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Qurac
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Qurac is a fictional country in the DC universe. It is a Middle Eastern country on the Persian Gulf, somehow wedged between Iraq and Kuwait (it's a very small state). Qurac is often used when DC has need of a terrorist state in the Middle East.
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Qurac had a metahuman terrorist/mercenary strikeforce dubbed the Onslaught (formerly 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. The assassin Cheshire detonated a nuclear warhead over the capital city, utterly destroying it in Deathstroke, the Terminator #19. She was later captured and put on trial, as chronicled in The Titans.
Apparently the country of Qurac was not totally destroyed by Cheshire, because it shows up in Checkmate (vol. 2) #6, when Rick Flag is rescued from a secret Quraci prison by the Bronze Tiger.
Achilles surfaced as a U.S. Marines Lieutenant in Qurac, asking Freddy Freeman to prove himself fighting with him an "Hate Empath", a beast able to feed on emotion. Sabina, a young magician girl linked to the "Council of Merlin", sets free the beast searching to draft some of Shazam's powers for herself and the Council.
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