Vendia is one of two remaining Muslim countries and has always been regarded as a prosperous state in the region with its oil- and gas resources and related industries providing the bulk of the economic drive.

Not recognising the significance of the fundamentalist developments, the previous Vendia rule fell in 1981 during a violent revolt against the country’s Emir. This gave rise to the Council of Truth and Purity which established a fundamentalist rule based on the law of the Holy Writings. The violent revolt was lead by the former head of the Emir’s security forces – the charismatic Colonel Memet Ali.

In the wake of the new Vendian regime many fundamentalist fractions of the Muslim faith spawned – most with their main focus and hatred centred on the paradigm of the western world and Islandias dedicated effort to exploit the Muslim society. These fundamentalist fractions were all Vendian sponsored, turning the masses attention away from internal social inequalities, mismanagement and corruption.

The Vendian Radical (VR) is by far the most militant and dominant terrorist movement and have during recent years displayed an increasingly hostile attitude towards western interests in the area of terrorist attacks primarily against western and islandian embassies and trade interests. Vendia has close ties to the VR terrorist movement and provides weapons, economic support and shelters terrorist training camps within Vendian mainland. This is officially denied by Vendia, but it has nevertheless been proven beyond reasonable doubt that Vendia supplied weapons and explosives to a series of very grave VR terrorist attacks that hit several western nations in 2005 and 2007.

Geological surveys have shown that the resources on Vendia territory will be exhausted within the next twenty-five years. The bordering resources in neighbouring Islandian Independent Enclave however, are assessed to be much richer and still capable of several decades of exploitation.

Vendia armed forces are relatively strong, modern and well equipped and comprise a regular army, an Air Force with both PA200 and F-16 and a Navy with an SSK and several SSM-equipped FPBs.  Morale of the armed forces is high and support of the current leadership is strong.