Red Miklagard

**Red Miklagard** (Neo-Norse: Rauðor Miklagard) is a fictional empire in Vetarbroitar mythology, propaganda, and pop culture. It represents the Earth Union, the Vetarbroitar's ultimate enemy, and every evil deed in Earth's history.

## Geography

The exact details of Red Miklagard vary between different sources.

### Account A/Fe

In this continuum, Red Miklagard is divided into three countries, each named after a great sin in Norse religion. Although the three realms wage war against the Galaxy's free peoples, they are at war against each other.

* Mordia, Morð - a realm ruled by murderers, sadists, and slaughterers. It represents murder.
* Othver, Óþverri - a realm inhabited by people who were corrupted into beasts and mutants, whether by their perverse lust or by horrific experiments. It represents adultery, and by extension, perversion, filth, and defilement.
* Eiðsbrot - the most evil realm of the Three Dark Lands, inhabited by liars and the rulers of the empire. It represents oathbreaking and treachery.
* Viðurstyggð - the capital of Red Miklagard. It is located within Eiðsbrot or divided between it and its rivals into three. Its name means "Abomination".

### Account B/Ur

In this continuum, Red Miklagard is a united realm dedicated to the worship of Loki, the god of evil. Loki is depicted either as an absent god represented by dark and golden idols where victims were sacrificed at his altars, or as a man of shadows sitting in his dark throne. He is served by armies of demons bent on the slaughter or enslavement of all life in the Milky Way.

* Ásahatur - a capital of Miklagard. Its name means "hatred of the gods". Instead of up, its buildings go down to the depths of the earth.
* Lokiburg - a capital of Miklagard.
* Citadel of Loki/Ziggurat of Loki
* Five Dark Ziggurats of Loki
* Fenrisgrad - a city of werewolves and cannibals
* Jormongrad - a city of dragons and giant beasts
* Sleipniras - a rebel nation who repented and turned towards Odin and the True Gods. For their good deeds, they are protected from Miklagardian and demonic attacks.

### Account C/Thurs

In this continuum, Red Miklagard is a hellish realm divided into many horrors.

* Nastrondpolis, Nassondburg - a capital
* Disburg - a capital
* Kocytus (a former country conquered and exterminated for their resistance to Miklagard's authority)
* Lethe (a port)
* the nine trenches/canals of Malebolgia (a rebel country surrounded by canals of lava)
* Antaios (with its stadiums)
* Typhon (where war machines are built)
* Tamisra (darkness and murderers)
* Horrendo (a city of torturous machines)
* Otos (city of everlasting hunger, greed, and cannibals)
* Acheron Sea (a sea sterlilised and poisoned by pollutants)
* Phlegeton Sea (a sea of molten iron and steel, and industrial residue)
* Lake Acherusia
* Thaqil - a desert
* Raurova - a rotting metropolis where its depraved, unclothed inhabitants indulge themselves in eternal, non-ending debauchery. At times, some of its inhabitants were detached from their lovers, and dragged kicking and screaming to its towering laboratories to be modified into monsters.

## Society

Its inhabitants are depicted either as evil humans, cyborgs, or demons.

This civilisation is depicted as an inversion of everything the Vetarbroitar stood far: in opposition to their love of freedom and their veneration of Odin, Red Miklagardian society is bent on slavery, destruction, and hatred of the gods, goodness, holiness, and Odin.

People there are believed to greet others by coughing. The infection and death of one of the coughers is considered a good thing, a sign of Mankind's/Loki's favour.

Its leaders hoard much of the economy for themselves, keeping their unruly subjects as slaves to force them to overwork to death or starve.

Popular hobbies among the Miklagardians include blog-writing, Internet trolling, torture, abuse, videogames, murder, and frequent sex.

## Religion

Its state religion varies between atheism, the worship of Man or selfishness as a collective god, or a dark state church that worships Loki and other evil gods.

As an inversion of the Vetarbroitar, the people of Miklagard hate Odin and everything that is good with their being.

## Trivia

* "Miklagard" (Miklagarðr) was a name used by the Norse for Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire. As the Vetarbroitar were influenced by Norse culture, "Miklagard" later became used as one of the names for the Earth Union, as its opposition to religion reminded the Vetarbroitar of the Byzantine persecution of pagans.
* Its depiction may be influenced by Vetarbroitar stereotypes of the United States of America, the most prominent society in the hated 21st century. The Earth Union was also founded by Americans, adding to the country's poor reputation to the Vetarbroitar.