Klesha

The **Worker State** (Kleshan: **Mavarut Ireaned**; Klauxar: **Orox-darivad**), commonly known as **Klesha** or the **Kleshan Empire** by outsiders; or the **World State** by its own subjects, was an empire that waged wars against the rest of Jerde in the latter Sixteenth Age.

## History

In the 43rd century, the island nation of Klesha was ruled by seven corporations, who kept much of its people in poverty and slave-like conditions. The two most powerful corporations was Viltel (computers) and Fraanes (plantations), which waged gang wars against each other. Klesha was heavily affected by the 3900 Pandemic, in which thousands of Kleshans died from the viral disease and the economy collapsed.

Angered by the corporations' lack of aid, the people of Klesha rebelled against the corporations. One rebellion took over the other revolts, being led by Akorma Norelda, an intellectual from the rich town of Arpala. In three years, Akorma united the whole island under his rule. During his rule, Klesha was able to rebuild, and more people had access to education and decent wages. Many religious practices were discouraged as Akorma sought to force his people into modernity and secularism.

Akorma was later overthrown by one of his officers, Hikrudar, who was the leader of a militaristic faction. He wanted to take over nearby countries, as he and his officers believed that they had the resources to build the region's infrastructure under their authority. Hikrudar sent his soldiers to invade the nearby islands, expanding Klesha's dominion northwards. Later leaders expanded their campaign into an attempt to take over the whole world under a single government, inspired somewhat by the Great Uplifting campaign where a serum was spread to improve human health: the leaders of Klesha believed that a world government made a more effective solution to human suffering than simply improved health.

While Klesha's armies invaded richer nations to capture their resources and hasten the unification of Jerde, they especially targeted the Wildling states, to forcibly convert them into a more utilitarian mentality. They were brutal to the Wildlings, treating them as loathsome savages who were forced into menial work. The Kleshan armies were later aided by the Third Red Front, an alliance of militaristic socialist states who sought to unify the whole planet under a single utopian state. Most of them willingly became territories of Klesha, seeking its quick development and to join its war to take over the world.

The only nation within the Kleshans' vast empire that did not fall was Hiriwa, which was defended by a network of sea walls.

Under Akorma's orders, a new serum was designed to make its subjects more social and less isolated and selfish. It also made its users more aggressive and obedient to the rulers. The leaders of the Worker State used this serum to make their subjects more orderly, and its warriors used it on poorer settlements and educational towns in enemy nations to provoke the locals into waging rebellions against their rulers.

In the 44th century, the World Government experimented with hive minds, seeking to mobilise humanity under their orders. Hundreds and thousands of people were connected by microchips that fixed their thoughts towards a central nexus or supercomputer, and new nexuses were built to connect them to the great supercomputer. These were only implemented in the most loyal settlements, labour camps, or in cities inhabited by former enemies of Klesha, as the other officials condemned the World Government's hive mind project.

In 4289, 4341, 4357, and 4423, the Worker's State attempted to take over the Little Gauvajut Empire. Only the 4357 invasion was successful, having ruled over the LGE for fifteen years before being defeated by a localist rebellion.

The southern parts of the LGE waged war against the Kingdom of Hanzauttas, and were defeated. In the next years, the people of the LGE were forced to manufacture products to feed the Worker State's warmongering.

In the 45th century, the Kleshan armies were supported by foreigners who fought wars to take over their countries and annex them into the Worker State, known as the Foreign Volunteers. They believed that only by subjugating the whole world under the rule the Worker State will true equality be achieved, and humanity will advance further under a benevolent lord. In reality, many Kleshan foreign volunteers were brutal and harsh, caring more about power than helping their own people. Some Foreign Volunteers were upset that their favourite entertainment was destroyed and banned under their Kleshan superiors, and those who complained were sent to the labour camps to be broken into obedience.

Although some space pirates supported the Kleshan Empire to watch the planet become united or out of amusement, the World Government refused to build colonies in space, as its leaders wanted to unify the planet before they would spread their civilisation abroad.

In 4416 and 4429-4434, the Kleshan military fought against the supernatural armies of Red Ardesch. The infernal attacks started after an army of Foreign Volunteers demolished a cursed tomb in southeastern Ardesch, and the ghosts possessed them. Those ghosts emerged from the earth to fight the Worker State, seeing it as a regime of soulless imposters.

In 4439, Klesha suffered under an economic crisis: its economy crashed after overspending on wars and the Foreign Volunteers fought the World Government and each other over being forced to abandon their favourite franchises. The nation is split into two: communists in the east, and republicans in the west. With the support of the Tuksharans, the republicans prevailed and made Klesha into a democracy. Without the orders of the Great World Council, many Kleshan nations stop waging war against the rest of Jerde.

The Foreign Volunteers continued fighting for the Kleshan World State for thirty years until the last members were imprisoned in 4480. Some FV regimes use hive minds on their subjects and warriors.

## Geography

At the peak of its prime, the Worker State ruled over much of the south.

* Arpala (Ambariax) - a city at the western shore
* Janatumar (Olidara) - a city in the northwest of Klesha. An industrial powerhouse
* Hirudor Archipelado - an archipelago to the northwest of Klesha.
* Kiridashen (Gridalex) - the first capital
* Lorintum (Burodex) - the second capital
* Dorbillum (Araivex) - the third capital. Location of the Great Supercomputer that powers the hive mind.
* Norchulin (Sursalonix) - the fourth capital.
* Klesha Region
* Imbire Region
* Halori Region
* Sairata Region - an archipelago to the northeast of Klesha.

In addition, Klesha expanded to southern Rifandi, western South Darros, parts of Mamaovia, Khydor, and Kirticha, with the addition of the Third Red Front.

## Government

At its founding, Klesha was ruled by a single dictator. After the founder Akroma was overthrown by his officer Hikrudar, he established the Worker's Council to make his government more democractic. It was governed by several warlords elected by the workers.

In later times, Klesha's World Council became into the World Government Council or the World Government, as the regime for the future world state. It consisted of up to fourteen leaders elected from Klesha and its subjects, selected from high-ranking government members. To prevent a single dictator or leader from having absolute power and forming their own personality cult, the Worker State was ruled by an oligarchy, so the people worshipped only the State instead of a single person. Its official goals were:

* To unite the world under a benevolent, effective government ruled by the people
* To spread improved infrastructure
* To make humanity into an empire, a great nation like the other civilisations of the Galaxy ("after all, is there any galactic empire that ruled from a divided planet?")
* To impose a single culture upon the whole world, so that discrimination, poverty, hedonism, and inequality will finally end

The national ideology of Klesha was Arutalism, which taught total obedience to the State, support for the people, and utilitarianism.

## Economy

Imitating Red Darros, the Kleshan economy practiced a form of state capitalism or communism, where the government controlled all forms of industry and business.

The national currency of Klesha was the *lunur*. It was replaced by the *tronil*.

Being rich was considered a crime, as every citizen and official was required to abandon personal ambition and serve the state. Every citizen has a limit on how much wealth they were allowed to use.

## Culture

The Worker State tried to create a new culture that was not aligned with any existing culture, although its was influenced by Red Ardesch and Red Darros. This culture was known as Radaril, which was a "working class aesthetic and ethic" based on the industrialised societies of its role models. While the World Government stated that existing cultures were to be preserved, some governors suppressed local cultures to force conquered subjects into being assimilated into the regime's standards. They believed that their Radaril culture was superior to all other cultures because it was more progressive than other cultures.

The three philosophers Tolsyn, Armaud, and Lostoi were regarded as heroes and prophets, having written the national norms that influenced Kleshan society.

In the countries and regions conquered under the Kleshan Empire, the rulers greatly improved infrastructure, education, and healthcare. They have also reduced poverty by forcing the poor to work under decent conditions. However, they have limited many personal freedoms to force the conquered to adopt the Kleshan mindset, which consists mostly of obeying leaders, thinking of nothing but work, and praising the State.

Even though there were many restrictions on art to make all works of art glorify the State, the Worker's State had its own forms of entertainment. They included war dramas, train rides, light shows, military parades, game shows, painting contests, and vacations to holiday resorts. Opulence and luxury were banned in Klesha to force the people to develop a more "equal" mentality.

Many Foreign Volunteers were disappointed and upset that their favourite media was banned in Klesha for promoting "backwards" or "decadent" messages. Any members who were caught with even a single drawing or a cartoonish theme were sent to a labour camp to be brainwashed.

Criminals and "parasites" were sent to labour camps all over the country, where they built machinery under harsh conditions. Red Ardeschi art was displayed as examples of "parasitism" that the Kleshan subjects must avoid.

## Language

The national language of the Worker State was an artificial language known as Klauxar, which was invented by the intellectual Kumaracha Lanshuri as the lingua franca of the proposed world state. However, the native Kleshan language was widely used, resulting in bilingual signs.

## Trivia

* Klesha's World State was based on the Soviet Union and the Imperium of Man from Warhammer. It was also inspired by Marxists, Stalinists, and North Korea supporters on Twitter, and how their modern hobbies would contrast against Stalin's regime.
* "Klesha" is a term in Buddhism that refers to a troubled mental state. It is the source of the name "glysari", which is a kind of demon in Josolchir folklore that emerges from the worst of people's desires.
* Klesha considered itself as the successor of two earlier states: Red Darros, its role model; and the Red Front of World War III. It was also the successor of the Third Red Front.
	+ However, the Kleshans before and during the Worker State hated being compared to the Denlotia, which was denounced as "not revolutionary enough".

## See also

* Red Ardesch
* Reorganisation War
* Kitasa, its modern counterpart