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Do keep in mind that the PSP is essentially a satellite state of Franco-Iberia, benefitting from modern machinery in exchange for crude resources and border patrol. I've wrote a small blurb about them in my NS if you'd like to check it out. 

The Arab Republic, on the other hand, is little more than an amalgam of nationalistic tribes and fortified strongholds vying for little international intrusion into its fair share of own strategic resources and acting as a physical incarnation of a modern decolonization movement.