Blessed America

Flag of the Blessed America

*"The people of this world must be cleansed from all sin by the Holy Founding Fathers. Every nation, religion and creed. Together they must cleanse and wash away every sin."*

--Pastor Edward Harris

The **Blessed United States of America**, the **Blessed America**, **New America**, or **B.U.S.A.**, also known as the "**Saints of the New Eden**", is an Ultranationalist, fanatical religious faction created in Greywind, a fictional city in the ruins of the Great War. The main antagonists of *The Dark Future: Revelations*.

It is an armed cult and paramilitary group that has introduced its own Talio doctrine, designed to quell growing social discontent, riots, crime and total economic collapse in the former city's sanctuaries and subway stations. They expelled origarchic leaders, criminal gangs, bandits, clans, and local militias from their country, and absorbed or disarmed them if they refused to accept their authority.

Anyone who commits any of the **Seven Deadly Sins** is 'cleansed' by being subjected to retribution in a similar fashion. Anyone deemed unclean or immoral, a useless, harmful member of society, is purged to control the Seven Deadly Sins through violence and retribution. Similar to the Greater American Republic (GAR), they have one of the most organized, disciplined, and sophisticated militaries of fanatical, ruthless, determined soldiers and mercenaries known as "Christ's Warriors".

They generally do not tolerate outsiders and refugees, forcibly deporting, imprisoning or shooting them. However, there are exceptions, some outsiders are trafficked, and mercenaries and stalkers are hired to carry out black or special operations, both on the surface and in shelters, to eliminate certain individuals who pose a threat to Blessed America, its nation, or who go against the "Book of Edward" and commit one of the seven cardinal sins.

## History

In 2050, the whole world collapsed when the great powers launched nuclear missiles at each other, wiping out almost all of humanity and rendering the planet uninhabitable with radiation and its aftermath. The city of Greywind was also a victim of nuclear fire, hit by a Russian tactical missile strike that scorched a quarter of the city, with the rest contaminated by heavy radiation.

The local leadership, the mayor and the authorities tried desperately to evacuate civilians to underground shelters and metro stations, but largely failed due to the indecisive and inept military and city leadership.

Later on, the first reports of unidentified stray creatures appeared, replaced by attacks on people. At first thought to be caused by wild animals, it was later realised that the attack was not by animals but by hideous, monstrous mutants mutated on the surface by radioactive radiation. Their hunger grew, and they began to migrate underground to shelters and subway stations, where they killed scores of people to starve themselves to death. Soon chaos and panic ensued, and the discontent of the civilians grew as supplies and food began to run low and the mutants began to flood the city.

The United Central Command was soon formed, a coalition of law enforcement, law enforcement agencies, civilian volunteers, civilian and military branches in much of the central United States. The Command was headed by Colonel Richard Sullivan and Colonel Dwight Robinson, the former Commander-in-Chief of the United States Armed Forces and the former Commander of Special Forces. The two were trying to restore order. However, this proved unsuccessful, as the area was overrun with mutants and various criminal clans, bandits, anarchists, rogue and rebel groups/factions who were disaffected or disillusioned with the United Central Command and chose their own criminal path. They began looting the Command's supplies, carrying out murders and assassinations of soldiers and civilians alike. These factions were not above kidnapping, torture and rape.

Self-proclaimed states were created by various bandits and oligarchic warlords, and the Command was on the verge of collapse. To make matters worse for the Command, a group of mutants nested underground and built a Habitat, breeding more deadly mutants. In addition, a deadly virus called Biopathogen began to spread, the origin of which is unknown and only speculated. Colonel Dwight came up with another more effective strategy for Colonel Sullivan, as it appeared that Colonel Sullivan and the Central Command leadership were indecisive, unprepared, inept and weak to restore order to the chaos in the areas of the region. Dwight wanted to completely restore order which he wanted to implement by radical action in Denver, Greywind and the other major cities. Dwight's goal was to join forces with the Special Forces and Sullivan's army to launch a joint offensive against all the inciting, rogue, marauding, anarchist factions and restore order in the region by finding and destroying the mutant Habitat with napalm and c4. Sullivan and his leadership refused to go along with Dwight's idea, so they withdrew their troops to the Denver HQ from the mutant and enemy faction infested areas they had named the Death Zone.

Dwight was frustrated and angry at the Sullivans for giving up part of his command headquarters and so many innocent civilians that he became disgusted with the leadership of the High Command. Unheeded by the Sullivans, Dwight became convinced that only he and his loyal Special Forces had the means and determination to retake the area dominated by mutants and bandit factions and restore order, to restore the Command. With his loyal Special Forces, he secretly allied himself with a local influential priest, the Reverend Edward Harris, and his followers to increase his severely depleted Special Forces. Dwight and Edward's militias conspired against the Central Command, and their plan was to overthrow Sullivan and restore order to the region. They launched an armed attack on the city of Denver which failed, as they were outnumbered, and Dwight was captured and imprisoned in the basement of the asylum.

Later, Dwight's loyalists and Pastor Edward's militia freed him, stole almost half of the Central Command's supplies, equipment and weapons, and retreated to the city of Greywind amidst heavy firefights and conflict.Soon after, the United Central Command was disbanded, leaving much of the region leaderless and in chaos, with hostile mutants and Biopathogenic Disease decimating much of the population. In most towns, villages and countryside where there were surviving civilians, leaders and soldiers either scattered or split into smaller militias and factions in various underground hideouts. The former Command was split into three major factions, Sullivan who, assuming absolute power with his loyal hard-line army, consolidated his hold on the city of Denver and its environs, and built up a much stronger and more authoritative military junta than before. Later proclaimed the Greater American Republic as urbanization, trade and capitalism spread. Further south, a renegade group called the Redeemers was organized in Portland under the leadership of William Sanders, while east of Denver, Colonel Dwight and Pastor Edward organized and consolidated their power in and around Greywind.

Soon afterwards they swept all the self-serving oligarchs, warlords and bandit clans out of their country and then proclaimed their new state, the Blessed America. Their new state was organized by Dwight, Pastor Edward and a circle of other leaders and administrators who called themselves the "Holy Founding Fathers". Soon after, they established their totalitarian government and cult, whose purpose was to radically suppress the unruly, rebellious groups in their state and implement the New World Order. Expanding their power, they began to expand, absorbing various militias and increasing the size of their army, while those who resisted were killed or expelled.

They built their new cult and ideology on the ideas of fundamentalist, ultra-Christian religion, fanatical Nationalism and Social Darwinism, and soon afterwards Pastor Edward wrote his own "Book of Edward", an Old Testament Bible story that all men should live by and adhere to. As a result, a new social order and a belief system was introduced, called the "New Eden Project", who introduced the idea of "an eye for an eye", the purpose of which was to "purge" from society anyone who committed any of the 7 cardinal sins, and to punish them equally. Such persons are usually caught, imprisoned, tortured, mutilated and given the death sentence. Anyone who commits any immorality or crime or disagrees with the government and its creed is subjected to brutal reprisals called the "Great Purges". Anyone who is considered a threat or dangerous, or a useless or harmful member of society, or who "cannot see with their true eyes" and endangers their country and national creed, they are able to defend at all costs and will act against them with threats, aggression and violence.

The Blessed America is currently in a ceasefire with the Greater American Republic, but their relations are mostly hostile, and over the years there have been border incursions and minor firefights on the borders of the radiation-contaminated wasteland.

They are currently at war with a heretical cult, the so-called "Chosen Ones" who believe in a neo-pagan, occultist religion and the so-called "Dark Gods". They capture people and ritually mutilate them and throw them to a deadly mutant of mysterious origin called their "Dark God" or Lucifer himself.

The leadership of the Blessed America were the first to capture a member of the Observers, a secret, surveillance intelligence agency, and leak the Observers' secret project to the remnants of humanity via a radio tower to all factions of the former America. All factions of America and the remnant of the population are controlled, directed and manipulated and are responsible for manipulating events to manipulate the people which for unknown reasons ultimately failed.

They are one of the rare factions in America that cannot be manipulated in any way by the Observers within their borders and cannot be reached by their tentacles.

## Military

The Army of Blessed America is known as the Holy National Army (HNA), defending the reign of the Cult of Dwight and Edward, who are the primary, official army in the city and countryside of Greywind. They have an army of the best trained and equipped, ruthless, disciplined warriors, equipped with the best military structure, equipment and weapons. The military itself is made up of Colonel Dwight's Special Forces and various militias loyal to Dwight and Edward's regime and the "Holy Founding Fathers".

They are the main executive forces of the government and are used to enforce their laws and order on the population. Anyone who starts a revolution or resistance and guerrilla groups are organized are to be brutally suppressed and if their country or their country and the government is threatened in any way they are the first to be deployed who will carry out orders without question, even if it has to be against civilians.

Various political dissidents, traitors, insurgent groups, and those accused of heresy are targeted with authority, kidnapped, tortured and killed.

They are equipped with the best ballistic helmets, ballistic vests and ballistic gas masks. They have high quality weapons such as the M4A1, Advanced Carbine Rifle, P416 or the G36. They also have some vehicles such as the Humvee military vehicle or the UH-60 Black Hawk transport helicopter.

#### Rented Militias

Unbeknownst to the public, they pay various militias, mercenaries and stalkers to capture, bounty and kill anyone who poses a threat to Blessed America and its regime. One of the best known of these is the Neo-Nazi Mercenaries and Stalkers, a paramilitary force known as the Phoenix Division. Although they do not agree with the ideology and actions of the Blessed America, they will carry out any orders or tasks that are given to them for a price.

They're one of the most dangerous, ruthless, disciplined paramilitary groups, with the most sophisticated training and equipment, who face all kinds of horrors and deal with the most dangerous missions, with all kinds of deadly environments and mutants.

## Trivia

* The Observers are responsible for the events of the TDF Trilogy and the scene whose origins are obscured.
* Blessed America is based on the NFFA film series The Purge.