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Royal Anarchy (RA) was a totalitarian regional organisation, first formed by a coalition of three unlikely nations on the basis that there is “Power through strength, and strength in numbers” (Bockeklasia’s Parliamentary message to its public at the founding of RA). It is remarkable for how its nations share very few common values (the three founding nations being of communist, fascist, and democratic political views) except for some sense of collective nationalism: it took seven attempts before the three founding nations were able to hold a stable regional conference once the Royal Anarchy collaboration was formed without it dissolving into a riot.

Despite the outward contempt between the leaders of the founding nations, they managed to agree on some common political policies, although each nation implemented them in a different manner. The prime example of this would be their totalitarian surveillance policies, which include implementation of CCTV and citizen ‘bar-coding’.

Group Sovereignty

Official Insignia of the Royal Anarchy. The Five-Pointed Star is a symbol used frequently throughout the Royal Anarchy's Departments and Consituants

While the nations within Royal Anarchy maintained their sovereignty and individual governments, most organisations and business within the region worked throughout the nations: for example, the most popular newspaper in the region was The Five-Edged Star, which published throughout all three founding countries. Perhaps one of the main factors influencing this is that each country speaks a variant of a regional tongue.

While each country operated its own government departments, the Royal Anarchy as a whole had several ministries that were contributed to by all the nations in the region which presided over regional affairs. By far the largest of these was the RA Ministry of Government Propaganda, which was responsible for both the issuing of regional propaganda to the participating nations and the design of said propaganda.

Use of the Media

Shortly before its collapse, Royal Anarchy came under fire from foreign nations about its extensive use of propaganda to maintain “national security and public calm” (RA Ministry of Government Propaganda, mission statement). Techniques used throughout the Royal Anarchy included speakers on street corners of major cities (RA Unified Propaganda Order, section 9) which played pre-recorded messages promoting civilian obedience (phrases such as "We are not corrupt", "Surveillance is for your own safety", "You will be happy" and "You are live on closed circuit television. Please do not swear.") were attacked as "brain washing", and the numerous pro-government posters to the same effect as "threatening". Critics wondered openly whether these extensive techniques were attempts to keep the governments from losing control of their population. These claims were countered by the fact that the RA Revolution Order categorically outlaws revolts of any description.

It should be noted that the public information speakers are still in use in all major Germanalasian cities and Lovik Carpathia, the nation that has risen from the ashes of the former "Transcarpathian Lovkia", has employed a similar system, somewhat extensively, to distribute communist propaganda.

Royal Anarchy Departments

This list covers only the departments of Royal Anarchy that were officially acknowledged in order of size (largest to smallest). Speculated departments are covered under ‘Unexplained interventions’.

RA Ministry of Government Propaganda

The largest department of the Royal Anarchy by a considerable margin, the RA Ministry of Government Propaganda was responsible for the design of totalitarian and nationalist propaganda through several areas of the media for the Royal Anarchy contributing nations. Early 2006, the RA Ministry of Publication was swallowed by this Ministry, making it over twice the size of the second largest department.

RA Ministry of Collective Defence

Except for the fact that this ministry was concerned with the defence of the Royal Anarchy from external threats rather than internal affairs, no information has ever been released about this department. A leaked document that was being sold to The Five-Edged Star before it disappeared in a police raid was alleged to contain information that this ministry was working closely with the Ministry of Government Propaganda. Interestingly, after the passing of the RA Foreign Relations Order, it became the only acknowledged department of the Royal Anarchy or its constituent nations to be involved with foreign affairs.

RA Ministry for Maintenance of Unity

Formally the ‘RA Ministry of Internal Peacekeeping’, this department was renamed as part of the early 2006 reforms of the Royal Anarchy so as to widen its applicability – previously the department was only involved in border disputes between the Royal Anarchy’s nations – and allow it to work with the RA Ministry of Government Propaganda.

RA Ministry of Unawareness

The smallest of the Royal Anarchy’s acknowledged departments was the RA Ministry of Unawareness. This department primarily concerns itself with setting the bounds of what can be taught in the participating nations’ schools to ensure “no one knows anything we don’t want them to” (RA Head of Unawareness Ministry, November 2004). The departmental motto was "Ignorance is Bliss".

Unexplained Interventions

While the internal policing of member states was left up to the national government themselves, officially, there were several reported interventions of the Royal Anarchy in the region’s participating countries that seem to be outside of the Royal Anarchy’s acknowledged direct responsibility leading up to the collapse of the Royal Anarchy collaboration itself.

The design reported present on the military helicopter in connection with the May 2005 incident. The initials are presumed to stand for 'secret police', although the existence of any such organisation is denied.

• May 2005, on the Autostrade section 6 of Bockeklasia outside the city of Cranack - motorists reported a helicopter marked with Royal Anarchy colours pulling over an armoured heavy goods vehicle, and approximately twenty to twenty five armed men in black uniforms apprehending the drivers and unloading several unidentified crates. This event was not acknowledged by the RA Ministry of Internal Peacekeeping, and was not mentioned in any official media.
• November 2005, on the Germanalasian Channel an unidentified, unmarked military submarine sunk one fishing vessel and boarded a second. Men in uniforms bearing the RA insignia apprehended the fishermen who appeared to be of Liliputian origin and then set an explosive on the boat before departing in the unmarked submarine.
• February 2006, soldiers in uniforms bearing the RA insignia were reported sighted in connection with the disappearance of seven branches of a prominent refugee Liliputian family that had come to Bockeklasia and Transcarpathian Lovkia two years prior. Both the disappearance and the mysterious soldiers were kept out of mainstream papers.

These three occurrences were the most reliable of many rumours, and appear to have been the three supposed events at the centre of them. They prompted speculation of some sort of RA Secret Police Service, but these rumours were hotly denied by both the governments of Royal Anarchy’s nations and the Royal Anarchy itself.

The Collapse of Royal Anarchy Control

Collapse in Beranostra

The increasingly totalitarian and oppressive style of Royal Anarchy came to a head in mid-2006. While several high-status members of the RA were travelling to Germanalasia's capital city of Beranostra, the terrorist organisation The Home Guard, stationed in Germanalasia's capital, lead an operation to assassinate them before they reached The Government Building. The Home Guard only managed to intercept a decoy convoy, and this drove the group to decide to storm The Government Building with what weapons they had smuggled into the city.

However, the group who ambushed the decoy convoy returned to find that their primary weaponry store in Beranostra was being stormed by Royal Anarchy officials, who had used the arrival of the RA ministers as a distraction. In the ensuing battle, the team which had attempted to intercept the RA ministers seized the opportunity and, with equipment from their second, reserve store, broke into The Government Building themselves.

The Royal Anarchy raid did not go as planned, and the fight between the terrorists and the RA military burst out onto the street. Several million Diadem Marks worth of damage was inflicted on the surrounding buildings, and the riot collapsed into a veritable battle.

The Alpha Minister of Germanalasia at the time, Alpha Minister Friedike, summoned the RA ministers he was playing host to and demanded to know why he hadn't been informed of this operation, and why he his permission wasn't required. At this news, the RA ministers realised that the operation to dispose of the terrorist cell was not going to plan, and one of the personnel, believed to be a general, declared a state of Marshall Law. When they resisted, the Alpha Minister and several of his Sub-Ministers were shot on the spot.

The order was given for the regular Germanalasia standing army to converge in the capital, but The Home Guard members who infiltrated the building prevented the message being sent. The RA general acting in charge of the county succeeded in contacting the RA HQ in Transcarpathian Lovkia, and called RA reinforcements.

As the battle in the streets escalated, a Home Guard member burst onto the streets in a stolen SAM truck and ploughed into lines of RA soldiers. He was gunned down, and as he died accidentally launched the entire battery into the main tower of The Government Building. Most of the massive central tower, which made the building one of the tallest in Germanalasia, crashed down into the streets below. The RA ministers in The Government Building died almost instantly, and only a few of The Home Guard who had entered the Building survived. Few government personnel were present at the time.

Transcarpathian Lovkia falls to Civil War

As RA forces converged on Germanalasia, the Administrative Centre in Transcarpathian Lovkia of the RA was attacked by the local branch of The Home Guard, who had already infiltrated it as cleaners. A cascade of home-made bombs hidden through the ICT sections of the Centres destroyed most of the files and most Royal Anarchy communication. Shortly afterwards, the terrorist cell stormed the building and assassinated any high-ranking official they could find.

With most of the Royal Anarchy troops already marching into Germanalasia and no way to recall them after the loss of all the ICT facilities, a few days later the remain RA soldiers broke into the Premier's palace and lead a military coup, trying to stabilise the country. The palace guardsmen resisted, and a fight broke out. By the time the troops had reached the Premier's quarters, they found he had hung himself having just read a confidential report that announced the collapse of RA control in Germanalasia and in most of Transcarpathian Lovkia. With their leader dead, what was left of civil contentment evaporated. Looting escalated, and the country was in civil war.

Bockeklasia's Nuclear Scare

In Bockeklasia, the loss of Royal Anarchy control in Germanalasia and in Transcarpathian Lovkia had caused the RA headquarters to be on high alert, and most of the forces sent to Germanalasia were recalled. What leads the RA had on the local branch of The Home Guard were followed up and known members executed, but the threat that did come came from different quarters. The Order of The Imperial Sword, a religious cult popular with several high-ranking military members took control of one of Bockeklasia's nuclear missile silos, on the authority of their High Priest, who declared the end of the world was approaching and that The Order must be preserved.

While the nuclear missiles were captured not to be used against the government, Royal Anarchy officials were too paranoid from the collapse of control in the other regions to allow them to be wielded by anyone other than themselves or the government. All Royal Anarchy troops were called to the nation from Germanalasia, and a military operation to reclaim the silo was held, to no avail. A fire-fight at the facility resulted in the Royal Anarchy ordering the area to be carpet-bombed.

The destruction this did to the surrounding area and several homes resulted in civil unrest, and eventually Bockeklasia too fell into civil war.

The RA troops which arrived in Beranostra were called to Bockeklasia before they could re-establish the government, and Germanalasia, the only of the three constituent nations to maintain a large army outside of the Royal Anarchy was left to re-establish their government on their own, the Royal Anarchy completely dissolved.

External links

• Royal Anarchy Ministry of Government Propaganda