Even within the ruling coalition, according to Atieh Bahar, a Tehran consultancy, the factions include the conservative right, reformists, moderates, old leftists, new leftists and some liberal critics.
The factions include the Turkey-based Kurdistan Workers' PKKthe(PKK), the Syria-based People's Protection Units (YPG) and Yazidi-led forces billing themselves as the Sinjar Resistance.
Warring factions include cash-for-clothes collections which bypass charities and high-street fashion companies re-using clothing, fibres and scraps.
Subjected to the country's oppressive work restrictions, the Palestinian factions include Hamas and the PLO – but also Islamists, a faction of al-Qa'ida and members of Muslim groups wanted for their part in a Salafist insurrection in northern Lebanon six years ago.
Inspirations for such factions include Nordic imagery, goth metal, and the artwork of Hieronymus Bosch.
Entirely new factions include Baktria, a Central Asian Hellenic empire, and Epeiros, a western Greek faction famous for producing Pyrrhos of Epiros.
