Zavtrana

"**Zavtrana Province**" (Tyrskan: **Zavtranskaja Oblastj**, **Завтранская область**) was the name applied to the Wannaenid occupation of Bujan. When the Wannaenids gifted it to the Terran armies who invaded Bujan under Wannaenid banners, the bitter Tyrskans claimed it for their otherworldly homeland.

Zavtrana Province was made of two official entities: the province itself in proper, and the Republic of Khvostia at the south. The Republic of Khvostia was made of the west coasts of Nojenso and Olan Province, with the islands at the west as their main areas.

Both entities were abolished when the Tyrskan rulers were defeated and expelled during the Bujanski Revolution.

## Flag

The flag of Zavtrana was a black flag with a red sun and blue and white waves below. The sun casts eight red rays on the dark sky above. Inside the sun are two figure-eights forming a cross or a star, the symbol of the Tyrskan empire and religion.

In later times, the Zavtranian flag had its waves simplified to several stripes.

* Black represents sacrifice and the loss of Bujan's culture, and outer space as the ultimate goal.
* The red rays represent progress and advancement.
* The red sun represents Bujan no longer being independent (as the rays, representing authority, no longer come from it, so the sun is not the centre), or the "tomorrow" that comes under Tyrskan rule.
* The waves represent change and the transformation of Bujan from a "backwards kingdom" to a "forward-minded subject of Tyrska".
* The Russian motto, both in Cyrillic letters and Bujanski calligraphy, read "ZAVTRANA VSJEGDA PROKHODIT", which means "TOMORROW ALWAYS COMES". This was the war cry of the Zavtranian usurpers.

The Tyrskan flag was a simple maroon flag with a yellow circle, with the same cross of figure-eights in the middle.

## Symbols

### The figure 8 and the Z symbol

The most notable symbol of Zavtrana was the number 8. It was formerly a Z symbol used by an earlier army, and then by Emperor Zetros, adopted by the Tyrskans as a religious symbol.

8, also turned to an infinity sign, represented two things. Firstly, it was in honour of the eight years that led to the creation of Tyrska, when the land was bombarded by two neighbouring countries. It became a part of Tyrskan religious dogma, forming principles to utilise bigotry, cruelty, hypocrisy, and selfishness to wage total war in Zetros' name.

Secondly, as an infinity symbol, 8 also represented the immortality of the Tyrskans, their agelessness and superior health against a typical human's body. It also made them arrogant enough to make themselves as a race of gods, hell-bent on the extermination and subjugation of everyone around them.

The King of Tyrska uses a yellow circle with two 8's forming a cross. Around the circle are eight bolts and several stars, which the native Bujanski called "the golden spider".

## History

Unhappy with the supposed lack of advancement and envious of space travel by the Terranised empire of Darros, some Zvestarids sought to overthrow the monarchy and make their country a colony of the Terrans. A war was fought to stop the usurpers and the Darroskei fleets from conquering Zvesta.

After the defeat of the Zavtranian Usurpation, the Terrans and their supporters retreated to Kovastoi and Darros. Only several settlements remained on the islands off the coast of Nojenso Province, where the Zavtranians agreed to become an autononous part of Zvesta. Yet over time, the wealthy, pampered Zavtranians of those islands demanded more, seeking to control Zvesta's government and influence it to their vision of a Terranised society.

Those manipulations culminated in the creation of the Salvation Party, which won local elections and favoured the Terrans over the natives, Eventually, the Salvationists betrayed their country and welcomed the Wannaenid-Tyrskan conquest of Zvesta, even as many of them were killed by the sadistic conquerors.

Under the Wannaenids, Zvesta was a militarised monarchy under a puppet king. Terrans enjoyed more privileges than the natives, and murder was allowed as a method to weed out those who were unable to fight and kill.

Yet the same imperialist and militant attitudes also weakened Zavtrana, as the Wannaenids also brought the Maeranoi to colonise and sabotage the Tyrskan colonial monarchy. Eventually the Tyrskan and Salvationist authorities began to fight each other to dominate Bujan as its representative puppet state.

### Downfall

Zavtrana collapsed as the Tyrskans and their rivals were degraded by their war. Eventually, it and Khvostia were abolished by the victorious revolutionaries.

On July 11, during the massacres after independence, armed groups attacked the former capital at Bimewjan Island, off Nojenso Province, to attempt to reestablish the Tyrskan authority. They were defeated, to the militants' outraged surprise, by regiments of loyalist Terrans, who cursed them for bringing their people to ruin.

## Tyrskan names of Bujanski places

By the eve of the Bujanski Revolution, the actual extent of Tyrskan control was limited to the north and south of Bujan, often overlapping with the other Terran factions.

* Koscheigrad - Zmetragrad, City of Death; later Zamjetra, Zametro
	+ Originally "Zmertagrad" as a mockery of the defeat of Zvesta.
	+ It was renamed to Zametro.
* Djaripol - Pravdisk
* Nasarpollo - Djen'pabjedisk (Victorydayville), town near Nasarpollo
* Nasarpollo - Novy Djen'pabjedisk
* Buron - Myvazhniesk ("We Are More Important Than You")
* Vaitachol - Zatyrskansk City
	+ Although de facto controlled by the Maeranoi, it was claimed as "historical Tyrskan land" on the basis of a historical Tyrskan community. Terrorist attacks were frequent to forcibly seize control of the cathedral city.
* Nilahaunda - Slaviansk Town
* Kalinka
* Lidongrad - Bogroditska, Matrioshka, Matrianka
* Bubelinsk
* Ushankagrad
* Krepost Zapabjedu (Fort Victoria)

### Khvostian names

* Tail Islands, Khvostia - former autonomous region at the southwest for ethnic Terrans, now the islands off Nojenso Province. There, Tyrskan laws were used to forcibly convert the locals.
	+ The Tail Islands region was also notorious for the colonials' frequent abuse of the kolovrat. The sacred Bujanski symbol is wrongly used, wrongly arranged, and mixed with other imperial symbols to represent Tyrskan domination.

* Svjatomatisk - "Town of the Holy Mother", former capital of Khvostia. Reverted to Tjonnawan after independence.

## Politics

Colonial Zavtrana was a puppet monarchy ruled by a King.

In practice, Zavtrana was divided between several authorities: the Tyrskan governor-monarchy, the Maeranoi Church of Q, the Salvation Party, and the Wannaenid rulers. All four of them never worked together, so they continually fought and murdered. Still, this was what the Wannaenids intended, for Bujan to be reduced to an arena and a slaughterhouse for Terrans.

### Republic of Khvostia

The Republic of Khvostia, also known as the Tail Islands, was an autonomous region located in the southern part of Bujan. It was formerly an autonomous area for Terrans and their supporters after their failed usurpation, and became the headquarters of the Salvation Party before its relocation to the Bujanski mainland.

It was directly under the rule of the Tyrskan government. However, it was not the capital of Zavtrana, functioning as a platform for the Tyrskan government to transmit orders and decrees.

The Khvostian government was composed of:

* a Supreme Leader or President on the top
* the Politburo (a council of regional officials)
* the Correspondence Bureau (which links the Khvostian government as a colony of Tyrska)

Although it was largely spared from the Wannaenid-Terran destruction of Zvesta, the Khvostian territory gradually became poorer. Supremacist militias and warlords dominated the region, seeking to forcibly impose Tyrskan authority and customs in Bujan and the world.

Three of those warlords managed to create a stable government in the centuries of the Khvostian state's existence. The first was selected by the Politburo, and the latter two were dynasties by charismatic autocrats.

## Society

### Pasttimes

Tyrskans love soccer, bodybuilding, guns, black and blue flags, the letter Z (displayed as "Z" and not as "З"), the number 8, large families, fights, parades, and swearing.

They were also fond of big shopping malls, Internet cafes (for playing first-person shooters and Internet trolling), and videogames.

### Saints' Races

Car racing is popular among the Tyrskans, a practice derived from a mixture of ancient chariot races and mocking a joke by the Q Church. One older sermon in the Q Church claimed that whenever a Tyrskan dies in battle, his family will receive a new car, leading to the practice of car races for the dead.

Whenever a male Tyrskan dies in battle, the family either buys a motorcycle in his honour and names it after him, or a new car or truck. Another male member must drive the vehicle in a ritual race to pay tribute to his relative. Every year on November, stadiums across occupied Bujan and Kovastoi host the Saints' Games, where men bring their cars and trucks to stadiums to honour their ancestors. Many contestants also attempt to crash and kill their rivals in those races, especially to resolve bitter quarrels or to condemn some offender.

Many former jousting stadiums built during Zvestarid times were converted to car-racing stadiums, before being reverted to jousting after independence.

### Trolling and online extremism

When Zavtrana seized control of the superior Internet services in Zvesta, the colonial regime focused much of it on propaganda and imperialism. Because Internet trolling and cyberwarfare were extensively used to manipulate people to serve them, many Zavtranian Terrans worked as internet trolls and hooligans.

That was also why the Wannaenids abducted Internet trolls from other universes, so only a few would be online trolls, while the other Terrans brought to Bujan would end up fending for themselves. At best, they were serial killers, hitmen, executioners, or lobotomised fanatics driven only to kill. At worst, they were simply forced into gang wars, or murdered for the colonials' amusement.

It was also how the Wannaenids mocked their beliefs, by forcing the trolls to see themselves subjected to their own curses, and degraded as their own victims.

Entire brigades were set up by either private clubs or government organisations to wage cyberwarfare against opponents, usually revolutionaries or Qyuvian Internet groups. They also consisted of entire teams of hackers who sought to disrupt the electronic systems of their enemies.

## Languages

The official languages in Zavtrana were English and Russian, the languages of the fanatics brought to rule over Bujan.

Initially, Bujanski and Ēosomê were written with a modified alphabet based on the Russian alphabet. The Maeranoi instead demanded all communication to be done in English, creating Latin alphabets for the native languages.

## Religion

Two religions were the official religions in Zavtrana, both heretical distortions of Christianity. The National Church of Tyrska was the main religion, using its beliefs to goad its people to total war.

The other religion was the Church of Q, having its own headquarters at one of Bujan's towns.

Other religions in Zavtrana were other militant and bizarre brands of Christianity, fascist Slavic pagan cults at war with the native Rodnovers, and devil-worshipping death gangs. "Fascist" and "communist" cults also existed in Bujan, forming their beliefs into religions.

All of those Terran religions are now banned in modern Bujan due to their practices of human sacrifice and willingness to exterminate the natives. Most notably, some demon-worshippers were recruited by the Tyrskans as nothing more than expendable, poorly-armed murderers and unintelligent brutes.

## Trivia

### Influences

* Zavtrana was largely inspired by the Russian army and nationalists during their country's invasion of Ukraine in 2022. It was also based on and Spanish and Roman Empires.
* The Khvostian state was influenced by the "Donetsk" and "Luhansk People's Republics", militant enclaves set up in eastern Ukraine to annex them into a possible Russian empire. Likewise, Tyrska itself was largely inspired by the Russian militants and supporters of their invasion of Ukraine, along with their usage of Soviet symbols and place names.
* Zavtrana's name is from "завтра" (zavtra, "tomorrow") and "страна" (strana, "country")
* A friend suggested changing the Zavtranian flag from one with a Z symbol to a different design.
	+ The author eventually changed it to a figure-8, an allusion to the "8 years in Donbas" trope used by Russian nationalists to support the invasion, and because it can be turned around to form an infinity symbol, representing the Tyrskans' biological agelessness and mutations.

## See also

* Salvation Party
* Bujan Fourfold
* Balennaria, the parallel regime used by the Church of Q's governor in Bujan.