Salvation Party

The **Salvation Party** (Late Zvestarid: **Sterne Spasanije**), or later, the **Salvationist Party** (early Bujanski: **Sterne Spasanverije**) was a political party that was elected into the Zvestarid government, in the years before the Wannaenid conquest of Bujan.

Their ultimate goal was the total assimilation of Zvesta into Tyrska, as Zavtrana Province, seen as "union with the Motherland". For that reason, the party betrayed Zvesta and supported the Wannaenid conquest of their country, all the way to allowing themselves to be killed by their allies.

Later, surviving members and collaborators were one of several puppet rulers fighting for the domination of occupied Zvesta, until the revolutionaries ended their misrule for good. The Salvationist manipulation and distortion of tradition led to modern Bujan becoming more opposed to certain conservative attitudes and beliefs; and at the same time, attempting to salvage some conservative practices to become symbols of opposition to Salvationist rule.

## History

### Start of a Lie

The Salvationists were one of three major parties that dominated Zvestarid politics. They were elected as they were the most competent of the three. Ultimately, the Salvation Party was the creation of several businessmen who convened with militant groups on the Tail Islands, mistakenly thinking they were integrating Zvesta with the Terran movements.

When the Salvationists were elected to power, they retained the monarchy, refuting earlier boasts about abolishing it right away. They pledged to remake the kingdom's society to a fusion of "traditional family values" and "freedom", by imposing a radical, militant form of conservatism. At the same time, they also removed several restrictions related to rudeness and online offenses, including punishments over petty reasons, to condition the people into becoming more Terran.

In their new edicts, they promoted aggressive online users to rule over the government, and enforced their version of Rodnovery (the national religion) on the society of Bujan. They degraded the rights of the natives, seeking to make Bujan more like Terra, especially the Maeranoi.

The second most notorious misdeed the Salvationist administration did was refusing to send any more military aid to the nations of Baido and Raoti. They expected the two countries to be "grateful" with the low amounts of weaponry, yet the two fell to Wannaenid rule.

### Pandora's Box

The greatest sin the Salvationists did was forcibly altering the royal constitution and making the royal families hostages and puppets, with the constant threat of the barrel of a gun. Those who resisted were killed, manipulating traditional laws against their own people. With the new and unpopular constitution, the Salvationists lifted the bans on various beliefs that were forbidden, such as fascism, militarism, and sadism.

There were several reasons for the lifting of their bans: to please their foreign supporters and the Terran nationalists, to force Zvesta into becoming a militarist society, to gradually transform Zvesta into a Tyrskanised shell, and to sow chaos by unleashing terrorists into Zvesta. First came a Wonao fascist party, which attacked anyone who coexisted. Then came raiders from Terra, who slaughtered their way to create their own colonies. Thirdly came militants from Tyrska, who emptied towns into mass graves or slaves and replaced the locals with Tyrskan colonists.

### Collaborators

See also: Salvationist Party

The governments of the Salvation Party attempted to merge Bujan with Kovastoi, but before the process was completed, the Wannaenids invaded Zvesta. To punish the Salvationists for bringing Bujan into greater abuse, the Bujanski peoples left every Salvationist behind to fend for themselves. Salvationists who wanted to enter were forbidden from following the Bujanski in their transport ships. Their party's leaders were the last people left, but even in their glee their guests still killed them and fought among themselves.

It was their and their friends' plan all along: tearing Zvesta-Bujan into chaos, to welcome the Wannaenids into ruling and reducing a ruin to a wasteland.

Although the Salvationists welcomed the Wannaenids as liberators against those who resisted them, the Wannaenids and their Terran lackeys enslaved them for several centuries, and murdered their Salvationist allies for amusement. They tried to fight back, including forming the infamous death gangs, but eventually many of the Salvationists and their descendants were slain and defeated. They were replaced mostly by Terrans, mostly of Tyrskan origin under a reorganised party group and a puppet monarch. While the Salvationist Party, as it was known during Wannaenid rule, became part of the puppet government of occupied Bujan, many Bujanski members of the party were enslaved and stripped of the very rights they were promised.

It was one of five authorities in Wannaenid Bujan. The other three who fought against it to dominate and exterminate the island were the Church of Q, the Tyrskan monarchy, the Serpentian militants, and the direct Wannaenid authorities.

The remainder consisted of collaborationists who supported the Tyrskan aristocracy, and a growing resistance faction. It was this faction of former Salvationists who proposed using Denlotian laws, both to fight back against the Tyrskans' hypocrisy and to erase their ties with their former party.

### Traitors' Fate

It was the Salvationist Party, the puppet government of Bujan under the Terrans and their Wannaenid overlords, that attempted war against the revolutionaries. Supported by the Tyrskan and Maeranoi colonial subjects, it represented their authority over the Bujanski people. Their exaggerated traditionalism was due to the Terrans' influence, in attempting to appease the Terrans by forcibly imposing their cultures.

Over the years, they became envious of the Wannaenids favouring the puppet kings instead of them, that their leaders openly boasted that they would replace the kings as Bujan's newest leaders. For that, the Party was stripped of its authority, followed by only a shrinking number of Bujanski and Terran collaborators and militants. It left the Party vulnerable to three other Terran armies that fought for control of the colony's government, including Terrans who swore loyalty to the Wannaenid Empire to make it a directly-controlled territory. The Party quickly lost more of its members through its wars with the rebels and the Terrans, until its last members died by bombing their own headquarters.

Because of its role in welcoming the Wannaenids to Bujan and oppressing Bujan's people to rule them, the Salvation Party is nowadays banned in modern Bujan. Many laws and norms in modern Bujanski society were created to prevent it and its values from ever returning to society.

## Beliefs

Salvationists were more like a religion, fanatically following what other Bujanski consider as a Terranised, corrupted form of Rodnovery:

* The family always comes first
* The rich are more important
* Freedom is only through chaos and disorder
* Freedom and chaos undermines an old order, so we will impose a new order for the family
* The Terrans are a good example, harnessing chaos and order for the future
* Revenge is always good
* Make others feel our pain
* Militarism is better than peace
* Make Bujan an empire again
* "Bujan first!"
* Always eat meat, never eat beans
* There is no such thing as abuse; only power and pride

Many of these beliefs were further distorted during Wannaenid rule, to make it more militaristic and forceful. The Terran rulers cared less about their families' well-being, but more about enforcing their cultures and absolute power.

By the time of the Bujanski Revolution, most Salvationists were farmers, industrial workers, miners, and rural people. They wanted to use the Salvationist Party and its conservatism as a weapon, to bend Bujanski society to obey them as its most important ones. After their defeat, many Salvationists were put under penance, publicly shamed for their actions and treason against their own people.

As the Salvationists became more obsessed with assimilating their nation into Tyrska as "reconciliation", they began to become more hostile towards non-Slavs, reflecting their "friends'" attitude to outsiders. It was also because their legalisation of "forbidden beliefs", such as fascism, led to the creation of a Wonao fascist party in Zvesta, who sought to make Bujan a militaristic Wonao ethnostate.

## Anti-Salvationist measures

See also: Bujanski taboos

To prevent the Salvation Party from ever returning after it was banned in modern Bujan, many laws in Bujanski society were created to punish a number of harmful and corrupt behaviours.

* All leaders must follow one common law
* There shall be a set of national values all Bujanski must follow.
* In that case, it is justice, freedom (to be good and avoid evil), advancement, creativity, compassion, action, avoidance of becoming like your enemy, and awareness.
* Excessive traditionalism is discouraged, as it may suggest possible ties with foreign enemies. It is also because "family values" and "traditional values" are nowadays associated with the Tyrskan aristocracy and its Salvationist puppets.
	+ The Bujanski already have traditional values, but because of the Tyrskans they do not want to wave them around like a symbol.
	+ To disprove Terrans' claims that the Bujanski will devolve into barbarism without "family values", the Bujanski show that they can still make a "traditional famiily", just without the Terrans to order them. It is also due to the popularity of Ardeschen culture that allowed many younger Bujanski to start their own families, marry, and have children which made Terran family values useless.
* Look at how sincere a person's acts are.
* The freedom to curse and be evil is not freedom. It is abuse, it is a lie. It is also, ironically, something that chains a person to addiction and obsession, which is no longer freedom.
* True freedom only exists when people have the right to do what is right.
* Rejection of modern medicine or technology makes a person suspicious. He might have ties with foreign enemies.
* Whataboutism is a criminal offense.

### Major measures

* The Church of Q, the Tyrskan National Church, and similar religions are banned in Bujan, so every Churchbearer is a traitor against Bujan.
	+ Anyone loudly cursing the Bujanski in the name of the Churches' gods was killed as a enemy soldier, and their families given threats and warning letters.
	+ Anyone celebrating the destruction of a temple from a Jerdiskar religion is also punished, even killed, as a traitor to Bujan and possibly a Wannaenid.
	+ "Churchbearers" had to apply themselves as atheists in legal documents in order to avoid being exiled. Later, some Churchbearers who continued to live in Bujan issued public apologies and sometimes tortured themselves, seeking the forgiveness of their people.
	+ The only Churchbearers who were perhaps spared, or even allowed to continue a less extreme version of their faiths, were the founders of Valtois or the Free North. These were the Terrans who defected to the revolutionaries against other Terrans, to stop the massacre of other Bujanski.
* People who attack non-heterosexuals may be considered as Terrans, even if they were faithful to Bujan or fiercely against Terranisation.
	+ Due to the Terrans using their hatred of non-heterosexuals to justify their militaristic attitude, and then extending it to the Bujanski people.

### Minor measures

Many online actions are also regulated or restricted in modern Bujan, to destroy every association with the Salvation Party's corruption.

* Muting people (or technically blocking them) must have a valid reason. Punishments may apply to anyone who does not have a valid reason for muting someone (like threatening a person).
* E-courts are held, so moderators can determine various online disputes.
* Calling for a ban on concerts on religious holidays is a criminal offense for association with the Salvationists.
* Celebrating a ban of a popular movie abroad in Bujan is a crime, especially if the person doing it claimed he did it for a Terran religion.
* Never use the letter Z as a symbol. Also, a figure eight with lightning bolts is now offensive in modern Bujan, as the symbol of the Tyrskan army.

## Names

* sterspasnik - a Salvationist
* sterspasije - Salvation Party beliefs, treason, flattery, excessive devotion
* nječtōniki - "people who lost their identity", traitors
	+ The Terran equivalent of this is either "quisling" or "mankurt".
* mankurty - forgetful slaves
* Predannik - Regressive, a traditionalist who misuses traditions to seize power and rule over others, a Traitor
* Zværsanije - Party of Savage Beasts
* Zværsa Verije - Salvationist Party, Cult of the Letter Z (Terran symbol), Cult of Traitors, Party of Traitors and Wannaenid Collaborators
* Vonnædatei - children of Wannaenids
	+ Ethnic Wannaenid Vozonids are not given this name, so the term is reserved for collaborators with the Wannaenid Empire.
* Tærai - Terrans
* Tæradatei - unholy spawn of Terra
* Zbæsanije, Zbæsannik - "Demons of the Letter Z", traitors against Bujan

### Translated

#### Positive

* Taxpayer - a proud name used by members and supporters of the party, after a common term used to represent themselves on behalf of all Zvestarids.
	+ Continued to be used until the party's defeat by the revolution, when it was also used by the revolution to mock them.
* Populists
* Patriots
* Nationalists
	+ They claimed to represent Bujan and accused anyone opposing their domination of being "Wonao" or "Vozonid puppets".
* "Defenders of the Family"
* "Protectors of Children"
* Rusiches - "sons of Rus", used at the latter years of Zvesta to call for Tyrska to rule over their country as a "Slavic brotherly union".
* Classicals - another name they used for themselves

#### Negative

* Traitors
* Cowards
* Liars
* Neglectors
* Abusers of Children
* Militarists
* Frauds
* Shameless Ones
* Whiners
* Bootlickers
* Cronyists
* Petroleum-worshippers
* Motherlandists
* Terrans
* Slaves of Terra
* Mankurty - a loanword from Tyrskan that mocks Salvationists as traitors against their Bujanski origins.

## Slogans

* Bujan First!
* Zvesta First!
* Firstly, we are Slavs!
* Let's harness chaos for true order
* Out of chaos comes freedom; out of freedom, true order
* Two worlds, one family
* Life is not fair, deal with it

## Trivia

* The Salvation Party was largely inspired by American militarists and right-wing fanatics (especially Trumpism), anti-Western populists who support Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and Rashism (Russian militarist nationalism that supports war against Ukraine and the West).
	+ As they were later Bujanski who willingly supported Wannaenid rule, they were also based on historical collaborators, such as those under the Japanese Empire.
* After the revolution, one politician in Bujan called for a ban on all farmland to punish the Salvationists' supporters, by ordering all food to be grown in farm towers. His claim was rejected, seen as traditional collective punishment going haywire.