Born in 1990 to Jordanian immigrants Mohammed al-Asad and Shakira Sami, Raheem was raised in Lancaster, England. He went to school there, and met micronationalists Alexei Orlov and Aleksandr Babayev. Throughout his education, micronationalism was an occasional pastime instead of a full-on hobby, and he had to abandon micronationalism altogether when he left for university.