Salvationist Party

The **Salvationist Party** (Russian/Tyrskan: Партия Спасенская) was the Salvation Party's political entity during the Wannaenid occupation of Bujan.

Its capital was located in what is now the city of Razhno.

## Name of Bujan

Officially, the regions under Salvationist control were known as "Zavtrana", but as a state, the territories were known as "The Salvationist Realm of Zvesta". Some proposed using Zavtrana to make the terms more consistent, yet the rulers insisted on keeping "Zvesta" to represent themselves as the rightful successors of the Zvestarid kingdom.

## History

The Salvationist Party claimed the entire island, but actual control was limited to the northeast due to the Tyrskans and Qyuvians ruling over the central parts.

When the Bujanski revolted against them and the Terran powers, the Salvationists immediately declared a war of extermination against the natives. By then, most of the Bujanski and Wonaos who still supported the party as collaborators were either killed off or had left the party for the other factions.

However, they later realised that they were cheated by the Wannaenids, pampered and then abandoned as expendable murderers.

The Salvationist Party was afterwards defeated and banned in modern Bujan. Yet its shadow continued to linger in modern Bujanski society, as many people turned to harsh methods to eliminate anything associated with the party's abuses.

## Military

Salvationist regiments were known as cadres.

## Society

The Salvationist Party was, generally, richer and better-developed than most Qyuvian and Tyrskan-held territories. They had access to Internet, water, power, and infrastructure that was rebuilt using Wannaenid funds. As a result, they also had their own Internet subcultures, gloating on while the other Bujanski had to live in poverty and slavery.

### Society of frauds

"Traditional Zavtranian values" in the Salvationist Realm were nothing more than syncretic precepts that distorted Bujanski Slavic traditions with those of Darros, Tyrska, and Russia.

Behind their calls of "traditional Zavtranian values" and "family values", child abuse was common as parents thought they can just beat up their own children over a small offense. This led to generations of suspicious, wary people who resorted to a less social attitude, blocking and harrassing people over a simple error without needing a reason.

While less militaristic than the Tyrskans, being a soldier was seen as the ideal for all men in Salvationist territories. Almost every videogame there became propaganda, and those who were unable to fight resorted to online trolling as a paid job. Very often the same trolls would harrass each other, whether by flame wars online or brawling in real life.

### Assimilation

Out of spite against the Zvestarid monarchy and the defeat of the Zavtranian usurpers, the Salvationists and their predecessors forced their subjects to adopt the Tyrskans' Russian culture. They wanted to erase Bujan and its indigenous traditions, cursing them as barbaric and false.

Later, as native members decreased and were replaced by Terrans, the new Terran rulers turned Russian culture into a weapon, an instrument not to build, but to kill and destroy their enemies. Their obsession was the new Terran leaders' way to assert their independence from the other rulers of colonial Bujan - even including the Wannaenid Empire!

The "Russian culture" used by the Salvationists was nothing more than an exaggeration, similar to how the Tyrskans and Serpentians worshipped Russia and its stereotypes. Among the edicts the Salvationists used to Russianise their own people included:

* Militarism
* Worshipping war as the main focus in life
* Using police forces to punish anyone who did not behave in a traditional manner, or simply for offending an upper leader
* "Family values", the old Salvation Party belief, becoming nothing more than a tool to abuse people - ironically and especially against women and children to keep them in line
* Punishing anyone who objected to the use of the Russian language or its replacement of other languages
* Stereotypical traditions to replace traditional Bujanski and Wonao traditions
* Racism against non-Terrans and non-Tyrskans, all the way to self-hatred

Ironically, their unhealthy obsession with becoming Russian has become one of the reasons why the Tyrskans were at war with them. To the Tyrskans, how the Salvationists adopted Russian culture was nothing more than a blasphemy, like how the Serpentians distorted the Soviet saints venerated by the Tyrskan church.

Anyone who was not an ethnic Bujanski was treated worse than the Bujanski Slav majority, especially the Wonaos and Vozonids. Discrimination, ranging from bans from venues over racial descent to harrassment, was encouraged as an act of patriotism; yet the majority refused to ban their fellow Zvestarids and obey those orders. This became one reason why many supporters of the Salvationists used bots to block accounts belonging to native Bujanski, leading to war between the party and the subjects.

## Language

See also: Russian glossary, Tyrskan glossary

Under the Salvationist Party, the Bujanski language was regarded as a false language. It was to be assimilated, "melted" into the use of the Russian language as the only official language of the realm.

The Salvationists tolerated native languages, but sometimes also harrassed or refused to support people who advocated for the survival of native languages.

They also punished anyone who refused to speak the Russian language, and waged wars to force people to speak only in Russian, turning the language into a weapon to ensure Salvationist rule. This resulted in more Bujanski refusing to use both Russian and English, associating the two Terran languages with colonial rule.

## Religion

The Salvationists followed their own version of Rodnovery, which had become influenced by the Tyrskan polytheist faith. Perun and Mokosh were gradually replaced by worship of the party's leaders.

## Trivia

* Bujanski sometimes referred the Salvationists as "Mankurty", from a Tyrskan word referring to one who has betrayed their own people.

## See also

Other puppet states in Bujan:

* Terran colonies of Bujan
* Zavtrana
* Balennaria