Fars

Federation of Fars مشترک المنافع چربی
Flag Seal of Fars Seal
Motto: از هرج و مرج می آید وحدت From Chaos comes Unity
Anthem: The Ride of the Clibanarii
Location of Fars
Capital and largest city	Susa
Official languages	Farsi
Widely used languages	Farsi, Darshi
Ethnic groups (2012)	81.9% Farsi 13.2% Darshi 4% White .9% other
Religion	Mazdaism, Salam
Demonym(s)	Farsi
Government	Parliamentary Democracy
• Federal Premier	Pasha Alavi
Legislature	گردهمایی ملی (National Assembly)
Formation
• Ardashid Empire	650 BCE
• Fall of Ardashid Empire	65 BCE
• Bayazeh Empire	44 CE
• Principalities Era	801 CE
• Susa Dynasty	1401 CE
• Gurham Dynasty	1875 CE
• August Revolution	1968 CE
Area
•	3,090,000 km2 (1,190,000 sq mi)
Population
• 2016 estimate	69 million
• Density	22.2/km2 (57.5/sq mi)
GDP (nominal)	estimate
• Total	$ 759 billion
• Per capita	$ 11,005.8
HDI (2015)	0.79 high
Currency	Farsi Rial (FAR)
Date format	dd/mm/yyyy
Driving side	left
Internet TLD	.fd

Fars, officially the Federation of Fars is a sovereign state in Northern Coius. It is bordered to the west by Denikert and Darshistan, the east by Hyndana, and the south by other Khatagh and Negara states, and to the north by the Solarian Sea. Comprising a land area of 3,090,000 square km, it is one of the largest states in Coius. With 69 million inhabitants, Fars is a middling country population wise. The country's location in Coius and its proximity to Euclea, as well as its vast oil and gas reserves, make it of great geostrategic importance. Susa is the country's capital and largest city, as well as its leading cultural and economic center.

Fars is heir to one of the world's oldest civilisations, beginning with the formation of the Ardashid Empire, founded by Ardashir the Great in 650 BC, which at its greatest extent stretched from parts of Hyndana in the west to the walls of Carcosa in the the east, making it the largest empire the world had yet seen. The empire, ruled first by the Ardashid and then by the Bayazeh shah's, lasted over 1,400 years until it's collapse during the Salamic invasuions of Badawiya. After the collapse of the Bayazeh's, the Principalities Era in which Fars was divided in to numerous states lasted until the rise of Susa in the 15th Century lead to a cultural blossoming that would last another 400 years until the succession of the Gurham Dynasty in 1875, the Gurham Shah's lasted until the 1968 August Revolution.

Fars is a major regional and middle power, and its large reserves of fossil fuels — which include the largest natural gas supply in the world and the third-largest proven oil reserves — exert considerable influence in international energy security and the world economy. Fars' rich cultural legacy is reflected in part by its 19 World History Sites, the fourth-largest number in Coius and 12th-largest in the world.

Fars is a founding member of LOPS, the Petroleum Exporting Nations of Badawiya and the Coian League , its political system is based of the 1968 Constitution which has heavy socialist influences, however in recent decades these elements have been mostly disregarded. It is an important ally of Hyndana and hosting troops for that nation, while also hosting a naval base for Songguo.

History

Early History

Prior to the rise of the Ardashid dynasty in the 7th century BCE, the region of what is now Fars was divided in to numerous warring tribal and civilised states. In general the north coast and the areas around Lake Lavid to the south were home to settled peoples who inhabited cities and towns while the rugged, mountainous centre was home to numerous nomadic tribes who would often raid the settled communities and even further down in to Denikert, Hyndana and Negara. Of these, the largest cities were Hegmataneh with an estimated 50,000 people in Alherd Province; Kuruhanni, home to about 40,000 in Sarkuh; and Behistun home to around 40,000 in southerly Sundurva by the shore of Lake Lavid. While these cities were generally prosperous, they suffered from raids by the mountain tribes and were on the whole smaller and poorer than the city-states along the Azbek River in Denikert. However the Farsi were renowned fighters, perfecting the use of horses in battle without needing chariots as well as being skilled archers, with the Farsian peoples of southern Golabad and northern Farsis being particularly skilled. It was this tribe, led by their Shah, Ardashir, whom eventually united Fars and took the title Shahanshah.

Ardashid Empire

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Farsi Empire at the height of the Ardashid Dynasty under Shah Zhubin I, circa 480BCE.

The Ardashid Empire, also called the First Farsi Empire, was an empire based in Northern Coius, founded by Ardashir the Great in 650 BCE, notable for including various civilizations and becoming the largest empire of ancient history, spanning at its maximum extent from the Hyndana in the west and the walls of Carcosa in the east (In 515 BCE, the Farsi land army vanquished the Carcosian field army, but the fleet failed to take Carcosa itself, for the next two hundred years Fars and Carcosa operated under a form of armed peace). It is equally notable for its successful model of a centralised, bureaucratic administration (through satraps under the Shahanshah), for building infrastructure such as a postal system and road systems and the use of an official language across its territories and a large professional army and civil services (inspiring similar systems in later empires). The Mausoleum at Tanaeis, one of the Wonders of the Ancient World, was built in the empire as well.

By the 7th century BC, the Farsi had settled in the north-western portion of the Farsian Plateau in the region now part of Farsis and Golabad Provinces, which came to be their heartland. From this region, Ardashir the Great advanced to defeat the Parsua, Qostanak, and the Kangju Kingdom, and established the Ardashid Empire, becoming known as the Lion of the Sun partly in reference to the god Mazda. The empire under Ardashir and his successor at its greatest extent included all of the territory of modern-day Fars, most of Badawiya and all significant population centers as far north as Carcsoa, encompassing an area slightly less than 7 million square kilometres across a single continent making it the largest empire in the ancient world. With some population estimates of 50 million in 360 BCE, the Ardashid Empire at its peak was one of the empires with the highest share of the global population.

The main waves of Farsi expansion under the Ardashid dynasty occurred during the rule of four concurrent Shah's, Arashir I who brought most of Fars, and all of Darshistan and Deinkert under his rule; Namdar I who annexed northern Denikert, southern Asafiyah as well as eastern Hyndana; Shah Artataxes under whom all Asafiyah was conquered; and Shah Zhubin I who led the last major phase of expansion, taking Bokela and forcing the cities of Akalia to become tributary states by 500 BCE. After this initial phase of expansion, the empire's military energies were mainly focused on putting down rebellions and fighting off nomadic tribes, as well as launching the occasional naval raid in to Euclea. Following the death of Shah Zhubin I in 480 BCE, the empire entered a long period of peace, lasting until the Solarian invasions in the 60s BC. This 400 year peace, punctured by the occasional nomadic invasion and war over succession, saw a flowering of culture and a rise in relative prosperity and urbanisation, especially in Fars proper and coastal areas further north which were increasingly Farsianised. The loss of Bokela in this period was a blow to the empire's prestige, however it remained relatively stable until the Crisis of the First Century BC which saw an invasion by the rising power of Solaria combined with internal civil war and rebellions lead to the collapse of the dynasty.

Bayazeh Dynasty

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Bayazeh Dynasty's control circa 580 CE, green marks land under Bayazeh control (including client states), purple shows the Verliquoian empire in Coius

During the Crisis of the First Century, the Farsi Empire was racked by civil wars and plagues which weakened the Ardashid Dynasty to such an extent that when the Solarians invaded in the 60s BCE, the empire was in no shape to resist and crumbled. Immediately following the invasion in which the Solarians sized most of what is now Asafiyah, the Farsi throne passed between twenty Shah's in a thirty year time span until the rebellion of Bayazeh, satrap of Zarangiana (in modern day Darshistan), saw the establishment of a new Farsi dynasty in 33 BCE which would reinvigorate the Farsi state.

Upon gaining the throne, Bayazeh and his successor Zhubin V swiftly restored imperial authority over the core areas of the empire in what is now Fars, Darshistan and Denikert, as well as slowing pushing further north in to Solarian controlled Asafiyah, bringing Fars back in to conflict with the Solarians. A game of tug of war ensued: towns, fortifications, and provinces were continually sacked, captured, destroyed, and traded. Neither side had the logistical strength or manpower to maintain such lengthy campaigns far from their borders, and thus neither could advance too far without risking stretching its frontiers too thin. Both sides did make conquests beyond the border, but in time the balance was almost always restored. One notable battle during, the battle of the Biyadhan fought in 255 CE the Biyadhan river, which resulted in the capture of Solarian emperor Valentinus the Unworthy. Here, after being shadowed through the desert for a number of weeks, a Solarian army of 70,000 was cornered by a Farsi army under the command of Shahanshah Bahram IV and the emperor tricked in to being captured, in turn leading to the surrender of the entire Solarian army. While of debatable military importance in the long run, the battle was an enormous propaganda success for the Bayazeh dynasty.

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Bas relief of Shah Bahram passing judgement on Emperor Valentius of Solaria

Despite the victory at the Biyadhan, the situation in Coius remained steady for another hundred years with neither the Solarian or Farsi empires strong enough to defeat the other. Wars were fought, but they were mostly over oasis cities and control of strategic river valleys than wars of conquest. This situation had changed by 325 CE with the collapse of Solarian power in Coius. Taking advantedge of Solarian division at home, Farsi armies started to push further and further north towards Constellus and Carcosa and by 375 CE, the Bayazeh Dynasty controlled a similar amount of land to the Ardashids by the time of Shah Khurshid the Great, far exceeding the power of the early Bayazeh Shah's. By 400CE Solarian influence had been removed from Coius altogether, the areas around Constellus and Adunis having been taken over by Weranian tribes and Fars dominating the south. These Weranic kingdoms which formed on the north coast of Coius were independent from Fars, however they still paid tribute to the Shahanshah in . Some Weranic kingdoms tried to throw off Farsi domination, but these revolts were always quickly put down by the far larger and richer Farsi state. During this period, Farsi culture reached new heights, and Bayazeh influence was expanded south and east in to different parts of Coius, with Shahanshah's sending trade missions to far off Nihon, Songguo and Hyndana proclaiming the glory of Fars.

By 524 CE, Farsi hegemony of north Coius, which had been undisputed for almost one hundred and fifty years after the collapse of Solaria, faced the new threat of the Verliquois Empire. The Empire, focused mainly on modern day Gaullica and Luistania, was determined to regain the lost power of the Solarian Empire which has crumbled to dust in the preceding centuries. First crossing the Aurean Straits, the Verliquois armies annexed large sections of the Coian coast including areas of modern day Samastara, Bidya and Muradi Badiwaya which had been controlled by tribal confederations including the Weranian Vendellic which paid tribute to the Shahanshah in Keshvar. These actions brought Verliquois to the attention of the Shahanshah for the first time and as the Verliquois armies continued to to try and push deeper in to Coius, and as the Farsi Shah's tried to recapture the lands around Carcosa which had been Farsi under the Ardashid Dynasty, the two empires inevitably came in to conflict.

The Verliquoian-Farsi Wars were a series of long running conflicts across the deserts of northern Badawiya for control of client states and oasis trading cities. These conflicts ranged from small scale skirmishes between each empire's light cavalry to the clash of vast armies of heavy armoured horsemen and epic sieges, the names of many of which are unfamiliar to Eucleans as this period is overshadowed in their histories by the Mumin wars. At first the Farsi armies had the upper hand in the conflict, the Verliquoian heavy infantry being easy pray to the Farsi horse archers and Clibanarii. The Farsi tactic for the first years of the war was to break up the tight infantry squares with arrows and then smash the remains with a charge by the armoured Clibanarii. Using this method initial Verliquoian expansion so was checked, however as the wars wore on the Verliquoian's adopted Farsi light cavalry became increasingly evenly matched in numbers and tactics. As the wars continued for almost another two hundred years, they ground to a stalemate until the Farsi breakthroughs (and then defeats) of the early 7th century.

However, despite the almost constant warfare against Verliquois and her allies, the Bayazeh Dynasty did see a remarkable flowering in academic growth. The Bayazeh Shah's were enlightened patrons of letters and philosophy. Shah Namdar V had the works of Plato and Aristotle translated into Farsi taught at the Academy of Keshvar, and even read them himself. During his reign, many historical annals were compiled, of which the sole survivor is the Karnamak-i Artaxshir-i Papakan (Deeds of Bayazeh), a mixture of history and romance that served as the basis of the Farsi national epic, the Shahnameh. Under Namdar V, the Academy of Keshvar, became "the greatest intellectual center of the time", drawing students and teachers from every quarter of the known world. Nestorian Sotirians were received there, and brought Syriac translations of Elladan works in medicine and philosophy. Neoplatonists too, came to Keshvar, where they planted the seeds of Sufi mysticism; the medical lore of Hyndana, Fars, Badawiya and Khatagh mingled there to produce a flourishing school of therapy. Artistically, the Bayazeh period witnessed some of the highest achievements of Farsi civilization. Much of what later became known as Salamic culture, including architecture and writing, was originally drawn from Farsi culture. At its peak, the Bayazeh Empire stretched from the walls of Carcosa to Hyndana, but its influence was felt far beyond these political boundaries. Farsi motifs found their way into the art of Central Coius and Songguo, the Verliquois Empire, and even mainland Euclea. Salamic art however, was the true heir to Bayazeh art, whose concepts it was to assimilate while, at the same time instilling fresh life and renewed vigour into it.

Surviving palaces illustrate the splendor in which the Bayazeh monarchs lived. Examples include palaces at Kazerun in Farsia, and the capital city of Keshvar. All are characterized by the barrel-vaulted iwans introduced in the Darab period. During the Bayazeh period, these reached massive proportions, particularly at Keshvar. There, the arch of the great vaulted hall, attributed to the reign of Peroz I, has a span of more than 80 feet (24 m) and reaches a height of 118 feet (36 m). This magnificent structure fascinated architects in the centuries that followed and has been considered one of the most important examples of Farsi architecture. Many of the palaces contain an inner audience hall consisting, as at Kazerun, of a chamber surmounted by a dome. The Farsi solved the problem of constructing a circular dome on a square building by employing squinches, or arches built across each corner of the square, thereby converting it into an octagon on which it is simple to place the dome. The dome chamber in the palace of Kazerun is the earliest surviving example of the use of the squinch, suggesting that this architectural technique was probably invented in Fars. The unique characteristic of Bayazeh architecture was its distinctive use of space. The Bayazeh architect conceived his building in terms of masses and surfaces; hence the use of massive walls of brick decorated with molded or carved stucco. Stucco wall decorations appear at Bishapur, but better examples are preserved from Chal Tarkhan near Rey (late Bayazeh or early Salamic in date), and from Keshvar. The panels show animal figures set in roundels, human busts, and geometric and floral motifs.

Despite the flowering of culture however, Fars was (as previously stated) at war with the Verliquoian Empire throughout much of the Bayazeh period. Most of this wars ended in stalemates and were comprised of sieges and skirmished which ended in the trading of client states and border cities. The main exception to this was however the final war of of the conflict called the 7th Verliquois-Farsi War in Gaullic but better known as "Chosroes' War" in Fars or the "Great War". In 602 CE, the throne of the Verliquois was taken up by child of 11, called Albert I. A regency was placed with three men ruling in his place but the Empire was still divided between three ambitions men and a child-Emperor. Thus the Shahansha of Fars, Chosroes II (later called the last great Shah of Fars. No Shahanshah to rival his power took the throne for another nine hundred years) took this as an opportunity to push the Eucleans out of Coius once and for all.

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Farsi lands at the peak of the Bayazeh Dynasty in 312 CE, light green shows the Verliquoian lands conquered by Choserose

In the winter of 602-603 Chosroes assembled an army of just over 80,000 soldiers from a across Fars. Clibanarii, horse archers, infantry and siege engineers assembled in the northern city of Arbela under the pretext of putting down a revolt in one of the northern client states. However in the spring of 603 CE the vast Farsi army surged across the Verliquoian defensive Limes (a series of roads and watchtowers on the border with Fars) in to the Empire's colonies in Coius. The famed Bayazeh general, Shahrbaraz, led forty thousand men (with a large proportion of infantry and siege engineers) along the coast and took the coastal cities in what is now Bidyah. Chosroes himself led another forty thousand men, mostly cavalry, in a lightening raid across the desert and broke the Verliquoian field army at the Plains of Constellus before it could lift the siege of Doliche. As Shahrbaraz lead his army slowly up the coast, towards the Carcosi peninsular, the army under Choserose crossed in to Sepentria and after routing a second, freshly assembled army of thirty thousand at the Gabala Gates, placed the city of Adunis itself under siege and taking it in 606 CE. By 607 CE the last remnants of Verliquois resistance had been quashed and all northern Coius was under the control of the Shahanshah of Fars. Choserose was proclaimed "Conqueror of Solaria" and "Shah of the World" by his troops and it seemed to many Farsi that the golden days of the Ardashid Empire had returned.

However, the city Carcosia on the island of Insula Flavi,remained unconquered. Choserose and Sharbaraz launched three large attacks using the Farsi fleet and the captured remains of the Verliquoian navy (however much of it had been burned by its sailors) across the Aurean straights but each time the assaults were repelled. Chosroes commissioned the building of some of the largest ships seen in the history of naval warfare up until that point to carry catapults and siege towers up to the walls of Carcosa. However even these great beasts were turned to splinters under Carcosian catapults and arrow fire. Eventually, by 610 CE Chosroes gave up on capturing Carcosa but the damage had been done. Thousands had died in the assaults and the Farsi treasury almost bankrupted by the effort.

By 613 CE the Verliquioans armies under the command of Gilbert d'Asque crossed the Aurean Straits and landed in Sepentria and taking Adunis. Pushing back the Farsi armies in a series of battles across the newly taken territories, d'Asque reclaimed all the land lost as well as the northern most provinces of the Farsi empire, expanding Verliquoian holdings further. Choserose himself was assassinated by his own generals, his death marking the end of the last golden age of the Farsi empire and ushering in an era of civil war and increasing weakness by the Shahanshahs.

Ironically, due to the conquests of Choserose, the Farsi Empire reached heights not seen since the days of the Ardashid dynasty in the 300s BCE. For a brief period it even looked like Chosrose could do what Artataxes failed to do and launch a land invasion of Euclea itself. However the enormous costs involved and the lives lost, combined with the splintering of central power after the eventual defeats, weakened the Bayazeh dynasty to such an extent that a century later when the Salamic Caliphate invaded, the Empire could only put up light resistance.

Notably,the Siege of Carcosa from 607-610 was the third failed attempt by a Farsi Shah to annex the city. After this defeat, the city became known as the "Graveyard of Shah's" and the phrase "To the walls of Carcosa", meaning something reaching its maximum extent, entered the Farsi language.

Principalities Era

-Fars is ruled by a succession of weak dynasties and warlords which leads to a rapid increase in piracy along the coast. Farsi piracy becomes a major problem in the 1200s and carries on until the rise of the Susa Dynasty in the 1400s with fleets of Farsi corsairs raiding along the coast of the Solarian sea states attacking Hyndana, the Caliphate, Hellenos and Caesnea. The pirates raid towns for loot and slaves, with Euclean slaves being particularly valuable leading to conflict with Cartho and other Caesnean maritime states

-Gurganji dynasty and crusades

Susa Dynasty

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The Farsi Empire at the height of the Susa's Dynasty's power

1400-1875, Gunpowder Wars with Ahnurvey

Gurham Dynasty

-Founded in 1875, now in exile

-The last Susan Shah sells Darshistan to Caesena after they annex Anhurvey, ending the Gunpowder Wars, in return for protection from Estmere and promises not to invade. In this time, Fars is the only Badawiyan/north Coian state not to be annexed by a Euclean power but is still exploited, particularity by the Caeseni. In the Great War Fars joins on the side of the Democratic Alliance and invades Caesena's colonies in Anhurvey and Darshistan, gaining Darshistan as a sphere of influence after the war.

-After the war, Fars's economy booms off the back of hydrocarbons with Fars building the largest oil refinery in the world at Khabuz. However the state remains very corrupt with most profits from oil money going to nation's aristocracy. This leads to student protests against the Shah in August 1968 which the army tries to suppress. However this leads to more people going on to the street and the army mutinying against the Shah who is forced in to exile along with hundreds of thousands of middle and upper class Farsi, creating the Farsi Diaspora which today numbers around 3 million people.

-In order to raise funds and appease Euclena powers, the late Susan and Gurham shah's recruited Farsi mercenaries from the warlike hill tribes to serve as garrison troops in Althiric occupied Hyndana (maybe Amathian Denikert too). Many also serve in Althira itself as a royal guard unit, during the civil war most switch sides to support the commies in return for citizenship, serving well

August Revolution, the Silent Coup & Federation

Former Farsi Royal Family

"The tenants of theoretical Izadism needed to be modified in to a pragmatic approach in order to better serve the people and state of Fars. To ensure the proper and complete implementation of the 1968 Constitution the Farsi People's Armed Forces led by our brothers in the Revolutionary Guard must seek to guide and protect the state and administer the pragmatic approach to Izadism"-- General Cirus Zadah, 10th of November 1970

Politics

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  Farsi People's Party : 160 seats

  Social Justice Party : 90 seats

  Farsi National Party: 43 seats

  Independent : 7 seats

National Assembly building of Fars in central Susa

Possibly change, add an upper House based on the proposed reforms of the lords: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Lords#2010.E2.80.93present

Fars is officially a federal republic with a unicameral legislature running off the Westminster system in which the Premier is the leader of the largest party in the National Assembly. The Premier is the head of the executive and legislative branches of government and redivides their mandate from elections held every 5 years, currently the Farsi People's Party is the largest party in the National Assembly with Pasha Alavi as its leader and Premier of Fars. While this seems democratic, in reality Fars is far from a pure democracy. Only 3 parties are legally allowed in Parliament as per the 6th Amendment to the 1968 Constitution, although since 2012 independent MPs have been allowed to take seats. The military, particularity the Revolutionary Guard of Fars (the Pasdaran) hold enormous amount of unofficial power, including a de facto veto on any government measures, perhaps shown most notably with the 1999 Coup by Letter in which the Pasdaran forced a progressive government to step down after blocking their reforms in a letter sent to the government saying in part that: "The Revolutionary Guard of Fars, along with the Farsi People's Armed Fores as a whole, do not feel the reforms of this government are conducive to the Farsi path to socialism and the ideas of the 1968 constitution. We would advise the current government to cease their reforms or else the Pasdaran, in its role as the guardians of the revolution, will be forced to consider action to defend the people's rights."

The Pasdaran is also the only military force allowed inside of the capital, Susa, during peace time and maintains a large garrison in the the city.

Izadism/Pragmatic Izadism

FPP = ?? Democratic Party Turkey? SJP = Paki PPP FNP= Turk MHP

78 Urban seats

Alherd, Farsis, Sarkuh, Susa = 39.95 million (Susa = 7.95 million, Farsis = 15.35 million, Alherd = 11.68 million, Sarkuh = 5.67 million), Farsis has 66 constituencies, Susa 34, Alherd 51, Sarkuh 25

Golabad, Sundurva = 18.63 million (Golabad = 7.45 million, Sundurva = 11.18 million) Golabad 32, Sundurva 49

Gervis, Qostanak, Mazr Alta, Kar Kendah = 10.35 million (Gervis = 5.17 million, Mazr Alta = 2.59 million, Kar Kandeh = 1.07 million, Qostanak = 1 million) Gervis 23 seats, Mazr Alta 11 seats, Kar Kandeh 5 seats, Qostanak 4 seats

Economy

Fars's economy is one of the oldest and most established in the entire continent of Coius, the country never having been colonised and exploited by the Euclean powers. This, combined with the nations vast wealth in hydrocarbons means that Fars is one of the richest countries in Coius and a leading economic power in the Badawiyan region and produces around 7 million barrels of oil per day and 162,600,000,000 m3 annually of natural gas. The GDP of the country is over 750 billion dollars, with a per capita income of eleven thousand dollars. Most of the country's exports come from oil and gas, however in recent years exports of metals, plastics and food stuffs. Since the country joined the Coian League in the 1990s and ended its brief spell of isolation, the state oil and gas companies have been able to take advantedge of a relatively closed market to other competitors and the economic boom in Songuoo and Hyndana enabled Fars to have a near monopoly on supplying these powers with much needed oil and gas. As well as raising oil prices, this market also helps to shield Fars from shocks in the outside world as most of its exports go to its close allies. Another growing sector of the Farsie conomy is tourism, with a rise in tourists coming both from the Northern world and Songuoo since the early 2000s. In recent years the government has tried to diversify the economy away from hydrocarbons focusing on mining, clean energy, plastics and hydrocarbons in particular, however the economy is still dominated by the oil and gas industry. Fars also has a respectable abundance of rare minerals including chromium, coltan, rhodium, cobalt, manganese, and zinc which have remained relatively untapped given Fars's traditional reliance on hydrocarbons.

Law Enforcement

VEVAK

GDS

National Gendarmerie (Fars) (Shahrbani)

National Police (Nazmiyeh)

Armed Forces & Foreign Relations

Farsi Armed Forces - Revolutionary Guard of Fars

Culture

Fars was the birth place of the world famous singer Hasan Hermes who was born and grew up in the capital city of Susa before moving to Euclea in 1970 during the Farsi Diaspora where he formed the band Shahbanu