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Great Socialist People's Arab Jamahiriya of Libya
Map by DarthKyofu
Map by DarthKyofu
Leader
Muammar Gaddafi
Capital
Tripoli
Religion
Islam
Culture
req. mod
Islamic


Civilopedia

Libya led by Muammar Gaddafi is a custom civilization mod by Uighur_Caesar, with contributions from DMS, TarcisioCM, DarthKyofu, Urdnot_Scott, and Natan35.

This mod requires Brave New World. It is part of the 12 Days of Africa event.

Overview[]

Libya[]

Libya, officially the State of Libya, is a country in the Maghreb region in North Africa, bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to the east, Sudan to the southeast, Chad to the south, Niger to the southwest, Algeria to the west, and Tunisia to the northwest. The sovereign state is made of three historical regions: Tripolitania, Fezzan and Cyrenaica. With an area of almost 1.8 million square kilometres (700,000 sq mi), Libya is the fourth largest country in Africa, and is the 16th largest country in the world. Libya has the 10th-largest proven oil reserves of any country in the world. The largest city and capital, Tripoli, is located in western Libya and contains over one million of Libya's six million people. The second-largest city is Benghazi, which is located in eastern Libya.

Libya has been inhabited by Berbers since the late Bronze Age. The Phoenicians established trading posts in western Libya, and ancient Greek colonists established city-states in eastern Libya. Libya was variously ruled by Carthaginians, Persians, Egyptians and Greeks before becoming a part of the Roman Empire. Libya was an early centre of Christianity. After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, the area of Libya was mostly occupied by the Vandals until the 7th century, when invasions brought Islam to the region. In the 16th century, the Spanish Empire and the Knights of St John occupied Tripoli, until Ottoman rule began in 1551. Libya was involved in the Barbary Wars of the 18th and 19th centuries. Ottoman rule continued until the Italian occupation of Libya resulted in the temporary Italian Libya colony from 1911 to 1947. During the Second World War, Libya was an important area of warfare in the North African Campaign. The Italian population then went into decline.

Libya became independent as a kingdom in 1951. A military coup in 1969 overthrew King Idris I. The "bloodless" coup leader Muammar Gaddafi ruled the country from 1969 and the Libyan Cultural Revolution in 1973 until he was overthrown and killed in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. Two authorities initially claimed to govern Libya: the Council of Deputies in Tobruk and the 2014 General National Congress (GNC) in Tripoli, which considered itself the continuation of the General National Congress, elected in 2012. After UN-led peace talks between the Tobruk and Tripoli governments, a unified interim UN-backed Government of National Accord was established in 2015, and the GNC disbanded to support it. Parts of Libya remain outside either government's control, with various Islamist, rebel and tribal militias administering some areas. As of July 2017, talks are still ongoing between the GNA and the Tobruk-based authorities to end the strife and unify the divided establishments of the state, including the Libyan National Army and the Central Bank of Libya.

Libya is a member of the United Nations (since 1955), the Non-Aligned Movement, the Arab League, the OIC and OPEC. The country's official religion is Islam, with 96.6% of the Libyan population being Sunni Muslims.

Muammar Gaddafi[]

Muammar Mohammed Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi, commonly known as Colonel Gaddafi, was a Libyan revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He governed Libya as Revolutionary Chairman of the Libyan Arab Republic from 1969 to 1977, and then as the "Brotherly Leader" of the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya from 1977 to 2011. He was initially ideologically committed to Arab nationalism and Arab socialism but later ruled according to his own Third International Theory.

Born near Sirte, Italian Libya to a poor Bedouin family, Gaddafi became an Arab nationalist while at school in Sabha, later enrolling in the Royal Military Academy, Benghazi. Within the military, he founded a revolutionary group which deposed the Western-backed Senussi monarchy of Idris in a 1969 coup. Having taken power, Gaddafi converted Libya into a republic governed by his Revolutionary Command Council. Ruling by decree, he deported Libya's Italian population and ejected its Western military bases. Strengthening ties to Arab nationalist governments—particularly Gamal Abdel Nasser's Egypt—he unsuccessfully advocated Pan-Arab political union. An Islamic modernist, he introduced sharia as the basis for the legal system and promoted "Islamic socialism". He nationalized the oil industry and used the increasing state revenues to bolster the military, fund foreign revolutionaries, and implement social programs emphasizing house-building, healthcare and education projects. In 1973, he initiated a "Popular Revolution" with the formation of Basic People's Congresses, presented as a system of direct democracy, but retained personal control over major decisions. He outlined his Third International Theory that year, publishing these ideas in The Green Book.

Gaddafi transformed Libya into a new socialist state called a Jamahiriya ("state of the masses") in 1977. He officially adopted a symbolic role in governance but remained head of both the military and the Revolutionary Committees responsible for policing and suppressing dissent. During the 1970s and 1980s, Libya's unsuccessful border conflicts with Egypt and Chad, support for foreign militants, and alleged responsibility for the Lockerbie bombing in Scotland left it increasingly isolated on the world stage. A particularly hostile relationship developed with the United States, United Kingdom, and Israel, resulting in the 1986 U.S. bombing of Libya and United Nations–imposed economic sanctions. From 1999, Gaddafi shunned Arab socialism and encouraged economic privatization, rapprochement with Western nations, and Pan-Africanism; he was Chairperson of the African Union from 2009 to 2010. Amid the 2011 Arab Spring, protests against widespread corruption and unemployment broke out in eastern Libya. The situation descended into civil war, in which NATO intervened militarily on the side of the anti-Gaddafist National Transitional Council (NTC). The government was overthrown, and Gaddafi retreated to Sirte, only to be captured and killed by NTC militants.

A highly divisive figure, Gaddafi dominated Libya's politics for four decades and was the subject of a pervasive cult of personality. He was decorated with various awards and praised for his anti-imperialist stance, support for Arab—and then African—unity, and for significant improvements that his government brought to the Libyan people's quality of life. Conversely, Islamic fundamentalists strongly opposed his social and economic reforms, and he was posthumously accused of sexual abuse. He was condemned by many as a dictator whose authoritarian administration violated human rights and financed global terrorism.

Dawn of Man[]

"Peace be upon you Colonel Gaddafi, leader of the Libyan state. You took power of the Libyan government in 1969 and subsequently abolished the monarchy, establishing the People's Jamahiriya, a supposed direct democracy. During your rule, you promoted Pan-Arabism and Pan-Africanism to protect the Third World against the imperialist deserves of the US and the USSR, even temporarily serving as Chairman of the African Union. Although your reign was oppressive and dictatoral, Libya benefitted more a stability that has not existed since your regime was toppled in 2011.

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Leaderscreen by DMS

O revolutionary leader, can you guide your nation once again? Can you fight against foreign threats and a rising tide of imperialism? Can you insure stability and prevent sectarianism from crippling your nation? Can you build a civilization that will stand the test of time?"

Introduction: "My name is Muammar Gaddafi, Brotherly Guide of the Revolution of the Libyan masses. We are the freest people on the planet and will not tolerate any imperialist conspiracies."

Defeat: "I am not going to leave this land. I will die as a martyr at the end. I shall remain, defiant. Muammar is Leader of the Revolution until the end of time."

Unique Attributes[]

Libya (Muammar Gaddafi)
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Art by DMS

Third International Theory

Strategic Resources provide CultureIcon Culture when improved and +1 Happy Local Happiness when worked. Gold Gold gifts provide 20% Influence Influence for every 5 policies or tenets selected.

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Art by DarthKyofu

Sahelian Legion (Infantry)
  • +20% Strength Combat Bonus outside of friendly territory.
  • +1 Influence Influence with ending its turn in a Citystate City State's borders, increasing to +2 if you can demand tribute from them.
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Art by TarcisioCM

Popular Market (Market)
  • Provides +1 Gold Gold on Strategic Resources, increasing to +2 Gold Gold if you're trading them, and further increasing to +3 Gold Gold if you're trading more than 10 copies.
  • Converts Happy Local Happiness in this City to CultureIcon Culture. After selecting an Ideology, it is also converted to Production Production.
City List
  1. Tripoli
  2. Benghazi
  3. Misrata
  4. Bayda
  5. Zawiya
  6. Khoms
  7. Ajdabiya
  8. Sabha
  9. Sirte
  10. Tobruk
  11. Derna
  12. Sabratha
  13. Zuwara
  14. Kufra
  15. Marj
  16. Tajura
  17. Gharyan
  18. Msallata
  19. Bani Walid
  20. Jumayl
  21. Sorman
  22. Al Gseibat
  23. Shahhat
  24. Ubari
  25. Asbi'a
Spy List
  • Al-Saadi
  • Mutassim
  • Ayesha
  • Khamis
  • Abdul
  • Yasser
  • Omar
  • Musa
  • Hassan

Strategy[]

Libyicon

Mod Support[]

Mod Support
Yes
No
Community Balance Patch
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Ethnic Units
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Map Labels
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Unique Cultural Influence
No
Wish for the World
No
YnAEMP
Yes

Full Credits List[]

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Steam Workshop
Latest Version: v 2
Last Updated: 6 September 2019

 

 
  • DMS, DarthKyofu, TarcisioCM: Art
  • Uighur_Caesar, Urdnot_Scott, Natan35 : Design
  • Uighur_Caesar: All else


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