Tyrska

**Tyrska** (Tyrskan, Russian: Тырска) was the ruined land that became a part of the Zetrosian Empire. The Tyrskan people were an offshoot of the Russian people in Earth-96, along with their dominant Zetrosian rulers.

Centuries later, the initial military colony of Tyrska was replaced by a succession of aggressive governments, currently being the **People's Republic of Tyrska** (Тырская Народная Республика) or the **PRT** (ТНР, TNR). It is also known as the Tyrskan Empire due to the manner of its society, dominating much of southern Russia.

Due to mutations that their ancestors were required to take as subjects of the Zetrosian Empire, nearly all Tyrskans can live for centuries as ageless immortals.

## Symbols

Like its Russian predecessors, the bear was a traditional symbol of Tyrska. However, in Tyrska it replaced the double-headed eagle as a national animal.

## History

The world of Earth-96 was a war-ravaged world, where many realms were reduced to wastelands. One of those unfortunate realms was Tyrska, located right next to the western border of the aging Russian Empire.

For eight years, Tyrska was bombed by its rivals, Rooistan and Ilgeria. The Tyrskans claimed that they were only protecting their proud, imperial identity; but the founders of the Tyrskan rebel state merely wanted to revert the two countries into being colonies of their empire. Nearly-overwhelmed, the Zetrosian armies seized control of the government and destroyed most of the two countries. To mourn the losses of Tyrska, whose people were very related, the eight years became a symbol of the entire empire.

As the Zetrosian Empire rebuilt Tyrska and colonised the ruins of the two neighbours, many Zetrosians wanted to mobilise Tyrska to wage total war against the Q-Armies of their American rivals to the west. They claimed that by conquering the rest of Europe, they were "liberating" the continent, but the "liberated" parts were forced to become more Zetrosian, and their collaborators became the first to be subjected to various restrictions.

In contrast to the Zetrosian Empire, many Tyrskans used symbols from the "First and Second Russian Empires" (the second being the Soviet Union).

At some point, the Tyrskans discovered a means to travel into other dimensions, spending their vast armies to wage war and create a network of colonies, making it more richer than Zetrosia in the east. It lead to a new era of war, waged against the Zetrosians of eastern Russia and the Q-ruled and independent states of Europe. They would had overrun Zetros and retook much of their Motherland, but they focused more on war against Europe to destroy those who rebelled against their former empires.

When the Tyrskans became the aristocracy of Bujan, they set up portals to Tyrska to bring in more colonists to Russianise the region. During that time, Tyrska became an independent, prosperous republic, the western successor of the divided, ruined Zetrosia. Disgusted by the polytheism in Bujan, some Tyrskans sent missionaries and enforcers to impose the Tyrskan Church upon the locals, but their proposal was rejected by the aristocracy, who already adopted polytheism. This led to the first churches in Bujan, although the small Churchgoer community remained unwelcome for their arrogant attitude and their demands to Tyrskanise the locals by force.

The Tyrskans sent their military to aid their aristocratic kin when Bujan waged a war of independence, seeking to totally annex the island before the Wannaenids would exterminate and colonise it first, but they were defeated by the Bujanski's coalition of allies.

The Kingdom of Bujan remained at war with the People's Republic of Tyrska since its founding, and the local Tyrskans of Bujan were forced to abandon their supremacist attitude. As for Tyrska, it collapsed as other warlords sought to take over the republic using the armies raised across its interdimensional colonies. Several warlords pledged to the Tyrskan gods for a last-ditch attempt to destroy the fortified realm of Zaporizhia, but they were swiftly defeated after three years of war and thousands of losses.

Several warlords who continued their wars against the Q-Crusades were also broken, as the Q-Armies were almost near the western borders of the imperial Tyrskan state. But by the time the Q-Armies were besieging the capital, the Wannaenids bombarded most of the world and enslaved the survivors. The age-old war of the Tyrskan and Church of Q's army ended with the total dissolution of both empires.

## Geography

The names of Tyrskan regions and cities were known in Bujan since their introduction in "patriotic lessons" during Wannaenid rule.

* Shakhtjor Grad - Miner City, capital of Tyrska after the Bombardment.
	+ Possibly corresponds to Volgograd.
* Lumines
* Lominsk - a vast river
* Chernopolja - best farmland
	+ Much of it was taken back by the Ukrainians, leaving only whatever that was Russian.
* Krasnokop - had a shopping mall before the Bombardment. Many centuries after the Zetrosian emperor, Krasnokop's mall was reverted from a military barracks into a shopping mall.
	+ Corresponds to Saratov.
* Slavanka
	+ Corresponds to Samara.
* Torosk
* Ortinsk

Much of Tyrska's territory consists of southern Russia up to the edge of the Caucasus, including the Volga riverlands. It also went as far west as much of Belarus, having just lost Minsk to the Qvian crusaders 30 years before Wannaenid invasion.

It no longer had any part of Ukraine after its defeat and expulsion by the country's United Military.

## Society

Tyrskan culture was primarily based on an attempt to revive the Soviet Union, known as the Second Russian Empire. It was mostly done to turn Tyrska into a militarised society bent on nothing but war. Much of its culture and "traditions" were based on exaggerated depictions of Soviet soldiers during the Nazi invasion of Russia.

Being immortals like the Zetrosian relatives, the Tyrskans lived very long lives at peacetime, enjoying extended adulthoods for up to 150 years. This led to two paths all men and women were required to take: a "summer term" where retirees get a short pension for the 10-20 years of rest; or a "summer duty" where the immortal must serve in the Tyrskan Armed Forces to receive higher wages when their military service ends.

The PRT of later times was less militaristic than its predecessors, but still nationalistic and imperialist. Shopping malls, Internet cafes, and videogames were popular hobbies among the Tyrskans, albeit coated in imperial themes. Although the PRTians still honoured the Zetrosians as brother Slavs, they started to look down on the Zetrosians as arrogant snobs because Zetros descended into poverty.

### Racism

The Tyrskans considered themselves as "the true Russians". Russians who did not serve them, such as Zetrosians and those in the Far East, were accused of treason and killed; but they allowed defectors and those who willingly joined to survive. Non-Tyrskan Russians were also known as "Ashlanders", viewing them as remnants of an outdated, dying world to be swept aside. Even ethnic Russians beyond Russia were also known as Ashlanders, shamed for their refusal to bow to Tyrskan imperialism.

The countries of Ukraine and America were the most hated in Tyrskan society, and Tyrskans were indoctrinated to exterminate both. Certain nations that were historical enemies of Russia were also reviled in Tyrskan history, aside from Ilgeria, Rooistan, Poland, and Ukraine. They include Kazakhstan and the four Baltic realms, accused of "treason against Mother Rus".

Tyrska was notorious for having a law that mandates killing anyone from those parts on sight, including defectors. The war against the Q Church also led to the use of the Cold War to justify murdering Americans, including foolish sycophants who thought they were supporting Russian supremacy through Tyrskan victory.

In their ultranationalism and devotion to their historical empires, they mistreated people who were minorities in Russia. This was why they migrated northwards to Zetrosia, who was more tolerant of them.

The expansionist wars into Europe were motivated by two reasons: competition against the Church of Q for power, and to punish those who hated Russians; especially the Americans. The Zetrosians were condemned by them for refusing to exterminate historical enemies.

## Language

See also: Tyrskan glossary

While Zetros allowed minorities to use their languages, Tyrska was virtually intolerant of almost every other language. The only language allowed there was Tyrskan.

They murdered people who even spoke in Zetrosian, seeing them as heretics. Those who used Russian were luckier due to their identical languages, except the words used by Tyrskans were quite different from the vocabulary used in pre-war Russia.

## Religion

Tyrskan churches no longer looked like typical Russian churches. Instead of onion domes and crosses, they looked more like military bunkers topped with eights and Z-letters, or statues of the Tyrskan gods.

### Tyrskan pantheon

The Tyrskan gods were known in the Tyrskan church as the Celestial Army. Replacing Jesus, Mary, and the Christian saints, the Tyrskan gods were an attempt by the Tyrskans and their rulers to create a new history, as self-proclaimed successors of Russia and Zetros.

They were based on the Zetrosian pantheon, itself a cult that waged war and replaced what remained of a bygone theocracy that blended Soviet communism with Orthodox militarism. Only the far eastern parts of Russia remained proper Christians due to a revival.

* Father Zetros - emperor and founder of the Zetrosian civilisation. A scientist who became immortal, yet got killed in a later war. The god of immortality, power, and domination.
	+ The later Zetrosian empire is seen in Tyrska as unworthy of his presence.
* Zilman the Cable Technician - a former TV technician who ran a troll army, the god of online activity.
* Biarnor, Faradyn, and Nalomnyr - three generals who led a string of victories against the Q Templars, worshipped as the gods of war.
* Matrinja - goddess of motherhood
* Delgyria - goddess of marriages, formerly Zetros' niece and an online celebrity.
* Adamas - an engineer who became the god of tanks and vehicles. The annual Saints' Races were an act of worship to him, where men drive vehicles in honour of dead relatives.
* Grandmother Ruska, Mother Rus - the personified goddess of the bygone civilisation known as "Russia". Zetros also worships her as a literal goddess to replace Mary (the mother of Jesus), but Tyrska considers itself as the true successor of Mother Rus and wages wars in her name.
* Grandfather Slavos

The purpose of life, according to the Tyrskan church, is to create huge, orderly families to spread the supremacy of Tyrska, and then to seek "vindication" by dying in battle. Violence and cruelty, therefore, are justified as bringing one's self closer to the deified Emperor and his gods.

Tyrskans who die end up being sent to the Seventh Realm, where the strongest were taken to become saints, while the weak were thrown into the Pit of Q.

### Eight Points

The Eightyearism philosophy is the national philosophy of Tyrska, attempting revenge and supremacism to beat the American Empire in ruling the world.

* Right of History - the Tyrskans are always right, and all history must focus on Tyrska. Mysticism will unlock true history.
* Right of Language - all must speak in Tyrskan only. To stop using Tyrskan is to attempt to destroy the language or the Tyrskan people.
* Right of Security - neighbours who dare turn against Tyrska, especially to isolate and surround it, will be occupied and bombed, or even annexed. The destruction of a hostile land is a "liberation" for the Tyrskans, to colonise it.
* Right of Might - no weakness or fault is allowed in a Tyrskan. Bullying is good as long as a Tyrskan does it.
* Right of Passage - the Tyrskan must enjoy a privileged life, because life is unfair.
* Right of Faith - all belief must be redirected towards the Tyrskan way. Other religions may be phased out for the Tyrskan imperial cult.
* Right of Culture - Tyrskan culture must remain traditional, unmodernised in spite of technology. That meant patriarchy, traditional families (a father and a mother), large families, strict social roles, coercion, and militarisation.
* Right of Happiness - Tyrskans are to have the right to say every curse against the enemies of the empire, without any consequence.

## Legacy

The Kovastoi who became the ruling elites of Bujan during Wannaenid rule named themselves as "Tyrskans" in honour of their homeland. They considered the torment of Bujan's peoples as their revenge for their past loss.

Conversely, since independence, the name "Tyrska" and many well-known place names in Tyrska were censored and bleeped out in public media to curse the Tyrskans.

## Trivia

* Tyrska was initially inspired by the "Donetsk People's Republic" and the "Luhansk People's Republic", two separatist enclaves in eastern Ukraine founded by Russian nationalist warlords.
	+ Later Tyrska was based on the Soviet Union and European colonial empires.
	+ In 2023, the author expanded and reinterpreted Tyrska as a theocratic empire located along the Volga River at western Russia. So Zetros would be at the area of Saint Petersburg and Moscow, at the north.
	+ It is also depicted as a country obsessed with Soviet imagery, in the same way Soviet imagery was used by the Russian invaders during their war against Ukraine.
* The Zetrosian obsession with the number eight, and usage of it as its symbol, was inspired by the Russian nationalist phrase, "Where have you been in the past eight years?!". It was also based on the evolution of the Z symbol of Zetros, itself based on the infamous Russian militarist symbol used during the invasion of Ukraine.
	+ The author instead interpreted it as eight becoming an infinity symbol, so he made the "Russian Empire" in this alternate earth into a nation of scientists and immortals.
* The two states' historical aesthetics would make their conflict a possible resurgence of the Russian Civil War, where the Zetrosians would be a technologically-advanced White Army, and the Tyrskans would be a very nationalistic Red Army.

## See also

* Maeranoi
* Bujan Fourfold
* Terranisation