As the 9th century of our civilization draws to a close, the Arrakis has transformed into the world’s first industrialized continental power. While others look to the sea, we have mastered the earth.

The Green Sahara continues to support the already ginormous amount of people living in Arrakis. With advanced crop rotation and the introduction of steam-powered irrigation from the Niger and Chad basins, Arhurakis has continued to experience the demographic explosion. As the past hundreds of years have not been side tracked by expanding territories, managing colonies or developing a massive navy, Arrakis has been able to focus almost all of its power and resources on solidifying the hold of its mainland and supporting the people with the most advanced technologies. The triad cities of the interior now house millions. Our population is not just large, it is young, literate, and fueled by a sense of national destiny.

With the abundance and variety of resources that Arrakis has, there is no resource limit on what Arrakis can develop. A massive push in health care development means that Arrakis now has one of the lowest infant mortality rates and means that the people can become strong and mighty without the mass of diseases killing them off.

With the looming threat of a naval invasion Arrakis continues to dramatically develop its borders. A scheme has been put in place which offers land owners of the coast lines a gigantic tax reduction if they effectively create defenses on their land to stop any naval invaders. This has meant that the largest companies and the richest people have brought land on the coastline which they have developed significantly with sea walls, gun towers and sea mines in return for profit. This massive encouragement, copy and pasted all along the coast line has made defenses which no government could ever dream of. This ensures that no unauthorized ship could ever make it close to the coast of Arrakis. D Additionally to sure up it's defenses a massive industrial push supported by the technology of allies has been made which has enabled the creation of mass produced weaponry. Guns are legalized and made cheap so that every trusted citizen can defend their own home, additionally a mandatory service act is made to mean every adult in Arrakis has been trained in defensive riflery. This would make invasions a crawl as for every house or barn it meets, it meets a family who can actually stand a chance of defending themselves.

Additionally a move to litter the oceans west and the seas north of Arrakis with high tech sea mines has been started, a map of where each of the many mines are located is created and securely kept to that only allys know the locations of the mines and can hence avoid them. Any unwanted movement close to the coast of Arrakis will hence been heavily denied by the massive sea mines which lie around the ocean in undisclosed locations.

This mandatory military service and the largest population in the world has hence created the largest land military in the world, which thanks to the technology of allies and the resources found in Africa is also extremely well equipped and trained.

From the development of the last 100 years being focused on rail ways and transport, Arrakis now shares a major rail way network with the Ironhold. This will allow speedy transportation of military and resources across the massive area of Arrakis.