The Funny Realm

An image of The Meat Bog, a capitol district

A map of the Funny Realm, dated 6829. The Meat Bog (center) is depicted, but most depictions of other settlements or structures were already in ruins by that time.

The Funny Realm is a Sovereign Realm established in The Adulterated Era. It was also the epicenter of The Goop Blight. The capitol territory, The Meat Bog, is home to the Meat Institute and by proxy the Chaos Anchor. While The Kingdom of the Funny Realm itself does not exist anymore, the central city of The Meat Bog remains a powerful force in the Unific World due to its natural production of De-entropic Force. Its Main Citydom is A Haven Of Knowledge With Many Universities All Arrayed Through-out It. More often, however, it is referred to as "The Meat Bog".

## History

### Early-history and goop plague

In the early days of The Adulterated Era, few understood the true nature of existence. As such there was naturally a lot of confusion when roughly half their number started oozing annoying green gel out of every orifice in their heads simultaneously. Most people simply assumed they were sick, and soon half the populace of the world were in hospital bed writhing in torment. This was especially bad since (according to some theories) The Goop Blight is at least partially responsible for creating humanity as we know it. This free-for-all outbreak quickly became known as The Goop Flu, which then mutated into a violent pandemic named The Goop Plague. In its early stages it caused vomiting, diarrhea and fever; but eventually it progressed to death by shutting down the victim's organs one by one. It didn't take long for hospitals to become overwhelmed with patients and before long most of them had succumbed to the disease. One doctor described it as "the most horrible thing I've ever seen."

### Post-chasm, the Goop Syndicate, and EMI

Outside, the Goop Chasm had begun to form. Goop was Dingularly superceding, or switching places with, matter in the Realm and assuming itself as objective reality. This resulted in the instantiation of Gradient Entropy and Radial Chaos as a whole. During the outbreak, approximately 99.9% of the Funny Realm's population was wiped out. The few that remained were left with a world full of death and destruction. Among these were Chanpukalor Svegapulthra I, Cunko Sandoval, Lady Ding L'Baum and Twelfth Grade Student. They would go on to become the founding members of the Goop Syndicate. After the outbreak, the Meat Bog remained the only populated region of the Funny Realm. Most of its citizens were members of The Goop Syndicate and devoted to stopping Gradient Entropy. To this end they built several universities in an attempt to create a stable form of De-entropic Force. One such university, the Entropic Mechanics Institute (EMI), founded and led by Twelfth Grade Student and Lady Ding L'Baum even managed to develop a working prototype of the Chaos Anchor. Unfortunately, it was never completed due to the dissolution of The Goop Syndicate (and by extension the EMI) due to the death of Twelfth Grade Student and that of Lady Ding L'Baum shortly after.

### Meat Institute

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Eventually, the building that was formerly the EMI would be occupied by the Meat Institute, which Chanpukalor Svegapulthra I founded as a solo venture after the deaths of its leaders. He would then go on to swiftly resume the development of the Chaos Anchor and complete it within two days based on prototypes left behind by its founders. Cunko Sandoval did not immediately join him, and instead turned to focus solely on his art, due to his grudge against the EMI based on his belief that the Chaos Anchor project killed Lady Ding L'Baum, his secret lover and fiance who he posthumously married through chandra-assisted afterlife communication. 30 years after the founding of the Institute, Svegapulthra tracked down Sandoval, who was living in the Chicken Bog, a southeastern region of the Meat Bog. He convinced him to join him at the institute, offering him the opportunity to found the Meat Institute Conservatory of the Arts. Sandoval, who at this point had mellowed out and understood that the Anchor had not, in fact, killed his wife, and agreed to take on the position.