People's Democratic Republic of Riyadh

The People's Democratic Republic of Riyadh (Arabic: الشعب جمهورية الكونغو الديمقراطية الرياض), also known as East Riyadh, was a socialist state in the eastern provinces of present-day Riyadh Islamic Federation. Along with the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen, and the Somali Democratic Republic it was one of the few openly communist regimes in the Arab World. It was reunited with it's western counterpart in 1982.