Hellenic Hegemony

Flag of the Hegemony

The **Hellenic Hegemony**, also known as the **Greater Hellenic Republic**, or **Hellenes** is a far-right military dictatorship that rose from the ashes of Greece in southern Europe. It was once the birthplace of Western democracies and freedom, where everyday life took place, but in the post-Great War world much of the nation came under the control of the Greek supremacist movement known as the Greek New Dawn Party. The neo-Fascist military party-state ruled Greece with an iron fist and supported dissidents rebelling against the SBR with arms and soldiers, like the National Resistance Army in the Southern Balkan Republic. The Hellenic Hegemony is a nation mentioned in The Dark Future trilogy and appears in *TDF: European Arc*.

## History

### Pre-War

In 20th-century Greece, a right-wing military dictatorship overthrew the provisional government in 1967, then took power and set up their military junta until the regime change in 1974, when, under pressure from the Turkish invasion of Cyprus, they overthrew the junta and proclaimed the Third Hellenic Republic.

This was followed by the creation of the Golden Dawn, a far-right neo-Fascist criminal organisation who rose to power with the economic crisis of 2009, were represented in the 2015 elections and, after their dissolution, operated illegally at the start of the Third World War. In September 2035, when Eurasian forces launched an invasion of Europe and the Balkans, Greek Nationalists formed the New Dawn Movement/Party, organised militias and resisted NATO and the Greek Armed Forces against the Eurasians, but were defeated and annexed Greece.

### After the War

After the Great War, much of Greece became uninhabitable due to radiation, and this was followed by floods that breached the dykes and engulfed the coastal areas of the country, creating marshes. The remaining survivors fled to the major cities during the war and went to the underground shelters of those who could. On the surface, Zones were formed, one of the most famous being the Katerini Swamp Quarantine Zone, which was hit by a biological weapon attack, resulting in a virus outbreak and the local people and animals mutated into thick-skinned amphibian gene mutants that are predatory and extremely aggressive. The surviving colonies tried to recover and formed Polis Alliance, which lasted until 2060, when they went bankrupt as their remaining resources were exhausted, their water supplies ran out and could not be replenished due to contaminated water, famine and panic set in, followed by a "Blackout" when the generators ran out of power and the lights went out for good. The mutants then slaughtered most of the colonies that had made their way into the shelters.

The Greek Nationalists lived in exile and exclusion, as they tried to clean up the Polis Alliance, as oligarchic aristocrats led the Greek colonies into chaos. Shortly afterwards, in 2080, the Greek far-right and the Greek New Dawn Movement migrated to Thessaloniki where they overthrew the local republican faction in a revolution and formed a transitional government, which established its interim government. Thereafter, the far-right group calling itself Hellenic quickly began to rise, led by Helios Mihaloliakos (Greek: Ήλιος Μιχαλολιάκος), who was elected Chancellor.

After the revolution, the Hellenes proclaimed the Hellenic Hegemony and began the "cleansing" of Greek society. In September 2081, they began the infamous "Fall Purges" where thousands of ethnic minorities were discriminated against, persecuted, arrested, deported and in most cases killed for not being Greek. Turks, Albanians and Muslims were particularly targeted because they had organised criminal gangs before the war and many Greeks were killed, and this did not change after the war. So in revenge, the Hellenes hunted down and killed all the Turks. They had strong anti-communist views and anyone who was anti-fascist or communist was arrested and executed. Among others, those who harboured non-Greek minorities were executed. They organised a hard-line military state for the Hellenes and any priest, official or citizen who started a rebellion was charged with treason and executed.