Baesorja

The **Kingdom of Baesorja** was a large boreal nation at northern Palkyras. It was located to the northeast of Marnos; east of Budino, Pyranika, and Hvitaland; west of Nolworra, Vaulon, Geltir, and Gyllar; and northwest of Uvjora and Heronoja.

## Flag

The Kingdom of Baesorja's national flag is a dark blue rectangular banner with a large white Mjölnir hammer at its centre. The dark blue background symbolises honour, and the Mjölnir represents their culture, their ancient history, and their close relationship with the Gods and wights of their realm.

## History

Baesorja was home to one of the oldest civilisations of Jerde's history, Rannar. Its people were known for being the most intelligent people in the world, though limited by their initial suspicion of more advanced forms of technology. Inspired by their patron god Odin's dangerous quests for knowledge, Baesorjan culture shifted away from war and brutality towards seeking knowledge and discovery.

During the Sixteenth Age, it broke down into several quarreling kingdoms, but two of them -- Var and Thermir -- combined their technologies of slug-fire and gunpowder to repel the Tuksharans' flying cities. These two kingdoms were subsumed into the Empire of Rannar, which adopted a militaristic and racialist philosophy in order to surpass Tukshara in might.

In later history, Baesorja became the more united civilisation that it is today, developing complicated machinery that only they (or their ancestors) were able to understand. However, a period of excessive openness towards immigrants led to criminal groups tearing the nation apart. After it was reunited by a more disciplined monarch, a crueler ruler (who referred himself as "Emperor Borjas") overthrew him and used Kyrvotin technology in his bid to conquer the rest of the continent until he was defeated. As a result of the chaos that led to those two dark ages, the Baesorthar people became more insular, refusing to ever intermarry with any other foreigner (not even other White ethnicities, if they are not Nordic!) out of fear that doing so would allow malevolent foreigners to oppress them again.

In the 830, the Baesorjan king sent his armies to conquer nearby lands, absorbing the lands north of Gimbarish and parts of Marnos and Nolworra under his control. In the chaos of a worldwide EMP, Baesorja later faced another civil war: rebellions broke out in the south as districts formed their own Althings (parliaments) and republics, followed by its southern colonies and vassals that became the New Republics. Another reason why the New Republics rebelled was to fight back against Emperor Alvand's hive mind: he sought to control his entire people and mobilise them to war and destroy his enemies.

After the Baesorjan government suppressed and defeated these rebellions, many dissidents migrating southwards and eastwards to form their own societies elsewhere. Several eastern rebellions were instead more successful, with Nolworran help, founding a handful of new nations that continued the legacy of the Vaulontirs.

Out of anger against the Baesorjar government refusing to admit people of other White ancestries into its territory, several westerly governors seceded and created their own republic of Hvitaland. Then, it raised its armies to repel the invasions of the Thralondians of the east: the resulting heavy losses made the Baesorthar focus on having more children, though only of their Nordic background and no other. Its leaders' insistence that it becomes the leader of the Nordisk nations of the world, and demands that all of them follow the strict Baesorthar way, earned it instead these fellow nations' contempt and ridicule.

One rebellion in the northeast led to the creation of the republic of Gyllar, to house Baesorthar dissidents, the entirety of the persecuted Gylharling minority, Heronoi, and some Terrans who defected to the rebellion.

The nearby kingdom of Heronoja once tried to emulate Baesorja with its racial purity laws, but Baesorja and its people looked down on these blond disciples for their non-Human ancestry. The last straw - both for the Heronoi and other Norse nations - was its nationwide holidays when it celebrated hundreds of Heronoi dying from a massacre and the natural disasters that took place afterwards. What angered the other Norse nations were the televised human sacrifices and military invasions of surrounding countries, all ending in failure. The New Republics and Paltirion withdrew a large invasion force, and much of the "vikings" sent to exterminate the Heronoi were themselves annihiliated. Humiliated, the leaders of the Baesorthar government murdered each other in a civil war, with the Emperor leading all those wars being killed as a sacrifice to Odin in his own altar.

In spite of its immense military strength, modern Baesorja is openly derided as a laughingstock: its people and rulers have descended into militarism, turning away from their decency and desire for knowledge in favour for brute strength and dominance.

Modern Baesorja was at war with the Wannaenid Empire, seeking to take advantage of its defeats to strike the empire and claim its technological troves for themselves and make the world fear them once more. The Wannaenids in turn seek to conquer Baesorja to establish an outpost, claim its technology, and begin its conquest of Vozolaz. In the 1970s, a third civil war broke out, as the country was torn apart between insane theocrats, war hawks, princes, Wannaenid warlords, and reformers.

In 1999 AT, central Baesorja was ruined by a brief nuclear war, as two warlords used superweapons to destroy each other. The Seekers of Speki and the Lampguard evacuated hundreds of dissidents, their families, and others who joined them in "Operation Bergelmir", taken to the safety of the New Republics and Nolworra. Hvitaland was also destroyed during the nuclear war, but as the locals of Perkunira refused to take them in as fanatics, they were housed in northwestern Nolworra where they were given the choice to accept deradicalisation or exile to the Terran worlds.

## Government

Baesorja is an absolute monarchy ruled by a King, who is also styled the Grand Priest of the Nordisk Race.

## Military

Baesorja's military is armed with the most advanced technology in all of Jerde. As their laser weapons and war machines would be able to quickly decimate their armies, even powerful enemies such as the Wannaenid Empire would not dare send their fleets and troops over the North Pole to avoid provoking the Baesorjan Royal Armed Forces.

Like Daleskarnia and the Wannaenid Empire, its society is very militaristic: they pride themselves in bloodshed, brute force, and their so-called "superiority" over everyone else.

Every soldier is given a pack of stimulants that sends him into an uncontrollable rage when he is desperate. Shock troopers dedicated to this task of rampaging into the enemy lines are known specifically as *berserkar*.

## Society

Baesorthar society is insular and isolated. Priding themselves in their advanced technology, their close spirituality, and their racial purity, the Baesorthar people have become arrogant. Although many literary works were censored and banned in the country, they were still smuggled and made fun of.

Many Baesorthar regard themselves to be "superior" to other people, resulting in poorer treatment towards even their fellow Norse and their neighbours. Many Terrans also lived in Baesorja, mainly as slaves descended from fools who thought they would fight along its war criminals to exterminate whoever they hated. Instead, every once in a while, any Terran would be selected in various death games, or simply sacrificed to Odin and murdered in televised ceremonies to humiliate them.

Although Baesorja would seem dictatorial to most other nations, in the sense that heavy punishments await suspected "race-defilers", "libertines", "degenerates", and those who do not worship the Norse Gods (aside from atheists, who are somewhat tolerated); the overwhelming majority of Baesorthar citizens proudly support those strict measures as a necessary way to preserve their people until the end of time. Such punishments may range from public beatings and whippings, to electrocutions and years of menial labour in a reeducation camp or a prison gang. They may tend to be somewhat snobbish, though they refrain from reckless violence, perhaps except in the cases of spotting criminals or so-called "race-defilers".

Like Bujan, Heronoja, and several other countries, the Baesorthar wear clothes similar to those of Ardesch, such as top hats, suits, and dresses.

Baesorthar tend to be more athletic than their neighbours, as a ban on video-games and various regimens forced them to exercise more often. However, many of those same regimens also pressured them to become so successful, than some Baesorthar went insane from stress and frustration.

Propaganda mottoes are written at nearly every building's outer wall, either to comply with a national law or as a decoration.

Also, to ensure that they shall have more children to be born, Baesorja is among the few nations on Jerde where polygamy is legal, especially among the rich.

Like most Nordic countries and its neighbours, Baesorja uses the futhark alphabet.

Human sacrifice is still practiced in Baesorja, usually by dragging criminals to be torn apart on altars to Odin, long after other Norse countries on Jerde banned the practice. In spite of the people being more intelligent than others in the world,

## Trivia

* Baesorja was inspired by Norway, Victorian England, and North Korea, at roughly 2016-2017. It was also influenced by White nationalist and alt-right commenters on the Internet, as the author formerly thought that he had to appease the White nationalists and neo-Nazis in order to use Norse mythology without being attacked.
	+ Hvitaland was especially influenced by the former.
	+ However, Hvitalanders do not go around threatening other races and mixed folk with death, violence, and terrorism. They instead evacuate and house Whites (and some other people too if they are lucky) from persecution in some countries. In spite of their attempts to gather people from various countries, and due to their attempts to fund various militias and puppet regimes, Hvitaland is blacklisted by the rest of the world, condemned as a dystopia like Thralond and the Tornarin Empire.
	+ Nonetheless, Hvitaland is no more, as it was mostly destroyed by a nuclear war.
* In 2023, Baesorja became depicted as a paranoid, insane dystopia where in spite of its advanced technology and high intelligence, the people and emperors resort to brutality and sadism, making themselves even more abhorred by the other Norse nations.
	+ In the updated lore, Baesorja met its end during a civil war, which culminated in Jerde's first-ever nuclear war in millennia.

### Why is it "peculiar"?

* Baesorja is one of several countries on Jerde where polygamy is legal.
* Baesorja is one of several nations on Jerde where video-games and electronic entertainment are still banned.
* Baesorja is one of several nations that are "ethnostates", countries more focused on certain races and ethnicities than others. It is also listed by various countries as a poor example of an "ethnostate" because of its people's and government's arrogance.
* Baesorja is also one of several countries on Jerde that are considered "fascist", not necessarily due to its ideology and racialism, but also due to its authoritarian measures and its militarism. Some people even compared it to the Wannaenid Empire, its arch-enemy, due to its militaristic society.
* Baesorja is one of a few nations on Jerde where many of its people are bound to a hive mind. Some of its people were no better than drones, being modified to have a slave-like mentality.

## See also

### Other Nordisk nations:

* Daleskarnia, its warlike and freedom-loving rival. Eventually, its people's disappointment with Baesorja's fanaticism led to calls to reform its society, using Baesorja and the Wannae Empire as a warning of what *not* to become.
* Hothro, its rebellious descendant
* Sulgobur, more rebels who reject its racialism and isolation, even though they prefer to marry other Whites

### Other ethnostates:

* Heronoja, its former "student"
* Borunda the Golden, a non-White ethnostate south of Bujan and Irajon
* Narivo and Kovastoi, Slavonian ethnostates

### Still others:

* Umbirab, its "polar" opposite
* Turodaron, Kazonda, and Akwenendo: its "opposites", as these nations instead welcome, feed, and recruit refugees from anywhere in the world. The other two nations have no regard about what race their nation has to be, becoming "shifting nations", which are considered unusual to most people on Jerde.
* Wannaenid Empire, its greatest enemy: Baesorja's obsession with perfection is making it like its enemy.