Wannaenid Empire

The **Wannaenid Empire** -- officially the "**Vozonid Empire**" (Wannaenid: **Bāvoloigha Vozolārin**, ) -- is a powerful nation located to the northeast of Bujan and to the northwest of Daleskarnia.

## Flag and symbols

The flag of the Wannaenid Empire consists of a purple banner with a white border and gryphon: purple represents order and superiority; white for honour; the gryphon for being the successors of the spacefaring Vozonids; the crown for power; and the burning torch for the pursuit of knowledge, and their wrath against the rest of the world and the gods.

Its national motto is "Victory Without Sacrifice" (**Tūrojaz khô Uzrôkhal!**).

## History

See also: Wannaenid emperors

The Wannaenid Empire was founded by Vozonid dissidents who left their homeland during the fall of the Arazonid Dynasty. Their notable immortality serum was created from earlier samples left behind by the Zetrosian humans that prolonged their lives but drove them to fits of rage.

Wannae was divided into two factions: the Transcendants, who advocated transforming all the races of humanity into godlike beings, and the Warmongers, who sought to destroy anything that irritates them. Although it was the Transcendants who mutated the Wannaenid people into a race of immortals, the Warmongers became the dominant faction in society. In 1200 AT, they took over the government, as many Wannaenids looked forward to see their civilisation become an empire.

In 1402 AT, a Wannaenid satellite bombed several headquarters of cybernetics companies across Jerde with great lasers. Its rulers were angry over the lack of space, the high prices, and the technical errors in their imported computers and devices. The destruction of the Tienzhen Factory (the first factory to be razed by the lasers in Daizhou) was the start the Conquest Era, when the infuriated rulers declared that they had enough of all kinds of errors in human society. It also caused them to completely ban all imports, relying on their improvised alien technology and making themselves more advanced.

In 1551 AT, Emperor Torjassarjoz conquered Bujan, Irajon, Baido, and the rest of the archipelagoes. He appointed the Tyrskans, descendants of Zetrosian warmongers, as the ruling aristocracy of Bujan, to humiliate the Bujanski by forcing them to serve an arrogant ruling class. For the next centuries, Bujan remained autonomous, while the Wannaenids brought more slaves to Bujan to be tortured for sport.

The Wannaenid Empire spent sixteen wars across several centuries, attempting to plunder the wealthy kingdom of Rukania and sabotage global resistance against its supremacy. They were launched by massive portals or directly from its space fleets, consisting mostly of enslaved criminals from other worlds just like during the invasion of Bujan. The second and thirteenth invasions were devastating, yet they failed to totally conquer or annihilate Rukania. All of those invasions failed, ending with the retreated of ruined remains, or the total annihilation of the invaders.

The Irajonian Deportations took place, as the Wannaenid emperors wanted to empty Irajon and colonise it. This led to more revolts, fearing more expulsion and displacement. The Kovastoi, his former allies, were also conflicted, as some Kovastoi felt upset in being seen as nothing but destroyers.

Humiliated by the loss of Bujan and other colonies, the Wannaenid Empire was torn in another civil war. Several lords and commanders sent most of the Wannaenid armies to Earth 96 to exterminate their former allies, mocking the Church of Q and Tyrska for their failure to destroy Bujan by bombing most of the planet and killing the survivors. After a while, its armies went on other attacks and wars against various countries, from Siangwaan to Pogimmel.

The invasion of Siangwaan in 1986 AT led to ruin. The emperor and his men foolishly did not expect the Celestial they captured to still be around, waiting for the chance to bypass their defenses. He slipped into one of the portals to drain their superweapons, and with his regained powers, burned the military, freed many slaves and prisoners, and killed the emperor and his men.

In a later wave of war, it managed to occupy the northern half of Bujan, before losing it to the resistance.

## Military

The Wannaenid military is the most powerful army in the world -- in spite of this, they were unable to launch invasions due to internal strife or building mega-projects and superweapons.

Much of their technology was modified from Kyrvotin machines, and they include a barrier that disintegrates anything that touches it and possibly time travelling devices.

Around half of all Wannaenids are of Terran descent, recruited from willing murderers and criminals, or enslaved and purchased from other warmongers. The Wannaenid rulers specifically chose Terran warriors because they were seen as more cruel and brutal.

## Economy

The economy of the Wannaenid Empire may be closer to state capitalism, as the government owns every important business. Smaller businesses are allowed to exist, but they are restricted by laws to make them more localised. Wannaenid society hates corporations, because they are blamed for tolerating imperfection and forcing people to work, giving people insufficient services, and technical errors. As the government owns much of society, corporations therefore no longer exist in Wannaenid society, so in return for service to the empire and enforcing perfection, the government provides every citizen a large amount of money.

The Wannaenid economy might have been the richest economy in all of Jerde, due to an industrial campaign that led to an abundance of resources. Their excessive resources were produced from space debris, asteroid rocks, gas from gas giants, and matter extracted from white holes.

## Society

See also: Wannaenid glossary

Wannaenid society is very militaristic, as its leaders sought to make themselves more powerful and/or perfect. Their main objective was to ensure that all Vozonid countries -- and later the entire world and the Galaxy -- will be ruled under the Wannaenid Empire's authority, to revive the Jauparturnid Dynasty in its obsession with power and perfection. Wannaenids proudly consider themselves to be "superior" against all other people, including other Vozonids (whom they dislike as "traitors" for rejecting their ideology and emperors).

In later times, the Wannaenid emperors sought to get rid of their own "humanity" because it would make them seem as "lowly" as all other nations and peoples, and it would force them to accept them as equals and tolerate failure and the weak. So to make themselves become "beyond human", the Wannaenids became more cruel and fanatical, viewing all non-Wannaenids as "less than human" and Vozonids among them as "traitors". Some Wannaenids even proposed replacing their own human folk with stronger alien races, or replacing their own bodies with stronger, artificial bodies of metal and synthetic flesh.

## Demographics

The majority of Wannaenids are of Vozonid descent. Minorities include Norse, some Wonao, alien mercenaries, criminals from all over the world, and thousands of Terran humans such as the Tyrskans and Maeranoi.

The Tyrskans were part of an aristocratic class to reward them for their devotion to the Wannaenid Empire. However, aristocratic Tyrskans must send their sons to serve the military in their tenth birthday, or risk eviction or slavery.

The Tyrskans and the other Terrans noticed that they were not even considered as human, because they were deliberately chosen and pampered to destroy the locals through corruption and brutality. They were treated as nothing more than human weapons instead of people with their own thoughts. After the last locals were killed off, the Terran colonists would be next to be enslaved or killed for sport.

Some incidents that alerted the Tyrskans included one warlord being killed for boasting to create his own world Slavic empire, former friends reduced to brutish supersoldiers, and a colony of Terrans being firebombed after killing the last locals.

## Perfection

Like the Jauparturnids that it claims to be their successor, Wannaenid society is too obsessed with perfection. And having the technology to improve humanity and make their machines impossibly efficient, the Wannaenids thought that it was the right time to take over the world. Given the chance and power, they would drag humanity, kicking and screaming, into absolute perfection and the end of all error and pain.

Their vision of a "perfect" humanity would be:

* very obedient to their emperor (unlike the Jauparturnids who even killed their own superiors and elders over a failure)
* mostly of Vozonid descent, and especially under the Wannaenid culture (even turning and mutating foreigners and other sentient beings into Vozonid-blooded humans if possible)
* having no disease, and even having a body that *cannot* cause a disease
* absolutely no tolerance of failure, mistakes, or weakness ("for allowing them ensures their existence, but rejecting them prevents more failures from being born")
* genetically modified to never again have any disorder/replaced by consciousness within nearly-invincible metal bodies
* worshipping stagnancy (because accepting change, reform, and innovation invites death -- but innovating technology is acceptable for practical reasons)
* always impatient (because one will inevitably suffer or fail while waiting for success)
* always selfish and stubborn (because kindness helps others instead of themselves; while selfishness is supposed to "bring more benefit for one's self, without losing anything")
* always demanding more, and *never* counting existing blessings (because any limit or satisfaction -- including one's own blessings or advantages -- will limit Man's potential)
* always complaining, to force all of existence and nature to be perfect and obedient to Man
* never changing in any way, *except* being stronger and more perfect (and resisting any change that threatens their existence, no matter how small it is)
* able to punish and utterly destroy whatever that causes failure (even the universe and the gods if it must be done to become powerful)
* answering to unfairness in life not by dealing with it, but with more cruelty to force life to obey it
* a collective obedience, from fanatics willing to destroy and punish the world culminating into a storm-like being that alters the planet, with its hive mind controlling all of nature.
* like a God -- so that even the gods, nature, fate, time, life, the human body, and disease will "obey" its every whim, down to the smallest molecule, or risk instant annihilation

Wannaenid culture hates the future, because its people believe that losses, decay, and death await them in the future as it does to everyone else. Since everything will eventually die to make room for new life, the Wannaenids seek to become immortal to resist the influence of time and entropy, and it also made them hate anything that is "new" (unless it is useful) as a threat to their existence. Even a better gain that comes after losing something, or any compensation, is regarded as a curse.

Furthermore, Wannaenid society hates anything that tells them to "let go of the past", as it was considered as an excuse to make them bow to others' will. Their hatred of the mistakes and errors of the past have also drove them to eliminate anything they perceived to be "weakness".

As a result of their ideology, the Wannaenids have been genetically altered to become a race of mutants and immortals. Wannaenids tend to be faster and tougher than ordinary humans, but they are also more bad-tempered and aggressive to prepare them for their war against the whole world. That modification was a twisted continuation of the Human Sanctification Project of the Gauvajut Empire: what was once a programme to avert genetic "errors" was expanded to forcibly make the Wannaenids stronger and more merciless than the rest of humanity.

Their technology is the most advanced in the whole world because it was forced to become efficient, both to outpace their enemies' machinery and to cater to their irritable demands.

The Wannaenid Empire enjoys the fastest Internet in all of Jerde, not only due to it being enhanced by the best technology, but also due to putting anybody suspected of causing Internet disruptions or network errors to a slow and excruciating death. People who intentionally sabotaged Internet access and services in the Wannaenid Empire were forced to confess their motives, and they were executed with their heads split open with an axe.

Some Wannaenids were modified so they were able to control magic: in most cases, their magical abilities were limited to mundane abilities such as fixing objects, renewing them to a pristine state, or causing objects to float in the air by distorting gravity. It was mostly done to avoid causing objects to spill or fall, creating messes that might trigger or enrage a Wannaenid. Only a selected hundred would be allowed to learn more destructive magical spells.

Under a bizarre Wannaenid law, it is illegal for a computer or a programme to crash. If such a thing ever happens, the owner will report to the government. They get a new and better computer, have all the data transferred to the new computer in an instant, and then have the old computer destroyed in a ritual punishment. The person who designed the computer's type, or the crashing programme, would then be brought out to the street and beaten with iron rods.

The Wannaenids' obsession with perfection, and their technological efficiency and advancement, may also be derived from the Denlotia, a previous civilisation that enforced a more efficient society.

In later times, the Wannaenids were diverted away from their perfectionism, instead becoming more sadistic and warlike.

## Religion

Like their Jauparturnid counterparts, the Wannaenid Empire worships Zomjonor over other Vozonid gods, as the symbol of their empire. In addition, they revere the penultimate emperor of the Jauparturnids -- Zemasor -- as a god over even Zomjonor, as they sought to make his vision of a more "perfect" world a reality by conquering other nations and destroying anything they perceived to be a "failure".

As the Wannaenid culture regards time as an enemy, many clocks were produced to be destroyed in various ceremonies. Kalandil, the Vozonid god of time, is never worshipped in the Wannaenid Empire but always hated and cursed, and he is regarded as a demonic enemy that must be destroyed.

They would even blaspheme and attack their own gods for allowing a failure or a mistake to exist. Whenever a Wannaenid gets angry over defeat, they would destroy the idols in their shrines to "punish" their gods. They also intentionally pollute the air, ground, or seas to "punish" them for a disruption, such as bad weather or poor Internet.

Angered by every loss experienced by themselves or their people, many Wannaenids hate the gods. They believed that the gods created them to fail and suffer for their own amusement, so they declare the gods as "enemies" that must be eliminated to ensure a better life. Every failure -- from the smallest mistake to a rejection from a job -- is considered as a curse from the gods.

Wannaenid mythology has three evil deities: Life, Change, and Reality. Life represents every limitation, weakness, and every event that is beyond their control. Change represents every force and circumstance that causes them to lose what they love. Reality represents the expectations of other countries' societies. It was these three gods that were blamed for every shortcoming that occurred in their lives, driving them to anger and hatred against forces outside their control and the whole world.

### Other religions

Minority religions in Tyrska include distorted forms of polytheism, where tyrannical gods of power, hate, and war were worshipped above all else. Tyrskans pray to Emperor Zetros, while the Norse Wannaenids venerated the Butcher Lord, a distorted depiction of their god Odin.

American Wannaenids either practiced distorted forms of monotheism, followed the Wannaenid form, or had no spiritual belief - but they were all united by their dedication and indoctrination to hatred and destruction. In fact, as many of these Americans also happened to be followers of extreme forms of Christianity, the Wannaenid Empire became one of a few nations on Jerde where Christianity exists.

The first complete translation of the Americans' sacred book was completed for the Wannaenid language, in 1803 AT.

## Trivia

* The Wannaenid Empire was inspired by the author's own anger and frustrations over various weaknesses, failures, and changes in his life.
	+ Its society was based on North Korea, the Japanese Empire of World War II, the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, and the Qin Dynasty.
* The empire's unofficial name, "Wannaenid", is from the High Irajonian word "*wannæ*", which means "to hide".
* The Wannaenid Empire is listed by most people on Jerde as an example of a "fascist" society, a dystopia *no one* should ever emulate, due to its heavy militarism and aggression against the rest of the world. It and Baesorja are regarded as global threats due to their extreme strength and their tendency to attack other countries. It is because of the Wannaenids' society that disgusted the rest of the world that caused other nations to abolish conscription.
* If the Wannaenid Empire finally takes over the world, it would convert every human on Jerde into a god-like being brimming with magic, free from age, clumsiness, sickness, and weakness. Everyone on Jerde, of all races, would enjoy the best technology in the world, which might thrive without error or delay for decades, if not centuries. However, that would also lead to the deaths of millions for being "imperfect" or simply for resisting Wannaenid rule!
* In December 2022, the author realised that the Wannaenid Empire's name might sound like the Russian words "вон" (von) and "внѣ" (vne) put together, both meaning "out" or "away from". It may fit the Wannaenids being located away from Bujan and the rest of the global community of Jerde.

## See also

* Farsiders and Galaxials, their Rinnarverse counterparts
* Red Ardesch, Rannar, older empires that threatened the world.
* Denlotia, their indirect predecessor