Central Committee of the Restored Kingdom of Zvesta

The **Central Committee of the Restored Kingdom of Zvesta**, also known as the **Restored Kingdom of Zvesta**, **CCKZ**, **CCRZ**, or the **Central Committee**, was an alliance of paramilitary groups that lived in central Bujan during Wannaenid rule. To most people in Bujan - native and Terran - they were more commonly known as the **Bujanski death gangs** or the **death gangs**.

After the violence of July 1892, their remnants continued to rule the five provinces of central Bujan, until eventually their members passed away. Their successors eventually abandoned their hatred of Terrans in order to reintegrate themselves into Bujanski society, ending their isolation. They were known later as the **five provinces**.

## Terminology

* Five Provinces
* Central Bujan
* Central Provinces
* Death gangs
* CenCom (central committee)
* Black Zvesta
* CCRZ

## History

See also: Bujanski War of Independence

   The death gangs were founded as a response to the *Terran* death gangs massacring slaves, as a means to protect themselves. Over time, they were able to take over five provinces in the centre of the island.

Their notorious massacres and executions of Terrans frightened almost everyone else on the island, especially because of their practice of collective punishment. Many of the people they slew were not soldiers or militants, but online offenders, from bloky to bigots.

The relatives or friends of the accused were ostracised, cursed, and shamed over the acts of one offender.

Although some of the death gangs' beliefs and attitudes were adopted by the revolutionaries, they founded their alliance out of a fear of being killed by them.

They were re-established as the Anti-Terran Action, which waged war against the Royal Government to utterly exterminate all remaining Terrans in Bujan. Since the ATA's attack against Nasarpollo and the Royal Armed Forces, more people began to denounce them as terrorists; until they stopped hating Terrans because they refused to associate themselves with their enemies. The Royal Government defeated them.

However, the five provinces where they formerly ruled instituted a total ban on Terrans, threatening to refuse or kill any Terran who entered. They were also notorious for hosting celebrations every July, while other parts of Bujan mourned. Due to the initially-large numbers of soldiers and missiles reported among the CCRZ forces, the Bujanski government decided to contain the CCRZ to stop them from invading neighbouring nations, to contain the terrorists and force them to fight themselves.

The CCRZ's ban slowly eroded and was abolished in 1910 as more people began to understand the Terrans better. They started to trust Terrans again after the latter changed their attitude from many years of collective, haunting shame. A series of violent attacks that followed the murder of the five provinces' "monarch" led to exhibitions, to allow Terrans and Bujanski to understand each other and prevent a similar civil war to the July massacres.

However, it took thirty more years before the last of the CCRZ towns began to forgive the Terrans. Every time a settlement voted to forgive the Terrans of Bujan, it took down its black Zvestarid flags and swore loyalty to the monarchy of Bujan. Still, the first Terran visitor only arrived in 1930, the first in nearly forty years, and found that one of the towns he visited was more peaceful and "normal" than he expected. The visitor noted that during his visit, more people were learning to integrate themselves into Bujanski society.

## Geography

The five provinces ruled by the CCKZ were:

* Ruisan Province
* Vlesto Province
* Resok Province
* Eshad Province
* Deritsa Province

Resok Province had a small enclave, the Republic of Nasarpollo, inhabited by Arnadjanai. It became an orange territory because of the large amount of Terran refugees, so the clueless Arnadjanai began to defend themselves against death ganger attacks.

The Bujanski government ruled a number of towns and districts on the margins of the five provinces as of 1900s AT. Over time, as more towns decided to forgive the Terrans, they began to surrender to the Bujanski monarchy. This was when those towns threw away their black flags and raised the blue ones used by Bujan.

## Politics

Although the CCRZ was a monarchy, actual power was held by an elected oligarchy of five governors. Their counterparts in the Bujanski nobility still represent those provinces, even as the Bujanski government ruled over a few districts and towns.

## Culture

The "Restored Kingdom of Zvesta" was driven by bitterness, hatred, and paranoia. It was far from the kingdom it claimed to re-establish. Its fanatical views drove it to eliminate anything considered Terran from society, going to extremes such as prohibiting various everyday things, like hobbies, adolescence, comfort, and so forth.

It instituted a virtual ban on "fandoms", associating them with immature fanatics who harrassed each other online, to the point that owning any merchandise related to the popular show "Broken Plates" was punishable by whipping or beatings to the back.

Notoriously, many of the early purges and massacres that led to the death gangs' dominance over central Bujan were about massacring online offenders.

### Childlessness and cloning

Some towns were inhabited by people who sterilised themselves, because they associated *everything* related to childhood and teenagers with the Terrans. Babies and children in general became associated with Terran militarism (as "family values"), and some of the early members of the death gangs hated teenagers from the people who bullied and shunned them over simple mistakes, when they were teenagers themselves.

So instead, they cloned new people every few years, and insisted that everyone in Bujan must be produced from "trees". Some even planned to make humanity a sexless species, to utterly erase anything related to the Terrans and their "humanity".

Aside from killing people over online activity, their obsession with eliminating "human-ness" made other independence groups avoid them as "bizarre".

Many of these fanatics were killed fighting against the revolutionaries, angered that their utopia of "total freedom from Terran-ness and humanity" would be lost forever. The few survivors avoided anywhere with young people, even as they were immortal, viewing all young people as Terran abominations.

This may have caused some towns to slowly defect to the Bujanski monarchy. More and more people were horrified by the human trees, that they even voted for Ontemazei as governors (the "real treepeople") to mock their rulers' abandoning their own humanity.

## Demographics

Unlike Bujan, the CCRZ placed ethnic Bujanski Slavs and Wonaos as an aristocracy, putting all outsiders below. Terrans were completely banned from entry under pain of death.

Significant Ontemazei and Arnadjanai minorities existed along the south and west, but even though they lived comfortable lives, they were very unhappy with the persecution of Terrans and frequent murders and executions. Many of them joined protest and activist groups, seeking to stop the cruelty by integrating the five provinces into the rest of Bujan.

Once a town stopped persecuting Terrans, it was expelled from the CCRZ. The expulsion of towns, murder of Terrans and people who did not fall in line, isolation from international relations, lesser numbers and poorer weaponry, and unpopular decisions to mutate the inhabitants, were the main weaknesses of the CCRZ.

## Banned in the five provinces

### Practices

* Golf, baseball - associated with Qyuvians

### Media

* Gokase (anime)
	+ Popular among Qyuvians, especially traditionalist fanatics and internet trolls of Qyuvian descent. Notoriously, some of them were killed for using slurs (like "uoka", meaning "heathen/pagan freak") and laughing faces towards ethnic Bujanski and Wonaos, resulting in gokase being banned in central Bujan.
	+ In the 1900s, the Qyuvian internet troll became a bogeyman, an example of people who misuse their freedom to harass others, demanding other people to cater to them, and yet also accusing others of the same thing. Aside from extremely rare offenders, mostly of Bujanski origin, almost no such offense had existed for many years.
* Broken Plates
	+ Banned for its popularity among Serpentians, enemies of Bujan.
	+ Anyone who displayed Broken Plates merchandise was immediately killed upon discovery, or for being within sight of the border guards. One notorious case involved someone being shot dead for whistling the Broken Plates theme song.

### Activism

Some activist groups in the central provinces wanted to remove any association with Terran warmongers and fanatics. They focus more on the *source material* of the banned product, to prove that the banned work was *not* inherently Terran, or was just a work of fiction or art that can instead be used to support Bujanski society.

### A Mirror of the Soul

While the death gangs claimed to be the first and only successful revolution against Wannaenid rule, nowadays they were never counted as revolutionaries, but just another of the oppressors that terrorised Bujan.

The massacres done during their rule created a cultural hatred of various behaviours considered as "Terran". Although they are more likely to keep existing friendships, they also tended to question a friend if they did anything uncomfortable, to see if they were ignorant before punishing them. They preferred to forgive and reconcile, remembering their people's history of being abused during colonial rule.

### Pandora's Jar

On the other hand, the same hatred of Terran behaviours that made them more forgiving also made them more cruel, towards anyone who committed worse offenses. The lower tier of punishments awaited online offenders and bullies, which involved a lot of public shaming, ostracism under a system of penance, to condition them into shame and obedience to the people they hurt.

### The Deucalion Amnesty

See also: Deucalion Amnesty

As for the various people accused of being bloky, the King of Bujan decided to spare them, instead of killing them right away as many of his subjects demanded. This, along with the revolution's decision to spare and rescue Terran prisoners, caused the death gangs to declare war on his revolution. He and his supporters enacted two rules regarding Terrans under their protection.

The first was an amnesty to all bloky, and the people they harmed, upon entering rebel camps. The bloky were to identify themselves, and list every person whom they wrongfully blocked or banned online. They were to use the Internet to remove the blocks and bans, and contact them so they could also be brought by portal to reconcile and join the camps.

This measure led to hundreds of Terrans joining the Free North, as they also brought friends and relatives with them. The escalating violence that swept across the colonies was the main reason why so many bloky and others went into the camps: they were willing to reconcile in order to avoid getting killed.

This became known as the Deucalion Amnesty, after a Greek myth about a man and his wife who built a ship to avoid a great flood. The King of Bujan, who issued the edict, was compared to Deucalion, for sparing hundreds of people from the "flood" of violence.

### The Accountability Edict

The second measure was to impose a punishment on all surviving Terrans who did not join the revolution after independence. They were to undergo penance, to commit work or pay a fee as an apology to their victims.

This measure led to more anger against the King of Bujan, for refusing to exterminate the Terrans, resulting in the July massacres. Again, it led to more Terrans accepting penance, seeking forgiveness and protection from the angry mobs.

The violence that broke out over various errors since colonial times made the Terrans think that they were ultimately responsible for the bloodshed that broke out, filling them with shame.

### The Gates of Hell

The higher tier of punishments was for the more serious offenders. Violators of bodies, predators of children, murderers of innocent people, cannibals, terrorists, traitors, frauds, Internet trolls, and scammers were subjected to torture and execution, treated as if they were at war with the kingdom. It was also legal to kill them on sight, and the one who murdered them was praised as a hero.

The cruelty of the death gangs made them adopt Denlotian law in the modern Bujanski constitution. They did so to ensure that lesser offenders were forced to compensate to the people they harmed in life, and to remind them that they will never escape their own actions even after they were forgiven. It was also done to avoid the recklessness of the death gangs and the people who angered them, to prevent modern Bujan from becoming into a bloodied ruin again.

## Deradicalisation and reintegration

The next four decades were a slow and uneasy reintegration into the kingdom's society. The five central provinces were isolated from Bujan, their people initially avoided some forms of entertainment, like golf and anime.

In spite of occasional terrorist attacks which died down in the 1930's, the first high-speed railways were built to connect the five provinces' towns with the rest of the country. One of them even had an international spaceport, with the first flight that landed there being investors from Sevraeja.

## See also

* Penance
* July 1892 taboos
* Vjokoeiral