Denlotia

"*Death to Terra and the Old World! They seek to reduce our planet to the wastelands from which they crawled out of!*"

The **Denlotia** (Ardeschen: **Daenloed**; Palguenian: **Rhinnquenna**), also known as the **New World Order**, the **World Alliance**, or the **New Order**, was a global system that dominated Jerde from the 36th to the 43rd centuries.

Although it set an example for many societies across modern Jerde, even its future students were frightened of it, as it was notorious for its obsession with justice and vengeance.

*It had become the very things it swore to destroy.*

## Flag and symbols

### Flag

The Denlotia's alliance flag is olive with golden symbols. Olive represents harmony, and gold represents righteousness.

The border with four corners represents the Denlotia being available to help everyone in the world live a better life.

The central symbol is supposed to represent a pair of scales, representing justice and truth.

The round emblem symbolises the Sun: wisdom, love, and happiness guiding humanity to a brighter future.

Later versions of the Denlotian flag consisted of an olive flag with a pair of golden scales within a gold border.

### Other symbols

* Burning cup - Justice, and the total destruction of evil. Originally a cup of Raktabija's blood, where the justice goddess Kali Ma drank to stop the demon from reappearing and destroying the world. The Denlotians adopted this symbol to represent the destruction of all evil.
* Golden pair of scales - Justice, harmony, order, and the elimination of inequality. An ancient symbol used by various peoples across the world, tipped with a sun to reflect the flag.
* Skull with two crossed keys - Harsh punishments to evildoers. It represents an idiom: "Justice is the key to life, abuse is the gate to death".

### Gallery

Burning cup.Golden scales.Keys and skull.
## History

See also: Post-Gauvajut timeline, World War III, Denlotian timeline, 3900 Pandemic, Great Uplifting, Adeshola

### Ascent

After the Ice Age of 1815 (2160 AT) which lasted for four centuries, the remaining peoples of Jerde became more dependent on various corporations or authoritarian governments who helped them survive the greater cold. They used to live in cities dug under the frozen wastes, and when the great ice receded, the surviving Jerdiskar in space helped the remaining humans rebuild their nations' lost splendor.

The corporations became more dominant in daily life in certain countries, while others attempted to unite the world under a socialist system of codes. Eventually, war broke out between two great factions - the Unifiers, and the Red Front. The corporations later joined in, seeking to defeat the other two factions and rule the world as a corporate state. Certain warlords and leaders heard of other worlds filled with fresh armies to impose their power, so they built portals to summon the armies: they unleashed the terror of the Earthlings, fifty-six interdimensional armies of fanatics and murderers, who established brutal regimes that horrified the world. The war ended with the deaths of half of the planet's population.

The survivors of this global conflict formed a great alliance to reorganise society, to prevent the great suffering and unequal conditions that existed before the Third World War. They became the World Alliance. Much of the postwar economy was built by associations and cooperatives, joint groups formed by entire communities to produce more and supply their peoples: their cooperation and production helped many countries rapidly recover from the Third World War.

Two more alliances emerged: the Second Red Front, and the Lords of Power. Like the WA, both of them considered it to be the right time to sweep across Jerde, as the corporations were out of the way, and they considered it a chance to lead humanity to greatness.

### Birth by Paranoia

During its initial years, the Walaara Terrans took over northern Palguenia, including the capital, subjecting the inhabitants into a corporate hellscape.

The founder of the World Alliance was a former member of a communist group in Palguenia who was upset by his former comrades' tendency to pick fights, and by their poor rule over one attempted commune that they referred to as "the Experiment of Derreguet". That commune ruled over a slum and managed to help its inhabitants achieve a little better livelihood, but when its leader attempted to seize control of the Palguenian government, the commune was defeated. With his former allies harrassing him as a "traitor" for rejecting them and not adopting their "revolutionary" culture, he took up some of their views as part of his new world order, such as socialist policies and support for the working class.

This leader's name was "Pinto Muricnona", a victim of bullies and abuse whose anger and hatred fuelled his desire for vengeance. The whole Denlotia was his brainchild, utilising the power and fury of his own people to punish every person who harmed him during his youth, and the whole world for its stubborn cruelty.

The sixteenth year of his life was supposed to be his happiest year, full of hope and good fortune. Instead, he did many reckless things, landing him into trouble with many irresponsible people. The one incident that drove him mad was Andraundos' ban on him from ever using the latter's art club, and then insisting on keeping his rules even as Pinto was truly sorry for his mistake. Ever since, Pinto decided to write down every enemy who angered him, so that one day they will be eliminated.

After the communist commune, Pinto founded a club of political students. They encouraged him to seek revenge against society, as they were pleased that his hatred would one day shake the world. The sixth member, who dabbled in Black Ardeschen magical technology and alien machinery, had a strange device known as a "grudgedreamer". He found it in a bazaar in an alien planet, allowing its users not only to read minds and use space-time to recall past memories and details, but also to project one's own thoughts to torment faraway people.

The resulting nightmares exposed many of the future victims of the Grey Tolls, the Day of Resolution, and other massacres done by the Denlotia to punish criminals.

### Denlotian Revolution

The club evolved into a charity group, known as the New Order. It was a popular group due to its members rebuilding slums and providing much-needed help, amenities, and basic needs to as many poor people as they could find.

The members sought revenge against various social ills in Palguenia, ranging from colonial abuse by the Walaarans to corporate domination. Three factors led to the rise of the New Order and its evolution into a militarist group: a hatred of grudges, a culture war involving the ban or permission of phones in workplaces that escalated into violence, and a violent conflict between the fans and writers of a popular show known as "Broken Plates".

### Emperor Pinto of the Denlotia

Unfortunately for his country, as the leader of Palguenia and the founder of the World Alliance, he was fiercely supportive of the poorer people of the country, but he was very harsh towards people who were disliked by his supporters and the poorer people of his country. The worst of all criminals and richer folk were personally executed by his hands, brutally and cruelly.

He also ordered torture and death towards the people who wronged him in the past, using them as examples of social ills that plagued society, especially in hardship and poverty. Not even his own parents were exempt from his punishment, for denying him from becoming a successful artist to keep their own businesses afloat from the ruin of the Third World War: he personally beat them to death right in front of a cheering mob and countless television screens. That horrific murder caused more nations to turn towards the other alliances until the founder was dead and replaced, and the Terrans would use this as their reason why they sought to destroy the Denlotia and its "god-forsaken" inhabitants. Thousands more across Palguenia were killed and torn to pieces by him and his growing supporters, who claimed their bloody vengeance as justice against an evil world.

He was also notorious for his aversion for the term "working class", preferring the term "the people" or "commoners". When one of his friends interviewed him, he answered that it was due to several communes with violent and extremist policies, and various "revolutionary" states that attempted war against the rest of the world. He also stated that it was the bullying that his classmates did during his youth that also made him dislike communism in general. Finally, he mentioned that the "working class" (which was the Second Red Front and all of its supporters, not the poorer people that he helped) would destroy all cultures, ban various kinds of entertainment, and impose a dull, futuristic society that erases all history.

His opponents denounced him as a "bootlicker", using several "deviant" examples as his representation of the former views that he no longer practiced. Weeks later, he barely survived an assassination attempt.

In spite of these, he was very popular with poorer people within his World Alliance, as he forced its members to make the poor live better lives. He was also beloved by many more angry people, mostly rejects who were not killed for committed very abominable crimes, who sought to undo what they claimed as "consequences" for all of their errors and everyone who promoted such views. Their fanaticism, fuelled by his hatred of his past and refusal to accept his circumstances, influenced him to become more violent to impose a utopian world order.

He was still assassinated, with his killer, Bendovare, attempting to take control of the WA and remake it into a communist world state at the behest of his enemies. In a speech that he made, he stated the reason for his coup: the world was in chaos, and without any powerful group to stop him like the corporations, it was high time for humanity to become a single society to force it forward. Although he was accompanied by hundreds of gunmen, the people in the capital overthrew him and his men after two days. They were afraid that Bendovare would restrict their rights and freedoms to make them behave and think like him.

Another leader held an election among the member states to decide their new leader. The third leader, Alchurista, repealed some of the more brutal laws to encourage cooperation between the members, especially in the wake of its enemies marching to war.

### The Denlotia Grows

One of the Denlotia's founders stole some machinery from a Terran warlord, which he used to instantly exterminate hundreds of enemies and leave their settlements littered with corpses. He then hired hundreds of Terrans, who used the leader's technology to teleport themselves across the world. At noon and midnight in Palguenia, the assassins slaughtered 70,000 people, whose names were written on a list. Half of them were slain at noon, and the rest at midnight. Their victims were criminals, warlords, terrorists, scammers, gang members, and murderers.

That was known as the Blink or the Grey Tolls, when the very people who walked among others were found, silently murdered and broken in the blink of an eye. Most of the world was afraid, but many people and communities were relieved. Some even threw parties and thanked the Gods, rejoicing over the unexpected demise of their tormentors. In those exceptional towns, what used to be miserable, war-torn ruins became into a riot of colour and glee, angering their neighbours.

Seeking an end to the warlords who threatened their people, the states of western Rifandi joined the Denlotia. Many scammers, murderers, and other ruinous criminals were brought forth by angry crowds, who then cheered as their enemies were executed. Luckily for them, only a few reckless massacres like in Palguenia broke out, but even then they were quickly stopped before they might slaughter more innocents. The Denlotia was more successful in killing off the scammers and criminals as it funded many schools, community buildings, and infrastructure projects, turning people away from the crime gangs and warlords. And it was the warlords that attacked first, as they were angry that the people betrayed them for the Denlotia's development, bringing the purges on themselves.

Similarly, more nations elsewhere joined the Denlotia, seeking quicker development funded by wealth plundered from dead warlords and billionaires and freedom from tyrants and Terrans. As a result, many of the new members of the Denlotia eliminated poverty, corruption, illiteracy, superstition, power and water shortages, disease outbreaks, and starvation within up to forty years.

### Later history

After several centuries of prosperity and invasions by other superpowers, the WA collapsed due to a plague killing off much of its people. Their immune systems, altered by the Human Sanctification Project, had been weakened.

Before that, the Terran empires on Jerde initiated the "Great Renewal", a missile system meant to bomb the whole planet. After Jerde will have been burned up, the Terrans would enslave any survivors: however the plague also killed many Terrans, preventing the missile strikes from taking place due to a lack of manpower and automatons.

With the collapse of the Denlotia, several warbands were founded, following distorted and extreme forms of monotheism and atheism to frighten and destroy the World Alliance. The survivors defeated the warbands, but also made polytheism mandatory.

## Terms

See also: Denlotian laws

## Politics

The Denlotia, or the World Alliance, was not a single country, but an alliance made of hundreds of nations. Most of them were united in attempting to end various social ills, while permitting humanity to keep several aspects (like cultural traditionalism, religion, private businesses, and individualism).

The World Alliance after World War III practiced a mixture of social justice, some form of socialism, and cultural conservatism and traditionalism: its goal was the preservation of culture and to ensure every person becomes comfortable enough to help build humanity together. It encouraged its members to standardise their cultures while making things more easier for poorer and marginalised people, but its support for anti-racist programmes in all of its member states (including former colonies) led to outrage.

As a result, the league had three armies working under it: the Peacekeepers, the Workers' Alliance, and the Global Democracy Force: it was the cooperation of those three armies and the activists within them that aided various resistance movements and ensured fairer rights for commoners across the world.

There was a degree of democracy (or mob rule) in the Denlotia, even within non-republican societies. If a leader was considered corrupt, and enough people have rebelled or protested, the army of any country had no choice but to obey the people and not the leader, so they overthrew the leader. The armies were required to let the people choose their new leader, and if any member of any army suddenly took power, the neighbouring countries will invade that country and impose a government of the locals' choice.

### The Final Victory

Should the Denlotia prevail over the Terrans as the sole superpower, it will dismantle itself into regional alliances, and cease to exist. This is known as "co-regionalism", as an alternative to "polarity", which makes countries too reliant on one or more superpowers.

This was inspired by the Commonwealth of Central Rifandi, several nations who banded together to avoid Yawandian supremacy.

## Member states

* Republic of Palguenia
* Commonwealth of Rexoria
	+ Remained a monarchy, but ruled by a different royal house. The previous, age-old royal house was overthrown by other relatives, denounced as collaborators with the corporations and Terrans.
* Federal Republic of Green Ardesch
	+ Much smaller due to much of its western territories voting to join Palguenia.
	+ It is also known as "West Ardesch", an island of stability during the Terran invasions and Denlotian purges. Initially, it wanted to join the Denlotia and aid the reconstruction of the region, but although its relief aid was permitted, the neighbours refused to accept Green Ardesch because it was more forgiving to the Terrans who fled there.
	+ Many Terrans and Old Worlders wanted to do their own "penance", following Denlotian integration processes to naturalise themselves as Green Ardeschens. Years later, because they were "purified" and allowed to become Jerdiskar, Green Ardesch was finally added as a member of the Denlotia.
* Republic of East Ardesch
* First Vozonid Empire
* Republic of Tebwe
	+ The later state that became a Denlotian member originated from a revolution in the northeast. It became stronger as more people joined it due to its better living conditions and stability.
	+ Adeshola, a Tebwean man who was one of the Denlotia's sixteen founders, returned home to help the revolution. He refused to make himself an immortal, instead giving the elixirs to some of his children.
	+ It refused to join the Denlotia to mourn for the mass killings that broke out due to the warlords. In spite of this, the Denlotia still funded a massive reconstruction project, leading to a continent-wide power grid and rail network. The countries only had to pay a very low loan to fund the companies involved in the construction, and eventually many of the Denlotia's projects were taken over by growing local businesses. Only several years after Adeshola passed away from old age, did the Tebweans request for Denlotian membership.
* Commonwealth of Central Rifandi, "the Commonwealth", CCR
	+ They could be one of the reasons why the Denlotia became more popular among the people of Rifandi. In fact, the Denlotians even claimed that they were the ones who were a proto-Denlotia, the inspiration for the Denlotia's system of regional alliances.
	+ The Commonwealth successfully withstood against the Terran invasions. In fact, it even sent expeditions to defend Yawanda and stop the Terrans from having another stronghold to the south.
	+ Due to Denlotian aid and a boom in technological advancement, the Commonwealth was the richest part in all of Rifandi, outpacing even Yawanda. It was also the most advanced in terms of technology, a futuristic hub of peace and stability in a world torn by war.
	+ It later sent aid to help the Tebweans overthrow tyrants who ran scammer networks and rebuild their homeland.
	+ It was the leader of a reconstruction campaign, the Rifandian Dawn, as the richest nation in all of Rifandi, using Denlotian companies to assist it. Therefore, the "reconstruction" was not as "Denlotian" as claimed, but it was mostly an indigenous campaign to represent "the dawn of a world free from empires".
* Kingdom of Yawanda
	+ The Commonwealth was founded to oppose its dominance. Later it even relied on the Commonwealth to learn to improve its aging machinery.
	+ It was another major party that assisted the Rifandian postwar reconstruction.
* Kingdom of Kikori
	+ It had regained its access to its descendants in space, who also helped the Commonwealth.
	+ As another industrial and technological power, the Kikorians also withstood the Terrans, at the cost of the northern territories. They were regained after the Royal Kikorian Armed Forces drove out the Terrans and their collaborators.
* Remia
* Republic of Sonzana
	+ A large nation at western Rifandi's coast. Although it suffered from being conquered and enslaved by the Ardeschen Empire, its neighbours helped rebuild the nation and protect it from Terran invasions.
	+ With the Terrans gone from the eastern provinces, Sonzana gladly joined the Denlotia. After all, the warlords of Tebwe made the Sonzanese more hostile to fraudsters, but took in many poorer people as new citizens.
* Kingdom of Resovjant
* Kingdom of Tinoval (Joltaraata)
	+ Denlotian techhnology led to the construction of many farm towers, turning the mountainous island nation into the "Breadbasket of the Five Realms" for its abundant food exports.

### Notable locations

* Autumn Rock - at the middle and latter years of the Denlotia's time, it was the main meetingplace of all member states, replacing its former headquarters in Palguenia and Ardesch.
	+ It was located off the cliff-strewn coasts of western Sonzana.

## Leaders

1. Pinto Muricnona (Palguenia)
	1. Bendovare (Palguenia) - not counted
2. Alchurista (Remia)
3. Indrikor Kor Numaras the Faithful (last leader)

## Economy

In the World Alliance, poverty was greatly reduced, as much of the wealth taken from defeated corporations and the last super-rich people were immediately spent on helping various people across the world. The WA was also notorious for sending assassins to kill any leaders who were considered unpopular by their own subjects: when they noticed that many of their leaders were killed off, civil wars broke out in some countries, while others willingly allowed the WA to help them prepare their chosen leaders to replace them.

Within decades, the territories of the Denlotia prospered, as healthcare, education, and resources became more available for the billions of people that lived there.

Under the Denlotia, the governments of the world had set up the Debt Relief Fund (later the Shining Star), a group where anyone who has lost their money to scams and themselves into debt will be given a one-time payment to quickly resolve the debt. To avoid being scammed, the DRF always investigates every case, and everyone who goes there must provide proof. Thanks to this group and its honesty, countless lives were saved from despair, and this institution continued into modern times.

Many companies and businesses, especially larger ones, were subjected to strict laws that forced them to favour their own workers and customers.

Scamming, especially related to money, social status, kidnappings, and body parts, was a capital offense under Denlotian law - the punishment for such scams was death, a life paid for all the lives destroyed by the scams. All scammers who were arrested were brought to their victims, who decide the form of punishment that will kill the scammers. People who worked under scammers were also investigated so they, as victims, were also given compensation for the money lost or transferred to the scammers.

Although the Denlotia's members established extensive welfare states, they did not collapse into parasitical hives. Brought up by idealism and fear of returning to corruption, most of their citizens became too diligent and focused, that they became more independent and supportive of others. So only a few were too dependent on the government, that any who were not handicapped would be arrested by their neighbours.

Many Denlotian countries named their currencies as "credits", although member states were allowed to use their own currencies. Over time, as alliances and leagues were formed, the same member states unified their currencies into regional currencies.

## Society

See also: Denlotian glossary, Denlotian folklore, Late Ardeschen language

### Culture

#### Revenge

The society of the early Denlotia was bent on revenge against everyone who hurt its members, leading to purges, beatings, and murders over even petty things that made fun of them. Later, some leaders tried to stop them from descending into selfish slaughter by teaching them to erase "Terran" attitudes from their own behaviour, such as using selfishness to justify killing people.

Many of the WA's inhabitants were affected by the HSP: although they were more organised and cooperative, they lost their creative powers and their selfishness. These people also supported some of the more traditionalist aspects of the WA's laws, out of fear of a resurgent Red Ardesch or the corporations.

However, their lack of selfishness also made their society somewhat more progressive. They rejected racism and bigotry, favouring fairness, efficiency, and accessibility. They believed that if things were fairer for others, prosperity will follow because others will be more willing to support the cause through one's support.

Their suffering under World War III, the Terran empires, and corrupt leaders made them more intolerant of certain views, such as fascism, corporatism, authoritarianism, communism, religious and atheist extremism, and anything that supported corporate dominance, parental abuse, and poverty in general. They believed that if anyone were to practice these, they would become as evil as the Terrans.

#### Grudges

Grudges were the basis of the Denlotia's wars, since the killings of anyone who had angered any of its early members over some unforgivable mistake decades ago. They escalated from simple killings of offenders to purges of entire neighbourhoods by growing mobs desperate for justice, then the Grey Toll massacres, and culminating in the mass executions under the Day of Resolution.

To prevent people from starting new grudges and tearing up the militant utopia, the system of penance was created, to force offenders into compensating to their victims in order to avoid death. Moral classes and counselling sessions became more widespread, to help younger and uneducated people prevent new grudges from bringing more death to their world. The massive resources used to rebuild the Denlotia's members were made possible by the plunder of Terran wealth, to "scoop" the underprivileged majority and uplift them into a great, harmonious, and conscious civilisation.

But after the demise of the Founders, another generation emerged and turned the Denlotia's resources into improving everything, spending much of the vast wealth plundered from the Terrans to rebuild the poorer and neglected members. They believed that it would make more sense to use such vast wealth to continue rebuilding the world, than to focus only on wars of revenge and extermination of the fools.

For who else would build the New World, if no one will be left there?

#### Mental health

The Denlotia had an extensive system to help people who suffered from mental and emotional problems. Psychology was a very popular subject in the Denlotia, because it ensured that people would know others and themselves better, and want to help others when they are hurt or uncomfortable.

Medicines, counselling, advice, and machinery were used to help people with broken minds and hearts, and there was always someone to talk to when all hope seemed to be lost. There were machines that were able to "reorganise" a client's DNA and brain structure, to whatever the client considered as the best for their mental health. However, they felt more satisfied when whatever issues they were facing were resolved, like someone seeking to resolve a grudge, or they needed someone to keep themselves safe.

Even with such instant machines, people who reported trauma were allowed to refuse to be "fixed", to heal on their own. They only went to those machines, *only* when they were willing and they felt ready.

On the other hand, people who did "extreme" things for their mental health, like blocking or banning an online user over a trivial matter (and *not* hate, harrassment, or a traumtising crime like violation of the body), were shunned and seen as criminals. They would still have the option of letting psychologists help them, and perhaps reconcile with the person they had wrongly hurt.

### Specific practices

#### Hatred of loss

To the people of the World Alliance, it is considered to be *extremely* offensive to celebrate a disaster. Such a horrible thing may range from treating a disaster as a "lesson", to being positive and happy during a disaster. To the WA's people, doing so instead of helping the victims was mocking the victim's suffering and boasting that they will suffer again for one's own cruel pleasure, just like the Terrans who expected everything to be as bleak as the hellholes where they came from.

The disaster may also be as small as getting into debt, being banned from a popular website (unless if you were banned for terrorism or harrassment, which was then justified and excused), or being forced by one's parents to become an independent adult.

Many people in the Denlotia scar themselves after they commit a very serious or destructive mistake - whether it is landing into debt, or simply for being banned from a website. That is to remind them of the enemies who mocked them and their ancestors when they suffered, and the people who happily called their suffering a "lesson".

They were also notorious for killing anyone who told them to move on or try anything new, during a loss. However, recommending a specific action was the correct way to comfort a mourner, such as showing them which jobs they can take after losing a job.

#### Compulsion

In certain serious matters, such as having a child or starting a company, people were required to swear an oath to the people, the government, the ancestors, and the Gods to be good leaders as an obligation. Should anyone launch a complaint against a company for neglect, insisting an order (that was suddenly cancelled), and assigning irresponsible work that led to social media bans, the company will be penalised by the government and the affected workers compensated.

Censorship was very common in Denlotian society, to the point that using Terran words was a criminal offense.

An inhabitant of the member states of the World Alliance was known as a "Denlotian".

### Infrastructure

Thanks to the wealth left behind by the slain warlords and corporations, the Denlotia's initial supporters had enough wealth to rapidly build improved infrastructure - roads, wires, railways, and more - with the money they gained from plundering from dead enemies. The cooperatives had a large role in building the international network that led to easier transport and telecommunications throughout the Denlotia, with their only opponents being warlords, corporations, and certain conservative Terrans who disliked improved infrastructure as "wasteful" or "encouraging laziness".

Unfettered by corporate interests, but aided by the Workers' Alliance and the Democracy Force, some of those nations rapidly built themselves, albeit suffering from several clashes against elites, militant groups, and corporate terrorists who sought to break the upstarts' quest to autonomy and self-liberation. Many of those resulting countries established semi-socialist societies, while a few used capitalist methods to encourage their peoples to build themselves out of poverty and corporate dominance. In general, those nations focused more on social welfare than economic profit.

The result was a global community that was supportive in general, helping the poor and marginalised but firmly defensive about their many cultures. Poverty declined across the world, as social mobility and improved living conditions led to an era of global prosperity. But behind their pride in improving humanity and celebrations of their cultures, growing resentment was directed against the World Alliance's laws. Richer countries complained that the WA would weaken their independence in favour of the poorer nations by getting rid of racism and stopping them from mistreating minorities; while poorer countries complained that the WA was too biased towards richer countries.

The people of the Denlotia were so used to fast Internet and services, that they were very intolerant of any service breakdowns, poor Internet, or glitches. People allegedly guilty of "causing" the breakdowns - whether intentional sabotage, or simply managing the services that happened to break down - would be dragged to the streets and beaten up by the customers; the custom was influenced by a worldwide hatred of corporate corruption, blamed for the very existence of poor-quality services. By some laws, bosses and managers of those services would go out to the streets and get a beating as a punishment for their failure.

## Religion

Most countries in the WA were polytheist, practicing the native religions of their peoples. Only a few members were monotheist, mainly because those willing members aided the growth of their alliance against the Terran warlords.

### Atheists and monotheists

The peoples of the WA were devout, again out of fear. They were largely afraid of atheism due to its past association with Red Ardesch, past anti-religious attacks, and the anti-religious Red Front, so they immediately rejected the lack of spirituality. They also feared monotheism, especially from the Terrans' cultures, due to the latters' wars and murders done in the names of the invaders' gods: such unwelcome Terrans were known collectively as "monoi". In WA pop culture and fear, atheists and monotheists alike were seen as fanatics and extremists who wanted to take over society and kill all nonbelievers.

From erroneous observations of monotheists and atheists, which depicted all of them as fanatics, monotheism and atheism would make a believer more paranoid and hateful against society, as they would condemn everyone around them as "backwards" or "evil". The observations were based on reports from the Terran armies, using them to represent all (Terran) monotheists and atheists in general. Local monotheists from friendlier countries, like Yawanda, Kikori, and Zarijana, were tolerated and not counted as "monotheists". They were instead known as "unitheists".

On the other hand, they also denounced what they considered to be "religious extremism", violent and abusive acts done for the sake of the Gods, and an extremely superstitious lifestyle that rejected science. The WA's peoples then believed in a spectrum of two destructive extremes - hatred of the Gods, and abuse for the Gods - preferring to enforce a form of moderatism when it comes to religion. They were devout and faithful to the Gods, but they were open to scientific research and some degree of social reform.

### Other faiths

Denlotians were generally respectful of each other's religions, preferring not to waste time on religious wars. They also look down on people who insult others' Gods as stupid and wasteful, but anyone calling for the deaths of blasphemers became a target of mobs, a traitor who might be an agent of the Terrans.

The Denlotia's members worshipped Kali at first to mock their enemies, who feared Her and associated Her with destruction. But as they continued to venerate Her as the Goddess of Justice, they started to notice that they were becoming more fair and just. Their rage and hatred of their enemies were turned away from extermination of Terrans to only the destruction of the worst criminals. In Denlotian culture, the goddess Kali became known as "Mother Justice" or "Lady Justice".

In honour of Her destruction of the demon Raktabija, the burning chalice became a symbol of the Denlotian obsession with justice. This was also because the Denlotians were so devout, they refused to depict their own Gods in places that were easily dirtied, from government documents to flags and money.

## Opponents

Angered by what they perceived as giving away their power to other nations, many nations refused to join the league, forming their own groups such as the "Strongmen Order", the "Lords of Power", and the "Second Red Front".

They also hated the Denlotia for its cruelty and fanaticism, and simply being an opponent standing in the way of their utopias.

The Denlotians declared that "our enemies deserve no freedom", in mockery and hate against those factions' usage of "freedom" to justify committing more crimes.

### Strongmen

The Strongmen wanted to hold on to their power. While they wanted to remain as dictators of their respective countries, their supporters saw them not only as a global resistance, but as the next rulers and god-kings of the post-Denlotia world.

### Lords of Power

The Lords of Power were angered by socialist elements in the WA. Many of their leaders considered themselves as the more ideal rulers and elites, better-suited to rule humanity; they were also supported by some of the corporations that were reduced by the WA's policies. The Lords of Power were the other enemies of the WA: some were elitists who thought they were wise enough to take over the WA as the "enlightened elite"; others were religious extremists who attempted murderous crusades to slaughter the WA as sacrifices to their gods; some were racists who wanted to enslave or kill off most of the world; and the rest were several powerful corporations that became hateful terrorist groups to seize power over the WA, usually with coups or subverting the people into rebellion.

### Second Red Front, Third Red Front

The Second Red Front denounced the WA's version of socialism (more government aid for all citizens, nationalised industries, affordable and improved facilities) as corrupt: instead of a more collective society that will lead to a freethinker's utopia, the WA's version of socialism instead kept parts of the "old system", like individual freedoms, traditional cultures and religion, and private property. Its leaders believed that their group should take over the world to totally purge all "selfish" elements from the planet, and immediately impose and enforce their communist utopia to immediately end all suffering.

After all, when the SRF was founded, the world was in chaos after the ruin of the Third World War, so they saw it as a chance to quickly take over the world and impose their utopia. They were especially very angry with the Founder's dislike of the term "working class" and their war against the rest of the world, and him using his past as a victim of bullying as an excuse to eliminate their views from the WA. The rest of the world thought of them as if they want to destroy all kinds of entertainment and erase their cultures, and replace them with attitudes shaped by online forums, hatred of all tradition, killing all forms of opposition and criticism against their members, and youth subcultures: that might be a distorted view based on the actions of several cadres and SRF member states.

Aside from these empires, the various opponents within the Denlotia's territories denounced their peoples as "ignorant sheep", because they refused the opponents' views (e.g. militant communism, religious extremism, corporate pampering, justifying poverty, elimination of religion). They were nonetheless correct in stating that the peoples of that world were united out of fear of dystopia, poverty, disease, tyranny, and murder.

### Terrans

"*I am starving! I lost everything during the Great War, Sir Alfred, and my workplace is in trouble. I am also in serious debt! Can you please help me?*"

"*Go to hell, beggar! Why won't you just get a better job and move on? Stay positive, and the universe will bless you, lazy worm!*"

- a dialogue between a surviving Ardeschen worker and a very rich American, in a ruined city somewhere in Ardesch. The rich man was later killed off during the Grey Toll, along with every member of his family.

See also: Fifty-Six Tyrants

The "**Terrans**" or "**Earthlings**" were the descendants of the fifty-six human armies from otherworldly dystopias, scattered by the victorious founders of the World Alliance. Their cruelty was indoctrinated into them by their prior societies and authorities, and their stubborn and defiant attitude made many countries hostile against them and what they stood for. The Earthlings' notorious pleasure in their killing and murder, seen by themselves as a happy symbol of pride and defiance, added to the Jerdiskar hatred of Earth, seeing people from Earth as monsters and insane murderers.

Terrans were also stereotyped as selfish and sadistic. Many of the opponents of the Denlotia's infrastructure and anti-racist programmes were Terrans, who condemned those measures as "encouraging laziness" (by making things more accessible and efficient, instead of elitism), against their people's interests (by rejecting racism for cooperation), "against progress" (by rejection of atheism and promotion of a very modernised traditional culture), and "backwards" or "sinful and bound for Hell" (because the WA was very devout, but tolerant of various local faiths).

The Terrans were very notorious for their sadistic attitude and their bizarre optimism, even during a disaster. While the Denlotians also hope for a better world, the Terrans sometimes smiled and laughed even during a disaster, especially when other people suffered. They refused to help others, expecting everything to be better without their own direct aid and waiting for other resolutions, especially because they wanted to keep their money and their belongings - to the war-shocked Denlotia, this "patience" was as sickening as allowing a deadly disease to fester.

Among the member states of the Earthling invaders were from various countries called "A-me-ri-ka", possibly dystopian and apocalyptic versions of a rich and corrupt empire from a world called "Terra". Twenty-eight of those invading armies were from "A-me-ri-kas".

Five of these fifty-six warbands were tolerated by the civilisations of Jerde, because they were considered less dangerous or more trustworthy. Among them were:

* the Vetarbroitar (for their similar Norse culture - later rejected for their aggressive behaviour)
* the Saffron Front (for being more cooperative - but later isolated for attempted attacks on those who offended them)

The Terrans were evil not only because they were brought up in harsher realms, but they were also deliberately chosen from the most evil worlds that the warlords could find.

### Old Worlders

"*I have done everything to help you become a better adult, and you just tossed me aside? Why?*"

"*You did not help me during my debt, waiting for months until I got banned from a website just to save yourself from your own debt. How am I supposed to sell my art, aside from paintings to a town market? You didn't care about me!*"

"*That is responsibility, my boy. That's how we used to grow up before the war, and that's how you make me proud! Why won't you help me clean up our house and learn something?*"

"*You ... dare ... MOCK ... MY SUFFERING?!*"

"*I suffered worse than you, so LISTEN TO ME!*"

- "The Crystal Palace", chapter XVI.

"**Old Worlders**" were the surviving people from before the Third World War that were condemned by the World Alliance for their inconsiderate, selfish attitudes. Many of them were parents, relatives, middle-aged adults, elders, and conservatives, accused of refusing to help their own children and workers for the sake of money, responsibility, adulthood, or just plain conservative mentality. Those attitudes were also why Denlotians hated elderly people and feared old age, for they feared that if they grew old, they will become more erratic and selfish due to the decay in their brains.

During the Denlotia, such people were persecuted or murdered, hated by the Denlotia's supporters for whatever wrong they had committed. The survivors fled to the Lords of Power, weeping for their children and being forced to fight against them. It was also the founders' murders of their own families that led to more countries joining the other empires of Terra.

Because their attitudes led to so much suffering during the Third World War, the older survivors of the Third World War and all Terrans were named as "The Great Enemy" or "The Enemy" in Denlotian propaganda; opponents of the Denlotia's attempts to improve humanity, who seek to plunge Jerde into a new dark age where they reign supreme as its oppressive aristocrats. Often, those two terms referred to their selfish attitudes, compared to a great demon that possessed many people to destroy humanity.

It was because of that fear - not of the punishments for abusing children, but the corruption of a person into a cruel Terran or an backwards Old Worlder - which was why the Denlotians loved their own children more than their own fathers, mothers, and families. They wanted to break away from the people who hurt them before by raising a new generation to replace the hated elders. The next generations of the Denlotia loved pleasure and hated pain, but they were more cooperative and less selfish, though more fanatical and hateful against the Old Worlders and other enemies of their alliance. Each consequent generation loved the previous one and they supported each other; whereas the prewar parents and elders were forever condemned in folktales and songs, as spectres of selfishness and abuse.

It also led to a phobia of old age, elderly people, and excessive wealth, blamed for causing various historical disasters. Many Denlotians would alter themselves to extend their lifespans and then pass away with very little sign of old age, due to the fear of becoming more corrupt and selfish if they became elderly.

They also abhor millionaires and billionaires: so for example, if a Palguenian got a million credits, he would spend; donate; and pay to the poor, charities, taxes, and his loved ones to avoid remaining a millionaire, keeping only enough to feed himself for a decade, Many Denlotians believe that if you keep too much wealth, you will be corrupted by it, so schools in the Denlotia are taught to hate excessive wealth. However, people in some countries were allowed to keep more than one million credits in their local currencies, as long as it corresponds to Palguenian credits. Therefore, in another country, only when a person has four million credits will he be required to spend the money.

## Diplomatic relations

The Denlotia's allies in the Galaxy were several Freyrgardian kingdoms and the Kingdom of Iltoranda, who admire it for its efficient society.

The Londurilli civilisation abhorred the Denlotia for its forceful methods.

According to a surviving account by Grand Vizier Durindanas Mehurilli, his people understood that the Denlotians were a people tormented by the ruin of the Third World War, but the cruelty they unleashed against everyone suspected of celebrating pain and sacrifice would only destroy themselves. Even the thriving society the Denlotians had built, right up to the happy denizens who lived ripe and prosperous lives coloured with diligence, hid a vast store of fear and pain in their hearts.

### Other Jerdiskar nations

In the wake of the Terran threat, many nations formed their own neutral alliances. Some were also allies of the Denlotia, although they refused to become part of it.

One of them was the Empire of Iozae, who had one of the mightiest fleets in the world. One reason for its alliance with the Denlotia was continuous attacks by angry Terran armies, who sought to conquer it but failed many times.

Another was the great kingdom of Knjezvarja, which wisely refused to join this legalist nightmare. Already its people were more disciplined and well-behaved, without using harsh force or even genetic manipulation. The wickedness of other countries and the Denlotia was enough to scare the Knjezvarian people into being good, to avoid becoming like them.

## Legacy

Some countries and nations were known for their obsession with perfectionism and punishment, from their attempts to honour the Denlotia as a deterrent against Terran rule. Although many Denlotian laws became modern Jerdiskar laws because of how effective they are to improve society, these countries were considered too dangerous, that they are considered as modern versions of the Denlotia. In other words, these nations are considered as Hell.

Pinto, the founder of the Denlotia, is seen as a tragedy, the culmination of all abuse unleashed upon society. In stage plays dramatising his own life, he is seen as a madman who tried to fight fate and the Gods, seeking to undo the "consequences" of every failure he suffered from, every mistake, every wrong act, by the total destruction of society and the deaths of thousand. He wanted to create a world where every mistake was erased, and they would never be committed ever again to make everyone happier and prosperous.

* Kleshan Empire - with a communist paint job
* Jauparturnid Empire - imperial cult, perfectionism, and self-destruction
* Baesorja - now with racist nonsense and imperial cults
* Wannaenid Empire - perfectionist hell, now with 9000% more technology, anger, and infighting

This is why some people discourage perfectionism, so they will never become like the Denlotia.

### Bujan, successor of the Denlotia?

Bujan does not consider itself an *official* successor of the Denlotia, but adopted some of its laws mainly to scare the Terran oppressors. This, along with its interpretation of the polytheistic Rodnover religion, made modern Bujan a nation obsessed with justice. Even as this attitude led to brutality against criminals who commit the worst and most treasonous acts, such as Terran fanatics, they claimed that the Wannaenid Empire is an example of what happens when one does not carefully study which Denlotian laws are relevant, seeking only bloodshed instead of order and fairness.

On the other hand, the same Denlotian laws that drove it to cruelty against various fanatics influenced the Bujanski to be more helpful and responsible. All of this was done to stop themselves from becoming as abusive as the Terrans who oppressed them.

### The Free World

Although its members followed a variant of Denlotian law, the Free World alliance refused the Denlotia's brutality in favour of enlightenment, freedom, and prosperity, in defiance to various empires that emerged during the Great Game. It itself is a successor of the Denlotia, but less brutal and more successful.

## Trivia

In short, the Denlotia is nothing more than a very dignified surveillance state, supervised and enforced by its own citizens rather than a police force. Much of its forceful and strict policies were due to fear of the cruelty, poverty, and lack of convenience in pre-war society, so they become cruel to anyone suspected of supporting pre-war or Terran norms.

The atrocities of the Terrans also led to many behaviours and attitudes banned in the Denlotia, even innocuous concepts like responsibility, sacrifice, resilience, embracing anything new (aside from technology), and patience because they seem too similar to the Terrans' distorted versions.

The Denlotia, as described by some writers, was basically what happens "when all kinds of power was given to the wrong people", or "when one gets almost everything they wanted". It is also remembered and rightly feared as the greatest example of absolute power, or a living display of "the road to hell being paved with righteous intentions".

### Background

* The "New World Order" is a conspiracy theory about an elite group that manipulates social and political life from around the world to impose a totalitarian world state. It is used in works by far-right Western and fundamentalist Christian groups.
	+ "New Order" is also a term used by various dictatorships throughout history, such as the Japanese Empire, Nazi Germany (referring to world domination under the former two), and Suharto's regime in Indonesia. It is also used for the Galactic Empire from Star Wars.
* The Denlotia was based on the author's own ideas of a global utopia, by combining elements from leftist, socialist, religious (Christian, Hindu, Asatru, Buddhist, Rodnover), and conservative beliefs; and how that said utopia falls apart due to its flaws.
* This global alliance and its harsh punishments towards petty offenders was also inspired by various incidents in the author's own life that drove him to anger, similarly to the Jauparturnid Empire. He especially hated major changes and losses, however small (such as being to change jobs for several times, and losing unreliable friends), so the Denlotia's cruelty was his way of venting his anger at circumstances in his life.

### Enemies of the Denlotia and the Terrans

* The Strongmen, one of the enemies, were based on authoritarian leaders such as Xi Jinping, Putin, Orban, and Erdogan.
	+ One of the Strongmen's key principles of "hurting the feelings of [billions of people]" was based on similar comments from Chinese, Indian, Pakistani, Russian, and Arab nationalists.
* The Lords of Power were based on other authoritarian and extreme systems promoted on the Internet, such as Islamism, the alt-right, and larger American corporations.
* The Second Red Front was based on Marxists, Stalinists, and leftist groups; known as "tankies".
* The Earthling invaders were inspired by Internet commenters and users, such as online trolls, who were sometimes seen as insane; and historical armies of dictatorships and warmongers.
* The Denlotia's expansion causing more nationalistic enemies to wage war on it was based on NATO's addition of new members being a reason for Russia to wage war on Ukraine in 2022.
	+ The siege mentality among many Terran armies during World War III and the Denlotian Era, culminating with the formation of the Great Renewal's proposal to bomb all of Jerde and rule over it, was based on Chinese and Russian nationalists getting paranoid over US military bases around them. The selfish and arrogant attitude in many Terrans was inspired by various extremists on the Internet.

### Words

* "Denlotia" was derived from the Ardeschi terms "daen" (new) and "loed" (order, command).
* The people of the Denlotia were derisively known as "peacefuls", mostly because the Denlotian world order was accused by its enemies of causing more suffering or decay, by keeping certain institutions instead of totally altering themselves to their systems. In simple terms, anti-Denlotians use it to mean "uncaring" or "stagnant".
	+ For example:
		- tolerance and promotion of polytheism, instead of total evangelism/antireligion
		- personal freedoms, instead of total mobilisation or one big utopian commune
		- preservation and modernisation of cultures, instead of brutal traditions or absolute cybernetics
		- willing cooperation of different races, cultures, and religions among all the members; rejecting racial exterminations, wars, supremacy, and mixing everyone into a single race
		- a kinder culture dedicated to improving everyone; instead of promoting selfishness, edginess, and "might is right"
		- democracy, instead of autocracy, strongmen, or bombing countries into a dystopian form of democracy
	+ The "peacefuls" term was derived from the Indian slang term "peaceful": originally used against extremist Muslims, the author used it for a different meaning, as "complacent" or "opposition to total war/militarisation".
	+ Ironically, the Denlotians themselves were not even peaceful whenever they face anything that reminded them of inconvenience, descending into mob violence and murderous hate over even the smallest error.
* In one mocking American Jerdiskar account, the Denlotians took up the pejorative "social justice warrior" and applied it too literally to a horrific extent.
	+ They are "social" because they are too concerned with everyone's well-being; "justice" for their obsession with justice and mob violence; and "warriors" because they will gladly murder people suspected of doing certain harmful things.
	+ Their justice has less to do with an Americanised form of leftism, "diversity", communism, or "political correctness". It has more to do with punishing and killing scammers, abusive parents, warmongers, criminal gangs, terrorists, and even petty criminals like Internet trolls and psychopathic keyboard warriors, often in a very brutal fashion out of pure hatred and wrath. Other than these, they apply the same obsession with justice to create a welfare system that benefits anyone of any race, mostly because of their belief that poverty and a lack of education will create crime.
	+ It and the Terran invasions developed into a hatred of Terran people in general, demonising them to monsters and invaders in later folklore.

## See also

* Holy Gauvajut Empire, its possible predecessor that relied more on genetic modification.
* Earth Union, its equivalent in the Rinnarverse.
* Wannaenid Empire, a failed attempt in creating a utopia where people live like gods.