Holy Discordian Empire

The unofficial flag of the HDE

Map of the Empire, October 2020

**Discordia**, officially known as the **Holy Discordian Empire** (*Sacrum Imperium Discordium* in Latin), briefly recognised as the **Soviet Discordian Union** and the **Socialist Republic of Discordia**, was a Discord community server themed around the Holy Roman Empire, created by cplx and co-founded with Glacia and Superpangamer. It opened in May 2020 and got deleted between 2021 and 2022.

Administered as a diarchy, the server was one among the many idealised and created by cplx with the goal of supporting a democratic regime.

## History

### Development

The server was created around April or May 2020 by cplx, with the goal of being a server based around democracy and the right for members of the server to choose the owner. Due to the scope of the project, and lack of ideas for the server, he called notable Reservoir members Glacia and Superpangamer to help him build the server. With them, he created the first role of the server: *Imperial Developers*, an administrative role that existed through its whole history and served as the only functioning moderation team until other roles were created.

The idea of the theme of the Holy Roman Empire surfaced well into development, with cplx creating a system of elections to elect the Emperor and Pope, two positions made to rule together the server. Finally, as development had been finished, the first election was held: cplx became the first Emperor of Discordia, while Glacia became the first Pope of the Discordian Church.

### Holy Discordian Empire

The server's official invite message stated the following:

> The Holy Discordian Empire is a server with religious (it doesn't matter if you're atheist) roles and ranks and a server to chat over all. You can do whatever you want (I mean, follow the rules and try not to start the Protestant Revolution), from gaming to art sharing, mapping to education. It is also a confederation of states, much like the old HRE, in which the leader of a partner server (A.K.A. participant state) gets a special role, like Duke, King, Prince or even Baron (the role you take has, as base, the number of users in your server). Come join now!
>
>

### Coup d'états and downfall

Months later, with a dead server, cplx decided to plot a coup d'état with Glacia to overthrow Emperor Pangamer III. The Emperor ended up being "killed" by a pier of his, giving way for cplx to declare the *Soviet Discordian Union* (*Sovetskiy Diskordianskiy Soyuz* in Russian), setting up a totalitarian socialist regime in the style of the Soviet Union. However, a month after it was set up, he made another coup d'état, this time against Glacia, and proclaimed the *Socialist Republic of Discordia*, an attempt at bringing back democracy.

This last coup destroyed the relationship between cplx and Glacia and, because of this, both left the server and never returned. Ownership was granted to Prussian as the server was finally killed and it got renamed to something similar to *Discordian Union*. Prussian alleges that, after a raid, the server was deleted, however the date is unknown.

## Administration

### Emperors and Popes

For all of the server's history, the Emperors and Popes were Imperial Developers, elected by Imperial Developers.