Suggesting that it sees potential for further conflict in the Middle East, FX has ordered a second season of its political drama Tyrant. The tale of a California pediatrician who’s dragged kicking-and-sighing into the family tyranny business, Tyrant was a modest-if-dependable hit for the cable network in its first season, with Deadline citing an average audience of 5.1 million total viewers—roughly the population of a small country that could be ruled with extreme trepidation by Adam Rayner’s Bassam “Barry” Al-Fayeed. (Another plausible motivation for the renewal: With Sons Of Anarchy ending this fall, and Justified wrapping in the winter of 2015, FX could stand to have some established dramas on its schedule.)