The People's Order Axis

**Die Volksbestellung Achsenkräfte**, usually better known as the **People's Order Axis**, is an isolationist faction in Andromeda.

## Der Volksbestellung Achsenkräfte

The Flag of the People's Order (Die Volksbestellsflagge)

### Enemies

The Andrometon Align, The Cestarian Commune

## Ideology

The ideology of the People's Order is called Volk Socialism. It is very heavily centred around the concept of "volk", which roughly translates from Low Gothic as "people" or "race," something which is allegedly defined by lineage, measureable by physiology and psychology, and observable by sociology. Volksocialists (Vazis) posit that the Bestellsvolk (Orderspeople, the 'volk'/race of the People's Order) are the master race. They define the Bestellsvolk as the Later Monican people descended from Early Andromedans that migrated to the regions the People's Order now lies in, which it claims are the ideal conditions that allowed the near-perfect Andromedan people living there (their ancestors) to microevolve into the perfect master race.

These views are widely mocked outside of the People's Order. The Andrometon Align Scientific Association once published:

> The official stance of the Andrometon Align Scientific Association of Volk Socialism is that we find its theory pseudoscientific, its praxis morally reprehensible, and its proponents largely laughable.
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Volk Socialism claims that the small, international, ancient religious tribe, the Yudaeans, are responsible for a conspiracy against the Later Monican peoples, in which they seek to destroy their culture and identity, and replace it with Yudaism, a close relative of the Western Doctrine, though they deny this, and claim that the Western Doctrine is instead somehow descended from local paganism, which they practice.

## Genocide

The People's Order are currently engaged in a genocide against the Yudaean minority in the general area of Andromeda, kidnapping any known Yudaeans and taking them to the Volksarbeitsklub (People's Work Club), where they are locked in a single dormitory temporarily until they are promptly incinerated in a ceremony known as The Cindering.

During The Cindering, the ashes of the (mostly local-indigenous and Yudaean) victims are scattered on the streets and trodden on by citizens of the People's Order, inspired by a quote by the Bestellsfuhrer:

> The *zukünftigutopie* (roughly *future utopia*, the concept of the 'perfect world of the master race beyond the rule of the Yudaean oppressors') will be built atop the ashes of the Yudaean world.
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This obscene tradition is meant to represent the 'master race' thriving and frolicking on the literal ashes of the Yudaeans.

## Military

Though a relatively small faction, the P.O.A. maintain a frightening military, which receives the majority of the Order's budget in funding. It maintains the faction's hard borders.

## Armed resistance

There is an armed resistance group simply known as The Resistance, secretly financed by the Andrometon Align, which registers it as a Ranchfield-based charity, which are mostly involved in trafficking defectors out of the area and protecting them on their journey out through various mountain paths and underground tunnels. Barnum's Exotics and Oxpeak are used as hubs for their activity, which allows volunteers free access on the sites' grounds and mines to aid people out of the People's Order and to Andrometon.