Sordification

When discussing references, **Sordification** is used to refer to the general adaptation of real-world events, organizations, ideologies, or people within the *Suzerain* universe; in particular, those which pertain to the nation of Sordland.

## Examples

### Events

* The Sordish Civil War, depending on your interpretation, is a Sordified incarnation of the Spanish Civil War; albeit with a far different conclusion and outcome.
* The Soll Dam Incident is the Kurdish separatist Rebellion in Turkey in the 1980s.
* The establishment of the Republic of Sordland in 1923 is the establishment of the Republic of Turkey on the same year.
* Wehlen Civil War is the Vietnamese Civil War
* The Century of Revolutions is the Age of Enlightenment

### Organizations

Domestic

* Sordish Armed Forces and the Sordish Police Force are respectively the Turkish Armed Forces and the Turkish Police Force.
* The Holsord Post and Lachaven Times are Sordified versions of the Washington Post and New York Times respectively.
* Ekonomists is obviously the Sordish version of the Economist.
* Generally, the Sordish government follows the guidelines of a typical European democracy, albeit heavily Sordified. One notable oversight is the reference to members of the Assembly as MPs, even though MP actually refers to a 'Member of **Parliament**'. Of course, MA is much less relatable!
* Companies
* The Grand National Assembly of Sordland is the Sordified Grand National Assembly of Turkey.
* The Sordish 1927 Constitution is the Sordified 1982 Turkish Constitution. Article 6 and Article 7 on nationality and citizenship are the Sordified Article 66 in the Turkish Constitution.

International

* The Arcasian Treaty Organization resembles the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
* The Contanan Security Pact is based upon the Warsaw Pact
* The Alliance of Nations is the Sordified League of Nations and its successor, the United Nations
* The MFI is correspondent to the real-world International Monetary Fund
* The Organization for Merkopan Economic Development takes after the OECD and its predecessor, the OEEC
* The Watchtower of Human Rights is the Sordish equivalent to Amnesty International

### People

* Iosef Lancea and Valken Kruger are the Turkish former Chief of General Staff Fevzi Çakmak.
* Leon Malenyev is Sordified version of Leon Trotsky and Lenin.
* Gloria Tory is the Sordish version of Margaret Thatcher or the Turkish centre-right politician Meral Akşener.
* Kesaro Kibener is the Sordified version of Turkey's ultranationalist figure Alparslan Türkeş, and Nihal Atsız is the Sordified Turkish Neo-Nazi figure.
* Mansoun Leke is the Sordified version of Turkish-Kurdish democratic socialist Musa Anter.
* Colonel Soll is the Sordified combination Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, Kenan Evren, and French Colonel La Bourary.
* Bernard Circas is the Sordified version of Nazım Hikmet, an exiled Turkish poet who was also called ''The Romantic Communist''.
* Wiktor Smolak is the Sordified version of Saddam Hussein.

### Ideologies

* Malenyevism is an obvious nod to communism and more specifically, Trotskyism.
* Valgslandian Socialism takes inspiration from syndicalism and democratic socialism due to its democratic nature and its insistence of state control by labor unions. Hegel’s character could have been inspired by personalities and policies of the following communist figures in Cold War: Nikita Khrushchev, Josip Broz Tito, and Fidel Castro.
* Arcasian capitalism is a combination of the western liberal democracy and their capitalist economy.
* Sollism is heavily influenced by Atatürk's non-aligned Kemalist ideology of republicanism, statism, and nationalism. Though it isn't as secular and progressive as Kemalism.
* Reformism is liberal democracy or liberalism/libertarianism.

### Other

* The KA-74, or the Kalsington Automatica, is a gas-operated assault rifle developed by Michael Kalsington, an obvious parallel to the real-world AK-47 invented by Mikhail Kalashnikov.

## References

### Republic of Turkey

Although Sordland is inspired by numerous real nations, in terms of geopolitical and international standing, ideology, culture, and language, Sordland is most similar to a post-WW1 Turkey placed in an atmosphere reminiscent of the Cold War. These parallels are so prevalent in every aspect of the nation that they merit their own section.

Other potential nods include:

* the Bludish, a possible allegory for the Kurdish,
* naming conventions,
* foods (Zabla, as described in the game, is similar to a Turkish dish called Etli Nohut)
* cultural ideals, such as a (initial but easily reversible) lack of women's rights.
* Indeed, even the very shape of Sordland resembles an inverted Turkey, with Anatolia becoming the Markian Sea, and the neighboring Mediterranean becoming a major landmass.
* In terms of people, Soll and Alphonso are both extremely similar to the first and the third president of the Republic of Turkey: Kenan Evren and Turgut Özal. Both Soll and Evren began with high ideals, eventually devolved into dictators, and became revered as national heroes among their respective peoples (although Soll did so with a far smaller degree of success). Özal’s privatization schemes (and his resulting failure) directly parallels Özal’s own disastrous attempts at reform.
* The Markian Empire represents a striking amount of similarity to the Ottoman Empire.

### Other Nations

* However, Sordland also bears similarities to Spain (specifically the Spanish Civil War and its aftermath), Soviet-aligned nations in the Cold War (lacking resources and torn apart by competing influences), the United States and various European democracies (in terms of naming conventions for organizations), and many others, to say nothing of the aspects created specially for Sordland by *Suzerain*'s creators. In any case, the strange historical mishmash that is Sordland has a history as interesting and complete as that of some real nations.