The number of horrible things being said in this is truly astounding.

The 1973 Yankeeland Survival Guide Part III: Relations Between the Sexes

How do you do patriot? In this part of the OPV commissioned Yankeeland Survival Guide, we're now going to be discussing the details of intimate relations between Cokies and Yankees. Before diving in, there is something we do need to talk about. This part of the guide is for men only. Women may go ahead and skip it. It is the position of the Protector of Public Virtue, the Chancellor, and the Presbytery of the Confederation of the Carolinas that relations between Carolinian women and foreigners of any kind ought to be frowned upon. The Carolinian woman is the mother of the next generation of God-fearing Presbyterians, and her virtue is our most sacred treasure. If you're a Carolinian woman interested in finding a suitable Presbyterian mate, your local church will be happy to help you. Thank you for your cooperation and patriotism ladies! Now gents, let's get right into it.

Courting/Dating: The process we know as courting is called "dating" up in Yankeeland. It is very different from our way of doing things. As every red-blooded Cokie man knows, before one can start properly courting a woman, you need to get permission from her father, or if she is without a father, the senior most male relative in her family. It's also quite typical for said relative/father to chaperone the first outing. Neither of these are true in Yankeeland. If you wish to get to know a nice young Yankee gal better, just ask her out champ! A dinner and a movie are always good first outing options, as are plays, concerts, and church gatherings. When you're out with your lady friend, play up the chivalry a bit. Many common gestures such as door-holding, pulling out her chair, and bringing roses have sadly fallen by the wayside in the midst of the various reforms and changes to Yankee romantic life, which is a bit more... carnally focused these days. Nonetheless, chivalry is often still a winning strategy. Most Yankee women we surveyed for this section still valued such behaviors as charming and manly. Use this to your advantage fellas, and treat your Yankee gal the way you'd treat the girl down the street!

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Follow these rules, and this will be you! (Your Yankee gal will likely be dressed differently)
Proposing: So, you went on quite a few "dates" with a Yankee gal and you think "she's the one!" First of all, congrats son! May you be joyfully wedded. Now, let's get down into proposals. For this, you should call the father/older male relative and ask for his blessing. This shouldn't be any issue, as your average Cokie man of good breeding is far more well-mannered than the average foreigner. Once that's done, make sure to buy a ring with a diamond in it from Jacksonland! Cokie diamonds are the finest diamonds! The rest is straightforward. Bag her and tag her son!

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Here's to your happy future!

Determining Your Bride's Purity: It is an unfortunate fact that our friendly northern neighbors have embraced a very different attitude to premarital "relations" than we have. There is a significant chance that your bride may have lain with a man before you. Don't feel insecure! After all, she's choosing you, ain't she? Furthermore, it seems likely that the kind of woman who would be attracted to Cokie men and valued would be more conservative about these things. Even if your bride to be isn't totally pure, she'll likely be in the upper echelon of purity relative to your average Yankee broad. Nonetheless, if you want to be absolutely sure, you should ask her flat out. Honesty will be the best policy, and make sure she's honest with you. Nonetheless, even though a pure bride is preferable, in the grand scheme it don't matter too much as long as the only kids she's popping out are yours!

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She's yours now sport!
Converting Your Bride: If you have gotten hitched to a Yankee girl, she's almost always going to be a Fundie. Now, there ain't nothing wrong with Fundamentalism in of itself, as it is a genuinely Christian faith which is suitable for Yankees and other Anglo-Saxons. However, last we checked, Carolina ain't America, and Cokies ain't other Anglo-Saxons. Carolina always has been, and always will be, Presbyterian country. Furthermore, a religiously mixed household is no way to raise sturdy Presbyterian children. Mothers spend more times with the children than fathers, and Fundie mothers could raise Fundie children. It is paramount that you convert your bride for the sake of your Church, Confederation, and Children. Start off simple by engaging her in Presbyterian oriented Bible study. Begin introducing her to Presbyterian thought in these sessions, but subtly. When y'all move back here, encourage her to attend church and Presbyterian Women's meetings regularly. Make sure she understands the unsuitability of Fundamentalist thought for raising good Carolinian children. In the majority of cases, sheer inertia will do the job within a year to 18 months. If she's particularly stubborn, which is mercifully rare as the fanatic Fundies rarely marry Cokies, don't be afraid to gently but firmly discipline her. She'll learn eventually.

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Look at this fine Presbyterian family! The mother, Ella Carter, is a former Fundie. Good on her and especially her husband!
Cokiefying Your Bride: Having gotten your lovely Yankee rose to join the Presbyterian Church, now it's time for the more difficult task; turning your bride into a proper Cokie! Yankee culture and our culture have some huge gulfs, especially when it comes to women and romance. For the sake of social and domestic harmony, squashing these will be incredibly important, especially once you start raising children. Fortunately for you, the very nature of living within our nation will do a great deal of the work for you, as our wonderful media regularly reinforces our values. However, do your part as well! Insist on traditional Cokie gender roles. Subtly disparage Yankee culture. Hang up a flag, and some portraits of our nation's greatest men. Help her learn the national anthem. Before you know it, your wife will just be a Cokie gal with a funny accent!

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This New Canaan import has taken to Carolinian culture like a fish to water!
What if My Yankee Gal Wants Me to Move North? Break it off. Your Confederation needs you more than she does, and there are huge numbers of eligible Christian women out there for you. Do not succumb to pleas, and remember the Cross and Flag.

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Stand with the police, not the Pinnie!
Reporting and Preventing Race-Mixing: As a Cokie abroad, it's your job to monitor other Cokies for their own safety. Unfortunately, it's not unheard of for Cokie boys abroad to succumb to the "Jacksonland Flu" and engage in racially unacceptable romantic relationships. This is nothing short of race treason, and threatens our national survival. If you are made aware of a fellow Carolinian engaging in a sinful relationship with an African, you can discreetly report them to the OPV hotline for these matters, 1-801-RACE-MIX. Upon their re-entry to the Confederation, they will be detained and quarantined for a period of one month, in accordance with the Prevention of Infectious Disease Act. This is to prevent the transmission of alien African microbes into the general populace, which could start a deadly pandemic. Following their release from quarantine, they will be promptly tried and sent to jail. If you're afraid of succumbing to the Jacksonland Flu, don't panic or beat yourself up. The African is a naturally lustful creature, and the Devil wouldn't be so deadly if he were bad at creating temptation. Remember your heritage, your momma, and the law, and we're sure everything will be alright.

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RACE-MIXING IS ILLUMINISM!

(OOC: Pretend that says Illuminism, not Communism, I suck at editing)

We hope you enjoyed this guide citizen! In the next one, we're going to cover the various clans, their structures, and their internal cultures and rivalries. Hark the Sound!
 
Some thoughts on Chinese Egoism.

Seven Questions and Answers on Self-Respect-Ism (自尊主義七問答), pamphlet which circulated widely in the late 1920s and early 1930s

1) Why must the self demand respect?

Ever since the Great World War, we have not received a single letter from California; it is as if the ninety-thousand of our relatives who lived there never existed at all. And yet it is no mystery what could have happened to them; the late Tsar has soundly educated us in the theory and practice of modern violence.​
What are we to make of this?​
As one who studied in the West, I can say this— living there is like squeezing into the spaces between the wheels of a water-mill or a giant clock, and at any moment a great cog or gear may turn and crush one’s limbs. Each cog digs its teeth called Modern State and Modern Faith into the body of the next, and when the first turns then so will the last. A wild beast or cannibal kills to nourish itself, but even the Tsarist’s basest instinct originates from outside himself and takes him to places where he does not belong.​
The current Republic in Nanjing is a failed attempt at importing modernity, though it proclaims daily the advent of a modern economy, a modern culture, a modern society. All of these have stubbornly remained “old” even in nearby Anhui. But suppose for a moment that the Republic could actually transform the country. With four hundred million people and the resources of half the world, we would be a frightful machine indeed. None would escape from us, including ourselves.​
If we do not respect ourselves, we will be without a single friend.​

2) What keeps the self from respect?
The self is distinguished by the power of choice. However, certain ideas present themselves as beyond choice, as non-negotiable absolutes to which the self must submit.​

Submission is concealed in the language of loyalty. The French and German missionaries agree about the personality of the Christian God. However, they are loyal to separate churches, which are further tied in with separate states. This means they must compete, and call on each other’s converts to doubt their own faith. The missionaries deny themselves the chance to achieve a shared goal, because their own life’s work is actually a very low priority for the people they are truly accountable to.​

The Republic in Nanjing does not resort to ten-penny theatrics of rituals to Heaven and Earth. But then, the Republic is a government of enlightenment, progress, and the rule of law, defined by the striving toward perfection. It claims for itself a moral mission, so even if it is not yet perfect, helping it get there is a holy task. Compliance with its law is virtue. To exhort others to comply is mission. To die in the enforcement of compliance is martyrdom. And to not comply after all that is sin.​

The State steals the robes of God, but God has patterned his fabrics after the State’s. God is king in heaven, while states create heaven on earth. But are you living in heaven? Do you feel that your life is in good hands?​

3) Then how will people work together?

Each person will have varying appetites for different kinds of effort. But if you do not want to do something important by yourself, give the task to someone who you trust, and who holds you in respect. To hand over certain responsibilities to this person is not a problem, because they will never use your reliance on them as leverage.​

This person regards you with love (慈愛). Perhaps you love them back, and love several others besides, who themselves love even more people. Respect for the self leads not to isolation, but paves the way for a voluntary and harmonious union.​

4) Must we love everyone?

As love relies on trust, respect, and security, people who cannot accept the worth of others are disqualified from love (慈愛失格). The rationalist-utopian is disqualified from love, as he bends other wills to a rigid ideal. The murderer and swindler are disqualified from love, as they devalue other people in a more obvious and crude fashion.​

This is not to say that such people are sinners, violators of an obligation. All obligation is illusion. These people are within their rights to act toward us as they choose— but then, we are also empowered to deal with these individuals in any way we choose. There is, after all, no love between us and them.​

5) Will an army organized on such principles be effective?

Joining the hierarchy of an army can still be an expression of one’s own desire; and so long as the attitude of an army does not pervade all society, those who do not desire it can be safe from it. And so long as there is love between soldiers, each can be sure that his fellows are no threat to himself.​

6) Will a nation organized on such principles still be China?

The nation will be as Chinese as each person wants it to be. I can't say any more on the subject, because I cannot speak for you.​

7) What of the foreigners?

People are people, and little else may be conclusively said about them as a group. A person across the seas may be disqualified from love, but his neighbor may not be. The implications of this principle are varied— in the case of war, for example, to take no prisoners at all is to deny the capacity for individual difference. Among “the enemy” there may be useful people worth befriending.​
 
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An interruption of the survival guide so I can finally write something I've been meaning to do for ages.

Lift Up Rifle, Pike, and Saber: The 1937 Charlotte Immigrant Quarter Riots, and the Rise of the Rooftop Coreans

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Several of the Rooftop Coreans pose for a photo after the riots (1939)
Charlotte has always been a surprisingly diverse city, one of the most diverse ones in the Free World outside of the major Yankee cities. Jews, Yankees, Germans, French Protestant refugees, Englishmen, Welshmen, Scotchmen, Ulster Scotchmen, Kangas, Scandinavians, Nipponese, and Coreans all live within her confines side by side with the native born majority. In fact, the majority of the northern half of the city is given over to the Immigrant Quarter, which is further subdivided into ethnic enclaves. The southernmost part of the Quarter is Little Edinburgh, and is home to about 30,000 Scots and 15,000 Ulster Scots. Directly north of Little Edinburgh is Coreatown, home to over 12,000 Coreans. Northwest of Coreatown, one finds Scanditown, home to about 6,670 immigrants from the various Scandinavian nations. Northeast of Coreatown is Little Britain, home to some 35,000 English and Welsh immigrants. North of these two enclaves, one finds Little Melbourne, home to some 18,000 Kangas. Northwest of this enclave, there are two communities, Little Israel and Nippontown. Little Israel is home to about 4,500 Jews, while Nippontown has around 10,000 Nipponese. Northeast of Little Melbourne, there is Huguenottown, home to 4,000 French Protestants. Directly north of these enclaves are the last two communities in the Quarter; Krautburg and Yankburg. Krautburg is home to about 37,000 Germans from the various Germanies, while Yankburg is home to some 90,000 Yankees. The geography of the Immigrant Quarter is important to note because of the way status played into it. Simply put, the further North a community was, the less respected it was by the native born, and the more impoverished and oppressed it was as a result.

This resulted in a complicated, tiered hierarchy within the various ethnic groups themselves. At the absolute top were your Scottish and Ulster Scots. They collectively owned 1/3rd of the Quarter, and held control of the Common Sense Party in the Quarter. Almost every alderman the Quarter elected was Scotch or Ulster Scotch. Directly beneath them, although arguably close to their equals, were the Coreans. They too owned 1/3rd of the quarter as a group, and often played landlord to the Yankees and Nipponese. They were less powerful politically, but had a bizarrely high level of influence over the Presbyterian churches in the Quarter, making up a majority of pastors. The Scandinavians and other Brits were beneath the Coreans, having a decent level of control over their own neighborhoods and livelihoods, but no real power beyond the boundaries of their enclave. One could argue that the English were slightly below the Scandinavians and Welsh because they were occasionally harassed by Scotchmen, but this was incredibly rare and didn't make too much of a difference in the grand scheme. Beneath them are the Kangas. While they still control a decent portion of their neighborhood and are treated well enough, they are looked down upon as being both foreign and somewhat hickish, and economically they're much more dependent on Scottish and Ulster Scotch businesses for employment, goods, and shelter. Beneath the Kangas are the Jews, Nipponese, and French. The Jews are viewed as a financial threat by the Scotch-Corean elite of the Quarter due to the success the community has been known to have, and whenever they're getting too close to financial independence as a community, it isn't uncommon for anti-Semitic theft and violence to flare up. The Nipponese are hated by the Coreans, who essentially owned the neighborhood by the late 1930's. They are subjected to racism, rent gouging, and are thrust into demeaning jobs for low wages. The French aren't as badly exploited financially, but are frequently bullied for their origins and urged to convert to Presbyterianism and Anglicize their names. Finally, at the very bottom of this complicated caste system, you have the Germans and Yankees. The Germans were widely despised because of their connections to imperial competition with Carolina in Africa and the hated Loomies. The Yankees were despised because the large mass of unassimilated Americans secretly kept everyone up at night, terrified that they might be a fifth column. Of note is that those at the bottom of this hierarchy did have a path to fully enjoying the benefits of citizenship... by converting to Presbyterianism, learning Cokie English, oftentimes changing their last name, and totally abandoning any semblance of their old identity.

This was the way the Immigrant Quarter was run. No one complained too much, and the Scotch-Corean ruling class of this little world didn't go out of their way to extract wealth or oppress, but did just enough to keep the cash coming in and stay in charge. Nonetheless, resentment had built from the Kangas on down. Then came Operation: Manifest Climax. Carolina, as a full-fledged member of the League of Nations and an obedient client state, immediately jumped into the fray. This meat grinder of a war needed soldiers, and conscription was the obvious solution. However, in the Immigrant Quarter, the Corean and Scotch leadership schemed with the local OPV to thrust most of the burden down on the bottom groups of ethnicities when their draft time came up on December 1st, 1937. The result; out of 2,000 draftees, only 40 were Corean or Scotch, with another 50 coming from Little Britain and Scanditown. The remaining 1,910 were drafted from the Australians, Jews, Nipponese, French, Germans, and Americans. The result was instant. As if with one mind, these groups banded together and stormed towards Coreatown and Little Edinburgh. Once word got out about what was happening, the people of Little Edinburgh put together honest to God roadblocks and trenches. The Coreans, being shorter on time, grabbed their firearms and headed for the rooftops. Not everyone made it. Some 300 Coreans were murdered down below. The Coreans began to open fire on the looters, who were busy destroying property or trying to clamber up onto rooftops. Two businesses fell to the rioters, Mr Lee's Grocery, and the office of Yun Property Management. The results were horrific. Men were beaten or killed, while most of the women were raped in full view of the community. Mercifully for the Coreans, no more businesses fell, and some good shooting got some of those who managed to take the rooftops. The rioting went on for three days, dying down in Coreatown as some mobs went after the now heavily fortified Little Edinburgh. On December 4th, the Army rolled in to support the beleaguered residents and OPV, and pushed the rioters back. The Coreans had held their ground for three days, oftentimes while hungry. They became national heroes, lauded as "Honest, god-fearing Presbyterian Patriots who defended life, liberty, and property with great vigor and sturdiness." The Presbyterian Church and thousands of ordinary citizens donated time and money to help rebuild Coreatown, and to a lesser extent, Little Edinburgh. However, the story doesn't end there.

On December 6th, a new draft, this time for 6,000 soldiers and nurses, was instituted in the Quarter. Every single one of them was from the lower castes. When one German woman protested all 4 of her sons being drafted, she was shot dead by Virtuemen in front of the whole community. It was a show of force by the Confederate government, and it worked. However, the Scotch, and especially the Coreans were not even close to getting their revenge. On December 11th, several Corean men lynched an Australian for not saying excuse me. On December 25th, a mob of Coreans burned down the First Fundamentalist Church of Charlotte during the Patriot-Saints Day services. Of the 1,100 congregants inside, only 84 made it out alive. The Yankee government, distracted by bad news in South America, didn't even issue a statement. The Americans in Yankburg began taking down their flags and hiding their copies of the Four Books. Even worse was the chillingly methodical vengeance exacted for the rape of Corean women. The victimized women and girls were asked to describe their attackers, who were then cross-referenced with other eyewitnesses, those who had been drafted, as well as employment and government records. When matches for appearance and believed ethnicity were found, groups of adult male family and friends of the victimized women would track down the assumed perpetrators adult female relatives, and "make those animals reap what they sowed." Making matters worse, they made sure to tell the women they victimized why they were doing so, and shattered hundreds of families as a result. As if this wasn't horrifying enough, this method was predictably not 100% accurate, and although a shockingly high majority of families targeted did have a rapist among their number (modern estimates put it at 70%) a large minority did not, and were completely innocent. What truly frightened everyone involved was the painstakingly methodical way in which these families were hunted down and victimized. Adding insult to injury, most of the men blamed, innocent or guilty, would later be hunted down and lynched anyway by separate mobs, provided they hadn't already been drafted or committed suicide.

In the aftermath of the Riot and the reprisals, life in the Immigrant Quarter changed. Coreans, Scotchmen, Englishmen, Welshmen, and Scandinavians were told by alderman Enoch Ferguson to begin wearing flag pins featuring the Cokie flag and the flag of their origin country as an easy way to identify one another. These ethnic groups were informally classed as "Budding Citizens." All others were dubbed "Resident Aliens." Signs began appearing in businesses in Coreatown and Little Edinburgh that said; "No Dogs, No Papists, No Aliens." Ironically, many of these businesses were staffed by said Aliens. These new rules were enforced brutally and with impunity from legal punishment. If curious American tourists asked about the meaning of the word Aliens, they were told it was meant as a warning to foolish Hispanics who had been trying to sneak in on freighters from South America. This satisfied most, and many of them had little interest in seeing much beyond Scanditown, as most of the oppressed ethnicities were fairly common and free back home, giving them little tourist appeal. Aliens were eventually forbidden from entering Coreatown at all except to work. Wages were lowered and rents and prices were raised across the board, pressures made worse by the total consolidation of ownership in Alien communities by Coreans and the Scotch. When the Coreans and Scottish visited Alien communities, the residents were eventually made to clear off all sidewalks for them, and were forbidden from making eye contact. And finally, racist violence against these communities by Coreans, Scotch, and some native born became ubiquitous. The Riot of '37, almost a rebellion really, had turned the masters of the Immigrant Quarter into unforgiving tyrants who were backed up by the law.

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German businesses destroyed by Corean and Scottish reprisals.

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A mob of Coreans, Scotchmen, and native Cokies burn Australian flags and religious texts during a reprisal.


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Authorities desperately try to save the First Fundamentalist Church of Charlotte.
 
That turned out more horrific than I initially planned. Tomorrow it's going to be back to the more light-hearted guide, focusing on business and the Clans
 
So there isn't a square inch of dirt in the world where Japanese people aren't second class citizens are worse :(

Are Coreans subject to the "no racemixing"rule? If they aren't, that means large parts of the Presbyterian infrastructure are controlled by people who can't be allied with the aristocracy through normal means, which may affect the CK2-esque politics that have grown up around the dynastic Chancellorship
 
So there isn't a square inch of dirt in the world where Japanese people aren't second class citizens are worse :(

Are Coreans subject to the "no racemixing"rule? If they aren't, that means large parts of the Presbyterian infrastructure are controlled by people who can't be allied with the aristocracy through normal means, which may affect the CK2-esque politics that have grown up around the dynastic Chancellorship

I think that Japanese in actual Yankeeland are pretty well treated in the interest of national unity. Plus, we haven't seen much of Japan yet. The MacArthur's might not be too bad in the grand scheme. But all in all, the Coreans hate them, which is fairly historical.

First a bit of clarification; all the Corean control of the Church mentioned is concentrated in that one part of Charlotte. Outside of the Immigrant Quarter, they're too few and far between to have real power. That being said, I think that while there's strict race-mixing rules for that for now, I could weirdly see that dropping even as the Cokies double down on anti-everyone else mixing. Lots of OTL white supremacists have had various "things" for East Asian cultures and people, so I could eventually see the Cokies allowing it and justify it by saying that they're basically the same as white Jews.
 
I think that Japanese in actual Yankeeland are pretty well treated in the interest of national unity. Plus, we haven't seen much of Japan yet. The MacArthur's might not be too bad in the grand scheme. But all in all, the Coreans hate them, which is fairly historical.
IIRC Japan is still theoretically a separate nation though. But yeah we haven't seen the MacArthurs in action

First a bit of clarification; all the Corean control of the Church mentioned is concentrated in that one part of Charlotte. Outside of the Immigrant Quarter, they're too few and far between to have real power. That being said, I think that while there's strict race-mixing rules for that for now, I could weirdly see that dropping even as the Cokies double down on anti-everyone else mixing. Lots of OTL white supremacists have had various "things" for East Asian cultures and people, so I could eventually see the Cokies allowing it and justify it by saying that they're basically the same as white Jews.
Ah okay. It's also possible that the Coreans themselves call for keeping race laws strict as they acquire their own sense of weird pride/supremacist thinking. Also provides symbolic support for arranged marriages and family-based politics more generally
 
Dear lord, if that's how the Cokies treat their fellow Betters, I don't wanna know how they will treat non-Betters if something like that happened.
 
Dear lord, if that's how the Cokies treat their fellow Betters, I don't wanna know how they will treat non-Betters if something like that happened.

They have a simple system for dealing with non-Betters:

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Fun with puns aside, I imagine the Cokie government is less harsh. This was mainly a gigantic ethnic feud between rival minorities, which can honestly be even bloodier as history has shown. I don't even think there's this much violence in other big cities between minorities. Charlotte was just a tinderbox
 
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And here I hoped that the Cokies would turn out to be at least a little better than the Yankees. How foolish of me.

I mean.... in some ways they still are. Genocide is a lot less frequent. There are still elections and dissent is still kinda allowed. Plus, while the riot is notable, it's again more of an isolated phenomenon. I imagine that this is probably what the Nightstalkers do every year in the ghettos.
 
Joking time - I have been told to look like Koreans, even though I am not even East Asian. I wonder if I could survive in Carolina - well I would have to pick up at least Carolinian English.
And yea, Cokies xenophobic attitudes are really frightening. Truly a dystopic world to live in.
 
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Regarding the Cokie Guide: I would not be surprised there was not a chapter for men on the 'Red Light' districts in Yankee cities. While I am sure nothing like that exists in Yankeeland "wink wink" or in the Confederation I would think there would be a section about 'Good Time Girls and Public Health'.

As for the Corean section, I would think that the immigrant sections of Charlotte would be slated for 'urban redevelopment' post war.
 
Regarding the Cokie Guide: I would not be surprised there was not a chapter for men on the 'Red Light' districts in Yankee cities. While I am sure nothing like that exists in Yankeeland "wink wink" or in the Confederation I would think there would be a section about 'Good Time Girls and Public Health'.

As for the Corean section, I would think that the immigrant sections of Charlotte would be slated for 'urban redevelopment' post war.

I don't think they'd include it simply because the government believes it'd increase public immorality. If anything, I imagine their "guidance" would be to have another OPV hotline, maybe something like 1-801-LOVE-SIN.

As far as the Corean section goes, I imagine that the Australians, Yankees, and Germans are going to start converting en masse to escape the violence. In fact, I debated including something about the riot being a deliberate thing the government incited to create a backlash and force people to convert and assimilate. Lots of the Quarter will eventually be bulldozed though, you're right
 
Another weird concept based on the guide writings: maybe the Cokie/Corean answer to Fascist fears of their Fluids being sapped is a huge aversion to microbes. On the surface it's more sane, but it's obviously insane once you actually see beneath the surface. It's also weirdly conducive to the whole 50's schtick I think they could have, and their chivalry thing:

"Every man's home is his castle, and his wife his lady fair. However, a man can't be a man if his home is infected with nasty foreign microbes. That's why our Camelot of today and tomorrow needs strong Christian women to keep the microbes at bay using bleach, ammonia, and the odd deep chlorination! Stay home ladies, and win the War on Microbes!"
 
Another weird concept based on the guide writings: maybe the Cokie/Corean answer to Fascist fears of their Fluids being sapped is a huge aversion to microbes. On the surface it's more sane, but it's obviously insane once you actually see beneath the surface. It's also weirdly conducive to the whole 50's schtick I think they could have, and their chivalry thing:

"Every man's home is his castle, and his wife his lady fair. However, a man can't be a man if his home is infected with nasty foreign microbes. That's why our Camelot of today and tomorrow needs strong Christian women to keep the microbes at bay using bleach, ammonia, and the odd deep chlorination! Stay home ladies, and win the War on Microbes!"
Man, I can imagine them going whole-hog in on sterilizing via radiation if you're going in on a 50's germophobe aesthetic, along with major overuse of antibiotics as soon as they're available. There's going to be all sorts of weird cancers and monster bugs coming out of Cokie country if they're not careful.
 
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