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01-10-2006, 17:52
Formal Nation Name: People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria
Common Nation Name: Algeria
President (Head of State): Malik Asad Mahmoud al-Sakhtiyani
Prime Minister (Head of Government): Abu Idris al-Lu’lu’i
General Government Type: Semi-presidential republic/One-party state:
While opposition parties are not outright banned, the only party legally allowed to hold power is the Worker’s Party of Marxist Unity. Nonpartisan candidates are allowed to participate in elections, and have had some success winning legislative seats, however, not with much else.
Capital: Algiers
Parliament:
-People’s National Assembly (lower house, 388): Worker’s Party of Marxist Unity-310 seats, Non-partisan-78 seats
-Council of the Nation (upper house): Worker’s Party of Marxist Unity-144 seats
Population: 41,462,287
Ethnic Groups: Arab/Berber-99%, European-<1%
Religion: Sunni Islam 99%, Christianity and Judaism-<1%
Languages: Arabic (official), French, Berber dialects
Since ’06:
12/1/2006: Prime Minister Abdelaziz Belkhadem manages to narrowly pass the constitutional amendment proposed by his government increasing the number of terms a president can serve from two to three. Other measures on Belkhadem’s agenda, such as pay raises for workers, also pass through Parliament.
2007: Algeria puts in its case for an African seat in the Permanent Security Council with the African Union, citing its assistance in the development of the African continent and its tendency towards neutrality ever since inception.
April 2007: Algerian Legislative elections take place. The National Liberation Front continues their huge dominance over other parties in both the People’s National Assembly and the Council of the Nation. Belkhadem continues to serve as the Prime Minister of the country.
April 2009: The Algerian Presidential Elections. President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, elected in 1999 and reelected in 2004, is reelected once again.
April 2012: Another Algerian Legislative Election, another landslide victory for the FLN and Prime Minister Belkhadem.
4/1/2014: When Algerian Presidential Elections are set to take place, Lt. Col. Ya’qub al-Musayyabi launches a military coup, cancels the elections, and forms a military dictatorship. Due to his pro-Western stance, the West makes no real moves against him.
2014: Musayyabi establishes diplomatic ties with the State of Israel, at the same time breaking them with Palestine and the SADR. He also promises troops to help defend Israel from Iran, Lebanon, and Syria. The Arab world, the people of Algeria included, are enraged, but the West seems delighted, despite the fact that Algeria’s human rights record under Musayyabi drops like a block of concrete in water.
2015: Algeria joins the Coalition of the Willing, sending 10,000 soldiers to Iraq and Afghanistan, in addition to the 2000 in Israel.
4/14/2016: Musayyabi declares that he is “returning power to civilian hands.” However, in reality, he simply holds fraud elections, which, despite the fact that he is the most hated man in Algeria, he won with 97.2% of the “popular vote.” While technically not a military dictatorship anymore, the Musayyabi regime continues its gross violations of human rights and suppression of opposition.
10/23/2017: A young Algerian Party for Democracy and Socialism official, Malik Asad Mahmoud al-Sakhtiyani, gives a harshly anti-Musayyabi speech in the town square of M’Sila, in which he called Musayyabi, “a syphilis-infested prostitute of the West,” and a “Nazist pig who does not deserve to be the president of something called the ‘People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria.’” The Algerian Army breaks up the speech, killing or injuring 2000 people and arresting Sakhtiyani. This oppressive move caused Musayyabi to fall out of favor with the West and caused his furious people to hate him even more.
11/1/2017: A young Algerian man named Muhammad al-Madini bombs a government office in Muaskar, beginning a second Algerian Civil War. There are armed uprisings all over Algeria, under the banner of the Algerian Popular Unity Front.
1/1/2018: A political prison in Tamanghasset province is liberated by APUF fighters. The APUF finds a starved, brutally tortured Malik al-Sakhtiyani. He is quickly smuggled off to Libya with the other leading political figures supporting the APUF.
3/4/2018: At a conference between leaders of Algerian Socialist parties in Ghaddamis, Libya, Sakhtiyani states the need for “one united front of Socialists to fight tyranny.” During this conference, the FLN, the APDS, the Worker’s Party, the Socialist Worker’s Party, and the Front of Socialist Forces united as the Worker’s Party of Marxist Unity, with the charismatic Sakhtiyani at the helm.
6/16/2019: After fighting a guerilla war with the public and international community aligned against them, the Musayyabi government falls. Sakhtiyani arrives in Algiers in triumph while Musayyabi is forced to flee to Marseilles, France. A provisional government is established under the WPMU, with Sakhtiyani as President. Recognition of Israel is withdrawn, recognition of Palestine and the SADR comes back, and soldiers are withdrawn from Israel, Afghanistan, and Iraq. Sakhtiyani’s government goes back to the non-aligned policies of pre-Musayyabi Algeria, although at the same time harshly opposing the US and Israel.
9/12/2019: A failed coup against Sakhtiyani by Major General Amin Abdelrahman. While Abdelrahman “disappeared,” there was no notable increase in oppression by the government.
12/2/2019: The first Algerian peacekeeper, under the AU’s banner, arrives in Bata, Equatorial Guinea, followed by 4999 other soldiers to assist in peacekeeping in Gabon/GQ.
3/22/2020: Prime Minister Imam Ali ibn Ghadir is assassinated during a speech in Oran. While there is no marked increase of oppression outside of Oran, the PNA and CotN vote to push back the elections by a year.
2020-2022: Known as the “Coup Years,” the 2020-2022 years saw 7 attempted coups against Sakhtiyani, some uncovered before they could take place, others actually succeeding until loyalist military forces came in and put him back in office.
5/1/2022: The scheduled date of elections. Uncovering a plot by rightist forces in the nation to bring Musayyabi back from France and put him back in power, Sakhtiyani launches a self-coup, canceling the elections and declaring a one-party state. The combination of martial law, Sakhtiyani’s charisma, and the threat of Musayyabi coming back into power stopped almost all of the instability that would normally result from this sort of change.
2022-2025: Sakhtiyani initiates a series of progressive, socialist reforms. Laws against homosexuality are removed, capital punishment is abolished for all crimes by law, laws against discrimination against ethnic/religious minorities are enacted, the state religion clause is removed from the constitution, and conscription is abolished. Algeria has also put under way a nuclear energy program. The government harshly denies any efforts to manufacture nuclear weaponry, stating that its nuclear program is simply for peaceful purposes.
1/1/2025: BEGIN GAME.
Common Nation Name: Algeria
President (Head of State): Malik Asad Mahmoud al-Sakhtiyani
Prime Minister (Head of Government): Abu Idris al-Lu’lu’i
General Government Type: Semi-presidential republic/One-party state:
While opposition parties are not outright banned, the only party legally allowed to hold power is the Worker’s Party of Marxist Unity. Nonpartisan candidates are allowed to participate in elections, and have had some success winning legislative seats, however, not with much else.
Capital: Algiers
Parliament:
-People’s National Assembly (lower house, 388): Worker’s Party of Marxist Unity-310 seats, Non-partisan-78 seats
-Council of the Nation (upper house): Worker’s Party of Marxist Unity-144 seats
Population: 41,462,287
Ethnic Groups: Arab/Berber-99%, European-<1%
Religion: Sunni Islam 99%, Christianity and Judaism-<1%
Languages: Arabic (official), French, Berber dialects
Since ’06:
12/1/2006: Prime Minister Abdelaziz Belkhadem manages to narrowly pass the constitutional amendment proposed by his government increasing the number of terms a president can serve from two to three. Other measures on Belkhadem’s agenda, such as pay raises for workers, also pass through Parliament.
2007: Algeria puts in its case for an African seat in the Permanent Security Council with the African Union, citing its assistance in the development of the African continent and its tendency towards neutrality ever since inception.
April 2007: Algerian Legislative elections take place. The National Liberation Front continues their huge dominance over other parties in both the People’s National Assembly and the Council of the Nation. Belkhadem continues to serve as the Prime Minister of the country.
April 2009: The Algerian Presidential Elections. President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, elected in 1999 and reelected in 2004, is reelected once again.
April 2012: Another Algerian Legislative Election, another landslide victory for the FLN and Prime Minister Belkhadem.
4/1/2014: When Algerian Presidential Elections are set to take place, Lt. Col. Ya’qub al-Musayyabi launches a military coup, cancels the elections, and forms a military dictatorship. Due to his pro-Western stance, the West makes no real moves against him.
2014: Musayyabi establishes diplomatic ties with the State of Israel, at the same time breaking them with Palestine and the SADR. He also promises troops to help defend Israel from Iran, Lebanon, and Syria. The Arab world, the people of Algeria included, are enraged, but the West seems delighted, despite the fact that Algeria’s human rights record under Musayyabi drops like a block of concrete in water.
2015: Algeria joins the Coalition of the Willing, sending 10,000 soldiers to Iraq and Afghanistan, in addition to the 2000 in Israel.
4/14/2016: Musayyabi declares that he is “returning power to civilian hands.” However, in reality, he simply holds fraud elections, which, despite the fact that he is the most hated man in Algeria, he won with 97.2% of the “popular vote.” While technically not a military dictatorship anymore, the Musayyabi regime continues its gross violations of human rights and suppression of opposition.
10/23/2017: A young Algerian Party for Democracy and Socialism official, Malik Asad Mahmoud al-Sakhtiyani, gives a harshly anti-Musayyabi speech in the town square of M’Sila, in which he called Musayyabi, “a syphilis-infested prostitute of the West,” and a “Nazist pig who does not deserve to be the president of something called the ‘People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria.’” The Algerian Army breaks up the speech, killing or injuring 2000 people and arresting Sakhtiyani. This oppressive move caused Musayyabi to fall out of favor with the West and caused his furious people to hate him even more.
11/1/2017: A young Algerian man named Muhammad al-Madini bombs a government office in Muaskar, beginning a second Algerian Civil War. There are armed uprisings all over Algeria, under the banner of the Algerian Popular Unity Front.
1/1/2018: A political prison in Tamanghasset province is liberated by APUF fighters. The APUF finds a starved, brutally tortured Malik al-Sakhtiyani. He is quickly smuggled off to Libya with the other leading political figures supporting the APUF.
3/4/2018: At a conference between leaders of Algerian Socialist parties in Ghaddamis, Libya, Sakhtiyani states the need for “one united front of Socialists to fight tyranny.” During this conference, the FLN, the APDS, the Worker’s Party, the Socialist Worker’s Party, and the Front of Socialist Forces united as the Worker’s Party of Marxist Unity, with the charismatic Sakhtiyani at the helm.
6/16/2019: After fighting a guerilla war with the public and international community aligned against them, the Musayyabi government falls. Sakhtiyani arrives in Algiers in triumph while Musayyabi is forced to flee to Marseilles, France. A provisional government is established under the WPMU, with Sakhtiyani as President. Recognition of Israel is withdrawn, recognition of Palestine and the SADR comes back, and soldiers are withdrawn from Israel, Afghanistan, and Iraq. Sakhtiyani’s government goes back to the non-aligned policies of pre-Musayyabi Algeria, although at the same time harshly opposing the US and Israel.
9/12/2019: A failed coup against Sakhtiyani by Major General Amin Abdelrahman. While Abdelrahman “disappeared,” there was no notable increase in oppression by the government.
12/2/2019: The first Algerian peacekeeper, under the AU’s banner, arrives in Bata, Equatorial Guinea, followed by 4999 other soldiers to assist in peacekeeping in Gabon/GQ.
3/22/2020: Prime Minister Imam Ali ibn Ghadir is assassinated during a speech in Oran. While there is no marked increase of oppression outside of Oran, the PNA and CotN vote to push back the elections by a year.
2020-2022: Known as the “Coup Years,” the 2020-2022 years saw 7 attempted coups against Sakhtiyani, some uncovered before they could take place, others actually succeeding until loyalist military forces came in and put him back in office.
5/1/2022: The scheduled date of elections. Uncovering a plot by rightist forces in the nation to bring Musayyabi back from France and put him back in power, Sakhtiyani launches a self-coup, canceling the elections and declaring a one-party state. The combination of martial law, Sakhtiyani’s charisma, and the threat of Musayyabi coming back into power stopped almost all of the instability that would normally result from this sort of change.
2022-2025: Sakhtiyani initiates a series of progressive, socialist reforms. Laws against homosexuality are removed, capital punishment is abolished for all crimes by law, laws against discrimination against ethnic/religious minorities are enacted, the state religion clause is removed from the constitution, and conscription is abolished. Algeria has also put under way a nuclear energy program. The government harshly denies any efforts to manufacture nuclear weaponry, stating that its nuclear program is simply for peaceful purposes.
1/1/2025: BEGIN GAME.