Fezzan (1983: Doomsday)

Fezzan was a region of the former Libya north of the Murzuk desert. Containing four districts reaching all the way to Cyrenaica. Largely desert, the area is home to many larger towns that saw much destruction with the fall of the Libyan government. In the midst of the civil war, though, historically Arab tribes found their common heritage enough to hold faith in a "new Libya." Toward this end the leaders of several of these tribes called for a union of city and former provincial governments to be known as the Union of Libya. More a political "movement" than a political entity, the loose confederacy claimed to be the historic successor of Qadaffi's Libya. As of this writing, though, neither Cyrenaica nor Egypt recognize the Union. No survey of the area has been done to determine the population, but most authorities assume that it is probably no larger than 20 per cent of its known population in 1983 of over 200,000.