Church of Q

The **Church of Q**, or the **Q Theocracy**, was a corporate theocracy that thrived in North America on Earth 96. It was formed from the remnants of America after a great war.

Its inhabitants were known as Qyuvians. They were one of the two American or Maeranoi cultures in colonial Bujan, the other being the fanatical Serpentians.

Anything from the Q Theocracy is known as "**Qyuvian**".

## History

In the 2000's, a Second Civil War broke out in America, causing the country to be divided into several authoritarian dictatorships. The Church of Q was the one that emerged in the east and dominated much of the country, extending to Cuba and western Canada.

Members of the Church of Q were among the mercenaries sent to wage war against Zvesta under Wannaenid officers. With Zvesta in ruins, they were given the north and centre of the country, which they renamed as Balennaria.

Shortly after the Qyuvian forces retreated to their homeworld and lost their colony, their homeworld was bombed by the Wannaenids, exterminating them and their Tyrskan enemies for good. It was on the fourth day of the July massacres, when their members in Bujan lived in fear of angry mobs.

## Government

The Church was ruled by a CEO, who was given the honour of being known as "the representative of Jesus Christ on Earth".

It was governed by many aristocratic families who kept the majority of their own people in poverty, reducing them to obedient slaves and soldiers. Above them was the fickle supremacy of the Supreme Leader, who was the most treacherous and charismatic candidate who killed any rival who tried to usurp him.

## Economy

The Church of Q practices corporatism, which binds much of society to overreaching corporations run by the aristocratic houses.

Private businesses still existed, but often times they could be "sandcastled" (destroyed) by representatives of the aristocratic corporations.

## Society

Members of the Church of Q are called Qyuvians - they and the Tyrskan devotees were all known as "Churchbearers" from Wannaenid records. Their buildings are called "churches" or "cueball halls", themed after a strange mixture of the bygone Christian churches, wedding chapels, and snooker bars.

Their symbol is a circle over a nail, resembling a lightbulb or a rounded ankh without bars.

### Militarism

The Church of Q practices warlike attitudes due to its history as a militant cult.

It mobilised the concept of the traditional family to total war, corrupting it from a celebration of culture to an instrument of war.

Likewise, death in war is celebrated as the ultimate purpose of life, and so is aggressively hypocritical behaviour. Whatever they did was done for the glory of the Q Church, even if it broke their own laws and sinned against their God.

Bullying was encouraged as a path to true masculinity, or as an ideal Tyrskan: warlike, cruel, sadistic, and murderous.

### Child abuse

Qyuvite devotees were notorious for being abusive towards children, to force them to become obedient and hateful. They beat up their children, barred them from certain forms of entertainment, traumatised them, and even starved children to death if they were unable to pray before meals. This angered the Bujanski natives, who refused to allow children to go near any Maeranoi.

It also led to the notorious stereotype of "Churchbearers starve kids".

Qyuvian cities looked more similar to the 1950s in architecture, but more dirtier and poorer. Many Qyuvians lived in slums that were barely an imitation of the suburbs.

### Homelessness

Qyuvians assume that every homeless person is a parasite, regarded as subhuman. This view not only led to murders and tortures towards anyone seen as "too poor", that the neighbours would either watch and cheer on, or ignore the screams of the murdered.

It also led to the fear of losing homes: a Qyuvian would fiercely defend their house if they would risk eviction, even as they would happily evict others from homes for fun and profit. If they happened to finally lose their home, they would fight over their lost home for a while, or worse, even commit suicide-murders.

### Forced conversion

Like their Tyrskan and Salvationist counterparts, the Qyuvians used their American culture as a weapon to oppress and destroy the natives.

## Language

See also: Qyuvian glossary

The English language was the official language of the Qyuvian Theocracy: the Qyuvians themselves referred it as the "American language" or "American".

Due to its diversion from the society of the former United States, the Qyuvians' pronunciation and spelling have become more different from standard English. The Serpentian communists, on the other hand, used the more "proper" spelling based on American English from the 21st century in their world.

Like anything related to their American idea, the Qyuvians used the English language as a weapon of war. Like their Tyrskan and Salvationist foes, they also waged wars to force people to start speaking only in English. In many neighbourhoods, people were beaten up simply for using other languages or refusing to use the English language.

And like Russian, English was avoided in modern Bujan due to its association with those tyrants.

## Religion

See also: Qyuvian religion, Qyuvian mythology

The Church of Q is a theocracy based on corruptions of the Christian faith, manipulated for the sake of power and waging war to build an empire. The leader of this empire was treated as the representative of Jesus Christ on Earth, akin to a pope.

Hypocritically, the reason why the Church of Q was at war with Tyrska and Zetros was that those successors of Russia replaced Christianity with imperial and nationalist cults, putting aside Jesus and the Virgin Mary for historical figures and worshipping Emperor Zetros as the lord of an imperial pantheon.

The stubborn, violent attitude of the Church of Q's followers became the very reason why people in Bujan dislike Churchbearers, their successors in the modern age. Those monotheists who supported Bujan during the revolution either had to become members of the Free North, renounce their religion, or go to the planet of Valtois.

The militaristic and hateful attitude of similar religions also led to their ban in modern Bujan. Those same mercenaries also turned against the Qyuvians for supposed heresies, even as they would brought by the Wannaenids to partake in the useless wars and die.

### Practices

Members of the Church of Q are called Qvites or Qyuvites - they and the Tyrskan devotees were all known as "Churchbearers" from Wannaenid records. Their buildings are called "churches" or "cueball halls", themed after a strange mixture of the bygone Christian churches, wedding chapels, and snooker bars.

Their symbol is a circle over a nail, resembling a lightbulb or a rounded ankh without bars.

It mobilised the concept of the traditional family to total war, reducing it from a celebration of culture to an instrument of domination.

Likewise, death in war is celebrated as the ultimate purpose of life, and so is aggressively hypocritical behaviour. Whatever they did was done for the glory of the Q Church, even if it broke their own laws and sinned against their God.

Qyuvite devotees were notorious for being abusive towards children, to force them to become obedient and hateful. They beat up their children, barred them from certain forms of entertainment, traumatised them, and even starved children to death if they were unable to pray before meals. This angered the Bujanski natives, who refused to allow children to go near any Maeranoi.

It also led to the notorious stereotype of "Churchbearers starve kids", and the association of "family values" with their abusive treatment of children.

### Maizefolk

In Bujanski records, there also existed a murderous cult among the Qyuvians, known as "people of corn", or "Maizefolk". They worshipped an evil, fraudulent tyrant, the greatest enemy of the Christians' God whose name was avoided by Bujanski. Their cult of death was a rebellion against the strictures of Qyuvian dogma, by unleashing their creativity in the form of fashion and murder.

They wore clothing similar to the 1950's suburban ideals of the Qyuvians, pale and milky, and often stained with the blood of murdered victims and failed offspring. Nearly all of them were blonde, though they were more willing to accept any race as long as the members were blonde.

Their demise came when a rebellion of Heronoi slaves killed a warband and stole their clothing, cleaning and weaving traditional patterns invoking the gods of their distant homeland. Like other symbols inverted from death to hope, the attire of the Maizefolk was appropriated by the native Bujanski as a symbol of rebellion, popularised into everyday wear.

As for the remaining Maizefolk, they were to serve the Heronoi and humble themselves, or risk having their DNA changed to that of the Heronoi. That meant they would avoid fire and ice cream, and they would beg the moon god of Heronoja for atonement.

## Treatment of other beliefs

### Native Bujanski and Wonaos

Natives who did not convert were treated with less respect, or even pity.

Bujanski Slavs were derided as "russkies", their temples desecrated and their ceremonies mocked as "stupid". Wonaos were stereotyped as wild people, and even those who joined the Church of Q were called names and bullied very often for not being White.

Qyuvians tended to call native religions "uoka".

### Atheists

While a portion of the Maeranoi are atheists, the Q Church hated atheists more than the Church of Tyrska or the native polytheists. Maeranoi were especially notorious for harassing and beating up "Godless" people, including even locals simply for refusing to convert.

This eventually led to the Serpentian rebellion, seeking fairer treatment of nonbelievers: yet even it was driven by their leaders to wage war on the native peoples.

### Christians

It was very ironic that the Church of Q evolved to such an extent that it was no longer Christian, all the way to strange beliefs, worshipping charismatic backstabbers, and waging war on the very Christians it used to support.

Several terms were used against nonbelievers, who were seen as deviant. "Stanem", from the archaic expression, "stunning and brave", originally meant "a deviant", but eventually became used for nonbelievers in general as the Church became more aggressive and warlike.

Even Christians were abused and cursed as "stanems", or "heretics", for their refusal to convert. The most notorious example of such mistreatment was the American mercenaries and militants rounded up by the Wannaenids. Because they were continually forced to worship in the Qyuvian manner, they fought back and waged their little wars.

The Free North rebellion mostly consisted of Christians. Although they knew that Christianity was seen in Bujan as a foreign invader, they accepted the rebels' amnesty and fought on their side, simply out of opposition to abusive actions committed by the Qyuvian government and subjects. It led to worse clashes between the Qyuvian church and Christian militants, both of which were defeated by the revolution. Some of them, fittingly, were defeated by Free North regiments.

## Trivia

* The Church of Q was based on far-right ideologies in America, especially the alt-right, Trumpism, and QAnon. The name itself was based on QAnon, with the Q used as an equivalent to the Russian Z symbol of hatred and war.
	+ It was also influenced by bizarre cults, from Scientology to the bizarre "Christian" religion in Moral Orel.
	+ The Maizefolk were inspired by Daniel and Jen from Camp Camp.

## See also

* Maeranoi, other "Americans" in the Rabydosverse
* Fifty-Six Tyrants factions
* America (Rabydosverse)