Nordic State

The **Nordic State**, also known as **Nordia**, was one of several dictatorships that existed in Earth's history in the Rinnarverse.

## Flag

The Nordic State's flag was green and black, with a black T along the poleward side of the flag representing the Hammer of Thor.

## History

During the mid-21st century, a global economic crisis plunged most of the world into crushing poverty. Around the world, the frustrated populace overthrew their rulers and replaced them with nationalistic leaders and dictators.

Among these upheavals, nationalists began to dominate the governments of Europe and they banished their surviving opponents to Africa. One of these new regimes was the Nordic State, a fascist guerrilla army that grew in the mountain forests. Within months they quickly seized control of the capitals of Norway and Sweden, supported by their allies sent from Europe and armed fighters from America and Russia, establishing their regime in southern Scandinavia. With more guerrillas from Russia they also take over Finland, but the Finnish people break away from their rule decades later. Northern Norway remained unconquered, as its people were supported by the United States.

In the 22nd century, the other superpowers begin to use clones and robots to fight in their armies. With some machines smuggled from its enemies by its agents, the Nordic government builds its own army of clones, sometimes to raid and conquer nearby lands. At times they managed to conquer more lands into their burgeoning empire; their new colonies included:

* Kvenland (southern Finland)
* Bjarmaland (Kola Peninsula)
* Gardarik (north Estonia and St. Petersburg) - besieged cities in western Russia
* South Gardarik (Leningrad and Novgorod) - they managed to retain control as they were aided by delinquents and gangsters who rebelled against Russia's authorities
* Saxland (northern Germany and Denmark)
* Svafaland (parts of southern Germany held by clones in their fortresses)
* Frisland (northern Netherlands)
* Frakkiland (northern France and Belgium)
* Danaloeg (eastern England and Scotland)
* Issland (southeastern Iceland and the Orkneys)
* Grenland (southeastern and eastern Greenland) - Greenland was a stronghold of an alliance of free Scandinavians and Kalaalits who built many cities beneath the ice and mountains. They fought the Nordic invasions, but some Nordics continued to build strongholds in the desolate mountains of eastern Greenland
* Vinland (Quebec, Canada)
* Nyjorvik (Maine, US)
* Storr-Vinland (Midwest, US) - Aryanist enclaves that joined the Nordic State, only to be purged of non-Norse, Nazis, and Christians
* Harvada (northern Romania)
* Vargal, Illis, Sanett, Kaserint (eastern Algeria) - these Nordic fortresses managed to last longer as they remained isolated within the Sahara Desert
* Adrora (western Algeria)
* Vestribigde (Antarctica)

It also took part in the space race of the 24th century, where it built a scattered network of colonies along the western Milky Way to sabotage the Four Powers' colonisation with raids and terrorist attacks. One of those colonies, led by a man known as Volandr, built his own clone army and rebelled.

When Akhand Bharat denounced the Western world, Visegrad and the AF offered to support it, as they were pleased by its opposition to Islam. They rejected Akhand Bharat for its opposition to Christianity, so the Nordic State offered to establish diplomatic relations with Akhand Bharat. Both nations supported each other, although Akhand Bharat later broke relations as the Nordic State became more violent.

In the 24th century, its later rulers attempted to remake their society into what they perceived to be a more Norse-ified society based on an idealised depiction of their own history: fanatically devout, warlike, purged of Greco-Roman and Christian influences, and where men were more dominant to ruthlessly expand its empire throughout Europe and the Galaxy.

Centuries later, Götaland in southern Sweden breaks away from Nordic rule, as its own kingdom ruled by the descendants of the Swedish crown. In the years leading to World War III, it financed several terrorist groups to spread its reign outside Scandinavia, such as Aryanland in America and several armed groups within Russia and Canada, which it afterwards attempted to take over by force once they succeeded forming their own enclaves.

As resources became more scarce during World War III, the desperate Nordic emperors bombed London and New York, and the United States retaliated by launching a nuclear bomb at its capital of Uppsala. Around the time of the Earth Union, Götaland liberated Uppsala from Nordic rule and built a wall to keep the Nordics out. To the north, guerrillas liberated several islands and peninsulas from Nordic rule as the Kingdom of Free Norway.

Its remnants and its enemies were covered under the Nordic Shield.

## Government

The Nordic State's government varied over the centuries. It started out as a dictatorship ruled by a President, and then a Generalissimo, and later by an Yfir-Jarl (over-lord) or King when it transitioned into a feudal state. Sometimes the Yfir-Jarl or King was overthrown by one of his officers, resulting in a series of dynasties and civil wars.

* 2079 - President Arne Njallrune
* 2100s-2150s - High King Ivar Hefnablod

* 2573 - Yfir-Jarl Osbrand
* 2583 - Yfir-Jarl Egilnar

## Society

Initially, the Nordic State was more republican, when all of its citizens were equal under the authority of its President or dictator. Over time, it was dominated by its military officers, and it was later changed to a stratified society.

In the 24th century, the Nordic State's people consisted of several classes: the Yfir-Jarl or King, the Jarls (generals and commanders, who became the nobility), the karls (citizens), and the traells (slaves, criminals).

As it was populated by Americans, Europeans, and Russians, the Nordics may be of mixed bloodlines. Initially it permitted anyone to join its ranks as long as he or she seemed "White", but in later times it restricted citizenship only to "those of Norse ancestry", allowing only occasional Whites from other nations and assigning them only to certain towns.

Sometimes the Saami, Russians, Germans, American, Aland Islander, Finnish and "half-Norse" minorities were permitted to keep their cultures, and sometimes they were ordered to forcibly assimilate to the Norse way or face deportation.

While men were dominant, women had their own autonomy and rights as citizens. However, the leader of the Nordic State had to be a man, never a woman. If the next-in-line was female, the nearest male relative or the most capable officer had to take the previous leader's place.

Another aspect of the Nordic State's society was the transition from Latin writing to a revived futhark alphabet. In turn, its opponents within and without also used futhark to "redeem" the alphabet from "being tainted by fascists".

### Colonial society

During the Hefnablod Wars, the Nordic troops set up colonies and forts whenever they prevailed and defeated the indigenous peoples. Any remaining inhabitants were ordered to worship Odin and Thor, or be executed. Most of these colonies were populated by male clones, so they increased their numbers by cloning. Some colonies invited civilians from the Nordic homeland to settle in the colonies and forts; others made female clones as wives; and still others recruited other militants who wanted to use them to overthrow local governments. Regardless, many of them were so indoctrinated into the Nordic State's ideology that they prohibited Christianity, monotheism, and atheism within their colonies with harsh punishments.

Like the other powers of the Galaxy, the interstellar Nordic colonies were founded by batches of male-female pairs created with basic knowledge to fight and use tools. Unlike their Hefnablod-era predecessors, Galactic Nordic colonies had more freedoms and autonomy, allowing their inhabitants to be less militarised. Many of these colonies had the same fanaticism as their rulers, to the point that monotheism and atheism were still banned. Some colonies attempted controversial policies, such as the construction of shopping malls, importing videogames, establishing relations with monotheists and atheists and tolerating their beliefs. These deviant colonies were violently purged by Nordic armies, although some managed to declare independence from Nordic rule.

## Cloning

The Nordic State was notorious for its heavy usage of cloning. Although most of its citizens reproduced through sex as in other nations, the Nordic State was among the world's top producers of clones, mainly for the purpose of waging punitive wars against other peoples and overwhelming their enemies with their numbers.

Nordic clones tend to be more aggressive, less individualistic, obedient, and destructive, as the Nordic dictators and emperors wanted to use them as living, expendable weapons. At times when they were quickly mass-produced, the resulting Nordic clone warriors are more mentally-unstable and less intelligent: some clones even killed their enemies by eating and biting them, such as the notorious *Drauge* regiments!

Many of the surviving clones that were not killed in Ivar Hefnablod's wars joined local militants, mostly because they wanted to fulfill their purpose to destroy the surrounding countries and impose their fanatical death cult. Some of them also built their own clone farms, making them a bigger threat to nearby countries and the Nordic State.

## Religion

When the Nordic State was founded, its state religion was an extreme form of Norse heathenry, but its rulers tolerated other Whites of other beliefs as long as they fought for the founders and served them. In later times, it made the worship of Norse gods mandatory, punishing and killing anyone who practiced other religions and atheists.

As its later rulers tried to make it more Norse, they also banned Christianity as a "historical threat to the Norse folk", and atheism as "the seed of communism". They also tortured any fellow kin who did not agree with their beliefs, or who did not pray to the Norse gods in the methods that the state religion ordered. Fuelled by rage and anger, some of these rulers ordered public executions of suspected Christians and atheists, and others launched invasions, raids, and bombings of other countries to force the inhabitants to worship their gods -- such as Hefnablod's conquests, the bombing of Charlemagne's tomb, or the raids on Frisland. They sought to give the enemies of their ancestors the same treatment that they suffered from them!

Later Generalissimos and monarchs are worshipped as living sons of gods, whether of Odin, Thor, or Freyr.

The Nordic State's form of the Norse religion included elements inverted from Christianity in its propaganda. For example, it reveres Odin and Freyr as the highest gods, regards Loki as the god of evil (like God against Satan), uses a strict set of rules (like the Ten Commandments), and has a hierarchy influenced by the Roman church. They also associated Christianity and atheism with Loki, as all three were the hated enemies of their god Odin.

The Nordic State's state cult referred the Christian God, Jesus, as "Hvítakristr", the "White Christ", a term used by the Norse against Jesus as they mocked His followers for their lack of aggression. This was done in contrast to a popular god in Nordic religion, Thor, whom they referred as "Red Thor" or "Blood-Red Thor" for his warlike attitude encouraging their war against the rest of Earth.

## Terminology

### Official

* The Nordic State
* Nordia

### Unofficial

#### Positive

* Children of Odin
* Hammer of Thor
* Destroyers of Evil
* Extermination
* Enemies of Loki
* Red Lands
* Brothers of Dharma (Akhand Bharat)

#### Negative

* The Bonelands (everyone else)
	+ One of the nicknames used for the Nordic State is "the Bonelands", because it sent thousands of cloned soldiers to die in wars. It led to a joke about people using bones collected from Nordic clone soldiers' corpses and making it into a profitable business, showing how little the Nordic State cares for its own people.
* Fanatics
* Damnation
* Mouth of Hell
* Enemies of Christ (Visegrad, AF, Russia)
* Gog and Magog (Arabia, Russia)
* Satan's Horde (Arabia, Russia, Visegrad, AF)
	+ Christian enemies of the Nordic State sometimes provoked it by likening its god, Odin, with Satan, as both are considered the enemies of Jesus.
* Worshippers of Satan (Arabia, Russia, Visegrad, AF)
* Demons (Arabia, Russia, Visegrad, AF)
* Anti-Whites, Race Traitors, Cucks (Neo-Nazis, fascists)
	+ The Nordic State does not care about White supremacy: on the other hand, it condemned anyone who offered it to join White supremacist armies and warlords as "traitors of Odin". This earned it more enemies from America, Russia, and the rest of Europe.
* Nazis (US, Visegrad)
	+ In spite of this nickname, all Neo-Nazis are official enemies of the Nordic State, as they are regarded as traitors who serve Rome instead of Odin.
* Northern Nazis
* The Fifth Reich

## Trivia

* The Nordic State of the Rinnarverse was influenced by ISIS, the Nordic Resistance Movement (a fascist group), and medieval Vikings and the kingdoms of Western Europe.
* When the Nordic State took over Trondheim in the 2070's, the ancestors of Ivan York fled to Greenland. Among them were Asatruar (Norse heathens) who were harassed and threatened with death for resisting the Nordic State's leaders.
* Although the Neo-Nazis supported the Nordic State for its nationalism, racialism and hatred of Christianity; the Nordics in turn despised the Nazis as "bastard Romans and weaklings". They forced any Neo-Nazis among to obey the Founders and renounce Hitler, or risk being banished out of Nordia. This led to bloody clashes between Nazis and Nordics, who regard each other as race-traitors and/or nithings (accursed or damned).
	+ In spite of their hatred of Nazis, the leaders of the Nordic State also based their society on Nazi Germany to force their own people to be militaristic and fanatically obedient to them without question.

## See also

* United States (Rinnarverse), American Federation for their American counterparts in Aryanland.
* Farsiders, their more-savage grandchildren who consider them to be "weaklings".
* Baesorja, their more arrogant Rabydosverse counterparts whom they hate for not being warlike.
* Rannar, their militaristic Rabydosverse counterparts that they gladly support, but will later force them to submit to Nordic rule.
* Visegrad, their southern enemies.