Tunisia is Africa with a European accent. Look at the map and you'll see that Tunis is north of the southernmost tip of Italy. The Romans made the short hop across the straits of Sicily to conquer Cartage and establish the Roman province of Africa.
O yes, galactic traveller, there is a land where fabled cities arise from the sand, where gnomes have left behind their warrens of dwellings, where sleek craft hover millimeters above the surface, free from gravitational bonds. Green oases and palm-fringed beaches promise extraterrestrial pleasures. The land is Tunisia.
Combine with Libya or Morocco,