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Good to see this back in pre-1900! Now back to the good stuff.

You're absolutely right- Drakia is stretched incredibly thin right now and is going to have a miserable time as a consequence. Their expansion relied on pre-existing colonial structures and the fact that they already had troops in North and West Africa from the World War. We'll go over some demographic data in the next chapter, but the white population just grew substantially in a short period of time thanks to the immigration of most of the Anglo-Indians.

Aye, the more I think on it the more plausible it seems that they could take over the British colonies there especially if nobody has the will (US) or ability (Britain, Europe) to kick them out. The real problem for Drakia will be governing such a gigantic area and population. The key issue they'll face will be the same as the other colonial powers: a lack of legitimacy with the native population. The bonded labor system will only inflame this; Britain and France made some pretense of "uplifting" their colonies, but the Drakian system is more openly exploitative which will cause a correspondingly greater backlash. It won't even necessarily take the form of open revolt, more a crippling lack of social credit for local institutions. The natives will see any form of authority associated with Drakia as a hostile alien entity to be resisted or subverted leading to issues with corruption, nepotism, lack of basic social services, tax-evasion, public safety, etc... that will make building an advanced industrial economy outside of the South African heartland extremely difficult. The Drakians can maintain superficial control and extract raw resources, but the cost in lives and resources will be immense and leave their system brittle and susceptible to internal revolt or external pressure. Somewhere between the difficulty OTL's colonizers had in holding down places like Algeria, India, or Vietnam and the trouble Nazi Germany would have had digesting the USSR.

Come to think of it, the US will face a similar though less severe reckoning in Mexico and Central America. Assuming the draft was instituted a lot of the Mexican population will have been exposed to the wider world for the first time, and probably won't be happy going back home under the thumb of the Criollo elite. Their system must look rather similar to what they saw in Ireland or West Africa. I imagine Mexico is something like a second south; underdeveloped, poorer, and lacking quality infrastructure and education. The US has the advantages of having a much more universal and legitimate ideal of government and society, a stronger economy, and a better demographic balance than Drakia, but will still face social strife. In the best case for the US the Criollo power will be softened or broken to make way for a more democratic form of local government that invests more in the local community, and Northern industrial jobs will migrate south (similar to OTL), increasing the standard of living. Meanwhile, given time new communication and transport technologies would help bind the nation together more strongly both culturally and as people move around geographically.
 
The natives will see any form of authority associated with Drakia as a hostile alien entity to be resisted or subverted

That's what princes/chieftains will be for.
"Overthrow Draka!? Then where we would get from our liquor, cigars, and cars?!"

They would keep their own tribes in line, and ordinary people do not resent their enforcers as much if they're of same ethnicity.

There was a saying about late Qing: "Emperor fears the foreigners, Chinese fear the emperor, foreigners fear the Chinese".
Same here. Draka might be concerned with masses of subjugated people, but the chieftains are in their pocket, doing the subjugating for them. Security forces cannot effortlessly hunt down and exterminate guerillas, but they can burn palaces of chieftains who don't play the ball. So, chieftains keep the masses for them in exchange for perks. They rule over their own peoples speaking their language and wearing traditional clothes, but when they visit movie theatres and restaurants in cities they wear formal dress and speak English with proper Drakan accent.

In the best case for the US the Criollo power will be softened or broken to make way for a more democratic form of local government
As market dominant minority surrounded by majority of ethically different people, Criollo would be natural allies of Anglo establishment. Breaking them will leave room for local populists demanding self-determination from the Capital.
 
The fact that they are using the local chiefs in Africa would seem to be a significant difference between the Draka here and those in the books...

The primary question in my mind is TTL's Congo compares to OTL's Belgian Congo under Leopold.

The primary difference between the United States in the Early part of the 20th Century is the percentage of the population that would be considered by the Elite to be at least close to Elite status. (Say at the level that OTL first generation born the USA Jew or an Italian would have been in 1910.)

Also, in terms of industry, is there any significant non-extractive industry outside the borders of OTL South Africa? (Basically where will the Tanks be built)
 
Even though I myself believe that the co-option of the lesser chieftains, landowners, and wealthy merchants, is nearly inevitable in a Drakia that does not destroy itself as the post-Britain Dominion slowly neutralizes/assimilates the native warlords and militias they were forced to ally with to survive, take heed that being educated by Drakia and being given fancy Drakian brandy and formal suits does not still entitle Drakia to your heart of hearts. Indeed from the jaundiced eye of an outside observer can we really say that Drakia would deserve their heart of hearts? I think I mentioned a while back the classical example of Roman-trained Arminius of the Cherusci, but also for a stronger comparison to an almost feudal would-be overlord that the previous native institutions could not defeat on the open field but still lacked the true legitimacy and investment to actually conquer their target look no further then the Scottish Wars of Independence. Peeps like Robert the Bruce had English fiefs, grew up in English courts, and probably had more in common with an English knight then a Highland clan, but when the time came that did not stop almost all the major players in the Scottish game of thrones from constantly trying to remove the King of England as a direct authority over Scotland. This could very easily be Drakia's lot if they lean too much on their collaborating aristocracy to unquestionably obey them, just like whenever England was distracted by Ireland, or France, or internal civil war, whenever any moment comes up that Drakia can't concentrate on putting the boot down the "honorary whites" start killing each other over who's going to be the one who gets to kill all the white Drakian planters and usurious merchants. Drakia cannot simply assume their total compliance like they were state-owned Bonded Labor, not without facing dire consequences.
 
Scotland resisted... back the in middle ages. Resistance finally ended after English Civil War. Both Scottish and Irish elites had assimilated and remained complaint to English rule, while remaining culturally distinct. Even the Jacobite uprisings weren't for independence, but for different English king.
Scottish lords had no problem allying with London to clear the Highlands of excess people. So much for being vanguard for liberation.
Indian Princes not only remained loyal to the Empire right up until British packed their bags and left, they were the strongest opposition to an any reforms of Raj.
No reason for TTL African chieftains to want to up-heave system that is working so well for them. Fighting for right to kill white landowners? Next thing you know, the masses might make mental leap and want to kill black landowners, and you wouldn't want that if you were rich chieftain.
 
Scotland won, the whole excommunication thing was dropped and they became recognized as the sovereign Kingdom of Scotland and even had the cherry on top of one or two non-shit Stewarts. Later events that happened centuries later, happened in different contexts. The context of the internal tension between the different various classes and political factions of an insurgent native state now having to win the peace and actually govern is not the same as the struggles to secure themselves against the central Drakian authorities. Any such divisions between Drakian-informed absolutist chieftains and managerial and professional class *narodnik/geoist dissidents and hardline isolationist traditionalists would be largely irrelevant to the problem of freeing themselves from Drakian taxes in the first place.
 
That's what princes/chieftains will be for.
"Overthrow Draka!? Then where we would get from our liquor, cigars, and cars?!"

They would keep their own tribes in line, and ordinary people do not resent their enforcers as much if they're of same ethnicity.

There was a saying about late Qing: "Emperor fears the foreigners, Chinese fear the emperor, foreigners fear the Chinese".
Same here. Draka might be concerned with masses of subjugated people, but the chieftains are in their pocket, doing the subjugating for them. Security forces cannot effortlessly hunt down and exterminate guerillas, but they can burn palaces of chieftains who don't play the ball. So, chieftains keep the masses for them in exchange for perks. They rule over their own peoples speaking their language and wearing traditional clothes, but when they visit movie theatres and restaurants in cities they wear formal dress and speak English with proper Drakan accent.

Scotland resisted... back the in middle ages. Resistance finally ended after English Civil War. Both Scottish and Irish elites had assimilated and remained complaint to English rule, while remaining culturally distinct. Even the Jacobite uprisings weren't for independence, but for different English king.
Scottish lords had no problem allying with London to clear the Highlands of excess people. So much for being vanguard for liberation.
Indian Princes not only remained loyal to the Empire right up until British packed their bags and left, they were the strongest opposition to an any reforms of Raj.
No reason for TTL African chieftains to want to up-heave system that is working so well for them. Fighting for right to kill white landowners? Next thing you know, the masses might make mental leap and want to kill black landowners, and you wouldn't want that if you were rich chieftain.

Sure, there will be attempts to use native princes/chieftans to exert control, but that comes with its own issues. A lot of the folks underneath them will still see them as traitors or collaborators, especially the more openly they push the Drakian agenda. People can easily view collaborators just as harshly as the overlords. Alternately, even if your intermediaries keep the lid on things, you've set up a system that's inefficient and promotes poor governance leading to an overall weaker state than what you'd get in a more egalitarian and representative society. Setting up strongmen promotes nepotism and rent-seeking and leaves the rulers accountable to Drakia, not the people, which will eventually become apparent to the people under them. Furthermore, there's plenty of incentive for them to try and accumulate wealth and power for themselves, and once they feel secure in their fiefdom will start wondering if they'd be better off not taking orders from the Drakians, especially with the US offering a potential alternate source of patronage. Scotland would be a rather bad analogy; the English royal family was intermarried with the Scottish which won't be happening here, and the Drakians have their imperialist/societist philosophy which even if twisted by some of the "martial races" still puts the White Anglo-Drakians on the top of the social, political, and economic ladders. There's not nearly as much universal appeal as something like Communism or Capitalism from OTL.

The Drakian system certainly could last a good long while, but it'll be sclerotic, fragile, and susceptible to external and internal pressures. Just look at the difficulty OTL Europe had holding on to Africa and Asia with a much greater power and population base. The only way a colonial society seems to last is if the invaders wipe out most of the natives as in the US or Oceania, intermingle with them like in Latin America, or adopt native institutions seen as legitimate by the ruled population as in Quing China.
 
Well, if the Drakians here somehow get a Stone Dogs analogy unleashed on the world then I'd probably just end up imagining this timeline concluding with an invasion of the BETA from the "Muv-Luv" franchise.

Final Society? You don't even count as living organisms. *BOOM*
 
Chapter 16
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Chapter 16

Totalitarianism is a broad category. It incorporates regimes with left-wing ideologies, regimes with right-wing ideologies, and the governments of purely self-interested despots. The arguments and justifications for totalitarianism range from Stalinism to Juche to Fascism to Japanese Militarism to whatever de Francia was doing with Rousseau’s ideas in Paraguay. But at same time totalitarianism is also very uniform- whatever the ideology or justification behind it, the practices of the totalitarian state almost always follow similar patterns. There is always the Cheka, the State Security Department, the Gestapo, the OVRA, the Special Higher Police , the Pyragues, by whatever name. There is always the Party or the Movement or the Cause whose re-dedication is a constant presence in everyday life. There is always the Man of Steel, the Supreme Leader, the Duke, the Father of the Country with his cult of personality demanding reverence.

And there is always the terror- the ever-pervading fear hanging like fog over the citizens of the nation.

So, it is in OTL, and so it was in the Separate-verse. The economic ideas behind Geoism weren’t inherent to the peasantry and rural interests, but that was the segment of society within which they caught on, and the ideology had been unbreakably married to Agrarian Populism ever since. That wasn’t necessarily a bad thing; the Geoists might be rather socially conservative, they might glorify the farmer as the foundation of society, and they might be distrustful of the modern industrialized city, but their ideas were more progressive than conservative and the rural concerns that they advocated for were generally valid concerns. William Jennings Bryan would have found himself largely on the same page with them, as would Milo Reno. But the extremist flavors of Geoism- the Pobladistos of Spain and the Rodinaviks of Russia- were a very different animal indeed. They sought nothing less than the total dismantlement of the old order and the ushering in of an entirely new society, and were prepared to pave the road to their utopia with the bodies of their foes. In both countries there were mass purges of the nobility and suspect members of the intelligentsia, the hammer falling hardest on the despised “urban elites”. In both countries there was state religion and ultimately the suppression of other faiths (the Pobladistos started with Sedevacantism and eventually picked their own Anti-Pope). Nominal tolerance of other cultures and ethnicities proved a thin shield for minorities, be they Kazakhs or Catalans. The Spanish Poblado Republic was less extreme than Russia, it grudgingly maintained a degree of industrial manufacturing even if it placed industrial workers on the very bottom of its social ladder and regarded them as potential Socialist or Utopian enemies of the people.

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Pobladistos storming a Royalist position in the Spanish Revolution.

Meanwhile the “Rodina Zemlya” (Homeland Earth) emerged from the Second Russian Civil War victorious over its Socialist, Utopian, Liberal, and Anarchist enemies under the tight fist of Rudnikov Semyon Danilovich. Rudinkov was a fanatic who proclaimed his country the beginning of a world government that would in time expand to absorb the entire globe. His efforts to create a purified agrarian Geoist republic included the large-scale forced relocation of the urban masses to the countryside, where they were “resettled” in new villages- many created simply by picking spots on the map and putting a village there. Millions died in the “Re-Settlement” (Peremesheniye) and the starvation that accompanied it, millions more perished in forced labor and the massacres of enemies of the people. In keeping with Rodinist doctrine that manufacturing did not produce value, but merely spent resources to rework materials produced by farmers, miners, and laborers, the RZ attempted to dismantle its national industry almost totally, preserving only a small amount of low-level cottage industry and what was needed to maintain its armed forces.

By the time Rudnikov was assassinated in 1926 and replaced by saner figures he had done irreparable damage to Russia’s industrial base and infrastructure and was responsible for the death of tens of millions.

But of course, Radical Geoism (not to be confused with the moderate form of the movement) was not the only totalitarian ideology to rise to power in the aftermath of the World War. Societism was just as brutal, and no less bloody.

According to the Drakian historians of the 1950s the World War and the Anglo-Drakian War were the start of the Late Wars of Drakian Expansion, an ill-defined era whose end depended on the opinion of the historian in question. The period after the end of the Anglo-Drakian War they dubbed “the Crucible” although the Drakians actually living in that time knew it as “the Crisis”. The Dominion of Drakia (for it was still officially a dominion) had expanded far too rapidly, adding swathes of additional territory at a time when it had just been cut off from the invaluable support of Great Britain and every other part of the British Empire that wasn’t in Africa. Not only was Drakia economically severed from markets for its raw materials, not only had it lost the backing of the Royal Navy, but it was diplomatically isolated as well. By 1917 all of Drakia’s land neighbors with the exception of Russia were members of the American-led Grand Alliance and actively hostile to the Country of the Dragon. Arms, ammunition, money, and even military advisors and agents of the Black Chamber flowed across these borders into the Drakian Near East, or were smuggled ashore into West and North Africa as part of a vast project by the United States to undermine its estranged younger brother. Native rebellions, uprisings, terrorism, and sabotage were chronic during the Crucible, as long-exploited subject peoples struck back against an overlord weakened and bleeding from a thousand cuts.

It is telling that the demands of the Crucible in terms of funds, resources, and lives on Drakia was proportionally almost twice as high as similar costs for the German Confederation during the World War when the Germans were fighting on three fronts simultaneously against heavily industrialized and modern enemies.

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Rebels dig in against a Drakian assault in the mountains of Algeria.

The Drakians struggled desperately to effectively project power away from their heartland in Southern and Eastern Africa into the newly integrated Western and Northern parts of the continent, to say nothing of the challenges of the Near East. The vestigial Drakian Navy was expanded drastically- partly in the form of gunboats to support land operations along the coasts and up major rivers, but mostly in the form of large numbers of basic, low-cost, low-to-moderate quality naval cargo ships. They would have been easily swept from the sea by any foe with a decent naval arm, but as long as the armistice with America held the Drakian Navy was able to significantly reduce the logistic strain of land operations elsewhere. The Drakian Army initially abandoned control of large parts of the African interior in favor of defending the coasts, major cities, strategically important roads, railways, rivers, and sources of vital raw materials. From there they gradually pushed back, using heavy artillery, air power, and an arsenal of chemical and incendiary weapons that by 1919 included G-series nerve agents plus their old standby of white phosphorus.

This is not to imply that the Crucible was easy, or straightforward, or that Drakia’s victory wasn’t in question until the very end. Ultimately the deciding factor was the existence of a pro-Drakian Native (and occasionally non-Native but also non-Drakia) minority that actively supported the regime.

The military government that took power following Premier McRae’s resignation in 1915 made a series of compromises that would have been politically impossible in a less desperate situation, conceding ideological purity in the name of survival. Victory meant numbers, and numbers meant manpower, and immigration to Drakia didn’t resume in any real numbers until the situation had stabilized in the early 20’s and it was clear their country wasn’t going to collapse in the near future. So General Saxon did what he could. Mixed-race persons who were 25% or less African or Asian were universally declared “white” and offered citizenship, as were all of the former citizens of the other African dominions, regardless of race (none of the dominions in question had extended citizenship universally to their Native inhabitants, but several had on a case-to-case basis). Citizenship was extended to the British, German, and Russian colonists of the Holy Land, Syria, and Iraq, and to the Spanish colonists and refugees in Morocco. The inhabitants of Egypt were declared to be part of the “Misri” martial race descended from the ancient Egyptians and separate from their Arab neighbors, and they proved to be essential allies in the fight to hold North Africa (or at least the portion of the Egyptian population convinced to continue to tolerate Drakian rule provided an essential non-rebellious base of operation there). The Zionist community in the Holy Land had co-operated with British and German authorities against the Arab Revolt during the World War, after Drakia took control of the area General Saxon was desperate enough for allies that he offered to allow a Jewish princely state in the OTL Israeli Coastal Plain and to make any Sephardic or Mizrahi Jews living within its borders Honorary Whites (most of the Ashkenazim had received citizenship as former British, Russian, or German citizens, other types of Jews hadn’t). Despite the fact that the Drakian government had actively suppressed Zionism among the Drakian Jewish community the deal went ahead, causing a split in the global Zionist movement between those who considered working with Drakia an acceptable evil to protect the Jewish community in Eretz Yisroel from the Arabs, and save Near Eastern Jews from Drakian Bondage, and those who rejected any such co-operation and turned their focus to sponsoring Jewish agricultural colonies in Patagonia and OTL Western Canada.

Drakia fostered nationalist movement among certain Near Eastern and North African ethnicities - the Jews, the Druze, the Egyptians, the Assyrian Christians, the Yezidis, and others, in regions where Arab Muslims had long been dominant. General Saxon’s reasoning was that while such groups might never get full independence under Drakian rule, they would receive autonomy and privileged treatment that they would never get if the rebels won.

Any negative repercussions to this strategy, the general reasoned, could be dealt with if the dominion survived. At the time it still seemed likely that they would lose the Near East at the very least- who cared what promises the government in Aurica made?

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Zionist militiamen during the Crucible. Of course there is no possible way that giving a Geoist- and Socialist-influenced movement whose goal is total sovereignty over its Holy Land a non-sovereign pseudo-state that doesn't control any of its major holy sites could possibly backfire for Drakia. Surely Jewish nationalists will be loyal to a totalitarian Christian dictatorship that holds some of their coreligionists as de facto slaves and temporarily held an even larger number of their coreligionists who are now freed and possibly even serving in the army of said pseudo-state.

That’s not to say that simply being declared an Honorary White or even a White Citizen automatically turned one into a loyal subject of the Country of the Dragon. Even among the ranks of favored castes from before the World War you had Honorary Whites- and a few Whites believe it or not- who supported, participated in, and on occasion led rebel elements. There were Auxiliary units that mutinied wholesale and Native Princes who led their princely states to seek true independence. But when the rebels couldn’t get their hands on their Drakian oppressors they settled for targeting their Native collaborators, and most rebel armies didn’t distinguish between different members of the martial races or anyone who had received special treatment while they groaned under the abuse of colonial misrule.

The fear of being massacred by the anti-government rebels caused many who might have wavered to remain loyal to the state, and drove minority groups that might have otherwise sided with the rebels (the Arab Christians, the Sephardim, etc.) to co-operate with Drakia.

This, along with the inability of many rebel groups to work effectively with each other, proved key to the victory of the Noble Race.

As the tide turned and the army pushed back into regions it had previously abandoned, Drakia inflicted an inhuman punishment on those who had defied its rule. Villages and towns were wiped out with gas and phosphorus, populations were removed to become Bonded Labor in a content-spanning network of forced labor camps, tribes that surrendered were spared total annihilation but forced to relocate far from their original homelands. Millions died in the massacres and in the camps. Millions more were sent fleeing abroad as refugees. To call the events of the Crucible a genocide would be in no way an exaggerated, there were entire cultures that were wiped out save for a few individuals and it is estimated that more than 15,000,000~ African and Middle Eastern civilians died in the fighting and its aftermath (to put that in perspective 17-22,000,000 Chinese civilians died in the Second Sino-Japanese War in OTL). Roughly a 800,000 White Drakians- 8%~ of their total population (in OTL Germany lost about 4% of its population in World War I)- died along with their enemies, so did 5,000,000 Native Auxiliaries and soldiers in the armies of the princely states.

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Captured civilians from a rebel tribe in West Africa in a forced labor camp.


Resistance to Drakian rule never truly ended in either Africa or the Middle East, but by 1918 the rebels had ceased to be an existential threat and by 1920 they were reduced to a collection of regional insurgencies of diminishing intensity as American aid dried up and the United States redirected its resources elsewhere. Immigration to Drakia began to pick up from the truly desperate with nowhere else to go- the former white settler populations of India and the East Indies and groups that had been favored under British colonial rule such as the Punjabis, Indian Muslims, and Chinese Indonesians, fleeing putative treatment by India and Indonesia. They were soon joined by Russians desperate to escape Rudinkov and Basques and Catalans attempting to get out of Spain. Most such immigrants were either accepted as Citizens or as Honorary Whites by a government eager for more loyal inhabitants (most were loyal, if simply out of gratitude for a safe place to live). America was going through one of its nativist phases, the British economy had imploded, and there were few other options for a refugee. But this wave of immigration didn’t really occur until the 1920s proper, in 1920 itself there were 89 million people in the Dominion of Drakia. Brutal and exploitative rule at the hands of Drakia and Britain slowed African population growth from OTL even before the mass deaths of the Cruicible and other wars are taken into account- in OTL there were 120 million~ people in Africa alone in 1920 without considering Mandatory Palestine, Jordan, Syria, Iraq, and Yemen. Of those 89 million persons some 9.1 million were White Citizens- slightly larger than the population of OTL Canada at the same time- a number that included a million-odd mixed-race persons who had enough European blood to receive full citizenship from the military government, and even a handful of non-Whites who had held citizenship in the other African dominions before they were annexed. Around 21 million more were Honorary Whites, and an additional 9 million were Nationals- the overwhelming majority of whom could afford to pay the Hut Tax with money and worked in White-owned business concerns. The remaining 50 million inhabitants of Drakia were classed as Bondsmen of one kind or another.

Drakian society was profoundly affected by the Crucible; it became vastly more militarized, more paranoid (Drakians were always conscious of America’s hand assisting the rebels), and more nationalistic. It was also more egalitarian than it had been, opening up avenues for women that had been previously closed (including combat positions in the military, although women were mostly removed from those once things calmed down), and much more accepting of Honorary Whites who had achieved positions of power and influence that they had previously never possessed. The Church of Christ the Savior grew considerably, although the Sedevacantist Catholics and the Drakian Church remain major cultural fixtures.

While General Saxon’s junta had successfully brought the country through the Crucible, the heavy casualties taken by White Drakians were deeply unpopular, and the country’s economy was barely functioning in the absence of foreign trading partners and with most industrial production (expanded massively through the use of additional forced labor) dedicated to military needs. This was to say nothing of the unhappiness of a civilian population that had been on a total war footing since 1907. In response to mounting pressure not just from the Drakian public but from within the military command structure itself, Saxon agreed to step down and allow new elections.

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General Saxon, military dictator of Drakia from 1915 to 1920, aka "The Black Knight"

The 1920 Drakian National Elections were the final gasp of the country’s increasingly moribund Westminster democracy. They saw what remained of the establishment and the old Drakian aristocracy thoroughly defeated and witnessed the victory of the Societists under the leadership of Lindsey Stoker. The Societists stood for a meritocracy that favored Drakians not from the once-dominant aristocratic families. They stood for an acceptance of Honorary Whites not as equals, but as junior partners instead of mere servants in the social order, part of the “Aspirant Race” of Naldorssen. They stood for a social safety net for veterans, particularly injured veterans, and for Citizens in general. They also stood for a hierarchical society, an explicit rejection of the practice of democracy and the concepts of equality, natural rights, and consent of the governed. They wanted Eugenic extremism, state-enforced religion, and the de facto chattel slavery of the Bonded Labor System. There would be no more open elections under Societism, just one-party rule under a Premier and a Cabinet seeking to guide the evolution of the population towards the eventual “closure of humanity” and the creation of the Final Society. The new Bureau of Social Defense took on the responsibility of suppressing dissent and political opposition, and the regime wasted no time in extending its ideology from the highest echelons of the state to the bedrooms of its subjects.

One of Stoker’s first acts once in power was to bring to an end the charade that Drakia was somehow still a British dominion. Gone was the Red Ensign- in its place flew the Dragon Banner with its three white stars representing the either the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, or the Servitor, Aspirant, and Custodian races of humanity. It was inconceivable that Drakia should cease to be a monarchy, but who was to be her king? Various options were considered (including the exiled King of Spain and members of various other noble houses who could claim royal blood), but the decision of the dictator was as surprising as it was inevitable. Only one person was worthy of being the ruler of the Noble Race, and that was the Prince of Peace himself. The constitution of the new government claimed Jesus Christ as its official head of state, to the near-universal condemnation of the rest of Christendom and the misgivings of more than a few Drakians themselves.

On November 1, 1920, All-Saints Day, the Dominion of Drakia came to an end, and the Empire of Drakia proclaimed itself to the world.

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The flag of the Empire of Drakia.
 
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"The constitution of the new government claimed Jesus Christ as its official head of state, to the near-universal condemnation of the rest of Christendom and the misgivings of more than a few Drakians themselves."

@Ephraim Ben Raphael "What's that grinding sound I'm hearing right now?"

"Oh, that's the Pope and his cardinals grinding their teeth in fury. We can only imagine what the Orthodox Russians would've been doing if most of them weren't hiding out right now.
 
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@Ephraim Ben Raphael "What's that grinding sound I'm hearing right now?"

"Oh, that's the Pope and his cardinals grinding their teeth in fury. We can only imagine what the Orthodox Russians would've been doing right now if most of them weren't hiding out right now.
and Every Evangelical Pastor, Member of the Southern Baptist, United Methodist, and on and on in the USA is having a fits
*bewildered in Muslim*
 
wait goiesm? How in the world do they win if they don’t believe in manfructorty or cities? How in the world did they win if they constantly relied on the countryside for support? With no support in the cities, no way to get weapons. how in the world did they take over all of Russia?
 
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