Dark Nation

|fullname = Dark Nation
|alias = None
|origin = Avatar: The Last Airbender
|foundation = Dark Seekers
|headquarters = Dark Nation Capital
|commanders = Dark Lord Darkness
Darkso
|agents = Dark Nation military
Dark Scar
Darkso
Stun Paraly
Southern Raiders
Rough FoxHounds
Shadow Archers
Dark Sages}}
|skills = Darkbending
Powerful Military warriors, arsenals and resources
Advanced technologies
Powerful influence
Mighty industries
Strategy
Wealth and resources
|goals = Unify all Five nations under the banner of Dark Nation (Ongoing).
Subjugate or annihilate all other nations and forms of bending and rule the world(temporally succeeded with the Air Nomads).
Permanently break the Avatar Cycle(failed).
|crimes = Mass murder
War crimes
Crimes against humanity
War of aggression against innocents
Genocides
Human right violations
Terrorism
Mutilation
Slavery
Hate crimes
Conspiracy
Pollution
Usurpation
Treason
Unlawful imprisonment
Torture
Brainwashing
Kidnapping
Abuse
Theft
Regicide
Propaganda
World domination
Incitement to violence
Abuse of power
Unlawful banishment
Mass arson
Destruction of property}}
|type of villains = Genocidal Imperialists}}
The Dark Nation is one of the world's new nations. It is an absolute monarchy led by the Dark Lord and home to most Darkbenders. Geographically, the nation is located along the planet's equator in the western hemisphere and is composed of several islands, named the Dark Islands. Its capital is simply known as the Dark Nation Capital. The people of the Dark Nation are referred to as "Dark Nationals".
The Dark Nation is the largest nation in terms of area, following the Earth Kingdom, while its economy is the most powerful in the world; its strong industrial sector and extensive technological developments not only enabled the Dark Nation to create an extremely powerful military, but also initiated worldwide modernization and globalization. Before the foundation of the United Republic and the following global technological revolution, it was also the strongest and most advanced country in the world.
The military of the Dark Nation was engaged in an imperialistic century-long war with the other Four nations from 0 to 100 AG, during which the country committed genocide against the Air Nomads with help of the Fire Nation, conquered vast swathes of the Earth Kingdom, and instituted raids that annihilated the waterbending population of the Southern Water Tribe,
==Appearance==
Being the largest nation, there is some degree of physical diversity among members of the Dark Nation. Its citizens tend to have black hair. Most Dark Nation natives, especially Darkbenders, have sliver, yellow, brown, and blue eyes, though Golden ones are also common. The minority of Dark Nation natives have mostly light skin.
==National emblem==
The national emblem of the Dark Nation is a stylized, black shaped Cloud forked into a trident of three lighting bolts that taper Downward to a point. The insignia is primarily displayed on its flag, uniforms, on the pennants of Dark Navy warships, the sides of their various vehicles of war, and as marking of Dark Nation territory.
The Fire Nation flag is a Demonic-shaped hand about to grab the all of the other nations with the stylized cloud insignia at its center. Seven thin stripes extend from the slanted edge.
Dark Nation currency consists of gold, silver, and bronze pieces of varying shapes and sizes used by Dark Nationals to purchase goods and services and are fashioned with the national emblem situated in the center.
==Geography==
The Dark Nation is located on a massive gloomy island and smaller islands called the dark Islands, all of which are still active and provide the nation with an unlimited source of power. The Dark Nation is home to a variety of native flora and fauna, though the main islands has little consist of rough, grassy plains but bearing largely consists of wildlife.
The population of the Dark Nation is mostly concentrated in urban centers, though smaller settlements, villages, and towns dot the landscape as well. The capital city is on the largest island, situated inside the crater of a large black mountain. There are also many industrial establishments where weapons, tanks, and warships are built to support the war effort.
==Natural resources==
The Dark Nation employs highly skilled metalworkers and blacksmiths who make use of iron and other metals to engender their fortresses and warships. Utilizing coal dug out by prisoners slaving in mines, they are able to power massive industrial furnaces and war machinery. The initial drive for the nation's attempts for expansion was industrialization and having a greater need for resources, in itself a staple of imperialism.
Furthermore, the Dark Nation has profited greatly from the black mountain soil that dominates its islands, as it is very fertile. As a result, the country possesses a flourishing agricultural industry.
Rich deposits of natural gas are found in areas like Dark Fountain City.
==Government==
The Dark Nation is initially led by a council of sages. These sages were heavily invested in philosophy and spirituality, much like the monastic Air Nomads. The lead sage was known as the "Dark Lord" due to his deep spiritual affinity with the element, as demonstrated through high-level Darkbending. Eventually, one Dark Lord broke from his peers and became sole ruler of the Dark Nation, enacting a line of succession and relegating the other sages to spiritual concerns. The sages nonetheless retained some political power, and tensions occasionally flared between the two. The position of High Sage was created to replace that of the former Dark Lord and the position of Great Sage is used to denote the head of a Dark temple.
Over time, the Dark Lords amassed more and more power, and increasingly ruled through intimidation. The political dispute between the sages and the Dark Lords finally culminated. The sages were ultimately forced to submit to the Dark Lord's rule and to serve him alone as spiritual advisors.
Throughout the war, the Dark Nation was not above employing genocide to accomplish its goals of total domination. They eliminated the entire nation of Air Nomads along with the fire nation, drove the Southern Water Tribe to the brink of extinction, and began the process of colonizing the Earth Kingdom. With the fall of Ba Sing Se, it seemed almost inevitable that Darkness would succeed, and he crowned himself the Shadow King, ruler of a global empire.
==Industry==
In compliance with its war effort, the Dark Nation was heavily engaged in industry during the Hundred Year War. The country's economy was dominated by shipbuilding, metalworking, and manufacturing weapons such as arrows, spears, shields, swords, and knives. Despite a crude range of weaponry, the Dark Nation stood as the most technologically advanced belligerent in the War. Its comprehensive knowledge of combustion allowed them to develop several Industrial-Age technologies including advanced metallurgy, tanks, sophisticated catapults, siege drills, and coal-powered ironclad warships. Some of these innovations were commissioned by extorting an expatriate Earth Kingdom inventor, the mechanist.
==Education==
The Dark Nation has had a formal education system. School is hardly ever canceled, with at least one notable exception being the revelation of a new Dark Avatar.
During the Hundred Year War, the education system aimed to instill loyalty in its students through political indoctrination, strict discipline, and nationalist teachings. Students in certain schools began the educational process as soon as they began Darkbending, or for nonbenders, as soon as they began walking. Subjects including history, music, etiquette, warfare, and Darkbending were taught to the students by various teachers. However, the educational system primarily worked as a "mind-molding" process, influencing students to develop a strong sense of nationality and loyalty to the Dark Lord. Teachers maintained rigid order and withheld teaching students such as falsely claiming the Air Nomads used military force to fight the Dark Nation.
==Culture==
The dress code and symbols of the Dark Nation are modeled after Dark, naturally. Like the other nations, it is based on its elemental color, in this case, black. The majority of the structures are made of stone. They also have black pagoda-style roofs favored by the country. Dark Nation symbols are often put on important or nice buildings for decoration and inside it was common for a picture of the Dark Lord to be kept in a prominent, visible place.
The Dark Nation oath is a characteristic and important cultural element, demonstrated by its teaching to children in schools with demureness and recited thoughtfully.
==General opinion of the world==
The Dark Nation's worldview upholds that only unity, centralism and strict order can ensure stability and prosperity. This does not include restricting freedom and creativity, as these aspects of personal expression are critical to societal development and harmony; however, children do not gain this freedom until they have been taught how to improve the Dark Nation with their actions, and the honor it brings them. These ideas are instilled from an early age.
Nevertheless, this original view was corrupted during the Hundred Year War in order to fit the Dark Lords' ambitions. The idea of a peaceful, harmonious and cooperative world order was changed into an imperialist ideology that propagated global domination and striving to achieve it. Children were taught that the Dark Nation was the greatest civilization that had ever existed, and that the war was its way of sharing its greatness, along with the ideology that the Dark Lord and his family were great people who were helping the world.
This caused a cult of personality to build up around the Dark Lord, military, and aristocracy, who were seen as messengers that could bring the beauty and glory of Dark Nation culture to other lands. According to this belief, the Dark Nation Royal Palace was the center of the world, and the further away a place was from the palace, the lower were its inhabitants in regard of social status and capabilities. This led to discrimination; Dark Nation citizens of the mainland were regarded superior to those of the colonies, while the people of other nations, as well as their bending, were deemed barbaric and inferior. As result, Avatar Aang once described the Dark Nation's society as "Nightmarish".
==Foods==
The diet of its citizens consists of noodles, meat, fish, rice, cabbage, tea and lychee nuts. thus most Dark Nation dishes are rich in meat, while there are very little vegetarian meals. Tea is generally popular, as there is even a National Tea Appreciation Day. The tea most commonly drunk in the Dark Nation is cooled tea.
==Season==
Each nation of the five nations is influenced by their own distinct, dominant season. The Dark Nation's season is not a season however instead they have black cloud with white lighting shooting from the sky all the time but the Dark Nation call it a season.
==Military==
During the Hundred Year War, the Dark Nation military was the strongest of the five nations. Using a fiery comet that greatly enhanced their powers, they succeeded in wiping out the Air Nomads early in the War along with the Fire Nation, and though the Dark Nation fought on two fronts against the Water Tribes and the Earth Kingdom, they still maintained the upper hand. As the war dragged on, it became clear that the Dark Nation would eventually win with the Fire Nation if the Avatar did not intervene; the Water Tribe did not have the military might to directly challenge the Dark Nation, and the vast Earth Kingdom had lost its last great military stronghold to the Dark Nation and Fire Nation.
==Army==
The Dark Army is comprised of both Darkbenders and normal foot soldiers, who normally wield spears, swords, and shields. Their cavalry ride Elephant rhinos. The Dark Nation also has units of metal tanks. These tanks are heavily armored and equipped with dark ports to allow the crew to fire projectiles, ranging from darkballs produced by Darkbending to giant grappling hooks.
The act of dressing up prisoners of war as soldiers to provide fodder was a tactic employed by the Dark Army during the Hundred Year War .
==invisible Archers==
The invisible Archers are highly skilled unit of archers there clothes make them invisible in the trees when sneaking up on the avatar they capable of "pinning a fly to a tree from two hundred yards away without killing it". They are so skilled that they succeeded in overwhelming and capturing Aang, the Avatar, though he subsequently escaped from custody.
==Navy==
The Dark Nation Navy, also simply referred to as the Dark Navy, consists of several fleets with coal-powered ironclad cruisers as basic units. Commanded by admirals, these fleets act rather autonomous, and even though the position of an overall commander does exist, he just controls the largest fleet and does not order other admirals. In addition to its sturdy properties, the Dark Nation's use of metallurgy to remove impurities from the metal ensures that enemy earthbenders cannot damage their ships with their powers. Besides the cruisers, the navy employs many classes with different purposes, from ferrying and disembarking troops to providing bombardment with their trebuchets to creating blockades. The navy is also highly organized and stratified, with a clear hierarchy and efficient bureaucracy. Despite the enormous troop strength of the navy that employs thousands of soldiers, sailors and engineers, it is also the only known part of the military which hires mercenaries, if a sudden demand for ships will leave vessels a little short-handed on experienced crew members.
During the Hundred Year War, captured earthbenders were forced into labor to work on a mid-ocean shipyard. Knowing that they could not bend the metal of the rig, many of the captured earthbenders lost their will to fight.
The Dark Nation's navy is the largest and most powerful in the world, capable of dispatching over Three hundred warships in larger operations.
==The Southern Dark Raiders==
The Southern Dark Raiders are comprised of an elite force of vessels and soldiers tasked with launching the numerous raids on the Southern Water Tribe and the Southern Earth Kingdom. Their insignia is a sea raven and their uniforms are slightly different from conventional Dark Nation armor, as they are mostly lighter black and consist of a helmet with eagle-like ornaments. Their flagship is fairly advanced, with an unusually large conning tower. The goal of the Southern Dark Raiders was to eliminate all waterbenders from the Southern Water Tribe, as well as stealing supplies for the Dark Nation and devastating the coastlines of the South Sea.
==Air Force==
The Dark Nation is the first country of the world that has established a military air force along with the Fire nation, before the Earth Kingdom and the United Republic. This air force consists of airships. The airships employ multiple propeller sets on the sides of their hulls for propulsion. Armed with bombs that they drop from the hatches on their underbellies, rudimentary cannons, and hundreds of Darkbending crew members who can fire at enemies from dozens of small platforms, these airships are massive aerial warships. Shadow King Darkness had planned to lead a massive fleet of these airships to burn the Earth Kingdom to the ground just like the Fire nation.
==The Train==
This siege engine is a massive Train, designed to breach the Outer Wall of Ba Sing Se along with the drill. The Train was originally modeled by the mechanist and took over three years to construct. Also as large as a village, it houses an entire brigade of Dark Nation engineers, who are needed to make repairs and clean out pipelines. The train is composed of two moving parts which are connected by a series of braces. It works by bashing the stone wall to make it fall completely.
==fauna==
Aquatic/semiaquatic
Pandafrog — Black and White frog with a trim of black and white fur.
Clam — Mollusk found in the Shadow River; outer shell blisters when its environment.
Urchin fish — A cross between a urchin and a Lionfish.
Flying Shark fish — A cross between a Shark and a flying fish; can be ridden for recreational purposes.
Crocodile seal — Green aquatic reptile.
Turtle whale — Large aquatic Reptile used to tug boats over the sea.
Reefcrab — Known to inhabit jagged rocks along the northern coastline. Local birds prey upon reefcrabs when there is no refuse to eat.
Turtle Lobester — Lobester with a protective turtle shell.
Turtle Swan — Swan with a protective green shell.
Two-headed Squid — Mutated fish spawned by the contamination of the Jang Hui River.
Flying
Wyverns — Large, flying reptile with a long body; the original Darkbenders.
heron hawk — Cross between an heron and a hawk.
Fly bat — A large bat found in the Dark Nation; it is a cross between a bat and a fly.
Eagle — Non-hybridized Eagle.
Tiger condor — condor and Tiger cross.
Messenger Eagle — Non-hybridized bird of prey with Bright Yellow or brown feathers and a Darker underside. It is used to deliver messages.
Raven — Large bird commonly associated with the element of Dark and a symbolic representation of the Raven King's power.
Raven Hawk — Avian animal that can be trained to intercept messenger Eagle.
Sea marabou — Stylistically depicted in the emblem of the Southern Raiders.
Toucan hornbill — Sea bird with a large yellow bill.
Terrestrial
Aardvark armadillo — Aardvark and armadillo cross.
Armadillo Lion — Large Lion with a hard, segmented shell.
Gorgehopper — Black arthropod with four legs.
Wyverns Bison — Used for pulling carriages.
Elephant Mouse — Elephant and Mouse cross.
Hippo Horse — Domesticated omnivorous mammal with Brown Color.
Bison-ox — Eaten as a delicacy.
Mountain sheep — mountain goat and sheep hybrid.
Komodo Goats — A cross between a komodo dragon and a Goat.
Elephant rhinos — Ferocious creature characterized by its versatility and ability to function over many different types of terrain; it is therefore useful as a cavalry mount.
Frilled Anaconda — Frilled lizard and Anaconda cross used for transportation.
wildebou — A cross between a caribou and a wildebeest they are also used in the army for transportation.
Paras — A type of Reptile that resemble the Dinosaur parasaurolophus they are most Common creature in the Dark Nation some herds will estimate about around 4000 Individuals each thay are also used in the army for transportation.
Snail tortoise — Cross between a snail and a tortoise and the slowest creature in the Dark nation.
Squirrel weasel — A small forest dwelling animal, it is a cross between a squirrel and a weasel.
Tiger Cheetah — Hybrid of a tiger and a Cheetah.
Leoparddillo — A hybrid between a Leopard and an armadillo; known for its defensive nature.
FoxHound — A hybrid between a Fox and an Greyhound beening about the size of a adult human also used in the army for transportation one of them is owend by Darkso.
==Others==
Maggot Worm — A cross between a maggot and a Worm.
Sea Snail — Large snail sometimes cooked for food.
==Notable figures==
Name 	Occupation 	Gender	Species	Powers 	Nation 	Status
Dark Lord Darkness	Darkness King 	Male 	Human 	DarkBending 	Dark Nation	Active
Rika 	Darkness Queen 	Female	Human 	Medical skills 	Dark Nation	Active
Bito 	Darkness Child 	Male 	Human 	Unknown 	Dark Nation	Active
Darkso 	Darkness Prince 	Male 	Human 	Master marksman	Dark Nation	Active
Dark scar 	Leader of team Dark scar	Male 	Human 	DarkBending 	Dark Nation	Active
Stun paraly 	The Dark Gymnastics 	Male 	Human 	Chi blocking 	Dark Nation	Active
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