Trunduk

**Trunduk**, known as the **Holy Republic of Trunduk** (Imaltokara o-Dharmanya Trunduk) is a fictional country in the Rinnarverse. It is the main setting of an alternate history novel written by Świętowit Wiśniewski, a Canadian-Polish novelist.

## Background

Świętowit Wiśniewski was a follower of Rodzimowiestwo, the revived native religion of his Slavic ancestors. Inspired by his religion, he wrote about Trunduk in 2057, as he wondered how would the modern world react to a nation that retained (or revived) its native religion. One basis of Trunduk's society was India, which became Trunduk's biggest ally and mentor.

In the wake of the global economic collapse of 2060, his homeland of Poland was taken over by a right-wing army. Because he was a neopagan, he had to hide his beliefs to avoid arrest by the Catholic authorities. Three years later, he had enough, as his friends were exposed and sent to prison. So he escaped to Canada, where he wrote the sequel to Trunduk.

In spite of certain Indian politicians being the antagonists of his novel, Trunduk became a popular franchise in India because of its depiction of an independent Hindu state that serves India. In 2068, some Hindu activists invited Świętowit to immigrate to India. When he moved to India in 2072, he was welcomed as an honoured guest, a friend of the Dharma. However, he was disliked by secular activists due to his associations with the Hindu nationalist government, and when he was invited to a book fair, he was met with angry protesters, who condemned him for his supporters.

In the next year, he invited two men to write alternate versions of his Trunduk story: a Hindu nationalist and a secular journalist. The nationalist's version depicts Trunduk as a disciplined nation completely dedicated to the Dharma, ruled by a strong leader who needed no criticism or question, and with its people sworn to defend India and Hinduism from all threats. The journalist's version depicts a Trunduk that has been nearly Westernised, emulating the progressivism of America under the guidance of several Ussian activist groups.

## Flag and national symbols

### National flag

The national flag of Trunduk is a purple flag with a red border, and a white full moon at the upper left.

Trunduk also has two other flags that share official status: the Kayukol Flag and the Wajoradesa Flag. The Kayukol flag is a green flag with three golden trees at the left. The Wajoradesa Flag, also known as the Dharma Flag, is a saffron flag with a white Om-sign written in Trunduki surrounded by eight white rays.

The Kayukol flag, the flag of the Kingdom of Trunduk, is also the ethnic flag of Trunduk's people. The Dharma Flag is the flag of Trunduk's Hindu religion.

### Other flags

The Central Army, a Christian rebel group, flies a different flag. It is a cyan and green flag with a white cross at the middle.

### Other symbols

246 is the national number of Trunduk, as it represents the number of islands.

## History

### Ancient and colonial history

Long ago, the island of Trunduk was influenced by Brahmins from India and Java, resulting in a rich Hindu culture. It was a tributary state of Majapahit.

When people fled from Goa in western India to warn about the Portuguese massacres, all of Trunduk was in high alert. It was when the practice of unique names for countries began, firstly by cursing all Portuguese visitors as "Gomar" (murderers of Goan people). The Trundukis firing cannons at every Portuguese ship led to war between the two nations, and the loss of central Trunduk to the Portuguese Empire. It was when the first converts to Christianity were recorded in Trunduk's history. Eventually, the Portuguese lost control of Trunduk after the Dutch and British took over. Over time, the Trunduki Christians were divided between Catholics and Protestants.

After receiving news about the Mughal Empire and Emperor Aurangzeb's atrocities, Trunduk's inhabitants rejected the Muslim missionaries, so only the western parts of Trunduk converted to Islam. For centuries, the Trunduks and their Muslim counterparts lived in peace. Together, they fought against the Dutch and British who waged war on them, but eventually they fell to British rule.

The British modernised Trunduk, but they also exploited the island's resources and mistreated the natives. They also implemented a programme to force them to convert to Christianity, comparing them to the Indians with foul slurs. Only the east remained Hindu, but it became the poorest region in Trunduk. An intellectual movement caused hundreds of Hindu Trundukis to convert to a neopagan sect based on their native beliefs, which was occasionally suppressed by the British authorities.

Eventually, the Trunduki revolted and fought the British again, and they were placed under the Australian military during World War II as a bulwark against Japanese aggression in Indonesia. More abuse from the Australian occupiers led to a second wave of revolts, which were suppressed.

In 1947, Pakistan split from India. Many people left their homes to avoid persecution by mobs, and among them were hundreds of Hindus who were invited and guided by Trunduki envoys all over northern India. They built ships to escort the Hindus southwards to their homeland, where they started new careers.

### Parachita Era

In 1951, Trunduk revolted for a third time. The leaders of Trunduk's revolt were supported by the Widukind Cartel, an American criminal gang, who sought to make Trunduk an independent pagan nation by arming the Trunduki soldiers with modern weaponry. In response to the Trunduk Revolt's attacks on Christian churches, two warlords emerged at the centre of the island to rally the local Christians. One warlord, Gregory Mulakot, wanted to unify Trunduk as a Christian nation influenced by American evangelism; and the other warlord, Benedict Matantoka, wanted his country to be a British protectorate under a Catholic society.

After the first president of Trunduk, Marotikam Ngoltadoi, was killed in battle, his officer Parachita Munemak took over the government. He led his armies to victory over the British and their two allied warlords. Out of hatred against Britain and the enemies of India, he banned Christianity and Islam and made the Trunduki religion the state religion. Any Christians whom his armies captured were kept as prisoners and forced to convert to the Trunduki religion to be rehabilitated, or remain incarcerated for the rest of their miserable lives. There were Muslim villages scattered all over the island, whose ancestors followed the teachings of the few missionaries and explorers who visited the island. Even though they used to fight alongside the Trundukis against the colonisers, they were wrongly associated with Pakistan, and they were forcibly deported to Pakistan and Arabia. In 1957, after the Battle of Makotekau, he held a ceremony where he dedicated the whole nation to the mountain god Sarakel, and another where he dedicated his nation to Shiva.

To protect the local Christians and Muslims from persecution, the Indonesians and Australians occupied the western coast of the island. Because Parachita declared war on the Western world with a curse, the Soviets sent emissaries to invite him to join their alliance. He angrily refused, and when the Soviets supported communist militants at the south, his armies crushed them.

Because of Trunduk's declaration of war against the West and its attempts to erase Christianity from the island, the nation became a rogue state which many other nations sought to eliminate. Noticing that there were plentiful gold and gem deposits on the island, American corporations and the CIA invaded the island, using the Christian warlords as their agents to overthrow the Trunduki government. Due to the CIA's and the Soviet Union's attempts to take control of Trunduk, the island nation remained isolated for decades, funded by the Widukind Cartel. It also caused the people to develop a hatred of Western culture. The only Westerners allowed during the 60's were members of the Widukind Cartel, most of which were pagans and atheists.

In the 1960's, Hindu nationalists have immigrated to Trunduk. Some of them were invited by President Parachita as his advisors. Under their guidance, Parachita made his society more nationalistic, to reject Westernisation and to embrace Trunduk's ancient history as a Hindu kingdom. Some of the Hindu nationalists became officials under Parachita's court, and they became known as the "Indian elites" due to their authority over the republic. The Indians also helped Trunduk become modernised as they taught the locals to use modern technology, and they improved its relations with India so much, that India became the only nation where Trundukis were allowed to travel. Due to this, other nations mocked Trunduk as if it were "a bootlicker of India", but this made the Trundukis favour Indians over other foreigners and hate other nations more.

After several tours in India, Parachita was upset with certain social ills in India occurring again at his homeland. To ensure that they will not happen in his country, he enacted the strict Sukra Laws and made education compulsory to all Trundukis. As a result, Trunduk became a cleaner nation, its people became more disciplined, and crime and poverty rates fell as healthcare and other services became more available.

For the following two decades, Parachita continued to govern Trunduk with an iron fist. He survived several assassination attempts by the CIA, and an attempted coup by his son Rumakal. However, as more Trundukis travelled to India, tensions rose between the Indians and the Trundukis. Some people in India demanded the Trundukis to follow Hindustani culture and get annexed as the 23rd state of India, denouncing the native Trunduki culture as "barbaric" and "uncivilised". Back in Trunduk, three parties of native Trundukis picked fights with Indian elites in the government. The nativist Trunduks and the Indian nationalists accused each other of "erasing Trunduk's culture", whether it was native or the Indianised culture.

In the 1970s, Bangladesh became independent from Pakistani rule. Perhaps due to the initial treatment of minorities in Bangladesh, the Trunduki government decided to allow all Hindus from Bangladesh open access, allowing several Bengali communities in the major cities. After some appeals, all Bangladeshis were allowed to travel to Trunduk, but not as easily as Hindu citizens of the country. It also led to the first-ever Muslim and Christian visitors in eastern Trunduk in over sixty years, and most of them were careful not to provoke the locals or attack their temples. Later on, with the emergence of extremist groups in Bangladesh, the Trunduki government imposed several more restrictions against Bangladeshi tourists.

The cultural conflict culminated in the 1980's with the death of Parachita, when his successor Angkatok fought against his advisor Adinath Bhardbaj. Adinath, who represented the Indian nationalists in Trunduk's government, wanted to make himself dictator of Trunduk, impose Hindustani culture, and make his allies' political party in India the new rulers of Trunduk. After a brief civil war, Adinath and his supporters were arrested and jailed, so he will not go to India to gather his supporters.

To resist the Soviets and the CIA, Trunduk sought relations with Libya and Myanmar.

### Modern Trunduk

In later times, the Trunduki government sought relations with Japan, as it admired the Japanese for keeping their native religion. Japan became the second country where Trundukis were permitted to travel, but occasionally fights broke out between Japanese nationalists and Trunduki tourists.

Invited by Indian activists in America, hundreds of Western neopagans migrated to Trunduk, by flights from India or by secret ships under the Widukind Cartel. President Angkatok wanted his country to become a refuge for all pagans in the world. Because of the immigrants' Western background, Angkatok's move became unpopular among many Trundukis, who were taught to hate the Western World. To ensure that the Westerners were safely resettled, some Indians escorted the Western neopagans to their new suburbs, well-protected from angry mobs. Nonetheless, there were also occasional incidents when the Westerners had quarrels with the locals due to inconsiderate behaviours.

In the 1990s, Trunduk welcomed entrepreneurs from India, with a few from Japan. Both India and Trunduk became richer due to trade with each other, especially due to exports of diamond and petroleum to Indian customers. In 1994, the first Indian entrepreneurs set up factories, offices, and universities on Trunduki soil.

However, the central areas of Trunduk, ruled by Christian warlords, languished in poverty.

In the 2010s, Trunduk was invaded by the CIA, who attempted to establish a puppet government to exploit the diamonds in the island. The CIA were repelled by a combined Trunduki force, joined by the Christian warlords who attempted to make peace with Trunduk: the American forces had to retreat due to the Plague of 2020. As a result, Christianity and Islam were legalised on the island, and various prisoners were given amnesty, but no missionaries are ever allowed on Trunduki soil.

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### The Plague of 2020

As soon as the first cases of the 2020 Plague reached Indonesia, Trunduk closed its borders again. The first cases of the 2020 Plague emerged in September 2020.

Encouraged by Indian entrepreneurs, Trunduk started manufacturing medical supplies in March.

## Geography

Trunduk consists of an archipelago of 246 islands, centred on the large island of Trunduk. It is a tropical island swept by monsoons.

* Garingon - capital
* Sri Mahapura
* Nai Narayanagar - the only city in Trunduk that is truly modern, with skyscrapers. Founded as a home for Indian Hindus, now the richest city in Trunduk.
* Mount Setyajaya, Mount Sechodjai - the tallest mountain in Trunduk, where snow falls. At its eastern slope is a temple to Shiva.
* Nangkomau - the holy city in the east. A sanctuary of the golden god Munkodatrau.
* Makotekau
* Makulik - a southern city, known for its mineral deposits. Site of an invasion by the Skermin Corporation from America.

### Central Trunduk

Central Trunduk is ruled by two dictatorships. The northern half, Benedicta, is a Catholic dictatorship named after its patron saint and European conquistador. The southern half, simply known as Trunduk, is a Protestant autocratic republic heavily influenced by American missionaries. Although both Benedicta and South Trunduk put aside their differences to fight the Trunduki government, both nations sometimes fought each other, denouncing each other as heretics. Both Christian nations were notorious for suppressing their native cultures to become more Portuguese or American, until the 1980s, when some temples were rebuilt as museums and certain historical dramas were made.

Due to frequent fighting, militarism, and authoritarianism, the Christian Trunduki nations remained poor into the 21st century. They are slowly developing with funds from Christian political groups and charities, although their efforts were condemned for funding the two countries' warlords.

Both nations are conveniently known as "The Central Army" elsewhere and in Trunduk, but the Trunduki government refers them as Kaigalik-and-Turunak, or Kaituraka. Westerners sometimes refer central Trunduk as the "Philippines of the West" (for its Westernisation), the "Ireland of the East" (for its civil war between Christians), or "Christian Trunduk".

### Western Trunduk

Western Trunduk is also divided, but by foreign countries. The northern portion is governed by Indonesia as its 35th (formerly 36th during the occupation of Timor Leste) province, Provinsi Yuntalika, to protect the remaining Muslims of the island from being exiled. They are still a minority, with Yuntalika replacing Bali as the biggest Hindu-majority province in Indonesia: both Hindu, Muslim, and Christian Trundukis there coexist peacefully, until they remain as traditional as their eastern counterparts. They also ended up becoming a tourist attraction, especially with their weaving, temples, mosques, and dances.

In Yuntalika, Islamist groups are banned as "eternal enemies", and to counterbalance this, the Yuntalikans are not so welcoming towards what they perceived as "American dominance". When several attacks took place against Yuntalika's non-Muslim sites, the locals hunted down every member of the perpetrators' groups and punished them harshly.

Australian Trunduk is the richest portion of Trunduk, along the southwestern coast. After being established as a separate Christian nation against British rule, it rejected the Central Army and repelled its attacks, declaring coexistence with the local Hindus. The locals held an election, so they voted to remain as a territory of Australia. Until the later introduction of fast food and cartoons in Christian Trunduk, Australian Trunduk was the only part where these were available: Hindu Trunduk already had television introduced by the Widukind Cartel and the Indian government, but Western-style entertainment was banned there.

Indonesian Trunduk is locally known as Mangkalak, and Australian Trunduk is known as Yetawek or Jetawek.

## Politics

Trunduk is a single-party republic.

The only other political faction in the Trunduki government was the "Delhians", North Indian politicians who were accused of attempting to erase Trunduk's native Hinduism with their localised variant. Many Delhians were adamant in making Trunduk more obedient to the United Dharma Party, but most of them did not intend to completely destroy Trunduk's native Hinduism.

When the UDP proposed Trunduk as the first province of an Akhand Bharat (Greater India), a referendum suggested that Trunduk would be an independent nation instead of a province, as India's little brother or student. This still led to more fights between the Delhians and the nativists.

### Presidents of Trunduk

* Marotikam Ngoltadoi - 1951-1954
* Parachita Munemak - 1954-1984
* Angkatok Rukaimod - 1984-1990
* Omunasep Maheswara - 1990-1996
* Purasokol Minayotayta

## Demographics

For much of its history, Trunduk's population consisted mostly of native Trundukis. They developed a rich civilisation influenced by merchants and priests from Chola and Pandya, and then by the Majapahit Empire.

During the Partition of India, Trunduk resettled hundreds of Indian refugees, who helped build the nation. They were later joined by more Indian immigrants, who brought the country closer to India. It was the Indians who helped Trunduk become a more modern nation, informing its people about the world as it isolated itself. With the arrival of Hindu nationalists in the 1960's, Trunduk's people began to resist Westernisation, and as a result India became the only nation where Trundukis can travel outside their country. However, the nationalists also made them dislike foreigners even more.

Due to the Sukra Laws of the 1960s and more immigration from Indian Hindus, Trunduk became a more disciplined society. Certain poor behaviours, such as littering, abuse of women, and anti-intellectualism, were heavily-punished with jail sentences and menial labour; the Sukra laws were also enacted due to negative incidents between the locals and certain Indian immigrants. Encouraged by government propaganda, education also became an important aspect of Trunduki culture: propaganda which condemned rebellious attitudes among American youth also encouraged the Trundukis to become more conservative. However, certain Sukra laws also allow children to report parents, or citizens to report police officers, if they were considered abusive: these laws were based on reports of police violence from the United States and repression in communist countries.

The affluence of the Indian Trundukis, the influence of the Indian politicians in the government, and quarrels between Trunduki tourists and Indian nationalists in India, led to resentment among the pagan Trundukis. Sometimes it led to fights between Trunduki nativists and Indians, who accused each other of taking over the country and erasing its culture. The nativists condemned the Indian Trunduki leaders as "Delhians", accusing them of imposing North Indian culture on Trunduk's native Hindu society.

## Society

Trunduk's society resembles a mixture of Austronesian and Indian influences.

In the 1960's, the already-Hindu culture of Trunduk was partly shaped by the Hindustani traditions of the immigrants. Certain Bollywood traditions, such as musical numbers, were forbidden by the Trunduki authorities for being "too annoying" or "against Hindu laws".

In the 1980s, a popular film franchise emerged since the arrival of Japanese tourists, known as "Monosaki". It revolves around the eponymous protagonist, an archaeologist from Japan, exploring the lost ruins of Trunduki's central mountains with his colleagues. In the ruins, his party gets attacked by vampires known as "oitlang" (a name used for Japanese and Australian soldiers during World War II). To defeat the vampires and save his friends from being murdered, Monosaki visits a priest at a lonely Hindu temple, where he learns to use a magic sword by praying to Shiva. Some Monosaki movies have Mr. Monosaki confronting his uncle or grandfather as one of the oitlang vampires.

The jalung dance is a traditional dance in Trunduk.

## Language

See also: Trunduki language

The Trunduki language is a language isolate, having almost no known relatives outside of the Trunduk archipelago aside from a few assimilated tribes at Java. It has two registers: a formal register influenced by Sanskrit, and a common register with more native words. The native register became the official standard of the language.

## Religion

Trunduk has two official religions: Hinduism and Niyachatroi, the native Trunduki religion.

The national gods of Trunduk are Shiva and the mountain god Sarakel.

Certain city-states in central Trunduk practice Christianity, which is outlawed in modern Trunduk's history. The remaining Christian Trundukis were imprisoned in jails, accused of hatred against Trunduk's people and gods. More Christians live under the protection of the Australians in the southwest, and the country's remaining Muslims live at the Indonesian protectorate at the northeast.

The only Muslims who were allowed to visit Trunduk were the occasional Bangladeshis and Indonesians, but they were not allowed to immigrate to Trunduk, and they had to pray out of public in large designated "multi-faith" halls. Aside from those, there were almost no Muslim Trundukis within the Republic of Trunduk, as all of them were either sent out o4 they fled to the Indonesian-controlled portion.

In 2020, after the other Trunduks helped the Hindu Trundukis defeat the American invasion, Christianity and Islam were legalised, in spite of angry objections and threats by the UDP. All religious prisoners were pardoned, but they were ordered never to evangelise to the locals. Any Christian or Muslim who sought to live within Hindu Trunduk, however, had to take an oath that forbade them from killing cattle or evangelising.

### Trunduki Hinduism

Trunduki Hinduism is similar to the practices of the Pandya and Chola kingdoms, mixed with Majapahit traditions and later additions from 20th-century Hindustanis: it became a major influence on Trunduk's national culture until Trunduk is heavily biased towards Hinduism. Popular deities in this variant of Hinduism include Shiva, Parvati, Ganesh, Varuna, and Agni. While Hindustanis refer Hinduism as "Sanatan Dharm", Trundukis instead use "Satyadaruma" ("satya dharma", the true way) as their name for their religion. Trunduki Hindus are locally-known as "Satyari", the "people of truth".

Trunduki Hinduism acknowledges the existence of the caste system, or varnas. However, it does not restrict people from lower varnas from achieving better careers, and people in Trunduk are allowed to change their careers as they wanted, so the "varnas" were nothing more than symbolic lineages instead of obligatory, inescapable choices. Due to influence from its traditional native culture and certain morality lessons, it also allows more mobility for women.

In ancient times, Trunduki priests used to wear white, but after the influx of Hindustanis, they started wearing saffron. In the 1980s, Trunduk is divided between nativists and Indian nationalists who wanted to make its local Hinduism closer to Hindustani practices. The nativist Trundukis got into fights with the Indian elites as they used incidents, ill-behaved personalities as warnings on how not to behave, or the consequences of losing their country's independence to the elites or to Indian rule.

The elites accused them of "Hinduphobia" for using some of their allies in warnings and called for the nativists to be arrested: the nativists answered: "We are keeping Hinduism clean from corruption, so India should learn from us too". The negative attitude by the locals against what they perceived as "Delhian" attitudes was derived from disappointment from accounts of party politics, social corruption, sectarian killings, and mob violence in India, so they considered their syncretic variant as "closer to Shiva".

Anyone who is Hindu or "pagan" is always welcome to Trunduk. They also have an easier access to citizenship, provided they swear to follow the country's laws and defend the Hindu and Trunduk religions.

Any act of "Anti-Hindu" or "Hinduphobia" (Gochu Satyadharmai, gochumon) is a criminal offense in Trunduk. These may range from making fun of the Gods to talking anything negative about India, Hinduism, or the Hindu people: the elites in the Trunduki government also used this charge against anyone displaying incidents within Indian political parties. Saying anything positive about people and things considered as "enemies of India" are also considered "anti-Hindu" and are regarded as crimes. As a result, Trunduk had almost no diplomatic relations with Britain, Arabia, Pakistan, America, the Soviet Union, and China. Ironically, some nativist leaders accused their Delhian rivals of being "anti-Hindu" for attempting to force the nation to become more Hindustani at the expense of its native culture.

Trundukis never eat beef. Eating beef is punishable with exile to the western coast, never with beatings, jail, or death. Although there were less beatings over cow killings and only fourteen murders, nearly all the perpetrators were arrested with the beef-killers. Beatings were returned with beatings, mutilations and slashings with lashings, and murders with the deaths of the perpetrators - but those were also condemned as "Hinduphobia" by the Indian elite.

### Niyachatroi

Niyachatroi is the revived native religion of the Trunduki people before Hindu influence. It was reestablished and codified in 1932.

The sacred colour of Niyachatroi is green.

* Sarakel - the god of the mountains, and the king of the gods
* Sinanawaki - the goddess of rice
* Munkodatrau - the golden god of civilisation
* Himantare - the green goddess of luck
* Jamandaun - the dragon god of the sea
* Yamoteksot and Norumaukat - the twin thunder gods
* Sanurok - the god of the sun
* Yumaraki - the goddess of the moon and the calendar
* Angesulwai - the god of wisdom
* Yordok - the god of war

Gojoril, the Land of Knives, is the Trunduki version of Hell.

## Legacy

Trunduk has a mixed reception in India: while it became popular among right-wing subcultures, it was condemned among secular activists for promoting Hindu nationalism. It was also enjoyed by neopagans in Europe, and its fans picked fights with Christian fanatics.

In spite of its initial condemnation by American media, its worldbuilding made it popular among the colonies of the Milky Way.

### Other Trunduks

The book's Indian fanbase, which consisted of nationalists, made fanfics where Trunduk totally dedicates itself to Hinduism, abandons its native culture to become more Hindu, and joins the resulting Hindu Rashtra in its wars against leftists and monotheists to build a Dharmic Empire.

Some Hindu Trunduk works instead depict it restoring its native culture and being a friend of India, while others mention depict its devotion to Hinduism making it more fair than its neighbours as a "good example of a Ram Rajya (righteous society)". In many of these works, they also have Trunduk's leaders exporting its diamonds to India, helping both nations become richer.

Its author's enemies instead wrote fanfics where other scenarios occurred:

* Ussian fans made Trunduk as a Marxist dictatorship supported by the United States, or a socialist republic influenced by Ussian social justice doctrines. In either of these scenarios, it also received an influx of Americans.
* Chinese fans made Trunduk a secular, socialist state. While not necessarily being ruled by China, this Trunduk would provide it with diamonds, and in return the Chinese build up its roads and ports and make it a tourist haven.
* Feddians made Trunduk a Christian colony of the American Federation, united by the Central Army as a refuge for all Christians throughout the world.
* Visegradians made Trunduk a Crusader state that is more or less like the Philippines. In one Visegradian work, Trunduk accepts a Catholic missionary, and the converted king reforms his nation and becomes an ally of Australia. In another Visegradian work, Trunduk is conquered by a modern army of crusaders, who make Trunduk a base for traditionalist Europeans.
* Secular Indians made Trunduk similar to modern India where Christians and Muslims are accepted rather than rejected.

A few authors instead depicted an alternate Trunduk that has converted to Islam instead of remaining as a Hindu nation. One particular scenario answers the question: "What if Trunduk was aligned with Pakistan?"

* In one "Pakistani Trunduk" work, Trunduk serves Pakistan instead of India. There, it becomes a militaristic nation totally devoted to a strict form of Islam, sending its men to defend Pakistan from Indian and Chinese attacks. It was essentially a satire on militarism and autocracy.
* In another "Pakistani Trunduk" work, the authorities suppressed Trunduki culture, leading to a bloody revolt similar to the revolution of Bangladesh.
* Several other "Pakistani Trunduk" books, written by Pakistani authors, provide different scenarios. One of these books has Pakistan annex Trunduk as its easternmost province, allowing it to support Indonesia and bring it closer to the Ummah (Muslim community). Another depicts Trunduk as a catalyst that leads to social reform in Pakistan.
* A fourth work depicts a Muslim Trunduk becoming like Indonesia, enduring several dictators before becoming into a developing democracy.
* A fifth work depicts Trunduk as a Muslim country, wisely using its diamond-wealth to become as rich as Brunei. However, this Trunduk struggles between Arabian and American attempts to manipulate its government.

### Future

Thousands of years after Swietowit's death, the Trunduk books were popular among the Vetarbroitar because of its depiction of a independent pagan state. The story-within-a-story, Monosaki, became a popular stage play.

## Trivia

* The author thought of this nation at around April 2021. It was largely inspired by Indian nationalists on Twitter, and he made this country as he wondered what would the Hindutva movement think of a non-Indic country that converts to Hinduism.
	+ Ironically, some elements in Trunduk might also oppose "Hindutva" as well: the Trundukis are opposed to violence against lower castes and casteism in general, and they are against party politics and attempts to conform their customs to what they perceived as foreign (in this case, north Indian). All they wanted is their own independent form of Hinduism and their native religion.