| “ | Can't go there, 'cause the Americans will shoot you | ” |
—
 Jeremy Clarkson |
| “ | مَوطِنِي مَوطِنِي الجلالُ والجمالُ والسَّنَاءُ والبَهَاءُ في رُبَاكْ في رُبَاكْ |
” |
—
 Iraqball about to sing its anthem |
Iraqball, officially the Republic of Iraqball, is where Saddam Hussein is hiding under a rock a civil war countryball in the Middle East. It is bordered by 
Turkeyball to the North, 
Saudi Arabiaball to the South and Southwest, 
Syriaball to the West, along with 
Jordanball to the Southwest, and 
Iranball to the East, with 
Kuwaitball to the Southeast. The country is divided into nineteen Governorates. Altogether, however, it has a total area of 168,754 square miles, making it the 58th largest country in the world. As of 2018, it maintains a population of 38.12 million inhabitants.
Iraqball is a member of the 
Arab Leagueball and the 
OICball due to being a majority-Kebab country in the Arabian Peninsula, as well as the 
UNball like almost every other country.
Iraqball is sometimes seen as the cradle of civilization as its clay was once home to Mesopotamia, an ancient civilization situated between the Tigris-Euphrates river. However, due to large amounts of conquests from more powerful countryballs (Such as 
Persiaball and 
Macedonball, and 
British Empireball), along with the ongoing conflict it's dealing with, it is very hard for people to believe it. It is more often seen as one of the worst countryballs in the 
world to live in, which has led to many Iraqiballs seeking refuge in 
USAball and 
Europe.
Its national day is October 3.
History
Iraqball is situated on the Tigris-Euphrates river system which is where the ancient civilization of Mesopotamia emerged. Sumerian, Akkadian, Babylonian, and Assyrian civilizations would be located in Iraqball. Mesopotamia would come under Persian rule, then came under 
Greek rule, then would be fought over between 
Romans and 
Persians until the 
Muslim conquests of the 7th century. 
Abbasidball took over all of 
Umayyadball's clay (expect Spain) in the 750 thanks to the persian general Abu Muslim. Abbasidball had unsuccessfully tried to push out 
Byzantine Empireball out of the Middle East, but had many won battles.
The first Abbasid caliph, as-Saffa, gave a sermon to justify the newly proclaimed caliphate. He said in it, that "the Abbasids were the kin of God's messenger" and created "from the ancestors of the Prophet Muhammad's family tree." The second caliph, al-Mansoor, began the construction of a new capital in Iraq, on the site of Baghdad, on the banks of the Tigris River. He created a wonderful round city with high walls added; and it was surrounded with four gates. It was a symbol centralizing the power in the hands of the caliph.
The fifth caliph, Harun ar-Rashid, grandson of al-Mansoor, is often regarded as the greatest of the Abbasid caliphs. He built the House of Wisdom, which was a beacon of Islamic learning. It was based on the saying by the Prophet Muhammad "The ink of a scholar is more holy than the blood of a martyr." He therefore launched a new golden age of science. Many Islamic scholars, such as al-Khwarizmi, ibn Al-Haytham, al-Sufi, ibn Sina, and ibn Rushd have inspired many scientists throughout the world.
Sadly, the last 300 years were not so successful. Of the 12 caliphs who ruled between 860 and 934, half were murdered. It eventually got worse when the caliph Mustaqfi at some point, Abbasidball was forced to hand all its clay to Buyidball, in order to hold on to the caliphate. Other land-hungry dynastyballs got parts of the rapidly disintegrating caliphate 
Seljukball came on the rescue and removed Buyidball.
However, Abbasidball poisoned its sultan so Seljukball anchlussed its clay before regaining independence. 
Baghdadball would become the center of the Islamic golden age with very well known books until the 
Mongols invaded and besieged Baghdadball in 1258, burning all the important advanced sources of Islamic history. The city would never feel the same again.
After most of the city had been mercilessly burned down, Iraq would become a province of 
Ilkhanateball which he would cross though to attack 
Mamlukball. But after Ilkhanateball got sick and died from the black plague, Iraq's clay would be ruled by the Ilkhan Persianized son of 
Jalayiridsball who wanted to resurrect part of Abbasidball before he was slained by the emerging 
Timurid Empireball. Jalayiridsball became Timur's slave province and would be later liberated by the Turkic 
Qara Qoyunluball until he became unfriendly who took his clay and occupied it like his brother Aq Qoyunluball for the rest of the 15th century.
In the 1500's 
Safavid Dynastyball conquered and ruled over what was the defunct Aq Qounlu and Timurid Empire restoring Persian control over Iraq. The neighboring 
Ottoman Empireball didn't want the middle east to be dominant Shia and that Shia beliefs would take over Anatolia, so around the 1530's he occupied Iraq as a buffer zone for the rest of 16th century.
The Ottoman-Persian wars really shaped Ottoman society in Iraq. Safavid Dynastyball fought over control of its Islamic holy sites including the capital and even sieged Iraqball control before Kebab recaptured it. Iraqball's new occupier Ottoman Empireball elected sultans to rule over the area and put down some 
Kurdish revolts. The self-governing sultans took a much slower time to modernize the country.
Before World War I, British Empireball colonized neighboring Kuwaitball. When the Ottomans joined the war against the Entente, Britain declared war on Ottoman Empireball and invaded through Kuwait. Due to Arab resistance against the Ottomans, Ottomanball was partitioned by British Empireball and 
British Iraqball would be dominated by the British until the formation of the independent Kingdom of Iraqball in 1932 (Which would be a British puppet state from 1941-1947). Under British rule, Kingdom of Iraqball King Ghazi wanted to into sea to become a stronk power, but UKball wouldn't let it annex 
Kuwait. 
But someday.....
King Ghazi later would die in a car crash, allowing King Faisal the second to take over. In April 1941, the Iraqi king Abd al-Ilah was overthrown by the 
Golden Square which replaced him with Rashid Ali al-Gaylani, who made Iraqball align to 
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UKball had to invade Iraq again a month later and just SIGHED at Iraqball.
Being one of the Arab countries to be defeated by 
Israelcube in the Six Days War, Iraqball once had the curious idea to merge with Jordanball and become a stronk power since they were both Hashemites. This became the 
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Iraqball came to be in 1958.
Iraqball also did some horrifying things after winning the July 14 revoultion such as hanging the kings body on a roof and executing the rest of the royal family, after that, it decided to become a "republic". It was actually a single-party military junta.
The kurds in its clay tried to gain independence, but with the help of 
Syriaball, Iraqball tried to remove them, but like Syriaball it would be couped by 
Ba'athists. Four years later, took power ending the previous Iraqi Republicball. Iraqball became under Ba'ath rule but was still a single-party military dictatorship.
It then declared war on Iranball in 1980 to "liberate" .png){kind=icon}
Khuzestanball. Because it couldn't pay debts to Kuwaitball it declared war on its in 1990 still claiming that 
UKball stole Kuwaitball from it in colonial times and that Kuwaitball was stealing Iraqi oil. It failed because the USAball-led coalition stopped it from anschlussing Kuwaitball in the Gulf War.
Then in 2003 being one again invaded by USAball, with the intention of "liberating" Iraq from Saddam's control, as 
accused Saddamn of supporting 
Al-Qaedaball in the 9/11 attack. (In reality it was to secure US interests in Iraq.) USAball tried to remove many terrorists and Ba'ath loyalists in Iraqi clay, hence, this immensely led to a war which saw Al-Qaeda set up 
ISIS to conquer Iraqball's clay, which failed.
USAball pulled out in 2011 but ended up in even worse condition. It is now technically friends with USAball, but that doesn't matter much. The new government by the way, recongized Kurdish autonomy. Things got worse when ISIS broke off from Al-Qaedaball.
Before, 15% is sieged by Kurdistanball. Recently, ISIS in western Mosul was on the offensive as its forces advanced capturing one of its dams. But now, it succeeded to take the whole of Mosul from ISIS. It also recaptured Tal-Afar and was now invading Hawija and it won [1]. Its final campaign was its Western Iraq Campaign, and it liberated the desert on December 9th, ending ISIS in Iraqball. On December 10th, Iraqball celebrated the end of ISIS with a parade.
In the 1st of October 2019, Major protests started in Iraqball due to the major corruption of the leaders in Iraqball and the influence of Iranball in Iraqball.
2020 does not seem the best year for Iraqball, one of its generals got killed in an airstrike by USAball which caused Iraqball to make a vote to remove American soldiers from its clay.
In February 2020, Iraqball had its first infection of coronavirus which caused it to close many of its borders and schools.
Flag Colors
Main Colors
| Color Name | RGB | CMYK | HEX | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Philippine Red | 206, 17, 38 | C0-M92-Y82-K19 | #CE1126 | |
| White | 255, 255, 255 | N/A | #FFFFFF | |
| Black | 0, 0, 0 | C0-M0-Y0-K100 | #000000 | |
Emblem Colors
| Color Name | RGB | CMYK | HEX | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dartmouth Green | 0, 122, 61 | C100-M0-Y50-K52 | #007A3D | |
Relationships
Friends
Armeniaball - Many Armenians living in my clay is also a good friend.
Australiaball - Many of us living in their clay, and it is also very friendly with me.
Brazilball (except from football) - Trade partner but never forget of 6-0!!
Cyprusball - His Arabic minority is descended from me.
Kuwaitball - Small sibling! Thanks for the supplies so I can into removing 
ISIS. Also I am really sorry for invading you because of 
Saddam Hussein. I can't be blamed for that, even my people didn’t want Saddam Hussein to invade Kuwait. But now I am changed. also can you give me the bubiyan island plox I need more access to the gulf
Egyptball - Good Friend. It is also a trade partner and I also like its pyramids. And we both have rich history.
Franceball - Thank you for helping me against ISIS, but it's a bit coward.
Greeceball - Good friend.
Georgiaball - It is one of 
America's States that I like, it adores kebab to death, also thanks for conforting me after 
Donald Trump killed one of my generals.
Hungaryball - Good friend. BUT TAKE IMMIGRANTS. Plus, Transylvania belongs to Romania.
Icelandball - I Like LazyTown unlike this 
rebel that hates LazyTown.
Indiaball- Good friend. It also likes my food and I like its.
Indonesiaball - Good friend and economic trade partner!
Japanball - I like your cars unlike this rebel that hates your cars.
Jordanball - Good sibling and we are also neighbours too. We also tried to fuse into one country when I was a kingdom.
Kazakhbrick - Trading partner.
Lebanonball - I like your food and your beaches.
North Koreaball - Good Friend but watch your nukes plox. :(
Pakistanball - Good Friend, but stop bullying India plox.
Palestineball - My Good Arab friend. I hope one day it'll be freed from 
Israelcube.
Philippinesball - Best Southeast Asian friend because it likes 
Syriaball. And it's USAball's child, even Japanball, 
South Koreaball, and others are friends with the west. But why do you ban OFWs from entering my clay?
Romaniaball - I like its food. It was also a good friend in these Saddam days.
Albaniaball - European kebab, all Balkans are good friends of me. But Kosovo isn't yours!
South Africaball - It is a 
BRICSbrick member along with my other 4 friends.- South Koreaball - Same as China but it has good cars too. Gibs K2C and T-50s. But why did you ban your people travel my country??? I'm safe...!
Spainball - We knew that feeling 
.- Syriaball - Historical best friend and dear sibling. Together removing ISIS, BUT I DON'T LIKE BE A
RUSSIAN PUPPET OK, OIL IS MINE. AND FUCK BASHAR AL-ASSAD!! 
UAEball - Trading partner and oil-rich like me. I also likings its cities, especially Abu Dhabi and Dubai. I can also into having a taller building than Burj Khalifa in 2025 named Basra Bride.
Rohingyaball - Poor little guy, I support you against Myanmar.
Ukraineball - We are good friends as long as I do not recognize 
Crimeaball as Russiaball's. I also don't like to be a Russian puppet. I am a descendant of 
Babyloniaball, I will not be anyone's puppet... I have my pride, just like Egyptball and Greeceball. I am not a superpower or a great power but I have my historical pride.
Vaticanball - It donated a Lamborghini to save some Christian kids in my clay. Thank you so much Pope!
Neutral
- Saddam Hussein - One of the most complicated leaders of me. He changed me and the entire glory, and made my people proud. But still you suck ass when it comes to making friends with everybody else in the Middle East!! You are sad and lonely, all you do is invade
Iranball, Kuwaitball, and 
Saudi Arabiaball for no reason!! Also loved education for some reason... BUT WHY IN THE HELL WHOULD YOU KILL KURDS AND 
SHIAS?! THEY DID NOTHING TO YOU!! - Kurdistanball (
Iraqi Kurdistanball) - Helped me fight ISIS and restore peace. But don't dare and try to hold a referendum! You can't into independence! Ha! Take this, your independence referendum is failed. - USAball - We now have normalized relations after he removed Trump from its clay, hopefully, one day we can into better friends, thanks for the help to fight against ISIS, also I like one of yuor child. Oh and btw, thanks for freeing me from Saddam Hussein, but I will never forget that invasion! Yuo did not have to invade to free me, also yuo kill two generals and one of then was mine, but that was the past. Oh and also, it's not my fault that I'm wreaked.
UKball - We both like tea and can into it, But Never Forget Invasion!! But yuo still good tho. Gib training.- Russiaball - Thanks for helping me against ISIS. But I won't be your puppet. You conquered a piece of another country and nobody invaded you because of that... man... I sincerely envy you. But I want to improve my relationship with Kuwaitball, so I'm going to condemn this act, ok. Sorry but Crimeaball is still Ukraineball
- Iranball - Helps me against terrorists, but u stole my name! Change it right now! Also, stop making me your puppet! You launched rockers at USA's miltary base and you caused some protests years back, al-damnit Farsi!
Turkeyball - Our relations were changing everyday. Just quit invading my northern clay! And get out of my sibling, don't of you even cry about yuor past self yuo Ottoman restoration fanatic!
Enemies
- ISIS - YOU FUCKING ASSHOLE!!! YOU TRIED TO RUIN MY COUNTRY BUT YOU FAILED!! 2017 BEST YEAR OF MY LIFE!!!
- الشيطان - MY PARLIAMENT HAS SIGNED A BILL BY PROHIBITING TIES AND NORMALIZATION OF RELATIONS WITH YOU!!!
THE ONLY GOOD THING MY SHIT GOVE'''RNMENT DOINGSOH, AND FREE PALESTINE!!!!!!!' 
Myanmarball - Free Rohingyas, you Israeli puppet! West deserved sanctioning yuo.
Gallery
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| Governorates |
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| Historical entities |  Ancient people that decided to establish a Civilization in the Middle East •  Sumerball •  Babylonball •  Assyriaball • Macedonball • Seleucidball • Parthiaball • SPQRball • Sassanidball • Rashidunball • Umayyadball • Abbasidball • Ilkhanateball • Jalayiridsball •  Qara Qoyunluball • Aq Qoyunluball • Safavidball •  Afsharidball • Ottomanball • Mandatory Iraqball • Kingdom of Iraqball •
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