General Aladeen On Solana

What if Wadiya was real?

Wadiya, officially the Great Dictatorial State of Wadiya, is a country in North Africa, bordering Sudan, Ethiopia and Djbouti, next to the tip of the Red Sea in the Arabian Sea. Its real-world counterpart is Eritrea.

What language does Wadiya speak?

"The 'Wadiyan' language is clearly mock Arabic," Keating writes - though it's actually bastardized Hebrew. While Aladeen hails from the Middle East, he is a composite of several dictators - Gadhafi, Idi Amin, Hugo Chavez, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Kim Jong Il (the film's dedicatee ) - not all Arab or Muslim.