewish, Buddhist
Ethnic groups:indigenous population: Swedes and Finnish and Sami minorities; Finns, Yugoslavs, Danes, Norwegians, Greeks, Turks,Mossi, Gurunsi, Senufo, Lobi, Bobo, Mande, Fulani, Tajik, Uzbek, Russian, Arab; but also Afro-Arab, South Asians, Europeans, mestizo (mixed Amerindian and white), white, black, Amerindian,
Languages:Arabic(Official),Spanish, indigenous languages, French, native African languages belonging to Sudanic family, Swedish note: small Sami- and Finnish-speaking minorities, Tajik, Russian,
Bedou Today
The national animal of Bedou is the Serpent. Though due to ecological matter its habit is shrinking.
Art is found everywhere, however the police force in Bedou is a Zero Tolerance group and ignorance of the Law is not an excuse.
The educational system in Bedou is progressive and proactive in attempting to ensure the children of Bedou hold a bright future.
Social Welfare is currently on the rise.
And trade is strictly regulated.
Brief Background
The Bedou originally were the union of the many Bedouin tribes who after centuries in the Arabian and African deserts united and moved abroad to escape the ever growing turmoil of the Middle East.
This first "Joining Of Tribes" occured 1918 under the Sultan Al Deeb Mohammed ibn Ahmed(1871-1964). It was the goal of the Sultan that the unified tribes would one day be large and strong(economically, a common error was that the Sultan was seeking military strength) enough to return the tribes(now invogorated with their worldly knowledge and accumulated wealth, to retake the Islamic homelands and reform Islam. The Sultan Mohammed Al Deeb ibn Ahmed is credited with forseeing the the hardline fundamentalist backlash from the ever growing power in the West which in his time had not yet posed the threat it poses today to the survival of Islam.
With the death of Sultan Mohammed I, his eldest son Mohammed bin Al Deeb(1942-present) took control of the Bedou peoples(as the tribes under one union had taken to calling itself) he mandated reading and writting be compulsory. He mandated a health care system and implemented the cycling work system which allowed the Bedou to maintain their nomadic lifestyles while building infrastruction previously thought unattainable to Nomadic people.
He founded the first Wadi-Rum school of Islam in 1972.
Under Sultan Mohammed II, the Bedou have attracted Muslims from all cultures throughout the world to join their flock of fundamental beleifs with the practice of ancient harsh nomadic lifestyle and the mixing of 21st century technology.
All leaders are known to have eccentricities, the BEdou Sultans are no different. Sultan Mohammed I(Sultan Mohammed Al Deeb ibn Ahmed) is said to have had such an affinity for snakes that he kept in his tents and on his horses(an amazing feet in and of itself) snakes of all variety. Sultan Mohammed the First is sai to never have kept guards around his tents-no man would dare near them for the hundreds of deadly snakes collected with in.
Sultan Mohammed II(Sultan Mohammed bin Al Deeb) was not a collector of such an odd item as serpents, he is however one th emost famous living collectors of firearms today. According to Loyd's of London Sultan Mohammed bin Al Deeb, is in posession of the most valuable and extensive collection of revolvers in the world. The collection is comprised of thousands of guns, and hundreds of firsts or seconds. The Sultan is alleged to have an original of every Soviet revolver ever made from the first year of production in every model. That fact alone, makes it a formidable collection. The addition of several more is what makes the Loyds report so believable.
Sultan Mohammed bin Al deeb owns the largest revolvoer collection in the World, and is always seeking more.
Culture:Many Bedou have retained their nomadic and pastoral way of life. They subsist primarily on meat, milk, and dairy products provided by their herds. However, with the rise of oil production in the 1960s and 1970s, and IT industry in the 80s and 90s, many Bedou have taken jobs in the two industries. Government programs throughout the Bedou Empire have encouraged the Bedou to become more settled and urban-though any Bedou who wish to are aided in maintaining their traditional lifestyle.
Virtually all Bedouins are Muslims. They manufacture their own woolen clothing. Members of many tribes shave their heads, but beards are worn by all men.
The typical Bedou tent is made from strips of cloth woven from goat or camel hair and vegetable fibers, sewn together and dyed black. In the instances in which Bedou become sedentary and erect permanent dwellings, they build rectangular houses several stories in height, with stone or adobe walls.
Approximately nine Bedouin tribes exist in the Bedou Empire. The music and poetry practiced among the Bedouins are connected to some functional expressions, such as songs for watering animals, songs sung by caravan drivers to ward off evil desert spirits, and songs sung by fishermen. The songs among the Bedouin fishermen originated in the Arabian Peninsula and Yemen and are usually accompanied by the simsimiyya, a five-string lyre. Commonly called Yamania songs, these songs are said to have extraordinary power and are connected to the practice of exorcism.
The political system of the Bedou is based on an extended patriarchal family unit. Each unit, from a minor family to an entire tribe, is led by a sheikh. The entire Unified tribes being lead by a sheikh who has been elevated to Sultan. The title descends from father to eldest son. The actual political authority of each sheikh depends, not upon the size of the unit he rules, but upon his wealth and the force of his personality.
The social system of the Bedou has four classifications, loosely based on ancestry and mobile wealth.
They wear clothing that keeps them cool in the hot climate and is in keeping with their Muslim faith(It was only upon arriving in Sweden that the Bedou discovered the their clothing was with only slight moderation fit for that climate as well.. The loose clothing, turban, burnoose, and shawl are all common items of clothing in the desert.
Arabic literature began before Islam in a period called the Jahilyya. This literature of a partly Bedouin (nomadic) society was dominated by poetry, and the poet often acted as the oracle of his tribe. A major poetic form of this time was the qasida, or ode. It required the poet to sustain the same rhyme and meter throughout the entire poem, which ran anywhere from 25 to 100 lines. The qasida remains a favored form in Arabic literature to this day.
Horses
Arabian, also called Arab, one of the oldest horse breeds, native to the Arabian Peninsula. The Arabian was the horse of the Bedouin people (nomadic Arabs) as early as 3000 to 2500 bc. The Sultan Mohammed bin Al Deeb and the People of Bedou Boast the largest collection of pure breed Arabians in the World, this collection is unmatched, for its traceable lineage, quality of horse, and pure size. The Official Bedou Herd excluding wild horses numbers over 2.3 million.
Geography
The Bedou under Sultan Mohammed II recieved their first official parcel of land from the the Nation of Wazzu, the gift of the Southern third of Sweden (http://members.cox.net/davage/images/WazzuMap.jpg). Southern Sweden is the Capital of the Bedou empire.
Later the Daylam Government moved 100 million Bedou into Kazakstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. After a confrontation with several governments in Asia the Bedou were left with Tajikistan (http://s7.invisionfree.com/AoH_Official_Board/index.php?act=Attach&type=post&id=1582715)(outright), The Granzi Government gained control ofthe Nation of Kazakstan (http://s7.invisionfree.com/AoH_Official_Board/index.php?act=Attach&type=post&id=1582720)(though friendly to the Bedou, they granted 'Rights of Use'), and the nation of Huzen Hagen through diplomatic measures gained some control over Kyrgyzstan, though realizing that the dominate Muslim populace would respond better to Bedou rule, they have granted Bedou stewardship-authority to operate in all repsects as the ruling party over Kyrgyz affairs when/if it is not to the benefit of all concerned parties for Huzen Hagen to do so-there by the Bedou have use fo the Kyrgyz land.
The Bedou also have assumed control of the Afircan Nation of Burkina Faso (http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/maps/uv-map.gif)-developing it into a functioning republic where the Bedou have created a massive Diplomatic complex open to the use of any nation seeking and relations with the Bedou.
Currently the Bedou are constructing reservations(including ports) in Nicaragua (http://peter.korkala.se/kingdom/nicaragua-bedou.gif)(UNder permission of the Kopperbergs government) and a Port in Al Ghaydah, Yemen(Under Permission of the Granzi Government).
Large Communities of Bedou outside of Bedou Territory:
Roycelandia, 79,000,000.
Marimaia 52,500,000.(Marimaia Figures Current)
Alcona and Hubris. 25,000.
Josh Dollins 100,000.
These figures were last tabulated ten years prior it is likly these numbers have changed.
If a nation is interested in hosting Bedou in its nation's more inhospitable regions contact may be made HERE, Bedou Naturalizition Services (http://forums2.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=325225)
Military
The Current Standing Peace Time Military:61,640,000.
Enlisted Reserve:56,730,000.(Similar to the United States Reserve concept-many rotate in and out filling Logistics positions)
Official Break Down:
Army:30,110,000
Armour-Active Combat Ready
6700 Sultan-I MBT-Trained Operators(Active):40200(Bedou Refit of the Erinin HighKing MBT)
5300 LineBacker SHT-Trained Operators(Active):62600(Super Heavy Tank-The 120GPM by Erinin)
19000 HAAD (Erinin)(Specialist Operation)
5000 T-7 Gilgamesh Heavy Tank-Trained Operators(Active):10000(Crookfur)
3000 T-8 Grey Mamba Medium Tank-Trained Operators(Active):9000(Crookfur)
8000 LBT2 Koshi Light Tank-Trained Operators(Active):36000(Crookfur)
5000 Bowman Self propelled Gun-Trained Operators(Active):40000(Crookfur)
1500 CFAM LBA6 NagaMLRS-Trained Operators(Active):6000(Crookfur)
6000 CFAM LAFV15 Indra IFV-Trained Operators(Active):24000(Crookfur)
1000 CFAM LACV15 Odin CV-Trained Operators(Active):10000(Crookfur)
5000 CFAM LAUV20 Pack Mule munitions transport-Trained Operators(Active):20000(Crookfur)
3000 CFAM LARV15 Athena Recon Vehicle-Trained Operators(Active):18000(Crookfur)
7000 CFAM LBA7 Mercury Anti-Aircraft Vehicle-Trained Operators(Active):42000(Crookfur)
22000 CFAM LAFV16 Bailie APC-Trained Operators(Active):88000(Crookfur)
Ground Support Vehicles
75000 CFAM LUV 5D Land rover-Trained Operators(Active):300000(Crookfur)
12000 CFAM LUV 8A Voltigeur light vehicle-Trained Operators(Active):72000(Crookfur)
8500 S-56 ShadowCaster(Erinin)(Specialist Operation)
10000 CFAM MUV 14B truck-Trained Operators(Active):40000(Crookfur)
50000 CFAM HUV 15B truck-Trained Operators(Active):200000(Crookfur)
12000 CFAM MUVA 10C truck-Trained Operators(Active):72000(Crookfur)
Combined Motorpool/Armour Cavalry troops with stand-by operators/maintenance support:10,659,500.
Special Operations:1,450,000
Basic Infantry:4,000,000
Airforce:15,530,000
Combat Aircraft
75000 JSS-UCAV-EFFK-I "Talon" (Erinin)
4000 EB-2 Heavenly Archer (Erinin)
6000 EF-8 Viking Interceptor(Erinin)
4000 EA-3 PitViper Attack/Interdiction(Erinin)
12000 EA-2 KingSnake Ground Strike/CAS(Erinin)
15000 Ea-50 BlackViper Attack Helicopter(Erinin)
8000 IAR-317CF2 Airfox 2(Crookfur)
3000 CFAS K47 Goth Gunship/combat scout Helicopter(Crookfur)
Support Aircraft
2500 CFU-12 Argo Tactical Transport (Crookfur)
2500 TA-1 SuperCondor Transport(Erinin)
450 CFU-9 Long Shore Strategic Support Aircraft (AWAC)(Crookfur)
950 CFU-9 Long Shore Strategic Support Aircraft (Tanker)(Crookfur)
1250 Mi17CF Ultra Hip(Crookfur)
3000 CFAS K49 Hun medium utility helicopter(Crookfur)
3000 CFAS K45 Vandal light utility helicopter(Crookfur)
3000 CFH15A Roc Heavy Lift Rotodyne(Crookfur)
2500 CFHN24A kestrel Medium transport Rotodyne(Crookfur)
2,375,000 Combat Pilots(Active).
2,175,000 Logistics pilots (Active).
Total Pilots (Active):,4,550,000
Airforce Support Personel(Including reserve Pilots):10,980,000(This figure includes all ground support personel/Pararescue/Special Air Service).
Navy:30,000,000
7 ENVCerberus(Fleetkiller)(Erinin)
200 ThunderHead Class Guided Missile Cruiser(Erinin)
40 FireStorm Class Aircraft Carrier (Erinin)
40 StormBringer Class Aircraft Carrier(Erinin)
200 ChaosBringer Class Guided MIssle Cruiser(Erinin)
1100 Longboat Class Missile Frigate(Erinin)
1500 Samson Class Transport(Erinin)
500 Nest Class Transport and Landing Vessel(Erinin)
250 Ambush Class Chopper Carrier(Erinin)
21 Hurricane Class Nuclear Attack Submarine(Erinin)
Support vessels
500 AOH 6 Supply Class(FallschrimmJager)
*300 FC-AOR-11 Wicca(FallschrimmJager)
*400 FCDT-41 Yellowstone(FallschrimmJager)
*70 FC-ATF-166 Powhatan(FallschrimmJager)
*100 FC-AH-19 Mercy Class(FallschrimmJager)
Small Arms:
The full variety of Kalashnikov Arms Versions Assault Rifles:
Models AK-47 through the AK-103.
PPL Submachine Gun.
VECTOR LM 4.
Galil 99SR
Long Range Rifle L115A1
L1A1 12.7 mm Heavy Machine gun (HMG)
RPK-74N2 Light Machine Gun
PK Series of Kalashnikov Machineguns
NTW-20 20mm Anti-Material Rifle
51mm Light Mortar.
81mm Mortars.
Starstreak HVM
105mm Light Gun
L118 Light Gun 105mm
The Total Includes Several Seglawi Marine Divisions and Ground Support Persons.
Store Links:
FallschrimmJager (http://s6.invisionfree.com/International_Mall/index.php?showtopic=75)
Erinin (http://s6.invisionfree.com/International_Mall/index.php?showforum=17)
Crookfur (http://www.meatballs.terminator.org.uk/crookfur/)
Bedou It Industries has recently implemented the third generation Twilight Eyes R.A.E.D.(Radar Acoustic Electro Optic Detection) systems for Bedou Defense of land claims. The current details are classified.
*FallschrimmJager is contracted for all Logistics services the support vessel are IN HARMS WAY vessels where FallschrimmJager contract obligations provide no current provisions.
Flag description:
three equal horizontal bands of green (top), black, and yellow with a red isosceles triangle based on the hoist side; the black band is edged in white; centered in the triangle is a yellow five-pointed star bearing a crossed rifle and hoe in black superimposed on an open white book.
Population:2,184,000,000(as of last census)
Capital City Freeport, Sweden.
The City of Freeport was a preexisting city to the arriva lof the Bedou in Southern Sweden. A large port city(as the name implies) was throw back to the days of Wazzu rule in the area. The bedou have since turned the City into the center for trade in the Bedou community, business men from all over flock to Freeport to conduct their deals.
Whle the Bedou might choose the City of Freeport to do business in, none, save for a few thousand choose to live with in the city. A second City which the Bedou refer to by the name Ahbin-Freeport lays all around the Wazzu constructed City of freeport, and comprised entirely of traditional Bedou tents. The undisputed largest Tent city in the world, Ahbin-Freeport has mean number of between two and half million to four million tents at any iven moment.
The tents are seen from the city to dot the land of into the horizon.
Since the Bedou shift constantly, the veiw is always changing, the Wazzu that remained with in the City have seemed to have little trouble couping with the Bedou way of doing things, some (though very few) have even converted to Islam(though the Sultan makes it explicitly known that no active missionary work is to done, unless invited by the host government.
Geography:
The Bedou are not a people of common land but rather an agreed ideology.
This union trancends racial and religious bounds.
The Bedou currently Govern: Southern Sweden(Land Grant by Wazzu), Burkina Faso(Bloodless Coup), Tajikistan(Daylami Land Grant coupled with Military Intervention), they hold Stewardship over Kyrgyzstan(in cooperation with Huzen Hagen), They Occupy a region of East Yemen(in cooperation with Granzi), a Portion of Nicaragua(the Port City of Brito-WIth permission of Kopparbergs ) , this does not include the many nations who allow Bedou nomads free movement with in their borders.
Note: Earth V-Bedou Control Yemen,Oman, and Kyrgyzstan.
Map references:Pending.
Natural resources: petroleum, rock salt, iron ore, copper, lead, zinc, gold, silver, tungsten, uranium, arsenic, feldspar, timber, hydropower ,manganese, limestone, marble; antimony, copper, nickel, bauxite, phosphates, some petroleum, mercury, brown coal,
Agriculture - products:barley, wheat, sugar beets; meat, milk, cotton, peanuts, shea nuts, sesame, sorghum, millet, corn, rice; livestock;cattle, sheep, goats , grain, fruits, grapes, vegetables, coffee, qat (mildly narcotic shrub), bananas, sugarcane, sesame, soya,
Industries:Information Technology(Primary Industry) , iron and steel, precision equipment (bearings, radio and telephone parts, armaments), wood pulp and paper products, processed foods, motor vehicles, cotton lint, beverages, agricultural processing, soap, cigarettes, textiles, gold,aluminum, zinc, lead, chemicals and fertilizers, cement, vegetable oil, metal-cutting machine tools, refrigerators and freezers, crude oil production and petroleum refining; small-scale production of cotton textiles and leather goods; food processing; handicrafts; small aluminum products factory; cement
Natural hazards:ice floes in the surrounding waters, especially in the Gulf of Bothnia, can interfere with maritime traffic, earthquakes and floods, sandstorms and dust storms in summer
Religions: Muslim 87%, Lutheran, Roman Catholic, Orthodox, Baptist, Jewish, Buddhist
Ethnic groups:indigenous population: Swedes and Finnish and Sami minorities; Finns, Yugoslavs, Danes, Norwegians, Greeks, Turks,Mossi, Gurunsi, Senufo, Lobi, Bobo, Mande, Fulani, Tajik, Uzbek, Russian, Arab; but also Afro-Arab, South Asians, Europeans, mestizo (mixed Amerindian and white), white, black, Amerindian,
Languages:Arabic(Official),Spanish, indigenous languages, French, native African languages belonging to Sudanic family, Swedish note: small Sami- and Finnish-speaking minorities, Tajik, Russian,
Bedou Today
The national animal of Bedou is the Serpent. Though due to ecological matter its habit is shrinking.
Art is found everywhere, however the police force in Bedou is a Zero Tolerance group and ignorance of the Law is not an excuse.
The educational system in Bedou is progressive and proactive in attempting to ensure the children of Bedou hold a bright future.
Social Welfare is currently on the rise.
And trade is strictly regulated.
Brief Background
The Bedou originally were the union of the many Bedouin tribes who after centuries in the Arabian and African deserts united and moved abroad to escape the ever growing turmoil of the Middle East.
This first "Joining Of Tribes" occured 1918 under the Sultan Al Deeb Mohammed ibn Ahmed(1871-1964). It was the goal of the Sultan that the unified tribes would one day be large and strong(economically, a common error was that the Sultan was seeking military strength) enough to return the tribes(now invogorated with their worldly knowledge and accumulated wealth, to retake the Islamic homelands and reform Islam. The Sultan Mohammed Al Deeb ibn Ahmed is credited with forseeing the the hardline fundamentalist backlash from the ever growing power in the West which in his time had not yet posed the threat it poses today to the survival of Islam.
With the death of Sultan Mohammed I, his eldest son Mohammed bin Al Deeb(1942-present) took control of the Bedou peoples(as the tribes under one union had taken to calling itself) he mandated reading and writting be compulsory. He mandated a health care system and implemented the cycling work system which allowed the Bedou to maintain their nomadic lifestyles while building infrastruction previously thought unattainable to Nomadic people.
He founded the first Wadi-Rum school of Islam in 1972.
Under Sultan Mohammed II, the Bedou have attracted Muslims from all cultures throughout the world to join their flock of fundamental beleifs with the practice of ancient harsh nomadic lifestyle and the mixing of 21st century technology.
All leaders are known to have eccentricities, the BEdou Sultans are no different. Sultan Mohammed I(Sultan Mohammed Al Deeb ibn Ahmed) is said to have had such an affinity for snakes that he kept in his tents and on his horses(an amazing feet in and of itself) snakes of all variety. Sultan Mohammed the First is sai to never have kept guards around his tents-no man would dare near them for the hundreds of deadly snakes collected with in.
Sultan Mohammed II(Sultan Mohammed bin Al Deeb) was not a collector of such an odd item as serpents, he is however one th emost famous living collectors of firearms today. According to Loyd's of London Sultan Mohammed bin Al Deeb, is in posession of the most valuable and extensive collection of revolvers in the world. The collection is comprised of thousands of guns, and hundreds of firsts or seconds. The Sultan is alleged to have an original of every Soviet revolver ever made from the first year of production in every model. That fact alone, makes it a formidable collection. The addition of several more is what makes the Loyds report so believable.
Sultan Mohammed bin Al deeb owns the largest revolvoer collection in the World, and is always seeking more.
Culture:Many Bedou have retained their nomadic and pastoral way of life. They subsist primarily on meat, milk, and dairy products provided by their herds. However, with the rise of oil production in the 1960s and 1970s, and IT industry in the 80s and 90s, many Bedou have taken jobs in the two industries. Government programs throughout the Bedou Empire have encouraged the Bedou to become more settled and urban-though any Bedou who wish to are aided in maintaining their traditional lifestyle.
Virtually all Bedouins are Muslims. They manufacture their own woolen clothing. Members of many tribes shave their heads, but beards are worn by all men.
The typical Bedou tent is made from strips of cloth woven from goat or camel hair and vegetable fibers, sewn together and dyed black. In the instances in which Bedou become sedentary and erect permanent dwellings, they build rectangular houses several stories in height, with stone or adobe walls.
Approximately nine Bedouin tribes exist in the Bedou Empire. The music and poetry practiced among the Bedouins are connected to some functional expressions, such as songs for watering animals, songs sung by caravan drivers to ward off evil desert spirits, and songs sung by fishermen. The songs among the Bedouin fishermen originated in the Arabian Peninsula and Yemen and are usually accompanied by the simsimiyya, a five-string lyre. Commonly called Yamania songs, these songs are said to have extraordinary power and are connected to the practice of exorcism.
The political system of the Bedou is based on an extended patriarchal family unit. Each unit, from a minor family to an entire tribe, is led by a sheikh. The entire Unified tribes being lead by a sheikh who has been elevated to Sultan. The title descends from father to eldest son. The actual political authority of each sheikh depends, not upon the size of the unit he rules, but upon his wealth and the force of his personality.
The social system of the Bedou has four classifications, loosely based on ancestry and mobile wealth.
They wear clothing that keeps them cool in the hot climate and is in keeping with their Muslim faith(It was only upon arriving in Sweden that the Bedou discovered the their clothing was with only slight moderation fit for that climate as well.. The loose clothing, turban, burnoose, and shawl are all common items of clothing in the desert.
Arabic literature began before Islam in a period called the Jahilyya. This literature of a partly Bedouin (nomadic) society was dominated by poetry, and the poet often acted as the oracle of his tribe. A major poetic form of this time was the qasida, or ode. It required the poet to sustain the same rhyme and meter throughout the entire poem, which ran anywhere from 25 to 100 lines. The qasida remains a favored form in Arabic literature to this day.
Horses
Arabian, also called Arab, one of the oldest horse breeds, native to the Arabian Peninsula. The Arabian was the horse of the Bedouin people (nomadic Arabs) as early as 3000 to 2500 bc. The Sultan Mohammed bin Al Deeb and the People of Bedou Boast the largest collection of pure breed Arabians in the World, this collection is unmatched, for its traceable lineage, quality of horse, and pure size. The Official Bedou Herd excluding wild horses numbers over 2.3 million.
Geography
The Bedou under Sultan Mohammed II recieved their first official parcel of land from the the Nation of Wazzu, the gift of the Southern third of Sweden (http://members.cox.net/davage/images/WazzuMap.jpg). Southern Sweden is the Capital of the Bedou empire.
Later the Daylam Government moved 100 million Bedou into Kazakstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. After a confrontation with several governments in Asia the Bedou were left with Tajikistan (http://s7.invisionfree.com/AoH_Official_Board/index.php?act=Attach&type=post&id=1582715)(outright), The Granzi Government gained control ofthe Nation of Kazakstan (http://s7.invisionfree.com/AoH_Official_Board/index.php?act=Attach&type=post&id=1582720)(though friendly to the Bedou, they granted 'Rights of Use'), and the nation of Huzen Hagen through diplomatic measures gained some control over Kyrgyzstan, though realizing that the dominate Muslim populace would respond better to Bedou rule, they have granted Bedou stewardship-authority to operate in all repsects as the ruling party over Kyrgyz affairs when/if it is not to the benefit of all concerned parties for Huzen Hagen to do so-there by the Bedou have use fo the Kyrgyz land.
The Bedou also have assumed control of the Afircan Nation of Burkina Faso (http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/maps/uv-map.gif)-developing it into a functioning republic where the Bedou have created a massive Diplomatic complex open to the use of any nation seeking and relations with the Bedou.
Currently the Bedou are constructing reservations(including ports) in Nicaragua (http://peter.korkala.se/kingdom/nicaragua-bedou.gif)(UNder permission of the Kopperbergs government) and a Port in Al Ghaydah, Yemen(Under Permission of the Granzi Government).
Large Communities of Bedou outside of Bedou Territory:
Roycelandia, 79,000,000.
Marimaia 52,500,000.(Marimaia Figures Current)
Alcona and Hubris. 25,000.
Josh Dollins 100,000.
These figures were last tabulated ten years prior it is likly these numbers have changed.
If a nation is interested in hosting Bedou in its nation's more inhospitable regions contact may be made HERE, Bedou Naturalizition Services (http://forums2.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=325225)
Military
The Current Standing Peace Time Military:61,640,000.
Enlisted Reserve:56,730,000.(Similar to the United States Reserve concept-many rotate in and out filling Logistics positions)
Official Break Down:
Army:30,110,000
Armour-Active Combat Ready
6700 Sultan-I MBT-Trained Operators(Active):40200(Bedou Refit of the Erinin HighKing MBT)
5300 LineBacker SHT-Trained Operators(Active):62600(Super Heavy Tank-The 120GPM by Erinin)
19000 HAAD (Erinin)(Specialist Operation)
5000 T-7 Gilgamesh Heavy Tank-Trained Operators(Active):10000(Crookfur)
3000 T-8 Grey Mamba Medium Tank-Trained Operators(Active):9000(Crookfur)
8000 LBT2 Koshi Light Tank-Trained Operators(Active):36000(Crookfur)
5000 Bowman Self propelled Gun-Trained Operators(Active):40000(Crookfur)
1500 CFAM LBA6 NagaMLRS-Trained Operators(Active):6000(Crookfur)
6000 CFAM LAFV15 Indra IFV-Trained Operators(Active):24000(Crookfur)
1000 CFAM LACV15 Odin CV-Trained Operators(Active):10000(Crookfur)
5000 CFAM LAUV20 Pack Mule munitions transport-Trained Operators(Active):20000(Crookfur)
3000 CFAM LARV15 Athena Recon Vehicle-Trained Operators(Active):18000(Crookfur)
7000 CFAM LBA7 Mercury Anti-Aircraft Vehicle-Trained Operators(Active):42000(Crookfur)
22000 CFAM LAFV16 Bailie APC-Trained Operators(Active):88000(Crookfur)
Ground Support Vehicles
75000 CFAM LUV 5D Land rover-Trained Operators(Active):300000(Crookfur)
12000 CFAM LUV 8A Voltigeur light vehicle-Trained Operators(Active):72000(Crookfur)
8500 S-56 ShadowCaster(Erinin)(Specialist Operation)
10000 CFAM MUV 14B truck-Trained Operators(Active):40000(Crookfur)
50000 CFAM HUV 15B truck-Trained Operators(Active):200000(Crookfur)
12000 CFAM MUVA 10C truck-Trained Operators(Active):72000(Crookfur)
Combined Motorpool/Armour Cavalry troops with stand-by operators/maintenance support:10,659,500.
Special Operations:1,450,000
Basic Infantry:4,000,000
Airforce:15,530,000
Combat Aircraft
75000 JSS-UCAV-EFFK-I "Talon" (Erinin)
4000 EB-2 Heavenly Archer (Erinin)
6000 EF-8 Viking Interceptor(Erinin)
4000 EA-3 PitViper Attack/Interdiction(Erinin)
12000 EA-2 KingSnake Ground Strike/CAS(Erinin)
15000 Ea-50 BlackViper Attack Helicopter(Erinin)
8000 IAR-317CF2 Airfox 2(Crookfur)
3000 CFAS K47 Goth Gunship/combat scout Helicopter(Crookfur)
Support Aircraft
2500 CFU-12 Argo Tactical Transport (Crookfur)
2500 TA-1 SuperCondor Transport(Erinin)
450 CFU-9 Long Shore Strategic Support Aircraft (AWAC)(Crookfur)
950 CFU-9 Long Shore Strategic Support Aircraft (Tanker)(Crookfur)
1250 Mi17CF Ultra Hip(Crookfur)
3000 CFAS K49 Hun medium utility helicopter(Crookfur)
3000 CFAS K45 Vandal light utility helicopter(Crookfur)
3000 CFH15A Roc Heavy Lift Rotodyne(Crookfur)
2500 CFHN24A kestrel Medium transport Rotodyne(Crookfur)
2,375,000 Combat Pilots(Active).
2,175,000 Logistics pilots (Active).
Total Pilots (Active):,4,550,000
Airforce Support Personel(Including reserve Pilots):10,980,000(This figure includes all ground support personel/Pararescue/Special Air Service).
Navy:30,000,000
7 ENVCerberus(Fleetkiller)(Erinin)
200 ThunderHead Class Guided Missile Cruiser(Erinin)
40 FireStorm Class Aircraft Carrier (Erinin)
40 StormBringer Class Aircraft Carrier(Erinin)
200 ChaosBringer Class Guided MIssle Cruiser(Erinin)
1100 Longboat Class Missile Frigate(Erinin)
1500 Samson Class Transport(Erinin)
500 Nest Class Transport and Landing Vessel(Erinin)
250 Ambush Class Chopper Carrier(Erinin)
21 Hurricane Class Nuclear Attack Submarine(Erinin)
Support vessels
500 AOH 6 Supply Class(FallschrimmJager)
*300 FC-AOR-11 Wicca(FallschrimmJager)
*400 FCDT-41 Yellowstone(FallschrimmJager)
*70 FC-ATF-166 Powhatan(FallschrimmJager)
*100 FC-AH-19 Mercy Class(FallschrimmJager)
Small Arms:
The full variety of Kalashnikov Arms Versions Assault Rifles:
Models AK-47 through the AK-103.
PPL Submachine Gun.
VECTOR LM 4.
Galil 99SR
Long Range Rifle L115A1
L1A1 12.7 mm Heavy Machine gun (HMG)
RPK-74N2 Light Machine Gun
PK Series of Kalashnikov Machineguns
NTW-20 20mm Anti-Material Rifle
51mm Light Mortar.
81mm Mortars.
Starstreak HVM
105mm Light Gun
L118 Light Gun 105mm
The Total Includes Several Seglawi Marine Divisions and Ground Support Persons.
Store Links:
FallschrimmJager (http://s6.invisionfree.com/International_Mall/index.php?showtopic=75)
Erinin (http://s6.invisionfree.com/International_Mall/index.php?showforum=17)
Crookfur (http://www.meatballs.terminator.org.uk/crookfur/)
Bedou It Industries has recently implemented the third generation Twilight Eyes R.A.E.D.(Radar Acoustic Electro Optic Detection) systems for Bedou Defense of land claims. The current details are classified.
*FallschrimmJager is contracted for all Logistics services the support vessel are IN HARMS WAY vessels where FallschrimmJager contract obligations provide no current provisions.