Name of a Post-Revolution Saudi Arabia?

People's Republic of Arabia (communist)
Republic of Arabia (republic, democratic or dictatorship)
Kingdom of Arabia (new dynasty)
Islamic Republic/State of Arabia (islamist)
Technate of Arabia (technocratic)
 
Arab Federation if none of the states decide to secede in the chaos of the Sauds getting overthrown in 1969. This name would have the intention of uniting other Arab nations in its sphere.

Federated States of Arabia?

What states? Saudi Arabia isn't in any way a federal state. If anything, the primary subnational identity is more tribal than anything else. Before the current Saudi state, the area that is now Saudi Arabia was divided into the directly Ottoman administered Vilayet of Hejaz, the Ottoman client Rashidi state ("Ha'il Emirate", "Emirate of Jabal Shamar"), and small portions of the Ottoman Vilayets of Baghdad and Yemen. Note that the Ottoman subdivision were purely adminstrative, as the Empire had a very centralized bureaucracy until its dying days, and that the Rashidi state was completely tribal in nature. The modern Saudi state has made absolutely no efforts to devolve power to local administrations, keeping everything in Riyadh and, when possible, within the Saud family.

It's possible that some enterprising regional governor or commander of local military forces (which, again, are almost literally all members of the Saud family) might decide to try and make it on their own in a disintegrating Saudi state, but the resulting entities are hardly going to be states in the sense that permits federation.
 
What states? Saudi Arabia isn't in any way a federal state. If anything, the primary subnational identity is more tribal than anything else. Before the current Saudi state, the area that is now Saudi Arabia was divided into the directly Ottoman administered Vilayet of Hejaz, the Ottoman client Rashidi state ("Ha'il Emirate", "Emirate of Jabal Shamar"), and small portions of the Ottoman Vilayets of Baghdad and Yemen. Note that the Ottoman subdivision were purely adminstrative, as the Empire had a very centralized bureaucracy until its dying days, and that the Rashidi state was completely tribal in nature. The modern Saudi state has made absolutely no efforts to devolve power to local administrations, keeping everything in Riyadh and, when possible, within the Saud family.

It's possible that some enterprising regional governor or commander of local military forces (which, again, are almost literally all members of the Saud family) might decide to try and make it on their own in a disintegrating Saudi state, but the resulting entities are hardly going to be states in the sense that permits federation.

In the sense of pan-Arabism, I guess, maybe trying to invite North Yemen into an arrangement like the United Arab Republic. I doubt an Arab nationalist Arabia would be able to get any of the other Gulf monarchies in their federation unless they "spread the revolution" so to speak. It might be possible to collapse Oman's government and install a friendly pan-Arab regime in there if it's the early 70s.
 

James G

Gone Fishin'
Has anyone ever done a fall of Saudi Arabia TL? I remember starting to read a terrible novel about one - evil French and their nefarious plots, good guys going to stop them - but then gave up.
Any other stories out there about such a thing?
 
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