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    .الله الوطن الأمير
     
    Kuwait-icon.png Kuwait's national motto.
    وطني الكويت سلمت للمجد
     
    Kuwait-icon.png Kuwait singing its anthem.

    Kuwait-icon.png Kuwait, officially the State of Kuwait, is the 19th province of Iraq-icon.png Iraq a countryball in Asia. It is bordered by Iraq-icon.png Iraq to the north and the west, Saudi Arabia-icon.png Saudi Arabia to the south, and the Persian/Arabian Gulf to the east. Kuwait also shares maritime borders with Iran-icon.png Iran, and has a coastal length of approximately 500 km (311 mi). Most of the country's population reside in the urban agglomeration of the capital city Kuwait-icon (division).png Kuwait City. The country is divided into 6 governorates, including its capital Kuwait-icon (division).png Kuwait City located in the Kuwait-icon (division).png Al Asimah Governorate, giving it a total area of about 17,818 km2, making it the 152nd largest country in the world. As of 2022, Kuwait has a population of 4.67 million people of which 1.85 million are Kuwait-icon.png Kuwaiti citizens while the remaining 2.8 million are India-icon.png Egypt-icon.png foreign nationals from over 100 countries.

    Kuwait is a member of OIC-icon.png Organisation of Islamic Cooperation and Arab League-icon.png Arab League due to being a majority-Muslim country in the Arabian Peninsula. It also maintains membership in OPEC-icon.png OPEC due to its large oil exports, as well as the UN-icon.png United Nations like almost every other country. National day was originally on 19 June, but in 1963 they changed to 25 February due to the extreme heat. Liberation day is February 26 since it was liberated in 1991. It is the laziest country in the Earth-icon.png world.

    History[edit | edit source]

    1521–1918: Founding[edit | edit source]

    The Portuguese Empire.

    In 1521, Sheikhdom of Kuwait-icon.png Kuwait was under Portuguese Empire-icon.png Portuguese control. In the late 16th century, Portuguese Empire-icon.png the Portuguese built a defensive settlement in Sheikhdom of Kuwait-icon.png Kuwait. In 1613, Kuwait City was founded as a fishing village predominantly populated by fishermen. Administratively, it was a sheikhdom, ruled by local sheikhs from Bani Khalid clan.
    In 1682 or 1716, the Bani Utbah settled in Kuwait City, which at this time was still inhabited by fishermen and primarily functioned as a fishing village under Bani Khalid control. Sometime after the death of the Bani Khalid's leader Barrak Bin Urair and the fall of the Bani Khalid Emirate, the Utub were able to wrest control of Sheikhdom of Kuwait-icon.png Kuwait as a result of successive matrimonial alliances.

    In the early eighteenth century, Sheikhdom of Kuwait-icon.png Kuwait prospered as a maritime port city and rapidly became the principal commercial center for the transit of goods between Baghdad, East India Company-icon.png India, Muscat, and Arabian Peninsula. By the mid 1700s, Sheikhdom of Kuwait-icon.png Kuwait had established itself as the major trading route from the Persian Gulf to Aleppo.

    Instability in Basra helped foster economic prosperity in Sheikhdom of Kuwait-icon.png Kuwait. In the late 18th century, Sheikhdom of Kuwait-icon.png Kuwait was a haven for Basra merchants fleeing Ottoman-icon.png Ottoman persecution. Sheikhdom of Kuwait-icon.png Kuwait was the center of boat building in the Persian Gulf, its ships renowned throughout the Indian Ocean. Sheikhdom of Kuwait-icon.png Kuwaitis also developed a reputation as the best sailors in the Persian Gulf.

    In the 1890s, threatened by the Ottoman-icon.png Ottoman Empire, ruler Sheikh Mubarak Al Sabah signed an agreement with the British Empire-icon.png British government in British Raj-icon.png India (subsequently known as the Anglo-Kuwaiti Agreement of 1899) making Sheikhdom of Kuwait-icon.png Kuwait a British protectorate. This gave British Empire-icon.png Britain exclusive access and trade with Sheikhdom of Kuwait-icon.png Kuwait, while denying Ottoman-icon.png Ottoman provinces to the north a port on the Persian Gulf. The Sheikhdom of Kuwait-icon.png Sheikhdom of Kuwait remained a British protectorate until 1961.

    During the reign of Mubarak, Sheikhdom of Kuwait-icon.png Kuwait was dubbed the "Marseilles of the Persian Gulf" because its economic vitality attracted a large variety of people. The population was cosmopolitan and ethnically diverse, including Arab League-icon.png Arabs, Iranic-icon.png Persians, 8-icon.png Africans, Jew-icon.png Jews and Armenia-icon.png Armenians. Sheikhdom of Kuwait-icon.png Kuwait was known for its religious tolerance.

    In the first decades of the twentieth century, Sheikhdom of Kuwait-icon.png Kuwait had a well-established elite: wealthy trading families linked by marriage and shared economic interests, long-settled and urban, most claiming descent from the original 30 Bani Utubi families. The wealthiest were merchants who acquired their wealth from long-distance commerce, shipbuilding and pearling. They were a cosmopolitan elite who traveled extensively to British Raj-icon.png India, Africa and Europe, and educated their sons abroad more than other Gulf Arab elite.

    In the early 20th century, Sheikhdom of Kuwait-icon.png Kuwait immensely declined in regional economic importance, mainly due to many trade blockades and the world economic depression. Before Mary Bruins Allison visited Sheikhdom of Kuwait-icon.png Kuwait in 1934, Sheikhdom of Kuwait-icon.png Kuwait lost its prominence in long-distance trade. During World War I, the British Empire-icon.png British Empire imposed a trade blockade against Sheikhdom of Kuwait-icon.png Kuwait because Sheikhdom of Kuwait-icon.png Kuwait's ruler at the time, Salim Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah, supported the Ottoman Empire. The British Empire-icon.png British economic blockade heavily damaged Sheikhdom of Kuwait-icon.png Kuwait's economy.

    1919–1945: After World War I[edit | edit source]

    In 1919, Sheikh Salim Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah intended to build a commercial city in the south of Sheikhdom of Kuwait-icon.png Kuwait. This caused a diplomatic crisis with Nejd-icon.png Najd, but British Empire-icon.png Britain intervened, discouraging Sheikh Salim. In 1920, an attempt by the Ikhwan to build a stronghold in southern Sheikhdom of Kuwait-icon.png Kuwait led to the Battle of Hamdh. The local merchant class convinced Salim to call in help from British Empire-icon.png British troops, who showed up with airplanes and three warships, ending the attacks.

    After the Battle of Jahra, Ibn Saud's warriors, the Ikhwan, demanded that Sheikhdom of Kuwait-icon.png Kuwait follows five rules: evict all the Shia-icon.png Shias, adopt the Ikhwan doctrine, label the Turkey-icon.png Turks "heretics", abolish smoking, munkar and prostitution, and destroy the American missionary hospital.

    The Kuwait–Najd War of 1919–20 erupted in the aftermath of World War I. The war occurred because Ibn Saud of Najd wanted to annex Sheikhdom of Kuwait-icon.png Kuwait. The sharpened conflict between Sheikhdom of Kuwait-icon.png Kuwait and Nejd-icon.png Najd led to the death of hundreds of Kuwaitis. The war resulted in sporadic border clashes throughout 1919–1920.

    Following the Kuwait–Najd War of 1919–20 , Ibn Saud imposed a trade blockade against Sheikhdom of Kuwait-icon.png Kuwait from the years 1923 until 1937. The goal of the Saudi economic and military attacks on Sheikhdom of Kuwait-icon.png Kuwait was to annex as much of Sheikhdom of Kuwait-icon.png Kuwait's territory as possible.
    At the Uqair conference in 1922, the boundaries of Sheikhdom of Kuwait-icon.png Kuwait and Nejd-icon.png Najd were set; as a result of British Empire-icon.png British interference, Sheikhdom of Kuwait-icon.png Kuwait had no representative at the Uqair conference. After the Uqair conference, Sheikhdom of Kuwait-icon.png Kuwait was still subjected to a Saudi economic blockade and intermittent Saudi raiding.

    The Great Depression harmed Sheikhdom of Kuwait-icon.png Kuwait's economy, starting in the late 1920s. International trading was one of Sheikhdom of Kuwait-icon.png Kuwait's main sources of income before oil. Sheikhdom of Kuwait-icon.png Kuwaiti merchants were mostly intermediary merchants. As a result of the decline of European demand for goods from British Raj-icon.png India and Africa, Sheikhdom of Kuwait-icon.png Kuwait's economy suffered. The decline in international trade resulted in an increase in gold smuggling by Sheikhdom of Kuwait-icon.png Kuwaiti ships to British Raj-icon.png India. Some Kuwaiti merchant families became rich from this smuggling.

    Sheikhdom of Kuwait-icon.png Kuwait's pearl industry also collapsed as a result of the worldwide economic depression. At its height, Sheikhdom of Kuwait-icon.png Kuwait's pearl industry had led the world's luxury market, regularly sending out between 750 and 800 ships to meet the European elite's desire for pearls. During the economic depression, luxuries like pearls were in little demand. The Japanese-Empire.gif Japanese invention of cultured pearls also contributed to the collapse of Sheikhdom of Kuwait-icon.png Kuwait's pearl industry.

    Attempts by Faisal king of Kingdom of Iraq-icon.png Iraq to build a railway to Sheikhdom of Kuwait-icon.png Kuwait and port facilities on the Gulf were rejected by British Empire-icon.png Britain. These and other similar British Empire-icon.png British colonial policies made Sheikhdom of Kuwait-icon.png Kuwait a focus of the Arab League-icon.png Arab national movement in Kingdom of Iraq-icon.png Iraq, and a symbol of Kingdom of Iraq-icon.png Iraq humiliation at the hands of the British Empire-icon.png British.

    Throughout the 1930s, Sheikhdom of Kuwait-icon.png Kuwaiti people opposed the British Empire-icon.png British imposed separation of Sheikhdom of Kuwait-icon.png Kuwait from Kingdom of Iraq-icon.png Iraq. In 1938, the "Free Kuwaiti Movement" was established by Sheikhdom of Kuwait-icon.png Kuwaiti youth who opposed British Empire-icon.png British rule and submitted a petition requesting the Kingdom of Iraq-icon.png Iraqi government reunifies Sheikhdom of Kuwait-icon.png Kuwait and Kingdom of Iraq-icon.png Iraq.

    Due to fears of armed uprising in Sheikhdom of Kuwait-icon.png Kuwait, the Al Sabah agreed to the establishment of a legislative council to represent the "Free Kuwaiti Movement" demanding the reunification of Kingdom of Iraq-icon.png Iraq and Sheikhdom of Kuwait-icon.png Kuwait. The council's first meeting in 1938 resulted in unanimous resolutions demanding the reunification of Sheikhdom of Kuwait-icon.png Kuwait and Kingdom of Iraq-icon.png Iraq.

    In March 1939, a popular armed uprising erupted within Sheikhdom of Kuwait-icon.png Kuwait to reunify with Kingdom of Iraq-icon.png Iraq. The Al Sabah family, along with British Empire-icon.png British military support, violently put down the uprising, and killed and imprisoned its participants. King Ghazi of Kingdom of Iraq-icon.png Iraq publicly demanded the release of the Kuwaiti prisoners and warned the Al Sabah family to end the repression of the "Free Kuwaiti Movement".

    1946–1982: State-building[edit | edit source]

    Between 1946 and 1982, Sheikhdom of Kuwait-icon.png Kuwait experienced a period of prosperity driven by oil and its liberal atmosphere. In popular discourse, the years between 1946 and 1982 are referred to as the "Golden Era of Kuwait". In 1950, a major public-work programme began to enable Sheikhdom of Kuwait-icon.png Kuwaitis to enjoy a modern standard of living. By 1952, the country became the largest oil exporter in the Persian Gulf region. This massive growth attracted many foreign workers, especially from Kingdom of Hejaz-icon.png Palestine, India-icon.png India, and Kingdom of Egypt-icon.png Egypt – with the latter being particularly political within the context of the Arab Cold War.

    In June 1961, Kuwait-icon.png Kuwait became independent with the end of the British Empire-icon.png British protectorate and the Sheikh Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah became Emir of Kuwait. Kuwait-icon.png Kuwait's national day, however, is celebrated on 25 February, the anniversary of the coronation of Sheikh Abdullah (it was originally celebrated on 19 June, the date of independence, but concerns over the summer heat caused the government to move it). Under the terms of the newly drafted Constitution, Kuwait-icon.png Kuwait held its first parliamentary elections in 1963. Kuwait-icon.png Kuwait was the first of the Arab states of the Persian Gulf to establish a constitution and parliament.

    Although Kuwait-icon.png Kuwait formally gained independence in 1961, Iraq-icon (1959-1963).png Iraq initially refused to recognize the country's independence by maintaining that Iraq-icon (1959-1963).png Kuwait is part of Iraq-icon (1959-1963).png Iraq, albeit Iraq-icon (1959-1963).png Iraq later briefly backed down following a show of force by British Empire-icon.png Britain and Arab League-icon.png Arab League support of Kuwait-icon.png Kuwait's independence. The short-lived Operation Vantage crisis evolved in July 1961, as the Iraq-icon (1959-1963).png Iraqi government threatened to invade Kuwait-icon.png Kuwait and the invasion was finally averted following plans by the Arab League-icon.png Arab League to form an international Arab League-icon.png!Arab force against the potential Iraq-icon (1959-1963).png Iraqi invasion of Kuwait-icon.png Kuwait. As a result of Operation Vantage, the Arab League-icon.png Arab League took over the border security of Kuwait-icon.png Kuwait and the British Empire-icon.png British had withdrawn their forces by 19 October. The Kuwait-Iraq 1973 Sanita border skirmish evolved on 20 March 1973, when Ba'athist Iraq-icon.png Iraqi army units occupied El-Samitah near the Kuwait-icon.png Kuwaiti border, which evoked an international crisis.

    On 6 February 1974, Palestine-icon.png Palestinian militants occupied the Japan-icon.png Japanese embassy in Kuwait, taking the ambassador and ten others hostage. The militants' motive was to support the Japan-icon.png Japanese Red Army members and Palestine-icon.png Palestinian militants who were holding hostages on a Singapore-icon.png Singaporean ferry in what is known as the Laju incident. Ultimately, the hostages were released, and the guerrillas allowed to fly to Aden. This was the first time Palestine-icon.png Palestinian guerrillas struck in Kuwait-icon.png Kuwait as the Al Sabah ruling family, headed by Sheikh Sabah Al-Salim Al-Sabah, funded the Palestine-icon.png Palestinian resistance movement. Kuwait-icon.png Kuwait had been a regular endpoint for Palestine-icon.png Palestinian plane hijacking in the past and had considered itself safe.

    In the 1960s and 1970s, Kuwait-icon.png Kuwait was considered the most developed country in the region. Kuwait-icon.png Kuwait was the pioneer in the Middle East in diversifying its earnings away from oil exports. The Kuwait Investment Authority is the world's first sovereign wealth fund. From the 1970s onward, Kuwait-icon.png Kuwait scored highest of all Arab countries on the Human Development Index. Kuwait University was established in 1966. Kuwait-icon.png Kuwait's theatre industry was well known throughout the Arab League-icon.png Arab world.

    In the 1960s and 1970s, Kuwait-icon.png Kuwait's press was described as one of the freest in the world. Kuwait was the pioneer in the literary renaissance in the Arab League-icon.png Arab region. In 1958, Al-Arabi magazine was first published. The magazine went on to become the most popular magazine in the Arab League-icon.png Arab world. Many Arab League-icon.png Arab writers moved to Kuwait-icon.png Kuwait because they enjoyed greater freedom of expression than elsewhere in the Arab League-icon.png Arab world. The Ba'athist Iraq-icon.png Iraqi poet Ahmed Matar left Ba'athist Iraq-icon.png Iraq in the 1970s to take refuge in the more liberal environment of Kuwait-icon.png Kuwait.

    Kuwait-icon.png Kuwaiti society embraced Blue-icon.png liberal and non-traditional attitudes throughout the 1960s and 1970s. For example, most Kuwaiti women did not wear the hijab in the 1960s and 70s.

    1982–1990: Gulf War[edit | edit source]

    The coalition fighting in Khafji, Saudi Arabia-icon.png Saudi Arabia.

    In the early 1980s, Kuwait-icon.png Kuwait experienced a major economic crisis after the Souk Al-Manakh stock market crash and decrease in oil price.

    During the Iran–Iraq War, Kuwait-icon.png Kuwait supported Ba'athist Iraq-icon.png Iraq. Throughout the 1980s, there were several terror attacks in Kuwait-icon.png Kuwait, including the 1983 Kuwait bombings, hijacking of several Kuwait Airways planes and the attempted assassination of Emir Jaber in 1985. Kuwait-icon.png Kuwait was a regional hub of science and technology in the 1960s and 1970s up until the early 1980s; the scientific research sector significantly suffered due to the terror attacks.

    After the Iran-Iraq War ended, Kuwait-icon.png Kuwait declined an Ba'athist Iraq-icon.png Iraqi request to forgive its US$65 billion debt. An economic rivalry between the two countries ensued after Kuwait-icon.png Kuwait increased its oil production by 40 percent. Tensions between the two countries increased further in July 1990, after Ba'athist Iraq-icon.png Iraq complained to OPEC-icon.png OPEC claiming that Kuwait-icon.png Kuwait was stealing its oil from a field near the border by slant drilling of the Rumaila field.

    In August 1990, Ba'athist Iraq-icon.png Iraqi forces invaded and annexed Kuwait-icon.png Kuwait. After a series of failed diplomatic negotiations, the USA-icon.png United States led a coalition to remove the Ba'athist Iraq-icon.png Iraqi forces from Kuwait-icon.png Kuwait, in what became known as the Gulf War. On 26 February 1991, the coalition succeeded in driving out the Ba'athist Iraq-icon.png Iraqi forces. As they retreated, Ba'athist Iraq-icon.png Iraqi forces carried out a scorched earth policy by setting oil wells on fire. During the Ba'athist Iraq-icon.png Iraqi occupation, more than 1,000 Kuwait-icon.png Kuwaiti civilians were killed. In addition, more than 600 Kuwait-icon.png Kuwaitis went missing during Ba'athist Iraq-icon.png Iraq's occupation; remains of approximately 375 were found in mass graves in Ba'athist Iraq-icon.png Iraq.

    1991-Present: Present era[edit | edit source]

    Kuwait after the Gulf War.

    In the early 1990s, Kuwait-icon.png Kuwait expelled approximately 400,000 Palestine-icon.png Palestinian expats. Kuwait-icon.png Kuwait's policy was a response to alignment of Palestine-icon.png Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat-icon.png Yasser Arafat and the PLO-icon.png PLO with Saddam-icon.png Saddam Hussein. Kuwait-icon.png Kuwait also deported thousands of Ba'athist Iraq-icon.png Iraqis and Yemen-icon.png Yemenis after the Gulf War.

    In addition, hundreds of thousands of stateless Blank-icon.png Bedoon were expelled from Kuwait-icon.png Kuwait in the early-to-mid 1990s. At the House of Commons of the British Empire-icon.png United Kingdom in 1995, it was announced that the Al Sabah ruling family deported 150,000 stateless Blank-icon.png Bedoon to refugee camps in the Kuwait-icon.png Kuwaiti desert near the Ba'athist Iraq-icon.png Iraqi border with minimal water, insufficient food, and no basic shelter. The Kuwait-icon.png Kuwaiti authorities also threatened to murder the stateless Blank-icon.png Bedoon. As a result, many of the stateless Blank-icon.png Bedoon fled to Ba'athist Iraq-icon.png Iraq where they still remain stateless people even today.

    At the time, Human Rights Watch reported the following:

    The totality of the treatment of the Bedoons amounts to a policy of denationalization of native residents, relegating them to an apartheid-like existence in their own country. The Kuwaiti government policy of harassment and intimidation of the Bedoons and of denying them the right to lawful residence, employment, travel and movement, contravene basic principles of human rights . . . Denial of citizenship to the Bedoons clearly violates international law . . .

    In March 2003, Kuwait-icon.png Kuwait became the springboard for the USA-icon.png US-led invasion of Ba'athist Iraq-icon.png Iraq. In 2005, women won the right to vote and run in elections. Upon the death of the Emir Jaber in January 2006, Sheikh Saad Al-Sabah succeeded him but was removed nine days later due to his ailing health. As a result, Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah was sworn in as Emir. From 2006 onwards, Kuwait-icon.png Kuwait suffered from chronic political deadlock between the government and parliament which resulted in multiple cabinet reshuffles and dissolutions. This significantly hampered investment and economic reforms in Kuwait-icon.png Kuwait, making the country's economy much more dependent on oil.

    From 2006 to 2009, Kuwait-icon.png Kuwait had the highest Human Development Index ranking in the Arab League-icon.png Arab world. China-icon.png China awarded Kuwait Investment Authority an additional $700 million quota on top of $300 million awarded in March 2012. The quota is the highest to be granted by China-icon.png China to foreign investment entities. In 2014 and 2015, Kuwait-icon.png Kuwait was ranked first among Arab League-icon.png Arab countries in the Global Gender Gap Report.

    In March 2014, David S. Cohen, then Under Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, accused Kuwait-icon.png Kuwait of funding terrorism. Since the end of the Gulf War in 1991, accusations of Kuwait-icon.png Kuwait funding terrorism have been very common and come from a wide variety of sources including intelligence reports, Western government officials, scholarly research, and renowned journalists. From 2014 to 2015, Kuwait-icon.png Kuwait was frequently described as the world's biggest source of terrorism funding, particularly for ISIS-icon.png ISIS and Al-Qaeda-icon.png Al-Qaeda.

    On 26 June 2015, a suicide bombing took place at a Shia Muslim mosque in Kuwait-icon.png Kuwait. The ISIS-icon.png Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant claimed responsibility for the attack. Twenty-seven people were killed and 227 people were wounded. It was the largest terror attack in Kuwait-icon.png Kuwait's history. In the aftermath, a lawsuit was filed accusing the Kuwait-icon.png Kuwaiti government of negligence and direct responsibility for the terror attack.

    In recent years, Kuwait-icon.png Kuwait has invested significantly in its economic relations with China-icon.png China. China-icon.png China has been Kuwait-icon.png Kuwait's largest trade partner since 2016. Under the Belt and Road Initiative, Kuwait and China-icon.png China have various cooperation projects including Al Mutlaa City which is currently under construction in northern Kuwait-icon.png Kuwait. The Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah Causeway is part of the first phase of the Silk City project.

    The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated Kuwait-icon.png Kuwait's economic crisis. Kuwait-icon.png Kuwait's economy faced a budget deficit of $46 billion in 2020. In September 2020, Kuwait-icon.png Kuwait's Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah became the 16th Emir of Kuwait and the successor to Emir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, who died at the age of 91. In October 2020, Sheikh Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah was appointed as the Crown Prince. Since January 2021, Kuwait-icon.png Kuwait has been experiencing its worst political crisis in many decades.

    Flag Colors[edit | edit source]

    Main Colors[edit | edit source]

    Color Name RGB CMYK HEX
    Abbasid Black 0, 0, 0 C0-M0-Y0-K100 #000000
    Fatimid Green 0, 122, 61 C100-M0-Y50-K52 #007A3D
    Umayyad White 255, 255, 255 N/A #FFFFFF
    Hashemite Red 206, 17, 38 C0-M92-Y82-K19 #CE1126

    How to draw[edit | edit source]

    Drawing Kuwait-icon.png Kuwaitball is simple:

    1. Draw the basic circle shape
    2. Draw a black half-trapezoid-arrow from the left
    3. Divide the rest into three horizontal stripes
    4. Color them of green, white and red
    5. Draw the eyes and you've finished.

    Relationships[edit | edit source]

    Allies[edit | edit source]

    • Bangladesh-icon.png Bangladesh - One of the most passive countries in South Asia! I feel sorry for your floods in Dhaka. I hope you get better soon! Actually you are the best South Asian nation since you have better policies than these India-icon.png Pakistan-icon.png nukeheads.
    • Cuba-icon.png Cuba - One of my communist friends, helped me mourn the death of late Kuwait-icon.png Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad.
    • Cyprus-icon.png Cyprus - The only Greek country in the Middle East. You are welcome to join us!
    • Denmark-icon.png Denmark, Sweden-icon.png Sweden, and Yugoslavia-icon.png Yugoslavia - They helped me build the Kuwait Towers, thank you guys for your services! Also Yugoslavia, I bought weapons from you and some M-84 tanks. Thank you friend and I miss you so much!
    • Ethiopia-icon.png Ethiopia - My Semitic friend, welcome to Kuwait and thanks for saving Islam-icon.png Islam fourteen centuries ago!
    • Abyssinia-icon.png Ethiopian Empire - An old friend from the Horn of Africa, I miss you so much. I am of sorry that you are gone because you had a revolution.
    • Greece-icon.png Greece - One of my first ancestors in Kuwaiti history. Also we have their immigrants on our schools. OMG I AM VERY SORRY FOR THE 38 PEOPLE DIED IN A TRAIN CRASH!!! I HOPE YOU FEEL BETTER SOON…
    • Iraq-icon.png Iraq - My second best Arab sibling, Our relationship has gotten better now. I can now forgive you. Past is our only enemy, plus we both descended from Middle-east-4ball-icon.png Sumerball.
    • Japan-icon.png Japan - Past is in the past and I will forgive you, because I love your anime and cars. And you're not as worse at these Ba'athist Iraq-icon.png Dubai-icon.png morons.
    • Jordan-icon.png Jordan - I actually like you, you have mourned my Kuwait-icon.png Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad for 40 days and shown a lot of loyalty! And its flag look like the Palestine-icon.png State of Palestine. Also you should be thankful for Jordan-icon.png Queen Raina, because she was born in my clay.
    • Lebanon-icon.png Lebanon - I feel sorry for what happened to your Beirut-icon.png capital, do not worry though because I will always support you whenever trouble comes.
    • Libya-icon.png Libya - You finished from war? That is awesome! I hope you are doing well soon! And I will supply you with money in case if you need it!
    • Miami-icon.png Miami - I am the Middle East version of it, you are a great inspiration for my beaches!
    • Morocco-icon.png Morocco - One of my greatest allies in North Africa, Western Sahara-icon.png Western Sahara is definitely yours, also congrats for being the first African country to reach the semi-finals in any FIFA World Cup.
    • Oman-icon.png Oman - My fellow Gulf sibling. It is the only gulf country that I can always trust with. You are the Switzerland-icon.png Switzerland of the Middle East!
    • Philippines-icon.png Philippines - My Southeast Asian friend! We both hate Jamaica-icon.png Netherlands-icon.png drug addicts! I also helped you open Jollibee in my clay.
    • Romania-icon.png Romania - Land of the vampires and Dracula. We have some of their immigrants in my colleges. And yes, Transylvania-icon.png Transylvania is yours.
    • Serbia-icon.png Serbia - We are cool with each other, we have the same currency which is the dinar of course. However thank you for still supporting the Palestine-icon.png State of Palestine even the Yugoslavia-icon.png old you supported them.
    • Somalia-icon.png Somalia - Fellow Afro-Arab sibling. It likes me. It is also in a civil war in which I take its refugees in order to be safe! Stay strong, brudda.
    • Sheikhdom of Kuwait-icon.png Sheikhdom of Kuwait - The old me, I missed the good old times… I have done so many good things in the Arabic world, but I have to move on.
    • South Korea-icon.png South Korea - You are one of the 35 countries to liberate me back in 1991, also please ignore that North Korea-icon.png nukehead, I hope you bring peace to this region, and I also enjoy your products. Also thank you so much for helping me build the longest bridge in Arabia!
    • Colorado-icon.png South Park - You are of USA-icon.png Richie's child and can into buyings hashish from Morocco-icon.png my friend. BOOOO, South Park is of cringe, of homosex and of haram. Block 13 is of halal and is of better than haram South Park!
    • Spain-icon.png Spain - This is where me and the guys went during the events of FIFA World Cup 1982! Thank you guys for having me!
    • Syria-icon.png Syria - With me you are safe at all costs, just until the war ends and soon you will enjoy your new life! Do not forget I have also supported you with supplies along with my Iraq-icon.png second best sibling. You also supported the liberation of me, so your Ba'ath party is better than Saddam-icon.png Saddam Hussein's. Also I am sorry for the earthquake in 2023, don’t worry I will send aid along with Turkey-icon.png Turkey.
    • Turkey-icon.png Turkey - I actually like it, I love its culture we both have the same Human Development Index value, and thank you for your past assistance! Also I am sorry for the earthquake in 2023, don’t worry I will send aid along with Syria-icon.png Syria.
    • USA-icon.png United States - Probably my best friend, helped me kick the butt of Saddam-icon.png Saddam Hussein and now is a big buyer of my oil, also it made me NATO-icon.png Major non-NATO ally! Oh yeah thanks for the heads up about Jleeb Al-Shuyoukh, I will gladly tell my people not to go there! I will probably destroy the entire place and deport all of the India-icon.png Egypt-icon.png illegals back to where they belong.

    Complicated/Neutral[edit | edit source]

    • Armenia-icon.png Armenia and Azerbaijan-icon.png Azerbaijan - I have some of your people in my country which is amazing, but I have trust issues. You guys have caused enough violence with each other! Make peace for goodness sakes! I prefer Georgia-icon.png Georgia over you guys!
    • Bahrain-icon.png Bahrain and UAE-icon.png United Arab Emirates - My younger Gulf siblings. Don’t take so many immigrants they might brainwash you. (After recognition) You Zionist worshippers, why would you recognize Israel-icon.png fake country?! I am now pinning the blame into India-icon.png the emigrant master. Some of my people even left Expo 2020 and my delegation canceled our meeting in Bahrain, so deal with it guys!!
      • UAE-icon.png: Look, we were just trying make a peace deal! Just please calm down!
    • Brazil-icon.png Brazil - A friend from South America, one of my largest imports of meats and chickens along with USA-icon.png Richie and Saudi Arabia-icon.png Saudi Arabia, but be careful! Stop trying to poison my people with rotten crap!
    • France-icon.png France and India-icon.png India - I forgive you guys now and bought back all of your products to my supermarkets. But seriously guys STOP BEING AN ASSHOLE, AND STOP TRYING TO INSULT OUR PROPHET MUHAMMAD ﷺ!! ALSO INDIA DON'T YOU THINK I WON'T BE FORGETTING ABOUT THE TIME THAT YOU TRIED TO BURN MY FLAG!!
    • Denmark-icon.png Denmark and Sweden-icon.png Sweden - My Nordic friends and creators of IKEA, LEGO, and Minecraft, BUT WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT WHEN YOUR PEOPLE BURNT THE QURAN?! I HOPE Turkey-icon.png TURKEY VETOS YOUR NATO-icon.png NATO APPLICATION!!
    • Hong Kong-icon.png Hong Kong - I like it, actually, it’s a friend of UK-icon.png UKball and USA-icon.png richie. I love its milk tea and egg waffles, and I love your Cantonese language, but sorry, I need to support the NSL. I’m sorry.
    • Iran-icon.png Iran - We are getting along with each other, and we both have a lot of common Afghanistan-icon.png Ba'athist Iraq-icon.png Israel-icon.png enemies. I also have a lot of Shia-icon.png Shia minorities which takes 39% of my Muslim population, which also means some of my people travel to your cities like Iran-icon (division).png Mashhad and Iran-icon (division).png Qom. BUT WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT WHEN YOU KILLED A WOMAN FOR INCORRECTLY WEARING A HIJAB?! CONTROL YOUR PEOPLE!! AND STOP CALLING USA-icon.png RICHIE THE "GREAT SATAN"!
    • Ottoman Empire-icon.png Ottoman Empire - Mixed opinions, invaded me in 1871, but hey you are better than Nejd-icon.png Wahhabist freak who tried to occupy me for centuries, so thanks for your protection and support. (After 1917) I already regret invading you during The Great War and tried to support German Empire-icon.png Germany, because British Empire-icon.png tea announced this shit and as a result, they blocked my trade economy.
    • Qatar-icon.png Qatar - My young Gulf sibling. We share the same cultural identities, economic problems, and ambitions. BUT STOP WITH THE MISTREATING OF YOUR OWN CHEAP LABOR!! PLUS YOU KEEP ON BRIBING YOU DON'T EVEN DESRVE A WORLD CUP HOST!!
    • China-icon.png China - My favorite communist friend! They are now responsible for helping me create "New Kuwait 2035". BUT STOP HATING USA-icon.png RICHIE! AND QUIT FLYING YOUR STUPID SPY BALLOONS OVER HIM!! I’M SERIOUSLY STARTING TO RECONSIDER MY RELATIONSHIP WITH YOU!! Also, I support you on Xinjiang, but please al-stop! Hurting them is making me very al-Triggered.
    • Russia-icon.png Russia - I buy weapons from you, I love your AK-47s plox gimme one for me! I also admire Vladimir Putin-icon.png Vladimir Putin for being very respectful to its Muslim minority and for going against the LGBT-icon.png gays, but don’t you think its to risky to invade Ukraine-icon.png Ukraine?
    • Saudi Arabia-icon.png Saudi Arabia - My best Arab sibling, we both hate Ba'athist Iraq-icon.png this asshole. I took your royal family as refugees back at 1891 when Emirate of Jabal Shammar-icon.png Jabal Shammar occupied you. You wouldn’t exist if it weren’t for me. Brothers forever! BUT NEVER FORGET 1920 OR THE OTHER TIMES YOU TRIED TO CLAIM ME AS YOURS!! However, we reopened relations at 1937.
    • Soviet-icon.png Soviet Union - One of my greatest allies during the Cold War, in fact I am one of the only Gulf countries to support you. But stop being irreligious and shutting down mosques it’s not good for society. However thanks for helping us against Israel-icon.png Israel during the Six-Day War and Yom Kippur War. I also bought weapons from it. BUT WHY THE FUCK DID YOU HOLD A GRUDGE AGAINST RICHIE?!? COLD WAR NEVER FORGET!!
    • Palestine-icon.png State of Palestine - The REAL land of the blessed! I will support you against this Israel-icon.png fuck. But what the fuck was that when you celebrated Saddam-icon.png Saddam Hussein’s victory when I was under occupation?! Fuck you, I deported your people and shut down your embassy after I got liberated. However we reopened your embassy in 2012. But hey, I saw you improving relations with Murica-icon.png Richie that’s pretty cool.
    • Taiwan-icon.png Taiwan - HA!! I DEFEATED YOU IN FOOTBALL! You are okay though since it is friends with Richie. Any China is good. I may reconsider my relationship with China.
    • UK-icon.png United Kingdom - My complicated parent, thanks for giving me independence! Also I feel sorry for Elizabeth II-icon.png Elizabeth II, God rest her soul. So as a result, I am the first Gulf county to put my flags at half-mast in honor of her for three days. BUT HOW DARE YOU LIE TO US ABOUT A UNITED ARABIA AND CREATE THE SYKES-PICOT AGREEMENT?! AND YOU BLOCKED MY TRADE ECONOMY JUST BECAUSE I TRIED TO SUPPORT German Empire-icon.png GERMANY?!
    • Vietnam-icon.png Vietnam - Complicated, it gives USA-icon.png Richie a lot of nightmares. However we are good in good terms, because we have similar conflicts and experiences of war crimes.
    • Yemen-icon.png Yemen - Poor Arab sibling, I feel bad that you are one of the least developed countries in this region. I hope you get better after the war, but stop hating on Iran-icon.png Saudi Arabia-icon.png my allies.

    Rivals[edit | edit source]

    • Taliban-icon.png Afghanistan - Wow you won the war? Looks like you are STILL a disgrace to this Earth-icon.png planet. BECAUSE YOU ARE STILL A Wahhabism-icon.png TERRORIST PIECE OF GARBAGE!!!
    • Ba'athist Iraq-icon.png Ba'athist Iraq - YOU INVADED ME IN 1990?! WORST YEAR OF MY LIFE!!! YOU HAVE ANSCHLUSS ME! YOU EVEN MADE ME LOSE ALL MY REPUTATION, 1/4 OF MY POPULATION, AND MY INFRASTRUCTURE!! GLAD YOU DIED IN 2003!!
    • Belarus-icon.png Belarus - You may be Russia-icon.png Russia’s friend, BUT YOU WILL NEVER BE MY FRIEND!! FUCK LUKASHENKO AND HIS ANTI-WESTERN ARMY!! REMOVE LUKASHENKO!!!
    • Dubai-icon.png Dubai - You are the reason why I have the lowest tourism industry in the Gulf!! If it weren’t for you, I would be more famous. INSTEAD YOU TOOK IT ALL AWAY FROM ME!! "World Records" more like “Stolen Records”. Also you say being rich is a good thing? FUCK NO!! You pollute the ocean with artificial islands, and then you lie and steal someone else’s opportunity on purpose! I'd rather go to Abu Dhabi-icon.png Abu Dhabi! ALSO YOUR TREATMENT WITH CHEAP LABOUR IS THE WORST!! YOU ARE REALLY WORSE THAN Saddam-icon.png SADDAM HUSSEIN!!
    • Japanese-Empire.gif Empire of Japan - YOU!! FIRST YOU HAVE RUINED MY PEARL INDUSTRY, NOW YOU HAVE NEARLY OCCUPIED MOST OF THE PACIFIC!!! I AM SO GLAD THAT Murica-icon.png RICHIE NUKED YOU TWICE!
    • Napoleonic-icon.png First French Empire - WHAT THE HELL?! YOU ARE LITERALLY WORSER THAN TODAY'S France-icon.png FRANCE YOU BEHEADING BASTARD!! I CANNOT BELIEVE THAT YOU OCCUPIED MOST OF EUROPE!! I AM SO GLAD THAT MY British Empire-icon.png Russian-Empire-icon.png FRIENDS RUINED YOU!!
    • George Soros-icon.png George Soros - YOU FUCKING SHIT!! YOU TOTALLY RUINED MY OIL EXPORTING BUSINESS!! I HOPE YOU ROT IN HELL!!!
    • LGBT-icon.png LGBT - YOU ARE THE REASON WHY AIDS EXISTS IN MY CLAY!!! SO THANKS BUT NO THANKS!!!
    • Myanmar-icon.png Myanmar - Wow, since the moment you gained independence you have been in a civil war and unrests for seventy years… YOU PROBABLY SHOULDN'T BE EXISTING NOW ASSHOLE!!! HOW DARE YOU KILL Rohingya-icon.png ROHINGYAS??!!
    • North Korea-icon.png North Korea - Now we all know why I hate you, you are taking nukes too far and I am hoping that USA-icon.png Richie and South Korea-icon.png Korea anschluss you!!
    • Sabah-icon.png Sabah - You stole my royal family’s name you Malaysian cunt!! GO RENAME YOURSELF OR ELSE!!!
    • Somaliland-icon.png Somaliland - I don’t even know you, so stop asking me for recognition! You don’t even exist... you belong to Somalia-icon.png Somalia!
    • Union of South Africa-icon.png South Africa - YOU DISGUST ME YA RACIST! YOU IS OF THE WORST AFRICAN COUNTRY! AND YOU BULLY 8-icon.png BLACKS FOR A LIVING?! I AM SO GLAD THAT YOUR South Africa-icon.png CHILD HAS OVERTHROWN YOU!!

    Districts[edit | edit source]

    Governorates[edit | edit source]

    • Kuwait-icon (division).png Ahmadi - It was named after Sheikh Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, 10th ruler of Kuwait. It was founded in 1962.
    • Kuwait-icon (division).png Al-Asimah - It houses most of Kuwait's financial and business centres such as the Kuwait Stock Exchange. It was founded in 1962.
    • Kuwait-icon (division).png Farwaniya - It is the most populated governorate and is Kuwait's main residential area. It was founded in 1988 by Kuwait-icon (division).png Al-Asimah.
    • Kuwait-icon (division).png Hawalli - It is the smallest and most densely populated governorate. It was founded in 1962.
    • Kuwait-icon (division).png Jahra - It is the largest governorate and contains the agricultural area. It was founded in 1979 by Kuwait-icon (division).png Al-Asimah.
    • Kuwait-icon (division).png Mubarak Al-Kabeer - The newest governorate of Kuwait, and the least populated governorate in Kuwait. It was founded in 1999 by Kuwait-icon (division).png Hawalli.

    Trivia[edit | edit source]

    • It is the founding member of the GCC-icon.png Gulf Cooperation Council.
    • It has one of the worst pandemics currently (Influenza, every year during Autumn)
    • It has the hottest city in the world, ranging different temperatures around 55°C.
    • They have the cheapest sandwiches in the world according to the falafel sandwich policy since 1977, in which is worth 0.100 KWD (0.32 USD) per sandwich.
    • They have the shortest working hours in the world with 35 (25 during Ramadan) hours per week.
    • They are the first country in the Gulf region to officially participate and enter FIFA World Cup (1982)
    • It is illegal to be working in the heat outdoors from 11:00 am to 4:00 pm during summer, and the company can be violated and ordered to pay a 200 KWD (648.45 USD) fine per employee.
    • It has the best swimming team in Arab League-icon.png Arab League.
    • It is the most urbanized country in the world followed by Monaco-icon.png Monaco, Nauru-icon.png Nauru, Singapore-icon.png Singapore, and Vatican-icon.png Vatican City.
    • It is the freest country in the GCC-icon.png Gulf Cooperation Council.
    • Its clay have the largest McDonald’s in the entire Middle East.
    • It is the most obese country in Arab League-icon.png Arab League, and the most obese country in Asia.
    • It is the laziest country in the world.
    • Together with its siblings Iraq-icon.png Iraq and UAE-icon.png United Arab Emirates are the three Arab League-icon.png Arab League that participated a single time in the FIFA World Cup.
    • It has most valuable currency in the world (3.24 United States Dollar to 1 Kuwait Dinar)
    • It used to have the highest HDI in Arab League-icon.png Arab League between 2006-09, but UAE-icon.png United Arab Emirates took its place in 2010.
    • A huge city is proposed to be built in the northern side of the country (Kuwait Vision 2035).

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