Sarajevo Enclave

The Sarajevo Enclave is the closest thing in the area to a safe haven, having survived the dissolution of the Bosnian state due to its strategic and cultural center, and maintains the status quo by virtue of having overt international peacekeeping presence and by being the seat of the chief ulmea of the Bosnian Muslims. The enclave is surrounded by de jure Allied Islamic Territories (AIT) land and is often attacked, so all the land crossings are only open under special circumstances and corporations often choose to resupply the city using the airport, which is operated by Sader-Krupp.

The enclave has a democratically elected parliament and has minor concessions to the various corps in the area which indirectly help fund the peacekeeping operations. The corps of note with a presence in the enclave are Ares, Aztecnology, SK, Zeta-Imperial Chemicals, and Ruhrmetall.

Recent History

There was a peace conference in June 2063 to try and re-establish a Bosnian state but it was thwarted by suicide bombers affiliated with the New Islamic Jihad. Open hostilities resumed shortly thereafter although nobody really gained much ground until Crash 2.0, a few swift offensives managed to change the map significantly before the governments focused a bit more on rebuilding from the aftermath.

Sarajevo's (wired) matrix happened to be down when Crash 2.0 occurred because of an attack which took down its power grid earlier in the day. To this day the public network in the Enclave is wired and thus cut off from the modern Matrix at-large; there was an attempt to upgrade in the early 2070s but there wasn't enough capital to do it and they haven't tried again since.

The chief ulema, Dzevad Vukotić, who had navigated the tightrope of keeping the peace between the different Bosnian Muslim factions and non-Muslims for over the last 20 years, died under suspicious circumstances with his designated successor in late 2077. This left a power vacuum in the Bosnian Muslim leadership and caused riots in the Enclave and Serbia was blamed. While the riots were quelled by the peacekeeping force in swift order, there was a schism as to who should inherit the seat, which destabilized the region further. The two ulemas are Omar Zahirović, backed by the Moderate Islam movement in the Secular Republic of Turkey, and ꜥIzz ad-Din al-Haq, backed by the more radical Muslims especially in the AIT. In particular, it is believed by the shadows that the latter is backed by Sayyid Mujtaba Musawa.