Federation of Gulf States (Twilight of a New Era)

The Gulf Federation, is a political association of Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Trucial States and Muscat and Oman. These five states where previously part of the British residency of the Persian Gulf.

Organization
the Federation is integrated by the following policies
 * Kuwait (capital Kuwait City)
 * Bahrain (Manama)
 * Qatar (Doha)
 * Trucial States (HQ of Resident Dubai)
 * Muscat and Oman (Muscat)

Economy
Pearl diving and the pearl industry where the main economic activity of the Gulf States (particularly Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Kuwait). The pearling industry collapsed in the 1930s after the development of cultured pearl methods, especially in Japan.

Since the 1930s all the Arab states of the Persian Gulf have significant revenues from oil and gas.