Russia (Rabydosverse)

Although **Russia** did not exist in the Rabydosverse *per se*, different "Russias" existed in different Earths in several universes.

## Russians in the Konjor Supercorporation

While American humans were more likely to be conscripted because they were seen by the Konjors as exceptionally insane and murderous as living weapons, Russian humans were also hired because they were seen as fanatically obedient.

There are some Russians who, when rewarded with their own colonies, tried to rebuild whatever lost memories, rejecting their warlike associations in favour of hobbies in the process. The Sazhenitsky, who became one of the core members of the Konjors, were one of those human lineages who turned away from war. It may be possible that the Sazhenitsy wanted to show that they are not living weapons.

A battlecry in the Russian language, "za mesti" (for revenge [against Jerde]), became the name for the enforcers during Konjor rule over Jerde. The Zamestians were sadistic and obedient, but even they were recorded to be disgusted by the Konjor lackeys' excessive savagery.

Nonetheless, Sazhenitsa was colonised by Russian humans, an ice world warmed with many gardens. The Sazhenitsky were more focused on pleasure instead of war as their Zamestian relatives did, leading to quarrels between the two Russian communities. The former were seen as materialistic and decadent, while the latter were viewed as degraded to insanity by their indoctrination in the Konjor Armed Forces.

## Terran Imperial Russians

Russian was one of four official languages of the Terran Empire. It was the language for the battleship, the Moimozgertha, which crashlanded into Rukthan.

Like English, Russian was avoided in the Malendor Supercorporation as a symbol of its enemies. In later times, Malendors began using both languages as they were considered "edgy", mostly for their own amusement.

## Two Russias of Earth-96 (Zetrosia and Tyrska)

### Zetrosian Russia

In Bujanski history records, the Russia from the war-torn world of Earth-96 was known as "Zetrosia", to differentiate it from other Russian civilisations from the multiverse. Officially, it was known as the "Russian Empire", or Velkij Russki Mir Novaja (VRMN, NWGR, the New World of Great Russia), but in Bujan and Jerde, it was also known as the "Zetrosian Empire", a term the Zetranian Russians considered to be very infuriatingly offensive.

In their miserable homeworld, it and other empires across the world use different letters of the Latin alphabet as their symbols. Russia from that world was one of those empires, and it was known as Zetrania or Zetrosia, from its capital, Zetros (not Moscow, and not even Saint Petersburg). Its arch-enemy, after the conquest and destruction of Eastern Europe, was the Q Theocracy, formed from the remnants of America.

### Tyrskan Russia

What was left of southern Russia and Belarus was under the iron fist of Tyrska, another militarist empire. But instead of science and grandiose art, the Tyrskans were more crude and fanatical, devoting themselves to total war and brutality that disgusted their northern neighbours. Tyrska venerated the Soviet Union, especially its military aesthetic during the Nazi invasion of Russia, as its religion.

The far eastern ends of Russia rebuilt themselves as the Federation of Yakutia, who sought to revive Christian teachings under a democratic government. They denounced Zetros and Tyrska as the final stages of a heresy that brought ruin to their country, and survived the ruin of Earth 96 in their underground cities.

## Darroskei Russians

There are three communities known as "Russians" from different universes. Two of them were integrated into Sevraeja's people for being more peaceful, while the third were arrivals from the Zetrosian Empire.

While the Zetrosians in Darros became the former rulers of the land, in Sevraeja, the Zetrosians were disliked even by the other Russians. The Zetrosian Russians were seen as vandals and fanatics who scrawl Z's and imperial symbols everywhere, and were threatened to have their hands cut off for any more graffiti. On the other hand, towns mostly inhabited by Zetrosians had empty walls built for them to vandalise - thankfully, some inhabitants instead made beautiful murals devoid of any propaganda, most likely to convince the locals that they were now loyal to Sevraeja, not the empire.

The Zetrosians in Darros were disliked for the same reason, so many of them seek to reconcile with Darros' locals. As they turned to art instead of their infamous vandalism, the Zlotosii (as they are now known) use a hand as their symbol. No longer would they use "8", or the Lonzic Z or V, as they sought to integrate themselves into Darroskei culture. They sought the forgiveness of the locals, abandoning their infamous pride to survive.

The Zetrosian Empire was weakened after much of its forces were relocated back to their homeworld, after creating a dual monarchy across two universes. With it, the Darroskei defeating the remaining Zetrosians and made them humiliated subjects of the restored states.

The Otinomirjo, or Otherworlders, were earlier arrivals from alternate Russias who migrated during the chaos of the Sixteenth Age. Instead of waging war like other Terrans, these two peoples chose to fight alongside the locals against other enemies, especially Terran warlords. For that, the two Russic peoples were allowed to settle at the southern part of what is now Sevraeja, fiercely defending their new homeland from even other "Russians". They were no longer even considered as Terrans because they were so assimilated into Sevraejan society, that they were unnoticed when their country became a member of the Denlotia, and even supported Sevraeja's entry because it will lead to better access to high-tech transport.

## Kovastoi "Russians"

The Zavtranians occupied an island north of Bujan, Kovastoi, as their own self-proclaimed "Russian Empire". But they were cut off from their empire for thousands of years after the portals in Darros were closed, and they were refused by many of the Russias in other multiverses they attempted to cross into.

They may had kept their independence because they worked with the Wannaenids, seeking to take over Bujan after they helped defeat Zvesta. This may had also led to Bujan becaming more hostile against Russia, seeing it as an empire that tried to colonise their island.

The Kovastoi became an example of why the Bujanski will never accept hypernationalism. On the other hand, the Kovastoi were also conflicted in the years leading to the independence of Bujan, as they were upset that everyone else saw them as "nothing but destroyers". They eventually turned away from the Wannaenids, driven by dismay from seeing the full excesses of Wannaenid cruelty.

The Kovastoi overthrew their ethnostate government and cast down imperial symbols, seeking peace with the Bujanski revolutionaries. They also altered the portals to allow the Bujanski's allies to defeat the Wannaenids, and underwent several decades of deradicalisation to learn to be integrated into the region.

## "Tyrskans"

See also: Tyrska, Tyrskans

The Tyrskans were a faction of fanatics from the Kovastoi. They used to set up militant colonies, seeking to become independent states that would eventually take over Bujan as a Zetrosian colony, Zavtrana. For their wars against Bujan, they were exiled north to Kovastoi, never to return.

They did return during Wannaenid rule, where they were appointed as the abusive aristocracy of Bujan. The early years of Bujan's colonial era were somewhat benign, as the Tyrskans were conflicted between simply ruling over their own "kingdom" to reinstating a new Zetrosian Empire, complete with torturing Bujanski to become more Terranised.

Their abusive behaviour and their arrogant whataboutism have angered the Bujanski, that they called and prayed for the deaths of all Tyrskans. They especially hated Tyrskan children for being shown all over Bujan, as the "future" of the kingdom and a call to displace the existing peoples. The Tyrskans were notorious for their arrogant attitude, refusing to acknowledge their own crimes while always pointing out their enemies' crimes, and always boasting all the time and insisting that everyone else must follow their customs or be tortured.

The Tyrskans also displayed offensive symbols all over occupied Bujan, from eight loops to "angry Z's", the old symbols of the Zavtranian warmongers, in a constant and arrogant celebration of their supposed triumph. Furthermore, due to occasional invasions by rival empires from other dimensions, the Tyrskans were able to avoid overpopulation by sending their young men to wage war on those empires and establish colonies.

So when Bujan had a revolution, the Tyrskans were tasked to exterminate the locals, but only to be killed. The surviving Tyrskans were brought to prisons all over the nation, including every family member and civilian. Crowds of all races gathered to watch the Tyrskans silently march to the prisons, yelling and cursing their entire people for attempting to destroy Bujan as a province of their empire.

The King of Bujan knew that the Tyrskans will eventually use their deaths (or just anything) as yet another excuse to wage war on Bujan and stay in power. So he ordered his own people not to commit any massacres, stopping any more killings of Tyrskan civilians. Some people hated their own King because he wanted to keep them alive and find out their exact motives, and how to deradicalise them. His real reason was to prevent his own people from becoming as cruel and fanatical as the Tyrskans.

So one of his orders was to have every Tyrskan kept in a city behind a wall of toughened glass. where they can only leave with a permit. While the Tyrskans and the Bujanski cursed each other from the glass, ultimately the Tyrskans answered that they wanted a new home after the wasteland in their homeworld, and they wanted to live. Eventually, his proposal was cancelled, so the Tyrskans were to relocate to housing areas in any town chosen from several willing communities, who wanted them to live and work with them so they will learn to abandon their supremacist views. That also allowed them to reclaim their former homes.

Those who still hated Bujan and sought to dominate it were exiled to Darros, where even the Darroskei Terrans abhorred them as madmen. The exiled Tyrskans continued to smear imperial emblems, but many of them were imprisoned or left to wander as outcasts.

Even as the Tyrskans were gradually reeducated, abandoning their extremist views, they were still disliked in Bujanski society, and they were always labelled "traitors" and "colonisers". The Ontemazei mostly chose to integrate them, as they felt that the Tyrskans were more like themselves, being descendants of warmongers.

Many Tyrskans and Maeranoi were murdered in the July after the revolution, as a punishment for any manner of hatred against the independent kingdom. Those who survived the massacres were protected by friendlier locals, who helped them integrate themselves into Bujanski society. Because of the brutality of that July, the Terrans who survived those times no longer practice supremacist views.

## Earth 27 Russias/Velkerian Empires

The equivalents of "Russia" in the alternate timeline of Earth 27 were Velkeria and the Three Vostoii Kingdoms. Velkeria was the most powerful of these four Slavic empires, and it was formerly an ally of Bujan for their friendly attitude and similar culture.

When Velkeria attempted an invasion of the nearby nation of Koivarin and some neighbours to aid nationalist revolts, the Bujanski immediately shifted everything to Koivarin. Any allies in Velkeria followed the Bujanski back to their homeland, away from the ensuing chaos in their homeland.

## Bujanski Russians (Slavjane)

After the controversial intervention in Earth 27, many Slavs of Velkeria followed the Bujanski back to their homeland. Although they were from the Four Realms, their rejection of the Four Realms' involvement in the Third Terran War won them the favour of their Bujanski allies. However, they had to change their identity to "Slavjane".

They may have been how come some Bujanski people have names like "Anastasia", "Boris", "Alexandros", and "Nikolai".

On the other hand, the Velkerians, also known as "Russians" for their similar, corresponding culture to those in some other universes, were sometimes feared as if they might wage war on Bujan to establish a colony as the Zavtranians did. Noticing this, they tried to prove that they opposed making Bujan into a colony of a foreign empire.

The Slavjane found that the Tyrskans were basically no different than the Velkerians, fanatical tyrants who were gradually removed from their hateful views. They wanted to help the Tyrskans integrate themselves into Bujanski society and perhaps make amends for all of their crimes.

## Influences

Russia, and its culture, influenced several countries and cultures in the Rabydosverse:

* Bujan - the main setting of several WIPs, a futuristic monarchy - from Tsar Saltan and Slavic paganism, science fiction, Victorian England
* Sevraeja - a northerly nation whose language is the only Slavic language in a syllabary - mediaeval Novgorod, the white blue flag by anti-war protesters, France and Persian art
* Otinomirsii - medieval Slavs
* Tyrska - Terrans who waged war on Bujan - Russian nationalists during the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, Soviet nostalgia
* Sarmelonid Empire - Sarmelonid architecture was a mixture of Thai temples and Russian palaces

Bujan was originally meant to be a subversion of klyukva, a set of stereotypes about Russia.

## Trivia

* When the author was a teenager, he was a huge fan of Russian culture, especially Youtube Poops and the works of Ivan Bilibin.
* However, in 2022, the Russian invasion of Ukraine made him more conflicted; resulting in Bujan being less Russian and more Victorian and Thai, and it fighting the Tyrskans, a puppet state appointed by the Wannaenid Empire.
	+ Both the Bujanski and the Tyrskans were based on Russian people, but they have developed into different cultures. The Bujanski prefer harmony and rationalism, while the Tyrskans wanted dominance and destruction.
	+ The Tyrskans lived after the historical Russian Empire, so they used it as one of their symbols. The Zetrosian Empire was not considered by them as a "Russian Empire" for being less authentic than themselves.
	+ Online supporters of the Russian invasion of Ukraine were also the inspiration for the Terrans, Tyrskans, and their fanatical militarism. The author found that many of them had an "aggressive and desperate" attitude, which he found to be wasteful and soulless. The Bujanski were meant to be the opposite of them, focusing on cooperation, innovation, and justice; instead of power and domination.
* Although the Bujanski are similar to Russians, it is considered very offensive in Bujan to ever call a Bujanski a "Russian".
	+ The words "Slava Rossii" (Hail Russia) are also banned in Bujan for being associated with the Tyrskans, who sometimes evoked the historical Russian Empire to justify their conquest of the island. In fact, like many Terran words, such as praises for America, they are often censored.

## See also

* Russian glossary
* America (Rabydosverse)
* China (Rabydosverse)
* Arabia (Rabydosverse)