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Coat of Arms of the UAR (IOT14)
Coat of Arms of the UAR (IOT14) by @Thorvald (El Thorvaldo)

Modification of the coat of arms of the United Arab Republic for ATEN/IOT XIV, incorporating the ankh seen in associated flags. Uploaded to the IOT Wiki in 2020 to replace my original PNG version, neither it nor the main flag were actually used in the UAR's main article, as the community collapsed before I'd completed an extensive redraft.

The United Arab Republic was created through the ceremonial merger of my Holy Egyptian Republic with NedimNapoleon's Syria during the signup phase of Another Terra: Empires and Nations, Taniciusfox's attempt to out-Excel Sonereal (to disastrous results). As I allude elsewhere, my original inspiration for Egypt involved the tangible influence of the Old Gods creating a crisis within Islamic theology that spawned an Egyptian heresy combining elements of Kemetic ritual with Islamic monotheistic doctrine, resulting in strong religious influence over state politics into the game's 1950 start. Our actual performance in ATEN was largely unremarkable save for an attempt by arya926 to trick us into disgracing the Indian Ocean Treaty Organization with a sneak attack against Jehoshua's latest Vaticanwank; mounting disillusionment with Tanicius' management resulted in ATEN being the only game from which I retired early, shortly before it collapsed from its own complexity.

In Imperium Offtopicum XIV, by contrast, the UAR's origins were not detailed, but it became a keystone player in the global political situation, and probably my most influential faction since the Scarlet Lancers. The unofficial secretary-general of the United Nations, it organized the UN mission to Vietnam and the subsequent war against Japan. A long-game spy-op to break Libya out of Greek control spiralled into the Platonic Republic's collapse after Ailedhoo opted to switch to the rebel faction I had specifically written off, apparently without ever consulting the game moderator as to its guiding ethos. Near the game's end I was essentially allied with KaiserElectric's Germany in a shooting war with Tyo's Soviet Union, a proxy war with Sonereal's "Technocratic Republic", and was on the verge of intervention against christos200's Thailand when the cancelled Tun 19 map revealed it had follow through on invading JohannaK's Malacca. Mr. Worldwide, amirite? B-)

Download submitted to DeviantArt October 2022; alternative download available via Patreon.


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