Socialist Democratic Federated Republic of Carbombya

This is canon, people. This is sooooooo canon.

The Socialist Democratic Federated Republic of Carbombya is a kingdom located in the Sahara Desert region of the continent of Africa on the planet Earth. It has a coastline, with foreign ships that venture too close to it often being fired upon. This intensely xenophobic state is ruled by Abdul Fakkadi, and apparently derives most of its wealth from particularly fine oil. The people are often heard swearing on the lives of their mother's camels and so forth. This is of course hilarious offensively stereotypical.

Its city of Carbombya City, population 4,000 (and 10,000 camels), is presumably the capital.

Fiction

Generation 1 cartoon continuity

The Transformers cartoon

After the Decepticons were driven from Cybertron in 2005, Dirge and Ramjet hid out in Carbombya, cleverly disguised as ordinary military jets that just happened to look exactly like Dirge and Ramjet, until they were discovered by Blaster and Outback. Five Faces of Darkness, Part 1

Fakkadi took time out from his busy schedule of attacking cruise ships full of American "fanatic imperialists" to arrange a deal with Octane and Trypticon where he would provide them with the nation's excellent, high-grade oil in exchange for making Carbombya a tourist mecca with stolen world monuments. However, Carbombya got more than it bargained for when the Decepticon leader Galvatron took control of the nation and its vast oil reserves, forcing Fakkadi to invite the Autobots to expel the Decepticons. Thief in the Night

e-HOBBY comics

After a Carbombian shipping vessel was lost at sea, the Autobots elected to investigate with Broadside. They learned that the ship had been attacked by strange creatures created in an undersea Decepticon laboratory. MP-1B Cybertron Commander / Convoy Black Ver.

Two for the Price of One

Carbombia was fractured by civil war, ousting Fakkadi from power and forcing NATO to lend a hand to keep order. The Carbombians protested loudly at outsider involvement in their country, and Fakkadi himself became head of the Carbombian Protection League. After an attack by the C.P.L. caught on camera by news reporter Connie, it was revealed that the organisation had obtained Transformer weapons. NATO became even more determined to quell the terrorist activity, and launched an operation in the south of Betah to capture Fakkadi. Two for the Price of One

Shattered Glass

The Ottoman Confederacy was ruled by Abdul Fakkadi, a noted pacifist. President Colton still insisted that it could launch preemptive strikes on the United States of America. On the other hand, Colton believed that about every other country as well. Eye in the Sky

Notes

• Carbombya is sometimes spelled Carbombia, consistently so in "Two for the Price of One". In the script for "Five Faces of Darkness", it was spelled "Karbomia". The correct spelling, used here, is of course the one that makes the horrible pun most overt. Yay?
• Carbombya is a thinly veiled dig at the real-world nation of Libya, whose militants were the terrorist boogeymen du jour in the 1980s.
• Voice actor Casey Kasem (who was of Lebanese Druze descent) quit the show due to the offense he took at the naming of Carbombya, along with other stereotypes in "Thief in the Night".^[1]

Foreign names

• Japanese: Carbombya Shakai Minshu Renpō Kyōwakoku (カルボンビア社会民主連邦共和国, "Social Democratic Republic of Carbombya")
• French: République Démocratique Socialiste de Carbombie (Canadian dub, "Socialist Democratic Republic of Carbombya")

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