Continuing
The Dying of the Light's terrifying whackadoo events...
The
Kekist religion (also known as the
Cult of Kek, but this has recently became derogatorily) or to give its full name, the
Tremendous Way of the Kek, is a peculiar religion dominating the Plains of North America. It has its roots in the early-21st century alt-right, which dominated the primitive internet community. Back then, most of North America was under the control of the "United States of America", a presidential republic that by the 2010s were encountering many difficulties. A businessman named Donald Trump ran for the Republican Party nomination for the Presidency on a white-supremacist platform that appealed to the alt-right, which banded together behind his campaign. His loss only merely locked in the Republicans' shift from moderate "compassionate" conservatism to nativism. Under President Michael Flynn, the alt-right reached their high in terms of influence and slowly declined afterwards as the Progressives grew in influence at the expense of the Republicans. The Kekist religion did not form properly until the Post-Apocalyptic Horror shook many people's faith in Christianity. The people of the Plains wanted a new way of believing. The remnants of the alt-right "saw Kek" and, powered by a crumbling Republican Party's infrastructure, spread the word to the people.
The concept of the frog god "Kek", a deity with little comparable morality to ours and who could be described as a "trickster god" only existing to create mischief, was a major divergence from the Christian belief in an omnibenevolent deity. It was this belief that "Kek is not nice, Kek doesn't care about us at all, only about dank memes" that sounded so logical to the traumatised survivors of the Zombie Apocalypse who saw the Christian God apparently silent and ignoring.
Kek, according to the
Kekkonen, had two sons by his wife "Swift", the Goddess of Melody. The first one, "Datboi", was the Herald. Riding around on his unicycle, he spread the word of the coming second son. The most famous part of Datboi's message is the starting sentence, "Here come Datboi! Oh shit whaddup?". The second one, "Pepe", has a very important role in the Kekist religion as according to Kekists, Pepe was the one who created the Kekist religion all the way back in the dark times before "the Age of Memes". Pepe is more prominent than Kek in daily worship and is seen as the main god of the Kekist religion.
The Revelationist Christians in the Faith Party allied with the traditionally-right-wing Kekist Church [who up until then were backing the DPP due to opposition to Labor's "socialism"] to elect Remember Winters in 2103, but that alliance collapsed in 2107, benefiting the DPP. The Kekists after that tended to back the DPP, but backed Alabaman Governor Byron "Corny" Burgers II's independent campaign in 2119 and ended up backing the NDP over the Progs in the DPP split.
The Kekist religion have been accused of close ties with the "Third Wave" and with fascism in general. It is true that the Republic of Kekonia is terrifyingly centralist, belligerent and glorifies the military while holding down a dictatorship where it's basically "survival of the fittest" for the position of top dog (called "Trump").
The Kekist religion is known to be extremely sexist, with Kekonia itself having no female suffrage up until the democracy died due to popular opinion favoring a dictatorship "of the strongest". It is known that most of the women of Kekonia actually follow their own religion, which sources suggest is called "Hillarism". Despite Kekonia's belligerence, it is a nation eternally in civil war, and the rising woman-dominated "Red Direction Forces" seems to make it even more interesting.