Earth Union (19-canon)

The **Earth Union** was an empire that thrived on the planet Earth. Its leaders and people sought the conquest of all humanity to mobilise it into a brutally efficient utopia, so it waged war against the other peoples of Earth and the Milky Way.

## Factfile

* Official name: Earth Union
* Anthems: Submit or Die; Bringers of Justice; One World, One Humanity; The Human Tide
* Official motto: Change is Inevitable!
* Capital cities:
* Official languages: English, Spanish, French, Swahili, Arabic, Bengali, and Chinese
* State religion: N/A (Unification)
* Government:
* Climate: Mostly tropical
## Flag and symbols

The Earth Union's flag is red with a yellow globe grid. In some eras, it also has a diagonal ring around the globe, which was then replaced with ten blue stars for the ten claimed regions of the Union.

Its national motto is "Change is inevitable!"

## History

See also: Early Earth Union, Middle Earth Union, Later Earth Union

After World War III left much of the world in ruins, a military coup took power in what was once the eastern United States. Its founders, Rozalen and her associates, created a government that sought to unify the rest of the world, both to quickly rebuild its peoples and to put a quick end to all bigotry and pollution.

The founder of the Earth Union was a Latina schoolteacher and activist known as Rosaria "Rozalen" Garcia, who was known for her photographs of the war's carnage in the West Coast. In her youth, she renamed herself as "Rozalen" to make it seem more "stylish". The worst points of her life -- an abusive family, quarrels, bullies, and living under a corrupt mayor -- motivated her to advocate for a global regime to force humanity out of suffering.

Its attempts to forcibly annex other countries led to the creation of the Great Shields over much of Asia, eastern and northern Europe, and the northern Pacific.

The Earth Union used to be ruled by a group of veganists, who banned the consumption of meat under pain of death. Four weeks later, they were overthrown, as the lack of access to food caused revolts in Africa and South America.

Centuries of expansion into the Galaxy later, dozens of colonies revolted and created the Cosmopolitan Empire, where many of the repressive laws of the Earth Union were abolished. It was also supported by several other left-wing civilisations that spawned in the galactic southeast, but also opposed by other civilisations, independent or from their own rebellions.

After waging war on the remaining free Earth nations and rebellions throughout the Galaxy, the Earth Union declined and softened into a federation of autonomous republics: all of them faced invasions from a vengeful Old World, who sought to conquer the Earth Union and punish its inhabitants from the Unionites' invasions. Both it and the Shielded Nations were defeated by the fanatical Farsiders.

When the Farsiders were also defeated, the surviving Unionites and Shielded peoples rebuilt dozens of separate nations in the Earth Union's former territories. The Unionite nations never formed the Earth Union again, but they fended off more invasions from the Shielded nations, and still more invasions by the Galactics who were angered over the reestablishment of the United States of America.

## Politics

Initially, the Earth Union's founders dedicated themselves to imposing left-wing ideologies upon the whole world. Their successors instead focused on various other projects to make humanity less distinct and more collective-minded, mainly to prevent various disasters from happening again. Every Unionite is taught about the various disasters of the past to convince them to submit to Unionite rule, as a harsh but effective method to avoid all kinds of disasters (such as pandemics, starvation, poverty, climate change, persecutions, dictatorships, religious extremism, etc.). In spite of these, some disasters occurred during the Earth Union's history, from massive technical errors to mutated virus outbreaks, collapsing megacities, punitive expeditions, and earthquakes.

The Earth Union was ruled by a single political party for most of its history: multi-party eras were infrequent. In spite of its dictatorial laws, the Earth Union's presidents ruled for up to two elected terms of five years; nonetheless, some Unionite presidents circumvented that law to rule for over ten years, either because they managed to kill off their opponents or to take control over an emergency.

The Earth Union was divided between ten major regions of the world: so far, it only ruled over five or six of those claimed regions. Its territory in its prime consisted of:

* most of the Americas, (except for Alaska, Montana, and Argentina)
* the new continents of Atlantia and Helenia to the east of the Americas,
* Western Europe (except for Scandinavia, which was ruled by the Nordic State, Finland, and Götaland/Kingdom of South Sweden),
* most of Africa, (except for Egypt and eastern Africa)
* southern India,
* Dinarobia to the east of Africa,
* Australia,
* the South Pacific,
* and western Antarctica.

### Ten Regions

* North Cemanahuac (North America and Atlantia, also spelled Semanawak)
	+ Canada's lands have been cleansed from pollution. It is mostly inhabited by First Nations people.
	+ America is mostly under Unionite control, except for independent enclaves in the north and along the Canadian border. These enclaves consist of the four governments of the United States, the American Federation, Turtle Island, and Cascadia; and dozens of splinter groups.
	+ Mexico is heavily-irrigated and urbanised under Unionite rule, and it functions as one of the Earth Union's heartlands. It is home to hundreds of art movements and subcultures that were just legalised after the Earth Union relaxed its restrictions.
	+ Many islands of the Caribbean were renamed with native names.
* South Cemanahuac (South America and Helenia)
	+ Brazil is renamed as Pindorama. Pindorama's lush forests were restored, and several native languages have become official alongside Portuguese. It has also become the site of the Earth Union's final capital, Goanambara City.
	+ Argentina is known for its ranches, tourism, and service industry.
* Azania (Africa)
	+ The Earth Union ruled over much of Africa except for the eastern parts, which were covered by their own Great Shield. East Africa later became one of the few places where agreements were mediated between the Earth Union and the Shielded nations.
	+ Owing to the Banishment when hundreds of dissidents and immigrants were exiled from Western nations, West Africa became an economic and technological hub. It became one of the earliest parts to join the Earth Union. It retains a degree of autonomy, such as an exemption from the meat ban and allowing its people to pass away at old age.
	+ Azania (South Africa) is home to a subculture that once revolted against the strictness of Unionite rule.
	+ Another name used for Unionite Africa was Ilizwe, which means "Land" in Xhosa.
* Europe
	+ The Earth Union controls Western Europe.
	+ Britain is home to the Bhuliyanid subculture of south London. Under Unionite rule, it is heavily influenced by South Asian art, and its mandatory atheism has reduced Anglican and Muslim influence in the city. This however, was swept away by the loss of London to Doggerland.
		- The grave of Karl Marx, a philosopher whose views influenced the Earth Union's leaders, was renovated into a monument. Although the Unionites forbade people from worshipping Marx's grave, they later relented the Marixai to hold their pilgrimages to keep their loyalty.
		- When the Farsiders briefly took over England, they exhumed Karl Marx's remains and tore up his bones as a sacrifice to Odin. They regarded him as the creator of communism and the founder of the Earth Union's predecessors.
	+ France is under Unionite control, and is heavily-urbanised. It struggles between a revival of its native French cultures and the officially-promoted Algerian arts.
	+ The Earth Union has lost parts of northern Germany to revolutionaries, who also repelled Nordic attempts to annex their enclaves. Its leaders tried to invite Götaland, Free Norway, and Finland into its fold; but all of their attempts were refused and the individuals who accepted the Unionite offers were banished to southern Germany.
	+ Italy under Unionite rule is heavily-urbanised, but intensive studies were being held at archaeological areas. Its capital city of Rome was later nuked by Farsiders, with the remains of Roman emperors, their tombs and palaces, and idols of Roman gods and statues of Christian saints being smashed to pieces. Then, they poured radioactive waste over the ruins of Rome and its megacities to curse the Roman Empire.
		- "Wake up, Romulus and Julius. We have returned. Our presence here hallows the victory of the Hammer over the Cross!"
	+ For several times, the Nordic State attempted to bomb the Cathedral of Aachen, where the remains of Charlemagne were buried. When the Farsiders invaded Germany, they brought out Charlemagne's remains: they tore his body apart and burned his bones as a sacrifice to Odin.
* Mideast/Sharq Awsat/Sharcausat
	+ Not under Unionite rule, in spite of brief incursions and enclaves from Turkey to northern Iraq, western Palestine, and Lebanon.
	+ The Earth Union managed to take over the western half of Turkey, as its earlier leaders sought to punish its religiously-devout people. The unfortunate people who were conquered by the Earth Union were forced to take cybernetic implants and were brainwashed out of their religious beliefs, though hundreds of Turks managed to form underground cities to fight the Unionite tyrants.
* Altaica/Uliaymaq (Central Asia)
	+ Not under Unionite rule
* India (South Asia, Kandamia and Dinarobia)
	+ Not under Unionite rule, in spite of a brief enclave in southern India.
* Asia (East and Southeast Asia)
	+ Several enclaves tried to establish Unionite rule in India, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, and China, but all of them were defeated and expelled.
* Oceania (plus Muvia and Fuson)
	+ Unionite Australia (the eastern half, renamed "Dhaagun" after the Wiradjuri word for "earth") has regained its forests and reefs.
* Antarctica (plus Kergelia)
	+ Although official Unionite policy was to preserve Antarctica's icy terrain, several cities were constructed as havens and research facilities. West Antarctica also has several military bases against terrorist or Shielded attacks.

### Capitals

* Mannahata City (New York City)
* Liberation (San Francisco)
* New Tenochtitlan (western Mexico City)
* Londonpur (London)
* Aguacero (southwestern Atlantia)
* Inclucion Ciudad (southern Helenia)
* Goanambara City (Rio de Janeiro)

## Military

While the Earth Union's technology is not as advanced as its Shielded enemies, its military force is still larger than all of the Shielded Nations' forces combined, with most of its soldiers consisting of obedient male, female, and nonbinary clones. True humans who join the armed forces may get promoted into higher ranks than their clone soldiers.

The Earth Union tends to use massed infantry waves to eliminate their enemies in battle.

## Economy

The Earth Union's economy is somewhat closer to socialism, in which many public facilities (such as electricity, transport), education, and healthcare are free. Part of its practices were also adopted by its enemies in the Great Shields to convenience their peoples or as experiments. Although these policies made the Earth Union more efficient and powerful than its Shielded enemies, at times some Shielded nations (such as China, Russia, Akhand Bharat, and West Australia) managed to outpace the Unionites.

Its schools often taught that "private businesses will lead to oppression", although smaller companies were permitted to operate alongside collectives set up by the government and groups of citizens. Once a company or business becomes too large, it has to be split up into teams of workers or become property of the government.

Most menial work in the Earth Union was done by teams of robots, leaving only human technicians to control the robots. A portion of it was done by clones that did not have a war to fight in. This caused some Unionites to stop working and start being dependent on robots and clone slaves.

The Earth Union enjoys a network of high-speed railways that were woven across the continents and oceans under its control.

## Demographics

As the Earth Union was founded and based on the former United States, most of its people had Latino ancestry, with large amounts of White and Black people, and Native Americans scattered among them. Its European territories were partly White and partly Middle Eastern, its African provinces were mostly populated by Black citizens, and its territories of East Australia and Antarctica had a White majority.

Even then, the racial demographics of the Earth Union's territories is not as rigid as their Shielded counterparts. Sometimes, a region may suffer from a declining population, whether it is by a disaster, migration to places for jobs, or migration to another colony among the stars. To resolve this, the Unionite government officially promotes "replacement migration" like the United States did, eliminating any attachment from its subjects to race or culture. It did so mainly to make its subjects more loyal and to discourage any form of separatism.

That policy is exempted for its autonomous territories in Africa, who already have similar policies where native Africans freely moved throughout the continent. Although the government intended for this policy to keep its people united and conformed, eventually people in different regions formed their own traditions and cultures. This occasionally sparked failed revolts in Europe and the Americas, where the locals are upset that outsiders would erode their cultures.

Overpopulation, the bane of older civilisations, became less of a concern as civilisations developed replicating technology and faster-than-light travel, allowing them to send their excess people to distant colonies in the Solar System and beyond. The same practice was done in the most crowded cities of the Earth Union, where volunteers were sent to another star system to colonise another planet.

### Macro-cultures

Unofficially, the Unionites may be divided into several macro-cultures, based on their lifestyles:

* Cores - mostly in the megacities along the East Coast of North Cemanahuac, present-day Mexico, and parts of Western Europe and Antarctica.
	+ The earliest supporters of the Earth Union and its founders, and their descendants, so they were immediately chipped. For most Cores, much of their work was done by robots, so they only needed to work in their offices and workshops for several hours. The rest of their days and spare days were spent mostly on entertainment, Internet, sports, cafes, and sex.
	+ Cores were the ones who were too reliant on the Unionite government's surveillance and technology, that they got scared and hostile if they were to live outside them. They also feared sexual abstinence and old age, for these might end their streaks of entertainment and sex.
	+ Depending on the district, Cores attended combat training at every few weeks or months.
	+ The Cores are divided between two factions, Expansion and Harmony. Pro-Expansion Cores call for the total ~~domination~~ unification of the Galaxy under Unionite rule to end the threat of Vetarbroitar, American Galactics, or other civilisations. Pro-Harmony Cores call for more population control, declining birth and cloning rates, and a society based on environmentalism and feminism to reduce Earth's population to "sustainable levels". Eventually, the Expansion faction became the dominant faction in Unionite politics.
* Regionals/Reggios - people who turned towards the Earth Union as it spread, or who happened to live in its territories. They especially lived in South Cemanahuac and Africa, where they had more freedom to continue their traditions.
	+ These people lived a less comfortable life, with less robots to surround them and. Even though they spent more time in workspaces such as factories, studios, and offices, they were still content. They were not as sexually-obsessed as the Cores, and some might be disgusted by the Cores' promiscuity.
	+ They considered the Cores to be "lazy" for not working as much as them.
* Noughts/Nones - criminals, outlaws, and enemies of the Earth Union, mostly in prisons and prison camps
	+ If a certain group was harder to eliminate, its members were subjected to work in labour camps located in isolated areas where they had to supply their own water and energy sources (which may be taken away by Unionite citizens and officials at their whim). The only way anyone may escape those camps without being killed or forced back in was to swear to totally obey Unionite beliefs and have a tracking chip implanted into their body.
* Wilds - people who live outside any surveillance, or people who live outside the Earth Union
	+ Usually anarchist and socialist communes, and other militants that opposed the Unionite government.
* Clones - people that were produced in clone farms
	+ Militaristic, but were trained to adjust to civilian life without killing their neighbours.
	+ Earlier clones were obedient and collectivistic, having almost no personality aside from obeying orders. In later times, clones were created with their own individual whims, although they were an imperfect imitation of the Cores from the megacities of North America and Helenia.
	+ Later mostly assimilated into Core society.
* Outliers - clones and occasional humans that were sent to live in colonies outside Earth.
	+ Similar lifestyles as the Regionals, but the more affluent ones began to live like Cores.

## Society

See also: Unimondian glossary

All citizens were required to wear a tracking chip in their skin, and most of them felt secure when surrounded by hidden cameras to "protect" them when they went outside their homes. Suspected opponents and criminals were electrocuted, and the most severe crimes of all (such as rebellion against the Earth Union, using "outdated and offensive" phrases, being proud of their own home/region/race, or reading any disapproved literature such as classical European art) would lead to severe electrocution.

Religion was initially prohibited in the founding territories of the Earth Union as "an obstacle to human progress". Individuality was viewed as "the cause of many of humanity's wars", and was prohibited in Earth Union society except in names, fashion, and personal hobbies.

While the Earth Union proudly boasted of its multiculturalism and its diversity, it also forced every citizen under its rule to comply to its goal of "total progress". Sometimes, it also encouraged people from different ethnicities and races to marry each other so their distinctions will cease to exist in their descendants. At other times, racial or cultural pride, regionalism, and nationalism are treated with heavy punishments for "disrupting Unionite unity".

Earth Union propaganda also warned that if it stopped existing, or if it tolerated even one attempt in individuality or archaic art, "the evils of bigotry and oppression will return". Aside from coercing all Earthlings to obey its orders and endlessly celebrate its "diversity", Unionite society tended to be centered around entertainment, pop culture, and (cheap and colourful) memes that taught nothing but obedience. Nearly all Unionite pop culture was nothing but government propaganda, regardless of the original visions of their creators.

Like many of the Shielded nations that it warred against, the Earth Union uses environmentally-friendly technology. Furthermore, many Unionites have been genetically-modified, making them smarter, healthier, and stronger than people in the 21st century. However, the overuse of aphrodisiacs also made them more obsessed with erotic behaviours.

Old age was something to be feared in Unionite culture, as it represented backwardsness, tradition, and the reactionary beliefs that the Earth Union had prohibited. Therefore, most people were euthanised and reduced to more food and fertiliser once they reached 70 years of age, although some parts of Earth reduced the amount to 65, 60, or 50. Only higher-ranking party officials and those who have contributed much to Unionite society were permitted to take a drug that extends their youth by 40 or 60 more years, and then their bodies start aging normally afterwards, avoiding an earlier end.

Unionites are notoriously impatient, preferring to spend their efforts actually getting things done instead of delaying for the sake of a ruler. They taught that quickly accomplishing tasks is a way to avoid becoming like the leaders of the past, who delayed projects like vaccination, infrastructure, and social reform for the sake of corporations, social norms, or elites or lack of resources. So they rush in their work, expecting their work to be as fast as their technology.

### Early Unionite society

In the first four weeks of the Earth Union's existence, the consumption of meat and animal products was banned and was punishable by death. However, cannibalism was considered to be acceptable in some eras as an alternative to meat, as it was considered "recycling" resources. This ban on meat was abolished after massive protests in South America and Africa against an elite of veganists, but it continued "recycling" dead bodies into more food.

In the early years of the Earth Union, every group was required to become a part of the government, from town councils to cooperatives between workers, sports teams, and even friends' clubs. Among their requirements include attending ceremonies to prove their loyalty to the government or to repair their cybernetic implants. Any group that operated independently from the government's orders had its members electrocuted and arrested.

### Unionite subcultures

In spite of these coercive policies, there existed several factions of Unionites that enjoyed ancient art and dissent that were legally permitted in the middle years of the Earth Union. These artists ranged from the Nostalgics and Nuev-Sepia subcultures of western and southern Cemanahuac; and the Bhuliyanids of Neo-London; to the Debe-Aku of Nigeria, and the Umcebists of South Azania.

### Cloning

As many Unionites were killed in wars to dominate Earth, its authorities built clone farms to create the armed forces of the Earth Union. Most clones tend to live separate lives from other Unionites, as members of its armed forces: they either waged war against the Earth Union's enemies, or were assigned to do hard labour when they are not at war.

Some clones are produced as settlers who operated colonies in other star systems. A smaller portion of clones are produced for people who have licenses, to avoid overpopulation, although Unionites were permitted to keep them as roommates and partners. Unauthorised clones are immediately conscripted into the Unionite armed forces.

After several protests and civil wars, clones were given the option to live freely among civilians.

## Diplomacy

### Allies

* Marixai states (communist galactic states)
* Red Realm
* Trikol Empire
* Federation of Unidad
* Twelve Soviets (except for the Third, Fourth, Eighth, and Eleventh Soviets, which rejected the Union as an autocratic dystopia)

### Enemies

* Most of the nations covered by the Great Shields, except for the East African Federation
* Northern Collective
* Ulfgard League

* Farsiders
* Halsparex Alliance
	+ The mostly-Muslim Halsparexians have rejected the Unionites' attempts to annex and subjugate them, and have repelled their cloned fleets' attacks.
* Vetarbroitar
	+ Nearly all Vetarbroitar see the Earth Union as evil incarnate, and train themselves to utterly destroy it and its homeworld.

### Rebel nations

* Cosmopolitan Empire
* United States
* American Federation
* Turtle Island
* Cascadia
* Argentina
* Germany
* Britain
* Ireland
* Soñado
* Polza Rem-rim

## Terminology

### Official languages

* English: United Earth, Earth Collective, One World, Republic of Earth, Socialist Republic of Earth, Unimond (poetic)
	+ Derogatory: Earth Soviet, Earth Empire, Babylon, Jezebel, Narakadesha, Naraka, Hell, Miklagard, Red Miklagard, Soviet Sodom, Sodom and Gomorrah, Pandemonium, The Red Void, Inferno, Inner Darkness, Dite Styx, Empire of Dis
	+ Neojarg: Unimond(o)

* Spanish: Colectivo Unimundo
* French: Collectif Unimond
* Swahili: Pamoja Ulimwengu
* Bengali: সংযুক্ত বিশ্ব সম্মিলিত (Sonyukto Bishbo Sammilito)
* Arabic: عالم موحد جماعي (Alim Mu'ahad Jamaiin)
* Chinese: 联合国世界集体 (Liánhéguó shìjiè jítǐ)

### Non-official languages

* Esperanto: Unuiĝinta monda kolektivo, Unimondo
* Greek: Μια παγκόσμια συλλογική (Mia pankósmia syllogikí)
* Russian: Единый мировой коллектив (Jedinyj Mirovoj Kolljektiv), Jedmirkol/JMK
* Neo-Norse: Jörð Einnbinda ("One-bound world", official), Fjándiheim ("Home of enemies/devils"), Lokigard ("Home of Loki"), Miklagarð ("Constantinople", comparing its anti-theistic regime to the persecutors of fellow pagans)
	+ Some battle-cries used by Farsiders in their war against the Earth Union were "Miklagard will fall", "Down with Red Miklagard", or "Miklagard has fallen".

## Trivia

* The Earth Union was inspired by the Soviet Union, the world tyranny in the Book of Revelation in the Holy Bible, stereotypes of "multiculti" and "political correctness gone mad", Tumblr and Twitter subcultures, the "Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism" meme, and various left-wing parties in the Western world.
	+ Its founder, Rozalen, was also inspired by the author's frustrations with various problems in society, and his thoughts about "ending them all using force". The Earth Union was also inspired by the author's wish to avert various disasters in human history, as he wondered whether would a harsh world state be more effective in preventing and ending those disasters.
	+ One of the inspirations for the Earth Union and its lack of patience was the author's disappointment and anger over how governments handled the Covid-19 pandemic -- he wanted something more efficient, unimpeded by resources or class divisions.
	+ Its people's obsession with sex may also allude to the World State of "Brave New World".
* Anything related to the Earth Union, or any inhabitant of the Earth Union, is known as a "Unionite".
* Here is a list of the New Continents and their namesakes:
	+ Atlantia (east of North America) - Atlantis
	+ Helenia (southeast of South America) - St. Helena
	+ Dinarobia (east of Africa) - Dina Arobi, an old name for Mauritius
	+ Kandamia (southwest of India) - Kumari Kandam, a mythical continent in Tamil literature
	+ Kergelia (further south) - Kerguelen
	+ Muvia (northeast Pacific) - Mu, a mythical continent in Western pseudohistory
	+ Fuson (east of Japan) - Fusang, a mythical island in Chinese mythology

## See also

* Red Ardesch, its possible Rabydosverse equivalent.
* Galaxials, another of its possible enemies.