Nation of Freedom

**Nation of Freedom**

Timeline: Liberty Fallen

OTL equivalent: Roughly in Oregon

 Location of NoFFreedom in blue
 **Independence** | April 2013

**The Nation of Freedom** is an unrecognized state or armed insurgecy mainly concentrated in the American North West and with terroristic cells over the country (due to being de facto independent, Nation of Freedom-North Carolina will have its own page).

It was proclaimed in 2013 by former White League member Oskar David Strom, also known as "Hunter", and far right militias in Pendleton, Oregon, soon after the outbreak of the Oregonian Civil War. Freedom considers itself the legitimate successor of the Republic of America, the def

unct fascist state led by David Duke, and of the United States, and have declared their intention to serve as a model for the rest of the country and of White Aryan countries in general. According to statements by Strom, the NoF is modeled on "the Order", from The Turner Diaries, written by RA leading figure William Luther Pierce. This and other statements imply that the ultimate goal of Freedom is the annhilation of all non-Aryans as well as weak Aryans and the creation of a racially and darwinistically pure World Empire. Freedom has been widely reported to to have practiced mass murder of civillians and pows, ethnic cleansings, slave labor, use of child soldiers and human experimentation. Freedom is currently at war with all other factions of the Oregonian Civil War, the Free Republic of Liberty, the State of Lincoln, the People's Republic of California, the People's Republic of Evergreen, the Republic of Utah, the People's Union of America, the People's Republic of New Afrika and the Greater American Union.

## **ORGANIZATION:**

The ruling organ of the NoF in the North West is the **Council of National Redemption**, a committee of 106 members tasked with complete authority over every single aspect of day to day life and with the enforcement of ideological norms. Hunter Strom holds the title of "Supreme Leader" while the Chairman of the CNR rotates every 2 years, the current Chairman is the 20 year old Thomas Rousseau. While the Supreme Leader is head of government, the official head of state of Freedom remains the dead David Duke, referred to as "Eternal President". The offices inside the CNR are:

The **Freedom Youth**, formed by half of male citizens between 13 and 16 (turns rotate between one half that parti and labor turns, 6 months each), which is tasked with patroling territory stably controlled by the NoF and acts as a law enforcement and political police. It's led by Chief Thomas Rousseau. It's equipment is mainly comprised of light guns and improvised weapons.

The **Redemption Army** includes half of the male citizens from the age of 16. Military service rotates between the two halfs every 6 months. The Army also recruits pows and civillians from enemy armies. It is the main military force of the NoF and is directly headed by Supreme Leader Strom. The Army is considered backwards in terms of equipment and lacking in heavy industry and fuel, but has been very successful at employing the Freenet digital technology to organize as well as maximizing the efficiency of their limited supplies.

The **Free Workers' Office** includes half of the male population above 13 and all the male population between 10 and 13 years. Its members are assigned by the Office a mandatory job, primarily in agricolture and industry. The Office provides rations of basic necessities, while wages are not guaranteed. There is little to no kind of regulation or norm for the workplace, and the Office choses production quotas to fulfill at any price. It's led by Director Jeff Schoeb.

The **Purification Office** includes a small number of male citizens tasked with managing concentration camps of communists, minorities and uncollaborative pows. Prisoners are mainly used for slave labor and are considered state property. The camp's stuff is mostly comprised of members of the Army and Youth as guards and members of the Progress Office for human experiments, plus a minority of inmates given a special status as collaborators. The biggest camp, Camp Duke, near Pendleton, was liberated in 2019. It's led by Director Billy Roper.

The **Office of Scientific Progress** is comprised of scientists, almost all from the former RA, and practices human experimentation in the camps, using a variety of methods like torture, forced isolation, hypnosis and drug injection, particularly in the so called Project Golem, discovered in Camp Duke, which aimed at achieving complete obedience and even mind control over a subject . It's led by Director Raymond Faker.

The **Office of Free Women**, organizes the entire female population of the NoF. Women are unlikely to be assigned heavy labor but nonetheless have mandatory task, especially in the agricoltural sector and as nurses, teachers and mothers (pregnant women are the only ones not forced to work and given better rations). This office has control over education of children and is therefore heavily ideologically monitored. There exists no minimum age for marriage, divorce is banned and wifes are considered under the full authority of their husbands. It's led by Director Marjorie Taylor Greene.

The **Office of Intelligence and Surveillance** includes a minority of male citizens specialized in the use of the Freenet, mainly for survaillance, military organization, contacts with NoF cells abroad and intelligence service. It very closely collaborates with the Army and the Youth and is considered the second or third most powerful and important institutions in the country. It's led by Director Robert Rundo.

The **Office for Religious Activity** regulates rigidly the spiritual sphere, mandating daily sessions of pray to the Nation of Freedom and to the victory in the struggle for America and the Aryan Race. It's members are state-trained preachers, they control, together with the Free Women Office, the education system and provide leadership and training to the Freedom Youth. They are trained to fight, teach fighting to the Youth and carry weapons. The religion of the NoF has been described as an incoherent blending of Protestantism, paganism and vague esoteric nonsense. It introduced curious rituals based on stereotypes of the Vikings and of American Indians. That includes sacrificing prisoners in a Aztec-like way to Totems with the faces of important figures like Duke, Washington and Jefferson and claiming that the spirits of these figures and of all those who fell in battle "will rise from the Valhalla to fight on our side" at the height of the struggle. It's Director seems to overlap with that of the Scientific Progress, Doctor Raymond Faker.

## **HISTORY**

The Nation of Freedom was proclaimed in April 2013 in the city of Pendleton by Hunter Strom and the Council of National Redemption. It was organized via the networks of the Organization for the Restoration of America and with leadership from all over the continent, but especially from the former Republic of America. The ORA was strongly linked to the RA and had cells all around the former United States, which made it the best chance for Dukite officials to escape the country and find a safe harbor. Among the people to escape was 19 years old Oskar David Strom, who, after a period in Salt Lake City where he abducted the 12 year old Thomas Rousseau, wounded up in Pendleton.

Eastern Oregon was a strongly right wing region, dominated by the Libertarian Party and, less so, by the dukeist American Identity Party, itself strongly rooted in the White League. As law and order in Oregon was rapidly collapsing, far right militias formed and Strom rapidly became a leading member, first organizing the CNR in early 2012 and the Redemption Army immediately after. The group especially attracted young people and was from the start extremely violent. The collapse of the Oregonian state allowed them to seize military weaponry and large swaths of land, being joined by ORA sponsored insurrections and volunteers from all over.

2013, after the proclamation of the new state, the ORA officially abolished itself to become the Office for Surveillance and Intelligence, thus giving Freedom complete power over it's wide spanning network. The insurgency by the Knights of America in North Carolina (the single most direct successor to the Dukite regime), which was also tied to the ORA formally joined the NoF after that, but remained completely authonomous in all but name. Freedom reached the height of its territorial expansion in late 2018, but has afterwards being slowly losing territory as the Greater American Union finally sent forces in 2019. This slump has been attributed to the concentration of the PUA and New Afrika on the North Carolina part, on the distraction of the GAU with insurgencies in Quebec and Montreal, the weakness of Lincoln and Liberty and the constant fight between different factions in Oregon. The effort of Evergreen against the Nation of Freedom from late 2017-presemt is another major reason for the decline of recent.

The seizure of the capital city of Pendleton late that year is considered the biggest single success since the start of the anti-freedomite effort, and has led to the liberation of Camp Duke.

## **PROJECT GOLEM**

In the liberated concentration camps, the few dozens surviving inmates all confitmed that human experiments were run on them by the camp physician, whose identity is uknown (he's been described by the inmates as young, charming, red haired and with a southern accent, as well as having a friendly facade in comparison to the rest of the staff). Over the 6 years of its existance, over 100 inmates have either died or disappeared after what are believed to have been experiments. Inmates reported in particular a rumor about something called "Golem" with which the doctor seemed completely obsessed and for which dozens, usually young man of good physical condition, were brought to his laboratory. Documents of the Camp have been largely destroyed, but part of them survived, and confirmed the existance of Project Golem.

It's goal seems to have been the achievement of complete obedience and loyalty to levels unreached by the greatest hypnotists that can only be described as "mind control". It's methods have included electro-shock, various forms of hypnosis, injection of a wide variety of allucinogenic drugs and forced isolation. In particular, troops have found the so called "Dark Chamber", a room completely isolated, thanks to thick walls, from any sound and light, with on the floor some chains and a modified wetsuit with tubes implanted in correspondence of the mouth and escretorial parts. It's believed that the Chamber was used to completely isolate a subject and deprive him of movement and his senses. It is uknown how many people have been kept in the Chamber or if some of the attempts have been successful.

The discovery of Project Golem has caused some confusion among the international community as to how a state so fixated on the single goal of warfare could devolve so many sources to the development of such a refined, if disturbing, program. The explanation probably resides in the large numbers of Dukite scientists present among the ranks of Freedom, who had many more years, resources and victims to experiment. The infamous Camp Isabella, Camp Davis and Camp Lee in Puerto Rico, Tennessee and South Virginia, the biggest concentration camps of the RA, were points of human experiments, and several practices of Isabella and Lee have been rediscovered in Camp Duke, but the records of Davis, instead, were almost completely burned, leaving only the rumors from the survivors. These rumors and the attention at destroying evidence, up to erasing any trace of who exactly worked there, have triggered the theory that Project Golem was actually born in Davis. It's also possible It was practiced in Lee and that Strom came into contact with It during his work in the camp in 2009.

Adding to the mystery is the man who would be in charge of these atrocities: the Director of the Offices for Scientific Progress and for Religious Activities, Doctor Raymond Faker. This individual is unique not only for holding two positions, but for the almost complete lack of informations about him:

He does not appear in any record of any available archive in the world, as if he was never citizen of any country. There isn't a single confirmed photo or voice recording of him without some kind of cover, although many have claimed to have one without providing hard evidence. There is no recording of activities inside the Council of National Redemption, therefore it is uknown whether his colleagues know his face and voice. The name Raymond Faker has been concluded to be likely a fake name. Another possibility is that he, as a likely citizen and functionary of the RA, had his traces destroyed during the collapse of the state. This has led to widespread speculation that he could be among the lost scientists of Camp Davis and also the one in charge of Camp Duke. Indeed, some of the unconfirmed recordings of him on the Freenet line up with the description given by the inmates.

## **TRIVIA**

* The Nation of Freedom is a parallel of the Islamic State. Both are extremist insurrections and terrorist movement in control of a particular area but with cells in a wide region. Both are strongly reactionary and guilty of crimes against humanity. Also, the Oregonian Civil War is a parallel of the Syrian Civil War, and the American Spring of the Arab Spring.
* The motto of the Nation of Freedom is "One Nation Under God", a old and famous American patriotic slogan.
* Hunter Strom and Raymond Faker are two of the very few fictional characters in Liberty Fallen. The only othes are Jack Bathory, the founder of the Shining Order of Atruti, and Luis Rodriguez, survivor of the American Holocaust and leader of the Puertorican resistance against the RA.
* While his biography is completely different, up to and including the date and place of his birth, Hunter Strom is technically Oskar Strom, the really existing first son of actual neo nazi Kevin Strom.
* While the general canon of LF ends in 2019, one of the known details after that is that the Nation of Freedom is finally defeated in 2022 with the killing of Strom.