POPULATION:	12 million
LITERACY RATE:	70% to 75%
SELF DEFENSE FORCES:	EDF, Black Jyhad, VOW, ARA,
LANGUAGES:	Arabic (official), French, Berber dialects
ETHNIC GROUPS:	Algerians, Moroccans, Tunisians, Europeans, Chinese,
BORDERING COUNTRIES:	Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Tunisia, Western Sahara

ALGERIA - A puppet government of the EC, Algerian liberationists are throwing off their shackles and declaring full blown war on Europe in an effort to get them out of their country.  Tribal wars are more scarce here, although with so many different splinter groups fighting for control in Algeria the Algerians end up killing almost as many of their own soldiers as the Europeans.  However things have begun to change, and the revolutionaries are becoming more unified.  Algeria is teetering on the brink of independence from the EEC, if there is anything left of the country when its all over that is.

The Europeans like to think they still have control over Algeria, the truth is no one really controls the country, the EDF merely enforces European law, and tries to fight a losing battle against Algeria's split military forces.  The Algerian National Army while an effective military presence, has a plethora of in fighting, as many of its leaders feel their personal agendas and politics keep them from cooperating with each other.  This is changing however, self proclaimed General Ahmed Ben Buhara, a former Tuareg Warlord is slowly establishing himself as a leader for the people, and is uniting the ANA against the europeans.  The General is a fierce man, surviving the violent Muslim-Islam confrontations of the late 90's, followed by Europeans stepping in again to take control, (under the guise of relief efforts) has left Buhara an embittered man.  He, like so many of his people remembers his fathers stories of the bloody war to win Algeria's independence from the French in the 50'2 and early 60's.

In 1997, in what is commonly referred to as the Mid-east Meltdown, Algeria's eastern border caught in the crossfire of the nuclear exchange, while they were relatively minor hits, the fallout rained over much of eastern Algeria, mostly along the Libyan, border.  The effects this had on the nomadic Toureg tribes were unfathomable, and has left much of the drinking water and land contaminated for years.  Barely 3 years later the wasting plague decimated the population of Algeria as in many North African countries drops by half.  Devastated, Algeria reluctantly complies under pressure by Morocco and Tunisia to enter under EC influence.  There was really no other choice, only Europe had the resources at the time to offer any type of aid.  To many Algerians this was the final slap in the face, and rampant terrorist attacks, both in Europe and in Algeria ensues.  Public outcry and EC pressure  finally force the bankrupt Algerian government in 2010 and the Europeans step in and take over.  Almost instantaneously, he EC steps in with the EDF  (there are rumors that the EEC covertly instigated this),  and immediately executing on the street any terrorists caught (in many cases this often meant breaking down the door of a "suspected terrorists" home, and dragging him out onto the street and shooting him or her down like a dog, it has been reported that many innocent Algerians  were chosen at random).  Media coverage, HEAVILY propagandized, shown in Europe at the time gets the EC full support from its homelands, Algerian tourism increases to an all time high, however Algerian zens see little of this extra income as most of the profits go into EC monopolized tourist  areas.  The terrorist acts become more violent, and the EDF steps up its measures, the ensuing incidents that follow stalemate in a bloodbath as EDF forces impose a media blackout, performing surgical strikes against any and all persons even remotely suspected of terrorism.  The climax of this year long duel occurred when on February 18th, 2012, the EDF discovers a terrorist stronghold and lays waste to it.  The initial gun battle takes 7 hours, with an entire wing of the Black Jyhad, men, women and children try in vain to defend themselves against the overwhelming European forces.  Finally, after hours of trying to force a surrender the EDF commanders give up, and have the building shelled from a destroyer off the coast.  There were no survivors, 76 dead.  The surviving members of Black Jyhad split, half of them staying and going underground.  The other half fled to irradiated wastes of the Algerian/Libyan border.  Calling themselves Voice of The Wastes these rebels set up training camps and support many sympathizers.  In 2016 the VOW sends operatives across Algeria as well as Tunisia and Morocco spreading the word of Holy War against the West.

This fails quickly in Morocco as EDF stifles VOW's presence. Support grows in Tunisia and in Algiers war breaks out.  Most European civilians have fled the area to Morocco, however the EDF remains, still claiming control over the area as violent conflict explodes all over the country.

The Algerian military is one of the better equipped and trained in Africa.  Armed with stolen European weapons old US military surplus, including a small air force and an army of about 200,000 men , women and children.