Great Carthage, the thing of myth and primordial reality — in its stead currently lies the metropolis of Tunis. Once the territory that represented the epitome of Roman conquests, the Punic state has faded for millennia into the modern form, a place crossed between a queer brand of Arabic traditionalism and colonial constitution.

The history of Tunis was cosmopolitan since its inception — the Semitic Phoenicians founded upon this patch of land a formidable empire, and the Romans rendered the port ashes in months. As both nations eventually fell, Arabic settlers arrived en masse, which brought along a period of reconstruction and Islamization, where the city's populace became devout Muslims subservient to the many caliphates. From the native Almohads to the Ottoman Turks, the Tunisians were a faithful lot for centuries.

Regardless of the faces those rulers wore, Tunis remained in a perpetual cycle of salting and recuperating, with the French imperials who arrived a few decades ago as the builders who brought commerce to the then-failing beylik. Following past patterns, as French Africa collapsed, Mussolini was ever eager to retrieve this centerpiece of Pax Romana into his holdings.

While the fascists never landed on the Coasts of Carthage nor ever replicated the salting, the Tunisian elites were wiser than to direct a conflict against the devil himself. As this terrible pact solidified through the past decades, to all astute observers, the present New Tyre is nothing more than a puppet under the whims of Rome's iron fist.