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Qurac

Qurac
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Notable characters Onslaught
Publisher DC Comics

Qurac is a fictional country in the DC universe. It is a Middle Eastern country on the Persian Gulf, wedged between Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and Oman. Qurac is a state sponsor of terrorism.

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 and tried to assassinate the U.N., only being stopped when Superman - posing as a security guard - inhaled the Joker's lethal laughing gas and dumped it in space before it could do any damage).

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.

In the Bosnian, Serbian and Croatian language "Qurac" is pronounced just like the vulgar version of the word for the Human penis in these languages.

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.


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