Major published works of note in the RP including some not yet published ICly
Georg von Licht / Dzhordzh fon Likht
1. The Righteous Cause
The year is 1951, and the world is divided between eight superstates: Freistaatland, Südamerika, Nordseeallianz, Mitteleuropa, Großarabien, Zentralasien, and Ostasien. These nations are in a state of constant war that has left the world ruined. Karl Eichemann, the protagonist, is sent to end the war and bring peace; however, catastrophe kills Eichemann and restarts the feud.
2. Neither Victory Nor Peace
The empires of Jiaozhande and Hakuchi, led by the shortsighted monarchs Kangsong and Tennohito, turn a war of words and baseless accusations into a devastating continent-wide conflict that leads to millions of deaths, mass rebellions, and ultimately their own deposition. The novel was published as a criticism of escalating tensions between China and Japan.
3. Blessed are the Persecuted
Jewish German Yaakov Fiegenbaum and his family live in a defeated 1930s Germany that turns to anti-Semitic politicians Ludwig Ernst and Johannes Heisenberg, who initiate ever-increasing persecutions against German Jews. The book chronicles Yaakov and his family trying to live through the persecution. At first forced into ghetto, then into hiding, and then into a death camp, only Yaakov and his son Yitzhak survive(and Yitzhak loses his legs along the way). After the anti-Semites are deposed, the two try to rebuild their lives.
4. With Liberty and Justice For All
Black Confederate Miriam Robinson unintentionally becomes the leader of the equal rights movement in the CSA, but she gladly accepts the role, leading strikes and marches that force the Confederate government to grant equal rights to all citizens and end segregation. Surviving assassination attempts, she is elected President by a sweeping majority in 1964, cementing the progress made by the civil rights movement.
5. The Miserable Ones
Jan Janowski, a redeemed criminal who has broken his parole, must try to avoid the relentless Eugen Marschall, who seeks to put him back in chains. Meanwhile, Jan's adopted daughter Andzelika falls in love with Polish revolutionary Maksymilian Mysliwski- who is torn between his love Andzelika and his fellow revolutionaries Ostromir Wieczeslawski and Szymon Topolski. The revolutionaries rebel, but most die in the German response- though Janowski manages to save Maksymilian and bring him to Andzelika. Marschall, realizing that Janowski is indeed redeemed, kills himself; Janowski also dies shortly thereafter.
6. Vox Populi
Valentin Pushilin, head of one of the subdivisions of the Union of Federative Unified Republics, a Russia without a Tsar, works for the country's repressive dictatorship, established 80 years earlier in the 1910s. When a dispute about reform in the country leads to a hardliner coup against the country's reformist leader, Pushilin heeds the voice of the people and demands that the UFUR be done away with and replaced with numerous democratic states- a vision that ultimately comes true.
Viktor Eberharter
(see "the Miserable Ones" under Georg von Licht)
Josef Ibakov
1. Blood of the Crescent
In a semi-propagandized account of the siege of Sevastopol/Aqyar, Ibakov accuses the Crimean army of committing various war crimes during its fight for independence from Ukraine.
Michael Matsudaira
1. The Fading Sun
In an alternate timeline, the Japanese shogunate defeats Go-Daigo and initiates a period of isolation that leaves Japan technologically backward and abused by foreign powers. Despite a push to modernize and gain the respect of world leaders, Japan is largely destroyed after several brash and dictatorial leaders wreck the country, leaving it devastated. The story ends with the few remaining Japanese chafing under Chinese rule.
2. Unit 731
Written as an unofficial partner to Blessed are the Persecuted, this book follows the bloody trail left by a Japanese army unit committing mass crimes against Chinese civilians and Americaner POWs in a dystopic war-torn world.
Gavriil fon Likht
1. The Great World Wars
Fon Likht, taking a page from his father's books, writes about a hellish world dominated by poor economics, warring nations, technology used for genocide, and brutal dictators. The book follows the world through two Great Wars that leave much of the world devastated and millions dead, and foments decades of international division and distrust. In the end, every one of the book's six main characters dies, whether they 'won' the wars or 'lost' them.
2. The Life and Times of Edward Harper
Canadian intelligence worker Edward Harper realizes that the Royal Intelligence Agency of Canada is breaking Canadian privacy laws with its spying program, and decided to steal classified documents and leak them to the press. Fleeing to the Confederacy, he begins releasing the documents, which reveal Canadian spying at home and abroad. The news spreads like wildfire, and he is variously declared a hero and a traitor as a global debate on surveillance begins. The book ends with the RIA's head telling the press that Harper has only released a tiny fraction of the data he took.
3. A Time of Destruction (original)
Nongbu Jeonghwan, a member of the Yeojeon ethnic minority, begins to lead a fight against the oppressive rule of the Henkyoese Emperor Go-Yowai and his bloodthirsty general Satsujin Hijoshikina. The ability of the Henkyoese to respond is hampered by Henkyo's war on the Free States of Terranova; however, Satsujin's army are still able to exterminate and enslave hundreds of Yeojeon. Seeking peace, Nongbu meets Satsujin to discuss peace; Satsujin kills him. Nongbu is ultimately avenged by his rival and Deputy Chancellor, Jyeonlyeong Dongmaeng: Jyeonlyeong strangles Satsujin and forces Henkyo to let Yeojeonia become independent.
Muhammad Abbas
1. The Crescent and the Star
In a book postulated to be Rumite propaganda by some, Abbas describes a Middle East without Rum as a Middle East in total chaos. Islamic radicalism, ideological coups, ethnic feuds, and Zionism all lead to the deaths of thousands and permanent instability, which is taken advantage of by various foreign powers seeking to exploit the region.
Chodren Dawa
1. The Effects of Leftism
The book begins in a totally uniform world- however, we soon learn that the hero, known only as Equality, has a hard time fitting in. He falls in love with a woman named Liberty, and after the government tries too hard to impress conformity on them, they form a rival society that brings back individuality to the world.
2. Obscurity
Architect Wei Nianqing and his colleague Se Jidu face difficulties as they lose out to architects better at sweet-talking clients. However, people eventually turn to Wei and Se's more inspired and modern architecture. Se turns on Wei and attempts to destroy his empire and kill him; ultimately, though, Wei comes out on top.
3. The East is Red
In Chodren Dawa's first play, she describes an alternate future where China is not as fortunate as it was. In several wars over opium and rebellions over everything the emperor does, China grows steadily weaker and more divided before having the monarchy overthrown and a period of total warlordism break out. As the period of warlordism ends, a period of ideological warfare breaks out(supported by the Japanese, who invade and establish various puppets). Ultimately, China winds up under a group of dictatorial rulers who must be defeated by the government-in-exile of China's brief period of democracy. After the return of peace and liberty to the country, it is unified, strong, and happy at last.
4. The Asian Manifesto
Chodren Dawa here outlines her plans for the creation of a libertarian Asian Union, dominated by China. Though initially weak, this Asian Union would grow stronger and stronger as time passed, eventually uniting Asia under one banner once and for all.
Jean-Louis Bouclier
1. The Impure Blood
The first play based on the Righteous Cause, Bouclier's work is a pro-Guyanese and anti-Brazilian propaganda piece in which Eichemann dies in Südamerika and is replaced by violent revolutionary Maxmilien Bouclier, who united the world by force and exterminated his opposition to bring about utopia.
Karl Jung / Rong Kai-er
1. The Autumn of Empires (book)
The fictional realm of Ojczyzna, once a great empire, has been divided between the nations of Westens, Südens, and Dong, which has left the people demoralized and abused. Farmer Alojzy Swidzinski takes up the cause of his country and leads a campaign to liberate his homeland from foreign rule. Alojzy is initially successful, and named King of Ojczyzna as reward, but is murdered and replaced by a turncoat who returns foreign rule to the country.
Li Xiagong
1. The Final Solution
In the most hated book ever written, Li Xiagong calls for the total extermination of 'Japonic races', declaring them to be inferior to 'Sinic' races. He also calls for the Chinese Empire to grow significantly, to the point where it spans the entire Orient.
Tamerlan Jaharnaev
1. The Autumn of Empires (play)
Based on Karl Jung's book, this play adaptation replaced Dong with Vostok(an anti-Russian move, which in unsurprising given that Jaharnaev was Caucasian). The ending is also modified: Alojzy's brother Wladyslaw finally finishes his brother's dream and guarantees Ojczyzna's independence.
Ardghal O'Berach
1. Fruit of Freedom
The author outlines his idea of a united, independent Ireland, free from British rule and run by a secular High King and Catholic clergy. O'Berach also outlined plans to promote Irish culture and to 'cleanse' the island of English influence. However, he warns, the book is for Ireland only, and is not for foreign use.
2. Ireland and the World
Furious at global support for Britain, O'Berach returns to criticize the world standing by as the British exploited Ireland. He also proposed that an independent Ireland should colonize Africa or the Caribbean. He also advocates ethnic nationalism globally.
Mao Peng-hui
1. Entrance to Heaven
A Chinese family moves to the imperial colony in Chinese East Africa to seek a better life for themselves and to 'civilize the continent'. When stranded, a group of kind but backward Africans and heroic Chinese soldiers help them to Tianshang. The book was released to promote colonization of Africa by East and West alike, portraying Africans as savages in need of civilizing by foreign powers.
Phillip Engel
1. The Fates of Men
The play version of the Righteous Cause endorsed by Georg von Licht himself. The Fates of Men stole bits and pieces of the other plays about the story to create something of an anthology, containing something from every one.
Antero de Quental
1. Slaughter of the Moors
Ibrahim Muladi, a wealthy Moor, rebels against the oppressive Prince João of Algarve. Establishing a small Moorish emirate, they briefly experience independence before the Portuguese reclaim the land and slaughter the Moors en masse, leaving Algarve a barren wasteland.
2. Twilight of the Peace
After criticizing the Portuguese monarchy and being driven out of the country, João Llano travels the world searching for a place to start anew. Llano's unfortunate association with the dimwitted Antero results in them being driven from Guyane, Italy, and the Confederacy. Ultimately, Llano drowns Antero and returns to Portugal- where he is pardoned on the morning of his execution.
Haruna Hachisuka
1. The Eternal Soldiers
A six-part series focusing on the rebellion led by Riku Sukaiuoka against the Dark Shogun, once Riku's father Anakin. Riku briefly falls in love with her long-lost sister Kiki, but the relationship doesn't last.
2. The Story of Haruka Kamakura
An adapted form of the Chinese fable of Hua Mulan, this story follows Haruka Kamakura in her adventure to find honor and justice through the Imperial Restoration of 1331 and the later Kyoto Rebellion of 1340.
3. Freedom in the Stars
In the year 2009, British bureaucrat William MacAlister must face the Confederate States of America, led by President Lewis Wright and General Robert Jenkins, to reveal the fact that it has revived its slaving practices, banned by the CSA in 1891, and taken them into space. The Confederacy, in the process, makes several other incriminating errors. Ultimately, the rest of the world forcefully balkanizes the Confederacy, dividing it into several small puppet states.
August Breckenridge
1. The Battlestar
After the United States of Kobol are destroyed by the evil robotic Cylons, who view humanity as inherently cruel and evil, the surving humans- led by President Rosalyn Laurent and Captain Frederick Adamson- must face against the Cylons and their allies, largely represented by Cylon Model Six and Dr. Hadrian Callis, as they attempt to find the long-lost thirteenth state of Earth.
2. A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Shukhov
Based off of Gavriil fon Likht's time in a Russian gulag, this book follows Ivan Shukhov as he attempts to survive a ten-year jail term for a crime he did not commit. The book describes his relations with the other members of his work gang: Tyurin, the foreman; Yushenko, his assistant; Klevshin, a former soldier; Markovich, an intellectual; Kilgas, a Lithuanian separatist; Golpchik, a boy accused of treason; Fetyukov, a prisoner for decades; Buynovsky, a former naval officer; and Leshenov, a Baptist. Ultimately, the book says that it was only their unity and solidarity that allowed them to keep living.
Jeffery Date
1. Seigi no Gen'in
Japanese operatic adaptation of The Righteous Cause.
2. Dai Nippon Teikoku
Sengoku Games play for 1837, it illustrates numerous points in Japanese history, and highlights the mantle of Meiji's glorious reign.
3. The Sunrise of Nations
A play to illustrate the unity of nations, involves numerous national anthems and representation of world leaders as of 1837.
4. Aux Armes Citroyens
An opera about the French Revolution and the cause of the Jacobins and later, Napoleon Bonaparte.
Hirosuke Satsuma
1. Kamikōgō
First publication that started the Sanguinist Movement in Japan. Called Meiji the "daughter of the Lord" and declared her a divine person. Sparked massive religious movement around Meiji in Japan after her death in 1837.
Oleksandr Kostiuk
1. Moya Borotʹba
"My Struggle", a book that highlights the plans of Kostiuk against the Crimeans, whom he blames for most of the world's problems. Considered Nazi propaganda and banned in most nations who forbid Nazi imagery and symbolism.
Grigory Petrovsky
1. Petrovsky's Testament
Grigory Petrovsky, sensing his coming death wrote his ideas on how the Soviet government should change into a more democratic state. It criticized current Soviet leaders and heavily suggested removing Pavlenko from power, as Petrovsky viewed Pavlenko's reforms to both the soviet system and to the government as totalitarian. Petrovsky died a few years later and the book was both published and distributed throughout the USSR by Ivan Kasparov.
Lev Bronstein / Leon Trotsky
1. Animal Farm
Written as an attack on the brand of communism employed by the USSR, Leon Trotsky tells the story of the Azovsk Farm. The overworked and mistreated animals overthrow their human masters, seeking to create a utopia under the principles of their ideology, Animalism. However, the farm's pigs quickly become a ruling class, usurping the role that humans once held. They replace the Seven Commandments of Animalism with a single one that upholds their ultimate authority: all animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.
Ayn Rand
1. Atlas Shrugged
Ayn Rand describes a nation similar to the Confederacy and Canada in an unspecified time. She follows the entrepreneur Dagny Taggart, who must attempt to keep the Taggart Transcontinental rail lines open in spite of collectivization and statism and mitigate the poor decisions of her brother James. Dagny becomes an associate of steel magnate Hank Rearden, and the two notice that many other magnates are destroying their empires and vanishing. Searching for the inventor of an advanced motor, they find John Galt, who invented it- and is convincing tycoons to vanish as a form of strike against statism. Dagny refuses and returns to her home- but Galt follows her, seizes a radio station, and delivers a speech to explain the ideology of objectivism. The government collapses and Galt is picked to be the new leader of the country.
Chaimas Galvanauskas / Hayim ben Tziyon
1. The Hope
Yitzhak Katsav, a Sephardi Jew living in al-Mayiquh, becomes the leader of a Zionist group which quickly becomes the international Zionist World Congress. He goes before the League of Nations, and gives an impassioned speech, pleading for the League to return Israel to the Jews, telling them that the only way for the long-persecuted Jews to ever know liberty and peace is to return home. The League agrees, and Katsav becomes leader of the new country. Within two years of Israel's creation, however, Rum invades, seeking to exterminate the Jews and reincorporate the territory. The international response is swift and harsh, and soon, Rum is divided up between its various ethnic groups, with the various new nations agreeing to work together in peace and cooperation to bring about a future where all people can life happy lives.
2. No Place Like Home
By now something of a formal rival to Carasso- with Galvanauskas representing the Zionists and Carasso the anti-Zionists- Galvanauskas refutes Carasso's proposals for the creation of a new Jewish state in Africa, as well as attempts by Russia to do the same with their Jewish Autonomous Oblast. Galvanauskas claims that no place but the Promised Land of Israel could ever serve as a true home for the Jews, and compares Carasso's proposal to the deportation of Native Americans to reservations by Canada and the Confederacy.
Emmanuel Carasso / Ferdinand Eichemann
1. The Lies of Zionism
Penned as a response to the growth of Zionism among most of the world's Jews, Greek Jew Emmanuel Carasso's "truth against Zionism" treatise claims that the global Zionist movement had no legitimate grounds for seeking the return of the Holy Land to Jewish hands. Carasso praises Rum's just and fair rule of the Holy Land, and says that it belongs to Christians and Muslims as much as it does to Jews.
2. A New Zion
A follow-up to his own work, The Lies of Zionism, Carasso floats the idea of creating a new Israel in Africa, carving out land from a European or Asian colony and creating a Jewish state. He says in the book that it would satiate the Zionist desire for a Jewish homeland, and allow for Rum to retain it's own territorial integrity. Proposed lands are Japanese Mozambique, British Rhodesia and Chinese Madagascar but he says that "almost anywhere with fertile land would do wonderfully."
3. Beyond the Hill of Macedon
Turning his attention from Zionism to revanchism, Carasso advocates for countries giving up their irredentist and nationalist territorial claims- as he views Rum's release of the Balkans to Yugoslavia. He says that aggressive nationalism is the ideology most likely to plunge the world into a second Great War, and advocates more global internationalism.
4. Roma Orientalis
Here Carasso expresses an approval of Benito Mussolini's statements that Italy and Rum should be more closely united as the descendants of Rome. He also proposes rebuilding the old ruined monuments of Rome and Byzantium. He closes the book by expressing his belief as a Jew that only Sunni Islam is legitimate, and that the Sunni Caliph or Calipha should rule supreme over all Muslims, and that Shiism, Andalism, and Shurism are illegitimate.
5. The Science of Slavs and Tatars
A horribly racist criticism of a horribly racist book, Carasso expresses his distaste for Professor Suprun's assertion that Ukrainians are inferior to Crimeans by calling the Crimeans no more than slaves and mud creatures. The book is almost universally condemned and is a massive black stain on an otherwise popular author.
Manami Hosokawa
1. A War of Brothers
A play depicting the Great War, opened for the first in 1899. The play depicts a Japanese soldier and a Confederate soldier's story as they fight on the frontlines of the Meiji Islands campaign. They encounter each other and soon discover that they are biological twins, seperated at birth on the Hawaiian Islands between an Americaner father and a Japanese mother. The father took the Confederate son back to the Confederacy and raised him in California, while the mother returned back to her home in Kyushu and raised the other son as Japanese. The two realize that they're more alike than different, despite being from two nations. They reconcile at the end of the war, and seperate, but remain in contact until they grow old, where they meet once again on December 7, 1941 in Pearl Harbor, for the last time.
Gaius leFevre
1. To Rome and Back
In this book, leFevre talks about the possible outcome of a war between France and Italy, held to reclaim the lost territories of Provence and Côte d'Azur. LeFevre concludes that- despite France's defeat in the recent Great War- a conflict between France and Italy would be laughably one-sided, with French forces easily fighting their way to Rome, taking it, and then fighting back to the French border.
2. Hell for Rome, Heaven for Paris
Here, leFevre mocks Italy's leadership, comparing its Emperors to the old Roman emperors Caligula and Nero. He thoroughly satirizes the Italian political system and mocks its politicians. He contrasts this with his perception of French politics: calm, rational, and proud.
3. 1892: A Part Lost
LeFevre now accuses Italy of barbarism in its conquest of Provence-Cote d'Azur, and the displacement of French that followed. He details French civilians being forced out of their homes and stripped of their lands, to be replaced by Italian citizens. He also accuses the Italian military of unfairly targeting French civilians on numerous occasions.
4. Amsterdam a Mystery
Turning his attention away from Italy, leFevre now questions the legitimacy of the Treaty of Utrecht, in which France lost Nord-Pas-de-Calais, Lorraine, and Provence-Cote d'Azur. He accuses the Dutch of working with other global powers- most notably Japan- to intentionally humiliate France on the global stage, and leave it crippled and divided.
5. Avignon Forever After
LeFevre now turns his attention towards religion. He praises the French Church, which he views as morally superior to other Christian churches. He also praises the isolated French city of Avignon, where the church is based.
6. Rome: Example of Sin
In contrast to his praise for Avignon, leFevre has nothing but bitter criticism for the Roman Catholic Church- which he views as a pit of debauchery, corruption, and immorality. He dismisses the Catholic clergy as a band of pedophiles and frauds.
7. Monarchism: Ideology of Evil
Here leFevre rails against the evils of monarchies, linking all of France's failures to monarchies and monarchism- absolute, constitutional, and ceremonial. He proposes that France ban monarchies and that the country's legislature be made more powerful to prevent autocracy.
Alaric Bisser
1. My Best Enemy
In the 1960s, a crippled France and a declining Germany work out an alliance out of mutual goals, in spite of centuries of conflict. Over the ensuing decades, France and Germany stand together against a communist Britain exporting the revolution, a Russian-Spanish-Dutch triumvirate, a Chinese war of colonial conquest in Africa, a massive fascist uprising in both countries, and a war to reclaim territories taken from them by their neighbors. After this final war, the French President and German Chancellor realize that the old animosity is gone, replaced by mutual friendship and admiration.
Benito Mussolini
1. Renovatio Imperii
This book describes an alternate where Italy conquers all of France, annexing it and committing a genocide against the French people and French culture before forcing Rum under Italian rule through political union. The book ends with both countries preparing to destroy the German and Russian 'barbarians'.
2. The Doctrine of Fascism
Mussolini now writes a political treatise, preaching his own version of the ideology of fascism(first adopted, ironically, by the French, who Mussolini despised). He praises the army and the emperor, dismissing Italy's democratic institutions as weak and corrupt. Mussolini proposes the creation of a militaristic autocracy that would bring France back to greatness- by force.
3. Magni Resurrecto
In his third book, Mussolini declares Italy to be the only successor to Western Rome, and Rum the only successor to Eastern Rome. He also expresses a great admiration for the British Empire. He also declares that Italy should attempt to rebuild the Roman Empire by force and conquer its former territories- excluding those held by Rum and Britain.
Antony Belinsky
1. The State of the Working Class
In a criticism of capitalism, Ukrainian-Romanian communist revolutionary Antony Belinsky describes the horrors of life for a poor laborer in the country through the perspective of a fictional Ukrainian-Romanian named Ciprian Ianscu. Ianscu works inhumane hours in slavelike and lethal conditions in a weaponry factory, for almost no reward whatsoever. Though originally intended only for Ukraine-Romania, it soon became a tome used by communist groups globally.
Alexander Yamato
1. Aboard the Circumstance
Emperor Alexander, nearing death after many years of rule, tells the story of his travels around the world as a young man. He also describes his meetings with various levels of society and various world leaders across the globe. He explains why he left on the trip(a vision of his grandmother, Akiko Meiji), and why he chose the countries that he did.
Mehmet Suprun
1. A Time of Destruction (Crimean edit)
A version of fon Likht's original novel, intensely edited to serve as anti-Caucasian literature. The Yeojeon are replaced by Azeris, and the Henkyoese are replaced with Georgians, in reference to the Holocaust that had occurred within Caucasia's borders.
2. The Science of the Crimean and the Ukrainian
A racist comparison of Crimeans to Ukrainians -- Suprun insists that Ukrainians are mentally, physically and in general, inferior to the Crimean Tatar, as a justification of segregation between the two races.
Unspecified / Unknown Author
1. AD 1951
The British play version of the Righteous Cause, based off of the Impure Blood, but lacking any joy to its ending. The main notable difference is the addition of weapons known as 'sun bombs'(nuclear weaponry).
2. The Deserter
Written in Italy in the early 1800s, this novel follows Adalfredo Capaccio, an Italian soldier during a war against the Ottomans. Deserting in Bosnia, he flees towards Italy to see his home and family- but is executed outside of Zagreb after being found and captured.
Georg von Licht / Dzhordzh fon Likht
1. The Righteous Cause
The year is 1951, and the world is divided between eight superstates: Freistaatland, Südamerika, Nordseeallianz, Mitteleuropa, Großarabien, Zentralasien, and Ostasien. These nations are in a state of constant war that has left the world ruined. Karl Eichemann, the protagonist, is sent to end the war and bring peace; however, catastrophe kills Eichemann and restarts the feud.
2. Neither Victory Nor Peace
The empires of Jiaozhande and Hakuchi, led by the shortsighted monarchs Kangsong and Tennohito, turn a war of words and baseless accusations into a devastating continent-wide conflict that leads to millions of deaths, mass rebellions, and ultimately their own deposition. The novel was published as a criticism of escalating tensions between China and Japan.
3. Blessed are the Persecuted
Jewish German Yaakov Fiegenbaum and his family live in a defeated 1930s Germany that turns to anti-Semitic politicians Ludwig Ernst and Johannes Heisenberg, who initiate ever-increasing persecutions against German Jews. The book chronicles Yaakov and his family trying to live through the persecution. At first forced into ghetto, then into hiding, and then into a death camp, only Yaakov and his son Yitzhak survive(and Yitzhak loses his legs along the way). After the anti-Semites are deposed, the two try to rebuild their lives.
4. With Liberty and Justice For All
Black Confederate Miriam Robinson unintentionally becomes the leader of the equal rights movement in the CSA, but she gladly accepts the role, leading strikes and marches that force the Confederate government to grant equal rights to all citizens and end segregation. Surviving assassination attempts, she is elected President by a sweeping majority in 1964, cementing the progress made by the civil rights movement.
5. The Miserable Ones
Jan Janowski, a redeemed criminal who has broken his parole, must try to avoid the relentless Eugen Marschall, who seeks to put him back in chains. Meanwhile, Jan's adopted daughter Andzelika falls in love with Polish revolutionary Maksymilian Mysliwski- who is torn between his love Andzelika and his fellow revolutionaries Ostromir Wieczeslawski and Szymon Topolski. The revolutionaries rebel, but most die in the German response- though Janowski manages to save Maksymilian and bring him to Andzelika. Marschall, realizing that Janowski is indeed redeemed, kills himself; Janowski also dies shortly thereafter.
6. Vox Populi
Valentin Pushilin, head of one of the subdivisions of the Union of Federative Unified Republics, a Russia without a Tsar, works for the country's repressive dictatorship, established 80 years earlier in the 1910s. When a dispute about reform in the country leads to a hardliner coup against the country's reformist leader, Pushilin heeds the voice of the people and demands that the UFUR be done away with and replaced with numerous democratic states- a vision that ultimately comes true.
Viktor Eberharter
(see "the Miserable Ones" under Georg von Licht)
Josef Ibakov
1. Blood of the Crescent
In a semi-propagandized account of the siege of Sevastopol/Aqyar, Ibakov accuses the Crimean army of committing various war crimes during its fight for independence from Ukraine.
Michael Matsudaira
1. The Fading Sun
In an alternate timeline, the Japanese shogunate defeats Go-Daigo and initiates a period of isolation that leaves Japan technologically backward and abused by foreign powers. Despite a push to modernize and gain the respect of world leaders, Japan is largely destroyed after several brash and dictatorial leaders wreck the country, leaving it devastated. The story ends with the few remaining Japanese chafing under Chinese rule.
2. Unit 731
Written as an unofficial partner to Blessed are the Persecuted, this book follows the bloody trail left by a Japanese army unit committing mass crimes against Chinese civilians and Americaner POWs in a dystopic war-torn world.
Gavriil fon Likht
1. The Great World Wars
Fon Likht, taking a page from his father's books, writes about a hellish world dominated by poor economics, warring nations, technology used for genocide, and brutal dictators. The book follows the world through two Great Wars that leave much of the world devastated and millions dead, and foments decades of international division and distrust. In the end, every one of the book's six main characters dies, whether they 'won' the wars or 'lost' them.
2. The Life and Times of Edward Harper
Canadian intelligence worker Edward Harper realizes that the Royal Intelligence Agency of Canada is breaking Canadian privacy laws with its spying program, and decided to steal classified documents and leak them to the press. Fleeing to the Confederacy, he begins releasing the documents, which reveal Canadian spying at home and abroad. The news spreads like wildfire, and he is variously declared a hero and a traitor as a global debate on surveillance begins. The book ends with the RIA's head telling the press that Harper has only released a tiny fraction of the data he took.
3. A Time of Destruction (original)
Nongbu Jeonghwan, a member of the Yeojeon ethnic minority, begins to lead a fight against the oppressive rule of the Henkyoese Emperor Go-Yowai and his bloodthirsty general Satsujin Hijoshikina. The ability of the Henkyoese to respond is hampered by Henkyo's war on the Free States of Terranova; however, Satsujin's army are still able to exterminate and enslave hundreds of Yeojeon. Seeking peace, Nongbu meets Satsujin to discuss peace; Satsujin kills him. Nongbu is ultimately avenged by his rival and Deputy Chancellor, Jyeonlyeong Dongmaeng: Jyeonlyeong strangles Satsujin and forces Henkyo to let Yeojeonia become independent.
Muhammad Abbas
1. The Crescent and the Star
In a book postulated to be Rumite propaganda by some, Abbas describes a Middle East without Rum as a Middle East in total chaos. Islamic radicalism, ideological coups, ethnic feuds, and Zionism all lead to the deaths of thousands and permanent instability, which is taken advantage of by various foreign powers seeking to exploit the region.
Chodren Dawa
1. The Effects of Leftism
The book begins in a totally uniform world- however, we soon learn that the hero, known only as Equality, has a hard time fitting in. He falls in love with a woman named Liberty, and after the government tries too hard to impress conformity on them, they form a rival society that brings back individuality to the world.
2. Obscurity
Architect Wei Nianqing and his colleague Se Jidu face difficulties as they lose out to architects better at sweet-talking clients. However, people eventually turn to Wei and Se's more inspired and modern architecture. Se turns on Wei and attempts to destroy his empire and kill him; ultimately, though, Wei comes out on top.
3. The East is Red
In Chodren Dawa's first play, she describes an alternate future where China is not as fortunate as it was. In several wars over opium and rebellions over everything the emperor does, China grows steadily weaker and more divided before having the monarchy overthrown and a period of total warlordism break out. As the period of warlordism ends, a period of ideological warfare breaks out(supported by the Japanese, who invade and establish various puppets). Ultimately, China winds up under a group of dictatorial rulers who must be defeated by the government-in-exile of China's brief period of democracy. After the return of peace and liberty to the country, it is unified, strong, and happy at last.
4. The Asian Manifesto
Chodren Dawa here outlines her plans for the creation of a libertarian Asian Union, dominated by China. Though initially weak, this Asian Union would grow stronger and stronger as time passed, eventually uniting Asia under one banner once and for all.
Jean-Louis Bouclier
1. The Impure Blood
The first play based on the Righteous Cause, Bouclier's work is a pro-Guyanese and anti-Brazilian propaganda piece in which Eichemann dies in Südamerika and is replaced by violent revolutionary Maxmilien Bouclier, who united the world by force and exterminated his opposition to bring about utopia.
Karl Jung / Rong Kai-er
1. The Autumn of Empires (book)
The fictional realm of Ojczyzna, once a great empire, has been divided between the nations of Westens, Südens, and Dong, which has left the people demoralized and abused. Farmer Alojzy Swidzinski takes up the cause of his country and leads a campaign to liberate his homeland from foreign rule. Alojzy is initially successful, and named King of Ojczyzna as reward, but is murdered and replaced by a turncoat who returns foreign rule to the country.
Li Xiagong
1. The Final Solution
In the most hated book ever written, Li Xiagong calls for the total extermination of 'Japonic races', declaring them to be inferior to 'Sinic' races. He also calls for the Chinese Empire to grow significantly, to the point where it spans the entire Orient.
Tamerlan Jaharnaev
1. The Autumn of Empires (play)
Based on Karl Jung's book, this play adaptation replaced Dong with Vostok(an anti-Russian move, which in unsurprising given that Jaharnaev was Caucasian). The ending is also modified: Alojzy's brother Wladyslaw finally finishes his brother's dream and guarantees Ojczyzna's independence.
Ardghal O'Berach
1. Fruit of Freedom
The author outlines his idea of a united, independent Ireland, free from British rule and run by a secular High King and Catholic clergy. O'Berach also outlined plans to promote Irish culture and to 'cleanse' the island of English influence. However, he warns, the book is for Ireland only, and is not for foreign use.
2. Ireland and the World
Furious at global support for Britain, O'Berach returns to criticize the world standing by as the British exploited Ireland. He also proposed that an independent Ireland should colonize Africa or the Caribbean. He also advocates ethnic nationalism globally.
Mao Peng-hui
1. Entrance to Heaven
A Chinese family moves to the imperial colony in Chinese East Africa to seek a better life for themselves and to 'civilize the continent'. When stranded, a group of kind but backward Africans and heroic Chinese soldiers help them to Tianshang. The book was released to promote colonization of Africa by East and West alike, portraying Africans as savages in need of civilizing by foreign powers.
Phillip Engel
1. The Fates of Men
The play version of the Righteous Cause endorsed by Georg von Licht himself. The Fates of Men stole bits and pieces of the other plays about the story to create something of an anthology, containing something from every one.
Antero de Quental
1. Slaughter of the Moors
Ibrahim Muladi, a wealthy Moor, rebels against the oppressive Prince João of Algarve. Establishing a small Moorish emirate, they briefly experience independence before the Portuguese reclaim the land and slaughter the Moors en masse, leaving Algarve a barren wasteland.
2. Twilight of the Peace
After criticizing the Portuguese monarchy and being driven out of the country, João Llano travels the world searching for a place to start anew. Llano's unfortunate association with the dimwitted Antero results in them being driven from Guyane, Italy, and the Confederacy. Ultimately, Llano drowns Antero and returns to Portugal- where he is pardoned on the morning of his execution.
Haruna Hachisuka
1. The Eternal Soldiers
A six-part series focusing on the rebellion led by Riku Sukaiuoka against the Dark Shogun, once Riku's father Anakin. Riku briefly falls in love with her long-lost sister Kiki, but the relationship doesn't last.
2. The Story of Haruka Kamakura
An adapted form of the Chinese fable of Hua Mulan, this story follows Haruka Kamakura in her adventure to find honor and justice through the Imperial Restoration of 1331 and the later Kyoto Rebellion of 1340.
3. Freedom in the Stars
In the year 2009, British bureaucrat William MacAlister must face the Confederate States of America, led by President Lewis Wright and General Robert Jenkins, to reveal the fact that it has revived its slaving practices, banned by the CSA in 1891, and taken them into space. The Confederacy, in the process, makes several other incriminating errors. Ultimately, the rest of the world forcefully balkanizes the Confederacy, dividing it into several small puppet states.
August Breckenridge
1. The Battlestar
After the United States of Kobol are destroyed by the evil robotic Cylons, who view humanity as inherently cruel and evil, the surving humans- led by President Rosalyn Laurent and Captain Frederick Adamson- must face against the Cylons and their allies, largely represented by Cylon Model Six and Dr. Hadrian Callis, as they attempt to find the long-lost thirteenth state of Earth.
2. A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Shukhov
Based off of Gavriil fon Likht's time in a Russian gulag, this book follows Ivan Shukhov as he attempts to survive a ten-year jail term for a crime he did not commit. The book describes his relations with the other members of his work gang: Tyurin, the foreman; Yushenko, his assistant; Klevshin, a former soldier; Markovich, an intellectual; Kilgas, a Lithuanian separatist; Golpchik, a boy accused of treason; Fetyukov, a prisoner for decades; Buynovsky, a former naval officer; and Leshenov, a Baptist. Ultimately, the book says that it was only their unity and solidarity that allowed them to keep living.
Jeffery Date
1. Seigi no Gen'in
Japanese operatic adaptation of The Righteous Cause.
2. Dai Nippon Teikoku
Sengoku Games play for 1837, it illustrates numerous points in Japanese history, and highlights the mantle of Meiji's glorious reign.
3. The Sunrise of Nations
A play to illustrate the unity of nations, involves numerous national anthems and representation of world leaders as of 1837.
4. Aux Armes Citroyens
An opera about the French Revolution and the cause of the Jacobins and later, Napoleon Bonaparte.
Hirosuke Satsuma
1. Kamikōgō
First publication that started the Sanguinist Movement in Japan. Called Meiji the "daughter of the Lord" and declared her a divine person. Sparked massive religious movement around Meiji in Japan after her death in 1837.
Oleksandr Kostiuk
1. Moya Borotʹba
"My Struggle", a book that highlights the plans of Kostiuk against the Crimeans, whom he blames for most of the world's problems. Considered Nazi propaganda and banned in most nations who forbid Nazi imagery and symbolism.
Grigory Petrovsky
1. Petrovsky's Testament
Grigory Petrovsky, sensing his coming death wrote his ideas on how the Soviet government should change into a more democratic state. It criticized current Soviet leaders and heavily suggested removing Pavlenko from power, as Petrovsky viewed Pavlenko's reforms to both the soviet system and to the government as totalitarian. Petrovsky died a few years later and the book was both published and distributed throughout the USSR by Ivan Kasparov.
Lev Bronstein / Leon Trotsky
1. Animal Farm
Written as an attack on the brand of communism employed by the USSR, Leon Trotsky tells the story of the Azovsk Farm. The overworked and mistreated animals overthrow their human masters, seeking to create a utopia under the principles of their ideology, Animalism. However, the farm's pigs quickly become a ruling class, usurping the role that humans once held. They replace the Seven Commandments of Animalism with a single one that upholds their ultimate authority: all animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.
Ayn Rand
1. Atlas Shrugged
Ayn Rand describes a nation similar to the Confederacy and Canada in an unspecified time. She follows the entrepreneur Dagny Taggart, who must attempt to keep the Taggart Transcontinental rail lines open in spite of collectivization and statism and mitigate the poor decisions of her brother James. Dagny becomes an associate of steel magnate Hank Rearden, and the two notice that many other magnates are destroying their empires and vanishing. Searching for the inventor of an advanced motor, they find John Galt, who invented it- and is convincing tycoons to vanish as a form of strike against statism. Dagny refuses and returns to her home- but Galt follows her, seizes a radio station, and delivers a speech to explain the ideology of objectivism. The government collapses and Galt is picked to be the new leader of the country.
Chaimas Galvanauskas / Hayim ben Tziyon
1. The Hope
Yitzhak Katsav, a Sephardi Jew living in al-Mayiquh, becomes the leader of a Zionist group which quickly becomes the international Zionist World Congress. He goes before the League of Nations, and gives an impassioned speech, pleading for the League to return Israel to the Jews, telling them that the only way for the long-persecuted Jews to ever know liberty and peace is to return home. The League agrees, and Katsav becomes leader of the new country. Within two years of Israel's creation, however, Rum invades, seeking to exterminate the Jews and reincorporate the territory. The international response is swift and harsh, and soon, Rum is divided up between its various ethnic groups, with the various new nations agreeing to work together in peace and cooperation to bring about a future where all people can life happy lives.
2. No Place Like Home
By now something of a formal rival to Carasso- with Galvanauskas representing the Zionists and Carasso the anti-Zionists- Galvanauskas refutes Carasso's proposals for the creation of a new Jewish state in Africa, as well as attempts by Russia to do the same with their Jewish Autonomous Oblast. Galvanauskas claims that no place but the Promised Land of Israel could ever serve as a true home for the Jews, and compares Carasso's proposal to the deportation of Native Americans to reservations by Canada and the Confederacy.
Emmanuel Carasso / Ferdinand Eichemann
1. The Lies of Zionism
Penned as a response to the growth of Zionism among most of the world's Jews, Greek Jew Emmanuel Carasso's "truth against Zionism" treatise claims that the global Zionist movement had no legitimate grounds for seeking the return of the Holy Land to Jewish hands. Carasso praises Rum's just and fair rule of the Holy Land, and says that it belongs to Christians and Muslims as much as it does to Jews.
2. A New Zion
A follow-up to his own work, The Lies of Zionism, Carasso floats the idea of creating a new Israel in Africa, carving out land from a European or Asian colony and creating a Jewish state. He says in the book that it would satiate the Zionist desire for a Jewish homeland, and allow for Rum to retain it's own territorial integrity. Proposed lands are Japanese Mozambique, British Rhodesia and Chinese Madagascar but he says that "almost anywhere with fertile land would do wonderfully."
3. Beyond the Hill of Macedon
Turning his attention from Zionism to revanchism, Carasso advocates for countries giving up their irredentist and nationalist territorial claims- as he views Rum's release of the Balkans to Yugoslavia. He says that aggressive nationalism is the ideology most likely to plunge the world into a second Great War, and advocates more global internationalism.
4. Roma Orientalis
Here Carasso expresses an approval of Benito Mussolini's statements that Italy and Rum should be more closely united as the descendants of Rome. He also proposes rebuilding the old ruined monuments of Rome and Byzantium. He closes the book by expressing his belief as a Jew that only Sunni Islam is legitimate, and that the Sunni Caliph or Calipha should rule supreme over all Muslims, and that Shiism, Andalism, and Shurism are illegitimate.
5. The Science of Slavs and Tatars
A horribly racist criticism of a horribly racist book, Carasso expresses his distaste for Professor Suprun's assertion that Ukrainians are inferior to Crimeans by calling the Crimeans no more than slaves and mud creatures. The book is almost universally condemned and is a massive black stain on an otherwise popular author.
Manami Hosokawa
1. A War of Brothers
A play depicting the Great War, opened for the first in 1899. The play depicts a Japanese soldier and a Confederate soldier's story as they fight on the frontlines of the Meiji Islands campaign. They encounter each other and soon discover that they are biological twins, seperated at birth on the Hawaiian Islands between an Americaner father and a Japanese mother. The father took the Confederate son back to the Confederacy and raised him in California, while the mother returned back to her home in Kyushu and raised the other son as Japanese. The two realize that they're more alike than different, despite being from two nations. They reconcile at the end of the war, and seperate, but remain in contact until they grow old, where they meet once again on December 7, 1941 in Pearl Harbor, for the last time.
Gaius leFevre
1. To Rome and Back
In this book, leFevre talks about the possible outcome of a war between France and Italy, held to reclaim the lost territories of Provence and Côte d'Azur. LeFevre concludes that- despite France's defeat in the recent Great War- a conflict between France and Italy would be laughably one-sided, with French forces easily fighting their way to Rome, taking it, and then fighting back to the French border.
2. Hell for Rome, Heaven for Paris
Here, leFevre mocks Italy's leadership, comparing its Emperors to the old Roman emperors Caligula and Nero. He thoroughly satirizes the Italian political system and mocks its politicians. He contrasts this with his perception of French politics: calm, rational, and proud.
3. 1892: A Part Lost
LeFevre now accuses Italy of barbarism in its conquest of Provence-Cote d'Azur, and the displacement of French that followed. He details French civilians being forced out of their homes and stripped of their lands, to be replaced by Italian citizens. He also accuses the Italian military of unfairly targeting French civilians on numerous occasions.
4. Amsterdam a Mystery
Turning his attention away from Italy, leFevre now questions the legitimacy of the Treaty of Utrecht, in which France lost Nord-Pas-de-Calais, Lorraine, and Provence-Cote d'Azur. He accuses the Dutch of working with other global powers- most notably Japan- to intentionally humiliate France on the global stage, and leave it crippled and divided.
5. Avignon Forever After
LeFevre now turns his attention towards religion. He praises the French Church, which he views as morally superior to other Christian churches. He also praises the isolated French city of Avignon, where the church is based.
6. Rome: Example of Sin
In contrast to his praise for Avignon, leFevre has nothing but bitter criticism for the Roman Catholic Church- which he views as a pit of debauchery, corruption, and immorality. He dismisses the Catholic clergy as a band of pedophiles and frauds.
7. Monarchism: Ideology of Evil
Here leFevre rails against the evils of monarchies, linking all of France's failures to monarchies and monarchism- absolute, constitutional, and ceremonial. He proposes that France ban monarchies and that the country's legislature be made more powerful to prevent autocracy.
Alaric Bisser
1. My Best Enemy
In the 1960s, a crippled France and a declining Germany work out an alliance out of mutual goals, in spite of centuries of conflict. Over the ensuing decades, France and Germany stand together against a communist Britain exporting the revolution, a Russian-Spanish-Dutch triumvirate, a Chinese war of colonial conquest in Africa, a massive fascist uprising in both countries, and a war to reclaim territories taken from them by their neighbors. After this final war, the French President and German Chancellor realize that the old animosity is gone, replaced by mutual friendship and admiration.
Benito Mussolini
1. Renovatio Imperii
This book describes an alternate where Italy conquers all of France, annexing it and committing a genocide against the French people and French culture before forcing Rum under Italian rule through political union. The book ends with both countries preparing to destroy the German and Russian 'barbarians'.
2. The Doctrine of Fascism
Mussolini now writes a political treatise, preaching his own version of the ideology of fascism(first adopted, ironically, by the French, who Mussolini despised). He praises the army and the emperor, dismissing Italy's democratic institutions as weak and corrupt. Mussolini proposes the creation of a militaristic autocracy that would bring France back to greatness- by force.
3. Magni Resurrecto
In his third book, Mussolini declares Italy to be the only successor to Western Rome, and Rum the only successor to Eastern Rome. He also expresses a great admiration for the British Empire. He also declares that Italy should attempt to rebuild the Roman Empire by force and conquer its former territories- excluding those held by Rum and Britain.
Antony Belinsky
1. The State of the Working Class
In a criticism of capitalism, Ukrainian-Romanian communist revolutionary Antony Belinsky describes the horrors of life for a poor laborer in the country through the perspective of a fictional Ukrainian-Romanian named Ciprian Ianscu. Ianscu works inhumane hours in slavelike and lethal conditions in a weaponry factory, for almost no reward whatsoever. Though originally intended only for Ukraine-Romania, it soon became a tome used by communist groups globally.
Alexander Yamato
1. Aboard the Circumstance
Emperor Alexander, nearing death after many years of rule, tells the story of his travels around the world as a young man. He also describes his meetings with various levels of society and various world leaders across the globe. He explains why he left on the trip(a vision of his grandmother, Akiko Meiji), and why he chose the countries that he did.
Mehmet Suprun
1. A Time of Destruction (Crimean edit)
A version of fon Likht's original novel, intensely edited to serve as anti-Caucasian literature. The Yeojeon are replaced by Azeris, and the Henkyoese are replaced with Georgians, in reference to the Holocaust that had occurred within Caucasia's borders.
2. The Science of the Crimean and the Ukrainian
A racist comparison of Crimeans to Ukrainians -- Suprun insists that Ukrainians are mentally, physically and in general, inferior to the Crimean Tatar, as a justification of segregation between the two races.
Unspecified / Unknown Author
1. AD 1951
The British play version of the Righteous Cause, based off of the Impure Blood, but lacking any joy to its ending. The main notable difference is the addition of weapons known as 'sun bombs'(nuclear weaponry).
2. The Deserter
Written in Italy in the early 1800s, this novel follows Adalfredo Capaccio, an Italian soldier during a war against the Ottomans. Deserting in Bosnia, he flees towards Italy to see his home and family- but is executed outside of Zagreb after being found and captured.
