The Levantine Republic is a country in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant. It is bounded by the Mediterranean Sea, Israel, and Egypt to the west, Alawite Syria and the Beqaa State to the North, North and South Iraq to the East, and Saudi Arabia to the South. It was formed out of the territories of central Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan by Tariq Al-Hashim in the aftermath of the Reset of Nations. It imports large quantities of water from the solar desalinisation plants of Beqaa State in the the Fatimid Trade Caliphate for farming irrigation in the Syrian steppe. At the time of its founding there were almost no Jewish communities in the republic, however after the Republic's withdrawal from the Jordan Valley and subsequent normalisation of relations with Israel in 183 BFC several have been founded and some notable Jewish people have grown up in the Republic, including Levi Weiss.