The great EU conspiracy.

#### This page contains major spoilers for Part 1, up to Chapter 22.

The EU is a regularly mentioned topic during Part 1 of JSE, YES. This page details one theory about the EU researched and written by Tc squarepants. Edited slightly for grammar and formatting by Myiscoh.

## The Great EU Conspiracy

*The following was written by Tc squarepants in the JSE discord server on 05/24/22:*

In 1868, Joost is born via an accidental c-section on the border of Washington, America. It is unknown whether this was by the Canadian border and it was the state Washington, or if another country was taking over and closing in on Washington DC. It is probably the former with how often random states are mentioned by characters, showing they still exist - even Alaska! In the 1800s! If anything, America was stronger than ever… right? Meanwhile Mexico was inhabited by the ice cream loving Aztecs, who are quite chill and don’t kill people.

Cut to 1880, Britain. The EU is in control of the country with their apostolic government. It’s a horrid place to live and most people are poor and starving - even Joost seems to have financial trouble. Due to this, Dariusz either hates the EU and wishes for it to be destroyed, or just knows it can’t last like this for much longer. The government trains children as child soldiers for a war going on, treating even the simplest as games as wars in their own right. They also force children to get married, perhaps to keep having more kids for this war.

The government sucks so bad they can’t even afford to have the classic propaganda parades these regimes tend to do, with people not even knowing what a parade is. It seems they have a bone to pick with Ireland, presumedly because they are refusing to join the EU. There’s a law specifically against redheads because everyone knows all Irish people have red hair, and Ireland is often used to insult people. Eren probably is Irish tbh btw. I think it’s actually implied Ireland was a part of the EU but broke away, which would explain why Eren is here in the first place, and why Joost mentions the “return of Ireland.” Perhaps this is the war being fought?

Perhaps it’s a war that’s been going on for a long time, as a younger Joost jokes about being scared of the Greeks, perhaps another enemy. Ironic they mention Hercules so much then - actually, Hercules is the Roman name, so maybe that’s how they spite them. Though some characters seem to be named after Greek gods.

Alright here’s the major plot twist: Joost started the EU.

1. He apologizes for it in chapter 2, probably because God hates it. Joost may have been kicked out of their position though at some point and are trying to run again, or are moving onto American politics (they have a duel citizenship, and America is still a separate country).
2. There’s the scene where they start blaming the EU for enforcing stereotypical gender roles but Eren - who should hate them - says they don’t say that. So Joost has no clue what’s been going on there without him, or that nothings really changed.
3. The EU being an apostolic government fits with Joost being mad at God for being an atheist, and the Jodocus mansion later being revealed to be a monastery too.

Post-timeskip, the war going on previously seems to have ended, maybe recently. Bullet Train remarks about how he avoided fighting the Germans, though it seems kids are still being trained as soldiers anyway. Actually, they’re adults now, so maybe they’re just calling it a war because that’s what they’re used to (talking about the rugby game).

Presumedly due to this war, the US became part of the EU, with the senate moved to the mansion (before it burns down) and the White House moved to London, the new capital. Some still treat the US as another country though, so this was super recent and an odd change - even God is trying to act more American now that the unification happened. Joost also won an American election, which presumedly transferred over to the EU

Ok there’s more details but let me get to the main point, World War 2 starting with EU vs China. The war in pre-timeskip was presumedly WW1, So China developed the mask tech for a zombie army and Joshar got access to it because the EU and China were chill at the time, but now tensions are escalating. Cepelis, from China (with parents who supposedly held great political power but I’ll get into the possibility of aliens and a world government later) switched sides and gave the EU (Joost) info about the mask tech. Earlier he told Joost to “win the world” and God also wants to take over London(EU capital) and then the world so they’re directly against each other

So yeah I’m pretty sure Joost is just the leader of the EU at this point. and WW2 starts during Chapter 22 because of the fight between them and the Chinese.

There are hints at there possibly being some world government too who may be pulling the strings behind the scene. Joost is also married to the leader of the aliens but knows Jack shit about them seemingly, kinda sus and maybe some weird arranged thing. Not many people know about the aliens in the 1800s, just Cepelis who was elite and had a mom who supposedly ruled the world to begin with and Bullet Train who randomly came across alien plants. By modern time with the Aztecs they are way more prevalent.

I guess there’s also the possibility there was a world government but it fell apart but idk. Now they’re fighting to reform it.