Aligned against Iran and its allies since the 2020s the Gulf Coalition began life as a military pact arrayed against a common enemy, but steadily became something more as further deals and agreements were signed and ratified. The survivors of World War III have since undergone transition to fragile democracies and now present a united front to the rest of the world, but they remain backwards socially and have very little influence on the world stage due to lack of economic, military or political power, riven by internal divides – the UN occupies Iraq and Yemen in order to prevent potential unrest, whilst those of North Africa have been ‘charitably’ bankrolled by the European Union so as to prevent unchecked migration into Europe.