(Information is from a 2023 entry into the AGENCY World Factbook.)

QARZIM sits between the Indian Ocean, the Persian Gulf, and the Hindu-Kush mountains and can proudly look back into the deep human past as one of the earliest civilizations with a long history of interaction with, and influence on cultures across 3 continents.

Qarzim as the modern world knows her however, is as an isolated hermit nation, dominated and suffocated by the religious fanatics that overthrew the Western Friendly Emporer in the late 1970s. Since then, Qarzim has faced wars with its neighbors, stood on the brink of annihilation vs NATO and the West, and has subsequently, been spending all of its tax revenues not on greater freedoms, educations, and investment for its people- but for the sustenance and advancement of its secret services in the goals of inciting other religious movements to destabilize and ultimately destroy the West.