Qurac

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Qurac is a fictional country in the DC universe. It is a tiny Middle Eastern country on the Persian Gulf, wedged between Iraq and Kuwait. Qurac is often used when DC has need of a terrorist state in the Middle East.

History

Qurac had a metahuman terrorist/mercenary strikeforce dubbed Onslaught (formerly known as The Jihad), a frequent opponent of the Suicide Squad. The Joker served as Quraci ambassador to the US on two occasions, gaining diplomatic immunity (a retcon of a story in which he represented Iran).

Weapons designed by John Henry Irons, the future Steel, were leaked by Amertek Enterprises to rebels in Qurac, resulting in many civilian deaths. Later, terrorists from Qurac staged a massive assault on the White House but were stopped by the Cyborg Superman in one of his first appearances.

Cheshire

The assassin Cheshire detonates a nuclear warhead over the capital city, utterly destroying it in "Deathstroke, the Terminator" #19. She is later captured and put on trial, as chronicled in The Titans. Many of the Quraci survivors mutate into superhuman forms as a result of the bomb's radiation. A confrontation with one of the many Titans teams led some of them to being forcibly removed to another dimension as a form of self defense.

The rest of the country manage to persevere, as indicated in "Justice League Of America" #85, 2003. Under the influence of an outside telepathic force, working through the Martian Manhunter, the Quraci ruler draft plans of a merger between his country and Bialya.

One Year Later

Checkmate

The country shows up several times in "Checkmate" volume 1 when the agency attempted to foment civil war within its borders by backing pro-western rebels and again in (vol. 2) #6, when Rick Flag is rescued from a secret Quraci prison by the Bronze Tiger.

Trials of Shazam

Achilles surfaced in Qurac as a lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps, asking Freddy Freeman, who sought to take up the mantle of the new Captain Marvel, to prove his courage to Achilles in combat against a "hate empath", a beast able to feed on emotion. Sabina, a young magician girl linked to the "Council of Merlin", sets free the beast while looking to draft some of Shazam's powers for herself and the Council.

External links

* [http://www.karridian.net/dcatlas.html#qurac Atlas of the DC Universe: Qurac]
* [http://www.supermanhomepage.com/comics/who/who-intro.php?topic=qurac Superman homepage: Qurac]