Four Powers (Rinnarverse)

In the Rinnarverse, the "**Four Powers**" were four historical superpowers on the planet Earth, from the 21st century to World War III. They consisted of divided America, China, Russia, and Arabia.

America.China.Russia.Arabia.

## Names of the Four Powers' domains

* America: The Free World, the West
* Arabia: Dar al-Islam (دار الإسلام; Realm of Islam, Realm of Submission)
* Russia: Russkij Mir (русский мир; Russian World)
* China: Tianxia (天下, all under Heaven); Zhonghua Zhishi (中華治世, China as Lord of the World)

The "Global South" or "Third World" may consist of various factions especially opposed to America and the West. Although they are mostly made of nationalists and far-left militants from Africa, Asia, and Latin America (usually countries colonised and oppressed by European empires); Russia, China, and some Muslim powers also consider themselves as part of the Global South simply for their opposition to the West.

### Terran languages

* American English: Four Empires
* Russian: Четыре империи (Chetyrje Imperii)
* Chinese: 四大帝國 (Si Da Di Guo), 四霸國 (Si Ba Guo)
* Arabic: أربع إمبراطوريات (Arba'i ʾImbarāṭūriyyāt)

## Rinnarverse Four Powers

The Four Powers of America, China, Russia, and Arabia were the four superpowers of Earth from the 21st century onwards. The latter three emerged after the Plague of 2020 to challenge America's global dominance, seeking to replace it with their own as a sort of "enlightenment" for everyone on Earth.

The term was a misnomer as America actually consisted of two nations: the leftist United States and the conservative American Federation.

Their attempts to rule Earth and all of humanity culminated in World War III and the ruin of the entire world.

### Other powers

Opposing them were several other strong nations. Three of them, the Ramrajya, Australia, and Mexico, were the earliest members of an alliance of free nations, hailed forever in the Vetarbroitar as the Thrisveld Alliance.

* Kheya Wita - a Native American federal republic
* Ramrajya - a Hindu superpower
* Mexico
* Australia
* Visegrad

## Dark Rinnarverse Four Powers

The events of Canon-19 were slightly different, as each of the Four Powers became more inethical in their quests for dominance. Such was the extent of their bids for supremacy that the Vetarbroitar banned anything related to the Four Powers and swore to destroy them.

### Other powers

* Mexico - one of the Six Powers
* Australia - one of the Six Powers
* Hindu Republic of Akhand Bharat - a Hindu state focused on defense and vengeance
* Visegrad - a right-wing alliance bent on the enforcement of a stricter Christian world order
* Nordic State - a pagan militarist empire bent on the destruction of the world

## Influences

* In the real world, the Four Powers correspond to four powerful and influential countries or cultures in the 21st century.
	+ Each of them was based on an ideology from various keyboard warriors, extremists, and Internet trolls:
		- America:
			* right-wing populism, Christian nationalism, conservatism, fascism, racialism and White supremacism
			* leftism, social justice movements, anti-capitalism, socialism, communism, Marxism
		- China - leftism, hatred of the West, communism, Chinese nationalism
		- Russia - Russian nationalism, European populism, fascism, the 2022 invasion of Ukraine and its personality cult centred on Vladimir Putin
		- Arabia - Islamic nationalism, all forms of Islamism (especially in Pakistan, Palestine, Afghanistan, and Turkey)
	+ Although Saudi Arabia is not a superpower in the level of the other three, it represents the entire Muslim world as a geopolitical force. The more-influential members of the Muslim world, in terms of global power and nationalism, are Pakistan and Turkey.
* Another influence for the Four Powers as antagonists is the Chaos Gods of Warhammer.

## See also

* Fourteen Bells
* Earth Union
* Great Shields