East Sudan (1983: Doomsday)

The Republic of East Sudan is a sudanese sucsessor state that claims to be the legitimate heir to the Sudan government. It is bordered to the south be and to the east by  and. While it claims to be the sucsessor to the Sudanese government it has droped claims to most of the sudanese sucsessor states with the exception of the Upper Nile section of South Sudan and the Red Sea federal state.

Pre Doomsday
Sudan gained its independence from Egypt and England in the 1950's following the Egyptian revolution. Before doomsday it had allready been the site of one of the longest and bloodiest wars in Africa's history and serveral coups. The Sudanese civil war had recently restarted following the introduction of Islamic law in the country and the abolishment of political party's.

Doomsday
Like the rest of Africa Sudan wasn't hit by nuclear weapons on Doomsday but the Sudanese government lost its suport from Egypt and Lybia.

Civil War (1983-1987)
Gaafar Nimeiry ordered that the Sudanese army and air force occupy the region of South Sudan but the Sudanese Peoples Liberation Army were experts in gorilla warfare and were able to put up a good fight and prevent the Sudanese army from controling the region. The Sudanese army was sucsessfull in its war against the SPLA but in northern Sudan there were riots and rebelions in regions across the country as the tribal groups that made up the country tried to become independent. By 1987 the country was spliting at the seams as the various tribal groups made themselves independent, to make it even worse for Gaafar Nimeiry's government the South had formed itself into an independent country and the Eritrean government had moved into some parts of the Sudan's coast.

Breakdown of Sudan (1987-1990)
Sudan ceased to exist as a full country in 1987 with the disolution of the Sudanese parliament and the evacuation of the capital. Gaafar Nimeiry and the army decided to evacuate to the east, which was at the time the most stable region of Sudan. Gaafar Nimeiry took with him the entirity of the Sudanese military and used it to impose martial law on the whole region. The capital was moved to Al Qadarif on the boarder with Eritrea. During the breakdown of Sudan Nimeiry's government had to fight off rebel groups and several milita groups as well as forces from the PRE in and Eritrea. Nimeiry eventualy signed a peace treaty with the PRE and the Eritrean government, he also signed a ceasefire agrement with that garanteed the independence of both countries.

Rebuilding (1990-2009)
Nimeiry set about cementing his rule and improving East Sudan, the government set up farming and nationalized the oil industry. They set up trade with Ethiopia and Eritrea to provide the country with resources and equipment, the country supplied oil to both sides of the conflict in the Eritrean/Ethiopian war and profited massively from the conflict. Unlike most of the countries in the region the East Sudanese government didn't spend time or equipment on improving the conditions for the countries civilians instead relying on the military to impose law, the industry in the country was modernized as was the farming industry so although civilians generaly have bad standerds of living they are well fed.

War with South Sudan (2009-Ongoing)
The Republic Of East Sudan had been in several border disputes with South Sudan over who controled the region of the Upper Nile, both sides wanted access to the rich natural resources in the area and South Sudanese forces were forcefully ocupying the region to protect the resources there. Tensions continued to build between the two factions after East Sudanese forces took up posistions on the border to protect thier resources in the region, the East Sudanese forces wern't willing to commit themselves to a war until in 2009 they recived backing from two other Sudanese sucsessor states and moved in to ocupy the area. SPLA forces tried valiently to secure the area but by mid 2009 they had been pushed back out of the upper nile region, outgunned, outnumbered and without technologial superiority the SPLA called on its allies to help it retake the resource rich lands. As of 2010 forces from several factions in the area are now fighting for the resources that control of the Upper Nile grants.

Economy
The economy of East Sudan is based around oil and subsistance farming, The oil extracted is refined and then sold to Ethiopia or Eritrea, however with the East Sudan war in full swing Ethiopia and Eritrea have ceased buying the oil from East Sudan leaving the country without any major income supply. There is a large farming industry that supplies food to most of the country but there is no major industry and the country relied on Ethiopia and other countries to provide it with goods, these supplies have been cut off following the East Sudan War.

Government
The country is an Islamic republic and a dictatorship, it is ruled by Gaafar Nimeiry and has been since a revolution 1969. The country has no form of democracy and has no civil law, the police is controled by the military and enforces the governments will on the people. There are very few civil liberties in the country as all media and the populace is harshly controlled by the military.

Travel
Like most of the sucsessors to Sudan the country is oil rich and as such most travel is by motorcar but the government hasn't spent any money on improving the road or rail infastructure.

Education
The only people in East Sudan who have an education are the filthy rich, the rest of the countries citizens cannot aford the education that is provided as the government hasn't introduced any laws to help people get an education.;

Military
The government of East Sudan spends nearly half of its buget on the military, and as such East Sudan benefits from one of the largest militarys in Africa with it numbering over 100,000.East Sudan also has an air force and navy, the naval fleet operates two frigates, six corvets, several missile boats and a variety of other ships and the air force uses ex-USSR equipment.

Foreign Relations
East Sudan recognises the existance of most of the sucsessor states to Sudan but fails to recognise the claims of on the Upper Nile region.