Aila of Tawfeek

Early life
Aila of Tawfeek was born to Habbib of Tawfeek and Najaah of Tawfeek on March 11th, 1970, in Damascus as their first child. Aila's father named her his heir, as he did not view sex as a limitation to what a person could achieve. As a result, Aila was privately tutored for most of her educational career to insure that she became a good leader of the nation when she ascended to the throne. Her brother Hani was born in 1973, though her father did not alter his decision because his second child was male. Much to the displeasure of the more conservative members of government, Aila kept the title of heir to the throne.

At the age of 18, Aila was enrolled into the University of Beirut. She graduated at the age of 23 with a masters in administrative law, and during the same year was given a position in the Councilary Court of Law of Northern Levant as a secretary. She met Ashraf Ahmed at the age of 24, and the two began dating in a Western fashion.

Reign
In 1996, her grandfather King Ammar and the title of monarch was passed on to her father. However, her father did not want to be named monarch, and instead of becoming the King he stepped down from power. As his heir, Aila inherited the throne at the age of 25, and became the first female leader within the contemporary Middle East. At first, Saudi Arabia and several other conservative Arab nations refused to recognize Aila as the leader of the country, but gradually the more conservative nations recognized Aila's ascension. Her first edict as monarch was to liberalize the country's human rights policies, and many religion-based laws were taken out of the nation's civic code. Aila married Ashraf Ahmed in 1998, and their first tiwns, Diya and Dhakiy, were born in 1999. Her daughter Sahar was born in 2000.

In the early 2000s, with the outbreak of instability in the Middle East, Aila began concentrating economic policies to focus on self growth and the regulation of the petroleum industry. Through successful manipulation of foreign trade and the focused growth of certain industries, Aila further diversified the economic structure of the nation to insure that the country was not completely reliant on the petroleum industry. While petroleum operations remained important to the nation, the interference of the flow of oil to foreign markets would not completely destroy the economy under her reforms. Her economic policies allowed the country to sustain the Great Global Recession of 2007-2008 with minimal damage.

The region became highly unstable again in 2011 with the outbreak of protests in Egypt to overthrow its autocratic government. Fearing that international trade would be disrupted by the violence via the Suez Canal, Aila ordered seizure of the Canal and surrounding territory to insure it would remain open to the global market. Although this move received condemnation from the Egyptian government, she viewed it as critical to maintaining the economic stability of trade with nations in the Middle East and North Africa. While the idea of overthrowing the Levanti monarchy was opened by the people of the nation, Aila's impressive reign and relaxed views on human rights ended the thoughts of revolution throughout the nation.