Egypt (1983: Doomsday)

Egypt has only recently resurfaced as a coherent nation. Some of this can be attributed to the intervention of Greece, however the Egyptians are stalwartly independent and assert their return was only hastened by Greek kindness.

History
Prior to Doomsday, Egypt had only begun to re-orient following the years under Anwar El Sadat. With the advent of Doomsday, foreign investments and trade disappeared, throwing the economy into freefall and causing mass panic.

Post-Doomsday
The Muslim Brotherhood, taking advantage of the chaos, staged a coup in November 1983. The Brotherhood imposed a harsh regime based on Islamist precepts. Over the next few years, political freedoms became nonexistent, women's rights were suppressed, and the native Coptic Church withered under religious persecution

The Islamist yoke was finally broken in February 1987, when Egypt attempted to invade Israel. The Israelis, which were still dealing with the effects of Doomsday and were in no shape to fight, responded by nuking Cairo. The attack on Cairo-which proved to be the last nuclear attack launched to present destroyed the Muslim Brotherhood in their established stronghold of the Grand Mosque, in the heart of Cairo. The resulting power vacuum saw many local warlords rising, and just as quickly, falling. It was nearly a year before the situation had stabilized.

Survivors of the attack congregated in the south, near the Aswan High Dam. The military took control of the situation, organizing the citizens into corps of farmers, fishers, and laborers, to help build a new capital with the decimation of Cairo in the nuclear bombing by Israel. A group of laborers widened and lowered the Sadat Canal from Lake Nasser, enabling the creation of the Toshka Lakes (Arabic: توشكة‎) by the mid 1990's.

The military decided to reduce the flow of water from Lake Nasser, instead diverting it to the west, where farmer corps worked to improve and farm the desert. Refugees from Lower Egypt increased both the workforce and the mouths to feed, and the military devoted most of their control to ensuring food for their citizens.

As the water continued to flow toward the desert, it created the new Eonile, moving north, toward the Mediterranean Sea.

Arrival of the Hellenes
In 2003 groups of Greeks approached the leadership in the Kharga Oasis about developing the coast in return for assistance in developing the Egyptian infrastructure. In no position militarily to contest the overt colonization of the northern coast, the Kharga Oasis government accepted the proposal of the Greeks tentatively.

Fear among the general public brought a freeze to relations between the Greeks and Egyptians from 2003 to 2005, until negotiations and a show of good faith on the part of Greeks began to win back the good will of the Egyptian survivors.

As part of the ground-laying of the new Egyptian Capital on the shores of the new Qattara Lake (بحيره القطاره), the Greeks constructed a number of Old-Egypt styled monuments as a symbol of their friendship.

Growing Trade
With the establishment of New Cairo (القاهرة الجديدة) trade has increased with the Greeks statelets, and Greek-Egyptian partnerships are developing to make the desert flower around the Eonile and the few non-irradiated bits of the Nile.