America (Rabydosverse)

While the **United States of America** does not exist in the main universe of the Rabydosverse settings, it is represented by several civilisations from alternate dimensions, most of which are dystopian.

The universe of Sondor has an equivalent of America, which is one of the few "good" exceptions, if not of all the Terrans in the Rabydosverse. It was not only for being an ally of the modern-day Jerdiskar countries, but also for being better-behaved and rational than the Terran invaders, defying how Jerdiskar would assume *all* Terrans would behave.

## Denlotian-era Americans

""*Why do you do this?", you ask. "Why do you let your poor starve and slave away, rather than allow them to live and waste away, in an easy lie of a "life"?" They should have worked harder. They should have shut up and complied. Pain is the mother of purpose, and the father of innovation. That's just the way it is, because reality is cruel, and we must be. And you better shut up too, because it's the truth™.*"

- General Markus Illin, Unified Corporation, Reorganisation Wars

"*Please, please, don't take my precious car and mansion! I will give you a million credits! Please, no, no, no!*"

- General Markus Illin, final words before his execution

The negative perception of Americans and their homeworld(s) was shaped by several invasions from otherworldly armies, summoned by desperate warlords to take over Jerde. The various armies from different dysfunctional Americas of different universes and dystopias are all rolled up into a single nightmare to represent an entire civilisation. Their members consisted of people considered to be too extreme even by Americans from other universes, from warlords, to scammers, corporate tyrants, fanatical cultists, murderers, torturers, and keyboard warriors with unhinged worldviews. The warlords who summoned them saw them as among the ideal soldiers, their madness and fanatical attitude being suitable to make them nothing more than humans reduced to weapons.

The American warlords were notorious for their twisted form of responsibility and individualism. Whenever someone suffers, they will not help the victim, but expect them to suffer even more. Many of them believe that by torment, people become better because of fear, and cruelty will force people to innovate and make something better. These were shaped by the dire conditions that they grew up under, whether by tyrannical elites or famines in their homeworlds. Because of those tyrants, even simple concepts like "responsibility", "patience", and "consequences" were either abhorred or used with more-comfortable words in the World Alliance, because those concepts were believed to turn the believer into someone as cruel as the Americans.

The utopia, or ideal society, according to the warlords is simply known as "the real world" or "reality". It is a cruel society that looks down on cooperation, seeking help, and especially complaining, where everyone who suffers must be silent and allow abusers to torment them. Any opposition to "the real world" was seen as "communism", where parasites destroy everything around them, especially the rich and powerful who may be challenged by upstarts. Alternatively, some Americans instead proposed more radical forms of society - whether as collectivist hives, pop culture cults, or revolutionary purges - that looked down on the Jerdiskar as "backwards" and "bigoted" for refusing to obey them.

"Freedom", a concept used by some American armies on Jerde, was seen in Jerdiskar society as a farce, a mutilated mockery of real freedom. Instead of simply the freedom to live a safe and happy life, without any restrictions on expression, the Terrans instead abused freedom as an excuse to radicalise people and create chaos. They instead wanted the "freedom" to say everything vile under the sun, and to convert everyone to follow their societies, even if doing so may lead to poverty, militarism, instability, sociopathy, and self-destruction. This is why Jerdiskar do not trust people who spout words like "freedom" or "truth", yet do the opposite, simply for the sake of power; yet Jerdiskar society has a high degree of personal freedoms, mostly for the sake of efficiency and ethics.

After they defeated the invaders, many years ago, the peoples and leaders of the World Alliance had made a common rule that "no Earthling may rule over us". Like all Terrans, anyone of American descent or culture was banned from having any position of authority or leadership. The only ones who were permitted were usually those who gave up their Terran background and abandoned certain disruptive beliefs. Many behaviours, attitudes, and customs associated with the American armies on Jerde were banned out of fear of corruption into selfishness and cruelty - usually those that looked selfish, arrogant, aggressive, hateful, and hostile.

However, one phrase used by some American armies, "**no justice, no peace**", was adopted as one of the World Alliance's central dogmas. It was the basis behind its attempts to rapidly rebuild infrastructure and forcefully erase various social ills from humanity.

Needless to say, the "Americans" on Jerde ended up becoming the enemies of the Denlotia and all of its survivors. Without the understanding of the Jerdiskar, they ended up becoming more fanatical, bound by hatred against the Denlotians and seeking nothing more than either their destruction or their subjugation. One of their most infamous battlecries was "Life isn't fair, deal with it!", especially as a curse against their enemies.

They emerged again during the Reorganisation Wars as members of the six empires, but they were defeated and many of them fled to other planets. One of the resulting empires was the Terran Empire.

They lived on in folklore as monsters and caricatures, their fanatical dreams of a better world turned into an amusing caricature of extremism and hatred. In modern times, Americans, especially the armies of the Fifty-Six Tyrants and their descendants, ended up as costumes, similar to the Ardeschis before them. Yet the peoples of Jerde sometimes pitied them, along with other militants, for the immense suffering within them. So they gathered many records left behind by those otherworldly invaders as lessons for society to avoid.

## "American behaviours"

See also: Denlotian Grievance Laws

A number of behaviours, even petty annoyances, were considered to be "Terran" or "American", mostly because they were supported by the Terrans and they made the Jerdiskar upset. These range from reminders of atrocities to simply very little annoyances that the Terrans enjoyed doing against Jerdiskar.

Traumatised and driven mad by years of war and suffering, the Jerdiskar lashed out at the arrogant, bragging Terrans, murdering them over even trivial acts to force them to stop. But as more Terrans continued mostly out of spite, later Jerdiskar were instructed to leave them alone.

Even then, the same "Americans" and their successors in later eras were the subjects of psychological research, to study the causes and motives of their disruptive, self-centred attitude. In most of their research, the Terran enemy developed this attitude because many of them were from troubled, tormented backgrounds and dire social conditions, forcing them to be cruel and selfish in order to survive. Their enemy cared more about their own survival than the well-being of everyone else, due to being forced into it by their surroundings: that was why Jerdiskar societies value improving psychological healthcare and morality classes, using the irritable Terrans as anti-examples to avoid.

### Major offenses

* Excessive religious devotion - Many "American" civilisations were known for their obsession with religion
* Pride in harmful behaviours - For example, being "proud to be a bigot", "proud to be a racist", usually hides more murderous mentalities.
	+ People who do these, usually for the sake of freedom or tradition, will surely support the Terrans and betray their homeworld. People who develop this attitude are considered as traitors, and are punished as potential war criminals.
* Spite defiance - This term refers to the American habit of doing what you forbid them to do.
	+ Notable examples include American Terrans choosing to curse and vandalise when Jerdiskar request them not to do it, and proudly adopting demonic or evil imagery when they are condemned instead of apologising and correcting themselves.
	+ According to research, the Americans and Terrans did so because they came from dystopian societies, or they were neglected, so attention became one of their main goals for survival. They also had to become too expressive because of a fear of being crushed by some tyrant.

### Petty offenses

Jerdiskar were hated by Terrans for murdering people over a very insignificant crime. Many of the Terrans were also distorted by their extreme, abusive upbringing, leading to millennia of hatred and war between the two human species.

Many "American" and "Terran words" were prohibited in Denlotian society and forcibly replaced with more simple terms. That, along with the many restrictions done to punish the Terrans for their dysfunctional attitude and society, led to the Terrans continuously waging war on the Jerdiskar as "destroyers of freedom". Yet, the Denlotians considered the reckless liberty that the Terrans loved the most as "utter chaos" because of their ceaseless abuse and corruption.

Many otherwise-harmless practices were banned in Jerdiskar countries due to their association with the Terrans' destructive madness.

* Complaining about "politics"
	+ Hypocritically, many of those who did so will impose their beliefs on others.
* Internet trolling - for indoctrinating people to hate society, and support traitors and warmongers
	+ Many online trolls during Denlotian times would betray society and serve the Terrans, because they wrongly thought that they would be free from their own enemies, or the Terrans would enforce their utopia. Some came from dysfunctional cultures that relied too much on mockery, abuse, and arrogance, disguised as criticism and humour - in a more toxic way than what became accepted during Denlotian times.
	+ In fact, online trolls were one of the reasons why many Jerdiskar took the HSP, to prevent themselves from ever having any manner of abusive mischief, and the risk of becoming Terran slaves.
	+ In some countries, online trolls are considered as terrorists, even if they support their community. They are only considered as "trolls" if they behave too rudely, spam a lot, and fit the profile of a criminal. Then it was considered legal to murder them immediately as war criminals.
	+ Yet, simple mischief, mockery (as long as it is not too toxic or aggressive), and criticism are not considered as "trolling".
* Downvotes - for being a source of pride by laughing at suffering
	+ Instead of downvotes, many Jerdiskar websites have "reports". There are only upvotes and "report boxes", which force potential trolls to tell why do they dislike a poorly-done work of art.
* "I just am", joke answers - stubbornness to continue being abusive
	+ This is why Jerdiskar always investigate and explain, so they can find out what makes a Terran evil, and how they can avoid becoming and behaving like Terrans.
	+ All Jerdiskar are required to explain and answer, because if they do not do so, they might become as hypocritical and corrupt as the Terrans. They also believe that everything in the universe has a purpose, even seemingly random things.
* "Freedom" as an excuse - this is one reason why Terrans hate Jerdiskar, for murdering and torturing people for being too mischievous or sadistic. Their victims, mostly troublemakers, hooligans, and the like, all claimed that they were only joking, but the Jerdiskar still killed them for promoting war against their people.
	+ On the other hand, compared to many American societies, the Denlotia had more personal freedoms, because the latter preferred willing cooperation between all of its members. That was also how the strict laws were implemented, because the majority of all Denlotians hated them and the Terrans who wanted to force them upon the Jerdiskar.
	+ As long as they did not advocate various forbidden concepts, in fact, Denlotians were allowed to be shown with those beliefs mostly for historical or educational purposes. Yet the Terrans considered this to be "censorship", because they would still be punished for supporting those views.
* Rudeness as a lifestyle - many American Terrans practice rudeness as a lifestyle, perhaps because they might had felt threatened by social changes, odd cases in the news, a persecution complex, and they were driven by desperation to be as expressive as possible.
	+ Another reason for the HSP and avoidance of political sections by many Denlotians.
* Whataboutism - answering with a question and not the answer first.
	+ A very, very common crime among Terran people, nowadays seen in Jerde as a symbol of Terran arrogance and corruption. Jerdiskar abhor whataboutists because they will never correct their own faults and want every excuse to commit more evil.
	+ If you answer a question, and then bring up the other issue, that is not considered "whataboutism", as you have already answered the question.
* "Cry some more" - like any joke answer, it will never answer a question
	+ This is why all Jerdiskar are taught that they must not ever cry, wail, or show any sign of fear or weakness when near a very stubborn enemy. It is like exposing blood to a shark or a predator, and Terrans are usually like predators for happily going after good people who cry.
* Refusal to resolve an offense
	+ In Denlotian times and during Wannaenid rule, "Americans" wanted offenders to sit down, think, cry, and accept their losses. Knowing the offense and wanting to resolve the offense was not enough for them, as they wanted the offender to be sit down and do nothing but think.
	+ Even if the offender did not commit a disgusting crime, they only wanted to move on, expecting greater opportunities instead of resolving every issue and preventing more problems from ever existing. It was largely due to their poorer social conditions encouraging apathy and self-centredness making them more focused on themselves in order to survive, especially in more militant societies.
	+ Because this self-centred attitude led to more offenses, bitterness, and grudges, this was why the Denlotia forbade forcing a person to sit down and think after they apologise. They instead forced the offender and the affected to explain about each other, and the offender to apologise and do something to resolve the offense.
	+ Those who committed worse offenses, such as bodily defilement, terrorism, and other horrible offenses were punished more harshly, mainly as a reflection of the harm they would commit to society. They were usually killed out of hatred for their crimes. In some cases, the victim was even allowed to kill the offender as cruelly as possible, condemning the offender for waging war on society.
* "Blocking for a petty reason"
	+ While Americans insist that this should be a basic right, Jerdiskar reserve blocking only for the worst offenders. The latter also noticed that many of those engaging in frequent blocking were usually troubled people, as the Terrans who did so insist that they were trying to care for themselves.
	+ Because it may also cause great psychological harm on other users' well-being, especially former friends who were forced to move on, Denlotianised societies enacted laws that restricted blocking online users only if the offender committed serious harm or a criminal offense. Instead, annoying people may only be muted, while online users who insisted on blocking even for trivial reasons were suspended from online activity, or even arrested and publicly shamed.

## "American factions", the People of Pain

See also: List of Fifty-Six Tyrants factions

"*These are realms beyond our comprehension, in terms of excess and suffering. Their denizens claim that suffering will lead to renewal and innovation. What they did to themselves multiplied their wickedness, and by desperation it is turning them into the horrors of our legends. Is there a way a open their sickened minds? I pity them.*"

- Adalina Echelben, Arch-Director of the 7268 Project, Ardesch (after the Reorganisation Wars)

These were the twenty-six empires from the American civilisations that invaded Jerde. In spite of their name and culture, they come from different worlds, so they are not the original "America":

* Pale Horrors - militarist republic, the former superpower of Doloria.
* Grabgoss Theocracy, Church of the Goose - theocracy, revolution in southern Doloria.
* Wild Children - warbands, notorious for their wolf-armour.
* Kennloth Corporation - corporation and slave empire.
* Darlalon Corporation - corporation and slave empire.
* Secure Orthodoxy - totalitarian republic, the superpower of Grittis.
* Devil's Children - militant republic, notorious for sabotage. From Grittis.
* Redhats - fanatical mob
* Tolavein, Narilon, Utnari, Koludor, and Walaara - five armies from Oktiros who are fanatical devotees of their favourite comics or TV shows.
	+ The Walaara were the former invaders of Palguenia, before the Denlotia threw them out.
* Plague Mob - fanatical mob, notorious for using diseases as bioweapons.

Their descendants were exiled to space, as a punishment for losing their own war of extermination and slavery against the Jerdiskar. Some of them founded the Terran Empire in a bid for revenge against the Jerdiskar for denying them an empire.

## Konjor Americans

The American exiles were recruited by the Sixteenth Galactic Empire, a civilisation of shapeshifting Kuelgons. Embittered by their banishment from Jerde, the Terran warbands became exceptionally cruel and deceitful, making them ideal warriors for the Kuelgon imperial army. The Terrans were known by other Galactics as "Americans" because many of them practiced similar cultures, albeit corrupted by their hatred of Jerde. They later created their own "American" culture, using a mixture of historical records all the way back to their bygone homeworlds, and stereotypes of themselves.

Kuelgons refused to eat slain Terrans, because they were seen as too stupid to be eaten. Those who displeased their Kuelgon rulers too much were simply executed, a more honourable fate than other prisoners who were murdered and eaten. They were also tortured in various manners mocking their behaviour and vocabulary, such as "touch grass" being represented by them being forced to touch poisonous herbs.

Most Terrans in the Galaxy became subjects of the Konjor Supercorporation, united by their shared cruelty and love of entertainment and hedonism. While some Terrans created new American cultures across the Galaxy, the largest of these cultures is in the Konjor realm. It used to be among the most sadistic and cruelest societies, but over time they became more typical.

The word "vyoppei", a slur directed against humans, was from the American words "we obey!" when proudly uttered to a Konjor commander. Another slur, from the Malendors, was "aisrevo", directed to all human soldiers in the Konjor army, rather than just those of American descent or those who were cursed into being undead spirits.

They and the Zamestians were among the human enforcers of Konjor rule over Jerde, selected as they were seen as the most cruel of all humans. They were defeated and expelled from the planet again. Their cruelty was a result of centuries, if not millennia, of hatred against Jerde for fighting against them and their beliefs. Their sadism was worsened by torment, indoctrination, and brutalisation under the Konjor rulers into nothing more than insane hordes bent only for destruction.

Nonetheless, it was some American humans that turned the Konjor Supercorporation into an empire that loves toys, rather than a savage warband.

## Galactic Americans

One of those communities thrived among the humans in the Galaxy, shunned by the atheistic Nandegakkovians for vandalising mythological art and attempting to forcibly secularise their culture. This colony where the governor came from was under Igarin rule, chosen for being more cruel than their peers who avoided them and joined the Norse humans. They later went on to join the Sacrificial Fleets in spite of their lack of religious belief, just to wage war on the Jerdiskar and other peoples of the Galaxy, including Nandegakko, where they were ultimately defeated.

The Galactic Americans, scattered by their defeats, later joined the Freyrgardians and Baranorians. They became less cruel over time, but some people still hate Terrans over their ancestors' actions.

The richest subject of the Sixteenth Galactic Empire was a human man, Nefta Bobby, who stole from trillions of Narivalans with just hacking and without a single soldier. While the ensuing war raged between the empire and Narivala, Nefta's barge fled west in one perpetual, depraved celebration, until it and everyone in the barge was burned to death by a solar flare. Then, the Celestials destroyed many of the empire's fleets.

Americans were among the Four Lineages of the Terran Empire, hence the prohibition on the use of English in the Malendor Supercorporation.

### Galactic American factions

* Kuelgon Imperial Raider Navy, Barabyol Imperial Raiders - as many of the Terran and American exiles wanted revenge against Jerde, they were immediately recruited into the Kuelgon Imperial Navy.
* Plunderers - An atheistic league of star systems during the Igarin Empire. Their raids against theistic civilisations led to the Igarins treating them as an exception, as living weapons to destroy the empire's enemies.
* Anolidöles - another faction of humans to the north of the Plunderers, near the Galactic core. Although they were more organised and neat than the Plunderers, the Anolidöres were brutal and fanatical, gladly seeking more people to slaughter and sacrifice to the Emperors. They regard the Plunderers as vulgar, too stupid to even be worthy rivals for being less militarised.
* Heartless Ones - a federation of Terran humans along the south. These cursed descendants of scammers and murderers were the most proud of all evildoers in Konjor society, that other Konjor subjects objected to the authorities tolerance of them as living weapons.
* Fremerik Federation - another federation of Terran humans. Formerly among the most brutal of all Kuelgon imperial subjects (if not all humans), they now try to settle down and eke a decent living. They were influenced by their love of Konjor pop culture.
* North New America
* South Novameriq
* Amriqor - the local Terran humans of southern Kuelgon. They are rather creative, mixing Kuelgon and American pop culture into something rather wholesome and cute in spite of the cruelty around them.

## Americans in the Malendor Supercorporation

The American peoples became the stuff of mockery and derision in Malendor culture, although their modern society resembles the Americans' societies to some extent. This was due to the war crimes and unusually-sadistic attitude of the Konjor Terran soldiers.

The official Novantirna word for "an American" is "Kõpä" (or "koepae"). This was from a word used by human Konjor soldiers, "cope", which was uttered to denounce their victims as cowards whenever they win. In Malendor folklore, köpämöles are a sort of demon based on the human Konjors, depicted as if they defy all logic and enjoy killing for fun.

Because of their war crimes, the English language, used by the Terran Konjor soldiers, is depicted as the dark language of Loki and used in cruel curses and horror-themed works. Malendors call the English language "Köpä Elaola" or "Köpälla", which means "the demonic language" or "the Dark Tongue". When Novantirnas speak in English, they either pray for their gods to protect or forgive them, or growl and snarl whatever English words they speak as hateful curses against their foes. Written English in Novantirna letters is usually defaced with scribbles to make the text look cursed or infernal.

There are still some humans of American descent who live in Malendor territory, descendants of refugees, prisoners of war, and conquered subjects. After several failed rebellions, the Malendor Americans knew that they would not survive being isolated and alone, so they surrendered. But instead of being exterminated, the Malendor leaders incorporated them into their empire. They were shunned at first, and relegated to the Crusader Fleets as "monstrous infantry", but as they knew how their people are seen in Malendor society, the Americans tried to present a better image of themselves as "a people who can become better, like Odin's loyal monsters".

In Malendor funerals, cremations of Terran humans are officially ceremonies hosted for Loki, where their souls are offered to the dark god for their "evil" nature. To avoid this mockery, the Terrans host a second cremation to offer the deceased to the gods they worshipped in life, or to a benevolent and good deity. Nevertheless, the soul is not sacrificed or destroyed, but sent to an afterlife as usual.

In spite of many petitions to renamed themselves as "Usones", officially, the Malendor Supercorporation still refers them and their culture as Kõpä, a mark of shame mocking their ancestors' crimes. In spite of this, many higher human officials in Malendor society are of American descent, and were sometimes ordered to wear demonic-looking robes.

While their ancestors would have gladly worn demonic personas, because of how they are treated in Malendor society as living demons, many Usones humans considered it offensive to depict them as monsters or demons, just because of what their ancestors did. Nowadays they try to avoid being too stereotypical, such as mockery of others' suffering, obsession with religion or militarism, and so on.

## Volzeraen

The nation of Volzeraen was descended from Americans and other Terrans who chose to remain on Jerde, having underwent various purification and reparation rites to be accepted into Jerde's global community.

The Schvendaarenir or Swendarens, as they named themselves, always prepared themselves for the day when their fallen kin will return to destroy them, angered by the Schvendaarenir's choice to work with the Jerdiskar instead of conquering the world. So when the Terrans came under the Konjors' red banners, the Schvendaarenir did not welcome them with open arms, but cursed the Terrans and fought back on behalf of the Jerdiskar.

During the Konjor occupation of Jerde, the Schvendaarenir were among the few free Jerdiskar, being a fortified nation at war with their own people. They later assisted resistance movements across Jerde. Many Schvendaarenir humans were among the legions of Emperor Silojennoz of Vozolaz as the Redeemed Ones, an army of criminals turned crusaders who sought vengeance against the Terrans.

They eventually met their Malendor counterparts in the Crusader Fleets, becoming emissaries and diplomats between the Vozonids and the Malendors.

## Church of Q and Serpentians

See also: Maeranoi, Church of Q, Serpentians

In Earth 96, the same alternate world from which the Zetrosians and Tyrskans came from, what was left of North America was ruled by the Church of Q. It was a theocratic empire that ruled over half of Europe, with Zetros, Tyrska, and Neo-Europe to the east.

The Church of Q was actually run by dozens of aristocratic families, running church-like corporations that kept the majority of its peoples in squalour. Christianity still existed in the Church of Q, but it was heavily distorted, worshipping the Supreme Leader and likening him to God. The Supreme Leader was a figurehead, elected by the people among many backstabbing candidates as the most charismatic and dominant of them all.

Its wars with Zetros and Tyrska reduced central Europe and the Sahara into nuclear wastelands, occupied by the Quevolles puppets.

It was the arch-enemy of Zetros and Tyrska, its former attempts to form a traditionalist brotherhood thrown aside by its aristocracy's desire to dominate the world. Like the two empires, it mobilised the concept of the traditional family to total war, reducing it from a celebration of culture to an instrument of war.

Likewise, death in war is celebrated as the ultimate purpose of life, and so is aggressively hypocritical behaviour. Whatever they did was done for the glory of the Q Church, even if it broke their own laws and sinned against their God.

The Church of Q mandated a society similar to 1950s American suburbs, but more theocratic and warlike. In spite of the neat suburb being a national standard in the Church of Q, most Q-Americans were very impoverished and filthy, building only miserable imitations of said suburbs in their slums.

Much of the insane practices of the Church of Q, from their prior invasions before the Zavtranians to the Wannaenid occupation of Bujan, became the basis of the "Maeranoi", demons and evil humans in Bujanski mythology.

In the end, the Church of Q and its enemies were all destroyed by the Wannaenid bombardment of their homeworld. Only several rebellious states and remnants survived in fortified enclaves, protected from the Wannaenid slaughter around them.

## Earth 27

America no longer exists on that world, as it was ruined by a great disaster into a wasteland. Out of its chaos, three corporations divided the country and attempted to impose their corrupt order upon that world. It was also renamed as Imblunna.

Imblunna's three empires were ruined when the Jerde Alliance's agents killed off their leaders, sending the three realms back to chaos. They were briefly occupied by the Wannaenids until the Jerde Alliance repelled the invaders. Although reluctant and disgusted, the Jerde Alliance even permitted aid to help the survivors rebuild. They still liked the King of Bujan for listening to them, that some Imblunnians even invited him to be their ruler and protector.

## Later Americans

"Americans" were among the warlords who teleported themselves at the seas to the south of Bujan during the years between the Sarmelonid and Jauparturnid eras. They are now known locally as Maeranoi, who corrupt "tradition" into militarism and absolute power.

"Dolben" was a mythical hero who fought monsters and bandits along the Jasper Mountains, at roughly 4000 BT. Although contemporary depictions of him resembled the "cowboy" from the dystopian realm of America, it was only later when other researchers discovered where exactly did he come from, although they did not know exactly which universe was his home.

Irajon was formerly ruled by an American aristocracy, selected from the worst Internet extremists and hooligans who established a death cult as its official church. When they tried to stop the Irajonians from revolting, thousands of American warriors were killed in battle, and the rest expelled back to the Wannaenid islands, only to be enslaved.

## Sondorian Americans

See also: Otherworlds (Rabydosverse)

The "Americans" of Sondor were from a different kind of Terran human, in a more stable universe invaded by their more-warlike kin. The people of that Terra and all of its countries recovered from a great war, and became more technologically-advanced, eventually creating a peaceful interstellar alliance known as the "Sondor Alliance".

Unlike most of the Terrans whom the Jerdiskar encountered, the Sondorians were nicer and more helpful. Seeing that they were Terran, but not evil, shocked the personnel from the Jerde Alliance into disbelief. They were reluctantly added to the Zvestarid Coalition, encouraged by the Volzeraenir and Sevraejans, but opposed by most of the other members. Eventually, the Sondorians were permitted because of their knowledge of the Terran invaders, who also attacked their universe. Sondorians were among the foreign volunteers who supported opponents of the massacres in Black July.

They also denounced the "Christianity" practiced by their counterparts that invaded Bujan as a distortion of their faith, calling the same invaders as "heretics and children of Cain". They were also sad that people in Bujan often feared Christianity and associated it with the Terran death gangs during Wannaenid rule.

## Relations with Jerde

In general, "America" was more known for the invaders from other dimensions who happened to practice the worst aspects of its people's culture. The "America" in Jerdiskar folklore was actually several different countries with a similar culture, but they were all conflated into one single nightmare, a symbol of madness, destructiveness, absolute extremes, disharmony, and chaos.

### Marnos

America is known to Marnos through dimension-hoppers as "Maerika": a miserable nation torn between elderly extremists, gun nuts, rude people, nihilists, thieves and robbers, drunks, pyromaniacs, and a murderous government of cutthroats and corporate barons. When there were more American refugees who were brought to Marnos, they were sent to a separate town, and sometimes reminded of their predecessors' chaotic behaviour and wars against the nations of Jerde. One of them wanted to convince the Marnosyns that he and his American people are not the same as the insane fanatics who invaded Jerde ages ago.

The chaotic, mischievous attitude of the Marnosyns made others compare them to the nightmarish Americans of folklore, to the disgust of the latter. Some do embrace it and make costumes of long-gone American invaders from folklore.

### Heronoja

After observing the worst of American society through dimensional travellers, Heronoi think that Americans are heartless, due to their society's treatment of the poor and its resulting riots. In fact, they even used "Bynöbara", a term meaning "the land of hungry ghosts", as their official name for the United States instead of "Amerika"!

It was from a failed Terran invasion where the Heronoi adopted the custom of using red cups to celebrate a winter festival, as a symbol of victory against evil.

One part of the Heronoi version of Hell resembles an American suburb from the 1950's, located to the northeast of the icy wastes of Keratönö. Perhaps in light of this, some Heronoi slaves in Bujan stole the 1950's clothes of a cult of demon-worshippers to join the revolution, which popularised the clothes into everyday wear in modern Bujan out of spite against the oppressors.

### Bujan

"America", the collective name of various civilisations where its oppressors came from, is the most disliked of all Terran cultures. The Church of Q and the Serpentians were from several "Americas", so they became collectively known as "Maeranoi", or "Americans". These two enemies become the stereotype of all Americans whatsoever: violent, dysfunctional, abusive, manipulative, and willing to abandon their friends to survive (known as "moving on").

Survivors and defectors from the two American states became part of two communities: the Free North defectors, who enjoyed the same protections as typical Bujanski for being more trustworthy, and the "Maeranoi", who are disliked and feared for various collective offenses. Eventually, all Maeranoi became Free Norths in the end, as society later understood them better as repentant co-citizens instead of scheming, stereotypical monstrosities from Hell.

The English language became known as the "American language" in modern Bujan, and is banned in some parts of the country as a symbol of the Church of Q. In spite of this, a number of words from the English language did end up in Bujanski, mostly as curses directed at Terrans who committed crimes.

The various harmful, selfish behaviours practiced by those Americans became lessons all over Bujanski schools and museums. "Moving on", blocking and banning people over petty errors and ignorance, usage of slurs, misuse of freedom, and militant extremism, became the most notorious examples that *every* Bujanski knows and hates. Another example was a warning that "telling a person to think, and not do something useful after a loss", is considered as "behaving like an American".

The same behaviours and attitudes practiced by the Americans influenced the Bujanski to help people, especially poor people and shunned ones, which eventually led to their country developing better infrastructure, mental health networks, and a system of counsellors linked with the healthcare and judicial systems. During the revolution, many Bujanski noted that of the Terrans and Wannaenids, the Maeranoi-Americans had the highest rate of mental illness, resulting in violence, extremism, fear, paranoia, and abuse being normalised and encouraged. It led to the creation of the "judicial-medical complex" and a heavy focus on education, social justice, and helping anyone who is poor or hurt.

### New Republics

The New Republics were Norse reformists who rejected the fascism and cruelty of the emperors of Baesorja. After they established their new home, they stumbled upon accounts about several invaders from a ruined land known as "Maerkja". Although they adopted many of those accounts as lessons, they pitied the miserable Americans, much to the disappointment of the other nations around them who saw the Americans as monsters.

### Volzeraen

Some of the people of Volzeraen were descendants of Americans who were taken in after their defeat. Because they adopted much of the Volzeraenir's traditions, they were considered as Volzeraenir and no longer feared as Americans. They aided the Free Peoples during the Reorganisation War, and they were among the first to burn the Terrans' effigies during the celebrations held by the Vozonid Empire. For siding with the Terrans instead of the other American warlords, the Terrans condemned the Volzeraenir Americans as traitors against their causes.

### Others

Many American warmongers used a sort of bogeyman as an example of a person who did not follow their beliefs, such as punks for those who refused to abide by their version of "traditional values". Knowing this, Jerdiskar often show that they can still be much better than the Americans, without degrading themselves.

## Comparisons

Possible equivalents to the United States would be:

* Bujan (technology - HOW IRONIC!)
* Marnos (culture and vulgarity)
* Red Ardesch (extreme leftism, pop culture, and militarism)
* Volzeraen (love of videogames and pop culture, being *actual* descendants of Americans on Jerde)
* Gdjestrana (modernity, imperialism
* the New Republics of northern Palkyras (more than thirteen democracies that revolted against an oppressive emperor)

In spite of their supposed similarities with the United States, four of them regard the USA as a dystopia not to emulate. In their pop culture, Americans are often depicted as alien invaders and extraterrestrial warlords.

It is ironic that for all of their hatred of America, Bujan and Marnos happened to become more like it, as technological and pop culture hubs!

## Glossary

### Late Ardeschen, Denlotian

* "scorched" - one who does not follow traditionalism, religious zealotry, or militarism; an effeminate fanatic; their eyes were "scorched" by the horrors of society.

### Malendor

* Kõpä - a Terran human, especially of American descent
* Köpä Elaola, Köpälla - the English language
* Usona (pl. Usones) - Terrans loyal to the Malendor Supercorporation
	+ "Usona" was an old name used for the "Americans'" homeland. It became a symbol of pro-Malendor Terrans.

### Volzeraenir

* Schvendaarenir, Swendaren - "repentant one", a Terran who became a Volzeraenir loyalist.

### Bujanski

* slæpjāristvo - "trolling", harrassment, waging war
	+ Although it can also be used for any act of war, this is mostly limited to Maeranoi and Terrans when they attempt any attack against Bujan or Jerdiskar people.
* slæpjaritǐ - to "troll", to incite mischief, to curse society, to wage war
	+ "Trolling" is what Maeranoi call assaulting, bullying, and harrassing other people, rather than simple mischief and mockery. This was mainly to manipulate other people into obeying them.
	+ slæpjaratǐ - attacking, waging war
* slæpjārǐ - an "other-ender", a certain Maeranoi warrior.
	+ Shortening of "slæpnij es jārij", meaning "blind and bold" or "stunning and brave". "Es" is the form of "i", the word for "and", when after "i" or "j".
* slæpjārnij - mad, insane, Maeranoi, wasteful, self-destructive
* slæpjārnik - a madman, a warmonger, a Maeranoi, someone who wastes their own life
* slæpjārverije - literally "the mad path", "owning the libs", an obsession where you must make others upset to win.
	+ Wrongly named by the Bujanski as "the American religion".

* slæpnij - blind
* slæpnij es jārij - "blind and bold"; "stunning and brave", a Maeranoi curse
	+ May mean either "boastful" or "angrily disobedient to the Maeranoi". The second was a later addition by the Bujanski to mock the Maeranoi for using this phrase to suppress the local culture.

* Maerika, Maerana - one of four empires in this evil realm, representing the interdimensional "**American**" armies that invaded Bujan and its neighbours millennia ago.
	+ Much of what is depicted about Maerana was derived from Earth 96's dystopian "America", under the corporate theocracy of the Church of Q mixed with prior warlords and dystopias.
* Čolulon - the City of Ash, a mythological capital of Maerana.
* Čōsara - the Pink City, a ruined castle inhabited by angry ghouls.
* Drindžomna - the City of Darkness. Another capital of the hellish realm of Maerana, torn between an army of red and an army of white.
* pūmeri - an archaic-minded American militant
* inkontsok - a pink-haired American fanatic

## Trivia

* In World War II, Japanese people in America who were kept in prison camps were given several questions to test their loyalty. Those who successfully answered and proved their loyalty to the United States were sometimes called "no-no boys". Many of the Terrans who were also imprisoned in independent Bujan were reminded of those loyalty tests when they were also asked about their loyalty and ideologies.

## See also

* Three Archetypes
* United States (Collectionverse)
* United States (Rinnarverse)
* Qyuvian glossary

### Other Terran empires

* Four Powers
* Russia (Rabydosverse)
* China (Rabydosverse)
* Arabia (Rabydosverse)