Of the starting countries Iraq is the strongest, with the largest population, an extra factory (for a grand total of three), sufficient oil reserves to attract another factory or two from your exports, superior infrastructure, and an airfield. Oddly, formation does not require or grant cores on Yemen or Oman.Īctually forming Arabia is quite difficult. All of these states are cored on formation. Formation requires control of all Iraqi and Saudi Arabian states, as well as all British, French,and Italian states in the Middle East and North Africa, plus Spanish Morocco-essentially, everything north of the Sahara and east of Iran.

It can also be formed by Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Palestine, or Syria, should they be released. Arabia can be formed by the starting countries of Iraq, Oman, Saudi Arabia, and Yemen.