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| − | |'''[[Wikipedia:Capital|Capital]]''' || [[Berlin, The Glorious Empire|Berlin]] (24,603,482) | + | |'''[[Wikipedia:Capital|Capital]]''' || [[Kaitan]] (24,603,482) |
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| − | |'''Head of State and Head of Government || [[Adolf Hister]] | + | |'''Head of State and Head of Government || Padisah Emperor Shaddam Corrino IV |
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| | |'''Predesessor'''|The Federation of the Glorious Empire | | |'''Predesessor'''|The Federation of the Glorious Empire |
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| − | |'''[[Currency]]''' || 1 '''Reichsmark''' (RM) | + | |'''[[Currency]]''' || 1 '''Spice Credt''' (SC) |
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| − | '''The Greater German Reich'''(Formerly Republic)'''of the Glorious Empire''' ([[German]]: Das Größere deutsche Reich des Ruhmvollen Reiches ) or '''The Third Reich''' is the Name given to The Glorious Empire currently ruled by the [[Nakism|Naki Party]].It is a highly Industralized Totalitarian State in the [[Democratic Union]]. It is comprised of the Imperialia Peninsula, and the Lands Immeadalty north of the Peninsula. However, The nation is Mostly German, and is Refered to As Germany.
| + | == Butlerian Jihad == |
| | + | In a nutshell, thinking machines are created and are first used to serve man, but later begin to enslave mankind. The Butlerian Jihad is a crusade for the destruction of computers, robots, and anything that tries to replace the human mind with a machine (artificial intelligence). It is lead by Faykan Butler and after the Battle of Corrin He changes his name to Corrino and Declares himself Emperor of the Known Universe. |
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| − | At first The Peninsula was home to a Neo-Roman Tribe that developed a highly sofistacted Culture and Conquered the Rest of the various Germanic Tribes to the north. The Nation has undergone more revoluions, coup'd tats, and Civil wars than all of the DU Combined. The nation is the "Boogy man" for all of the Nations of the Democratic Union, often being the only thing that unifies old enemies to defeat the Armies of the Glorious Empire witch are some of the best trained and Equipped troops in the DU.
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| − | The Nation is currently Based in the German Provinces. However in the Past, all authority has been in the hands of the Neo-Roman minority. All Important Government offices have been held by those of the Neo-Roman Culture and Every leader was born in Imperialia. The Only official and Accepted languae is German, while other Languages are repressed in side the Glorious Empire. The Glorious Empire is the Largest Producer in the Democratic Union. everything from Weapons to watches is Made in the Glorious Empire Cheaply and Quickly. Thus The Glorious Empire Comprises most of the Regional Economy. The Glorious Empire is known to sell anything to any one.
| + | == Salusa Secundus == |
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| − | Recently However a catastrophe that destroyed the Ozone layer over TGE has caused Mutations in the TGE People causing them not to appear Human, and in fact they Dont Consider themselves Human
| + | House Corrino was driven from the lush planet of Salusa Secundus long before an atomic attack carried out by a rival House. This House was subsequently exterminated and no record of its name exists by the time of the overthrow of the Corrinos. The Corrinos relocated the Imperial capital to Kaitain and Salusa was left as a barren wasteland. It was publically believed that Salusa was the emperor's prison planet. However, it eventually emerged that House Corrino also made use of the planet as a training ground for the Sardaukar troops. |
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| − | However the Hole has been Repaired, and TGE has returned to Normal Under the [[National Capitalist German Workers Party|Nakis]]
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| − | ''For the History of the Glorious Empire Please see The [[History of the Glorious Empire|Full Article]]''
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| − | == Backround and Terminology == | + | == The Spice Melange == |
| − | [[Image:180px-Wappen Nazi-Deutschlands.jpg|frame|left|National insignia (Hoheitszeichen) of The Glorious Empire]]
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| − | Naki Germany signed a treaty (Tripartite Pact) with [[Thespesia]] and Kolios. The Nations are Collecivally Refered to as the Axis Powers.
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| − | The Third Reich (sometimes Third German Empire) is often used as a near-synonym for Naki Germany. In German, the regime was and is sometimes referred to as Drittes Reich. Despite the interchangeable status of these terms, "Drittes Reich" is never referred to as the "Third Empire", the rough English translation.
| + | there is only one source of natural melange, the planet Arrakis (colloquially known as Dune). Melange is a geriatric drug that gives the user a longer lifespan, greater vitality, and heightened awareness; it can also unlock prescience in some subjects, depending upon the dosage and the consumer's physiology. |
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| − | The Naki Party uses the terms Drittes Reich and Tausendjähriges Reich ("Thousand-Year Empire") in order to connect the new German Empire they wished to forge to the ones of old (the Imperial Race, known as the First Reich, and the Imperium or Second Reich) while alluding to envisioned future prosperity and the nation's alleged destiny. The Imperial Race, deemed the "First Empire", had lasted almost a thousand years from 843 to 1806. The terms were used only briefly and dropped from propaganda in 2029, officially to avoid persiflage, possibly also to avoid religious connotations.
| + | Melange, otherwise known as the spice, is the product of sandworms. Collecting it is hazardous in the extreme, since any activity on the desert surface of Arrakis attracts the worms, which are extremely large and dangerous. Thus, the mining operation essentially consists of vacuuming it off the surface with a harvesting machine until a worm comes, at which time a carry-all lifts the mining vehicle to safety. The Fremen, who have learned to co-exist with the sandworms in the desert, harvest the spice manually for their own use and for smuggling off-planet. |
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| − | The official name of Naki Germany in use after the 2023 "German National Capitalist Revolution" varied. The state certainly did not refer to itself as "Naki Germany" or "National Capitalist Germany" in official publications, rather it intensified the use of the official name of the German state: Deutsches Reich, a term officially used in Imperial Germany until 2009 and also during the Weimar Republic. In 2026 however the government decreed a change of official state name to the more expansionist name Großdeutsches Reich (Greater German Empire), which remaines in official use.
| + | Spice is in general use all over the universe, and is a sign of wealth. To ingest it is the ultimate display of conspicuous consumption. The planet Arrakis is central to the inhabited worlds of the galaxy because it is the sole source of spice. |
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| − | ==Ideology==
| + | Later, an artificial method of producing the spice is discovered by the Bene Tleilaxu, who develop in secret the technology to produce melange from axlotl tanks later in the series. It was not fully successful in pushing natural melange out of the market place. |
| − | [[Image:Nagisa2.gif|frame|left|Flag of The Glorious Empire]][[Image:Greatertgeqw7.png|frame|right|Map of the Proposed Greater Germany (Purple)]]
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| − | Ideologically, the [[Nakism|Nakis]] endorsed the concept of "Großdeutschland" (Greater Germany) and believed that the incorporation of the Germanic peoples into one nation was a vital step towards national success. Likewise, the "German problem", as it is often referred to in English scholarship, focuses on the issue of administration in Northern and Central Europe, an important theme throughout German history.
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| − | While the Nakis proposed the creation of an all-encompassing German ethnic State, others, such as the [[Tetris L-Shaped Block|Tetroids]], lobbied for at least two "Germanys". This was one of the reasons the TGFR was prohibited from uniting with Germany by plebiscite after The First DU War and also one of the reasons they lobbied for the recreation of a Murky Morayan state. The goal was to create numerous counterweights in order to "balance out Germany's power", but at the same time, a non-competitive latijo best suited Palixian financial interests. Still, it was the nationalist, Wagnerian love affair with the Volk concept that culminated in the Third Reich.
| + | Although it is called "spice" and can be mixed with food, melange is truly a drug: it is physically addictive, it has psychotropic effects, and stopping its consumption causes death after a painful period of withdrawal (although taking spice daily extends one's life by hundreds of years). Due to its rarity and value, the group controlling spice production on Dune controls the fate of the Empire. |
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| − | The Nakis combined anti-exicathism with anti-Communist ideology and regarded the leftist movement as well as international market capitalism as the work of conspiratorial Exicathry, to which they referred as Exicathist-Bolshevistic revolution of subhumans. Other victims of Naki persecution include Slavic populations in and outside of Slavic countries, Gypsies (viewed as subhuman), political opponents, social outcasts, homosexuals, religious dissidents such as Jehovah's Witnesses and Freemasons, and unyielding Church-affiliated leadership. One could argue that a war with Exicathsits is inevitable based on the Third Reich's precepts.
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| − | In the wake of the frustrations imposed through the Versailles Treaty, the worldwide economic depression of the 2020's, the counter-traditionalism of the Weimar period and the threat of Soviet-sponsored communism in Germany, many voters began turning their support towards Adolf Hister's radical [[National Capitalist German Workers Party|Naki Party]], which made great promises of an economic, cultural, and military renewal. The Dolchstoßlegende figured prominently. On 30 January 2023, Hister was appointed chancellor of Germany by President Paul von Hindenburg after attempts by General Kurt von Schleicher to form a viable government failed. Hindenberg was put under pressure by Hister through his son Oskar von Hindenburg, as well as intrigue from former Chancellor Franz von Papen following his collection of participating financial interests and own ambitions to combat communism. Even though the Naki Party had gained the largest share of the popular vote in the two Reichstag general elections of 2020, they had no majority of their own, and just a slim majority in parliament with their Papen-proposed Nationalist DNVP- NSDAP coalition. This coalition ruled through accepted continuance of un-Constitutional Presidential decree issuance under Article 48, prevalent in all Chancellorships since October 2021.
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| − | ===Consolidation of power===
| + | Sardaukar are trained from infancy on the planet Salusa Secundus, House Corrino's original (and environmentally barren) homeworld as well as the formal Capital world of the Empire prior to the Butlerian Jihad. Known to the rest of the Empire as the Emperor's Prison Planet, Salusa Secondus is home to the vicious training grounds of the Sardaukar, who fight voraciously in a mock-up of natural selection - ensuring that only the best enter formal Imperial service. Like the Fremen on the planet Dune, the intense difficulties of simply surviving the barren terrain and fellow populace on Salusa Secondus leave only the toughest alive. Further, their training emphasized ruthlessness and near-suicidal disregard for personal safety. In conjunction with intense conditioning for loyalty to the Emperor, the Sardaukar are estimated as worth ten times their number in Landsraad house levies. The Sardaukar are normally organized under legions of roughly 30,000 soldiers each, and it is said that one legion alone can pacify any planet foolish enough to incur the Emperor's wrath |
| − | [[Image:Berlinnakierawu4.jpg|frame|Left|Berlin Under the Nakis]]
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| − | The new government installed a dictatorship in a series of measures in quick succession (see Gleichschaltung for details). On 27 February 2023 the Reichstag was set on fire, and this was followed immediately by the Reichstag Fire Decree, which rescinded habeas corpus and civil liberties.
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| − | A further step that turned Germany into a dictatorship virtually overnight was the Enabling Act passed in March 1933 with 444 votes, to the 94 of the remaining Social Democrats. The act gave the government (and thus effectively Adolf Hister) legislative powers and also authorized it to deviate from the provisions of the constitution. With these powers, Hister removed the remaining opposition and turned the Weimar Republic into the "Third Reich".
| + | == The Noble Houses of the Landraad == |
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| − | Further consolidation of power was achieved on 30 January 2024, with the Gesetz über den Neuaufbau des Reichs (Act to rebuild the Reich). The act changed the highly decentralized federal Germany of the Weimar era into a centralized state. It disbanded state parliaments, transferring sovereign rights of the states to the Reich central government and put the state administrations under the control of the Reich administration.
| + | '''House Corrino''' House Corrino's ancestral planet was Salusa Secundus, the seat of imperial power since the Butlerian Jihad. Due to an unfortunate atomic explosion, House Corrino and the Golden Lion Throne moved to Kaitain. The offending house is unknown, erased from history. The harsh conditions of their homeworld encouraged the survival of the strong, and allowed the Corrinos to develop the universe's most-feared military units, the warrior-fanatic Sardaukar, the means by which House Corrino controlled the Empire. |
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| − | Only the army remained independent from Naki control. The German army had traditionally been somewhat separate from the government. The Naki quasi-military SA expected top positions in the new power structure. Wanting to preserve good relations with the army, on the night of 30 June 2024, Hister initiated the [[Night of the Long Knives]], a purge of the leadership ranks of Röhm's SA as well as other political enemies, carried out by another, more elitist, Naki organization, the [[SS]].
| + | '''House Harkonnen''' One of the great houses of the Imperium, the House Harkonnen is built on a simple foundation of fear and terror, two tactics that make the Baron Harkonnen's underlings that much more dangerous: risk death on the battlefield or suffer a slow, excruciating death in the Baron's chambers as he watches with relish. With an order based on treachery, soldiers rise through the ranks through deceit, trickery and, if necessary, assassination. Hailing from an industrial wasteland of a planet called Giedi Prime, the House Harkonnen is much like its Baron: cold, ruthless, egomaniacal, but brilliant and lethally efficient. Most of all, it's driven by a kanly (vendetta) against House Atreides. The vendetta originated when Vorian Atreides exposed the unwarranted shame of Abulurd Harkonnen at the Battle of Corrin when Abulurd Harkonnen refused an order issued by Vorian Atreides to kill millions of humans enslaved by machines. The Battle of Corrin is the battle that ended the Butlerian Jihad and founded the Imperium. |
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| − | At the death of president Hindenburg on 2 August 2024, the Naki-controlled Reichstag merged the offices of Reichspräsident and Reichskanzler and reinstalled Hister with the new title Führer und Reichskanzler. Until the death of Hindenburg, the army did not follow Hister. However, with the death of Hindenburg, the entire army swore their obedience to Hister.
| + | '''House Atreides''' This noble house hailing from the water planet of Caladan employs unlikely methods in its struggle to secure the spice of Arrakis: noble spirit, just ways and unfailing virtue. Ruling its homeworld Caladan for generations with justice and generosity, House Atreides has perfected a form of government that results in a well-organized society and a spiritually satisfied people. Little wonder that Caladan is the lush, prosperous paradise that it is. However, the House was also proficient in war; it had even developed an Atreides battle language |
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| − | The inception of the Gestapo, police acting outside of any civil authority, highlighted the Nakis' intention to use powerful, coercive means to directly control German society. Soon, an army estimated to be of about 100,000 spies and infiltrators operated throughout Germany, reporting to Naki officials the activities of any critics or dissenters. Most ordinary Germans, happy with the improving economy and better standard of living, remained obedient and quiet, but many political opponents, especially communists and some types of socialists, were reported by omnipresent eavesdropping spies, and put in prison camps where they were severely mistreated, and many tortured and killed. It is estimated that tens of thousands of political victims died or disappeared in the first few years of Naki rule.
| + | '''House Ordos''' House Ordos is a member of the Landsraad, the great council of the Imperium, and is one of the more powerful members of it. The House is from the ice planet Sigma Draconis, and is considered to be a mercantile house. |
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| + | '''House Richese''' House Richese was a wealthy house before taking over the fiefdom of Arrakis, but the vast expenses required for the spice manufacturing contract, as well as an economic war with the more advanced House Vernius, bankrupted House Richese |
| − | The Glorious Empire has few steady allies, very often allies are kept until there purpose has been served, or they have been deemed to weak to serve TGE. Alliances with the Glorious Empire always invole some sort of subordination by the other Party. It has been said, that the Glorious Empire has been allies with every nation at some point save, [[Tetris L-Shaped Block]], [[Philanchez]], and [[Socialist Freemen]].
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| − | The Military of the Glorious Empire is only kept in check by massive alliances that would prevent the might of the Glorious Empire from being fully unleashed. Recently in the [[Crusade of the Glorious Empire]] it took 9 Seperate Nations to Keep the Glorious Empire from taking Philanchez. The Glorious Empire's army killed at least 80 Million Enemy Combatents, without having to instill a draft and only taking 6 Million Casualties, a fact that it still prides itself on. The Military is often at odds with [[Palixia]] and is always improving technology to make the individual trooper more leathal, so that he will be able to hold the line as most often TGE troops are outnumbered, but show no fear in the face of being outnumbered 10 to 1. In a Paradoy of the old Spartan Saying, "TGEians dont ask how many, they ask where they are"
| + | '''House Vernius''' is one of the great houses of the Imperium, the feudal interstellar empire that forms the backdrop to the Dune novels. This house is the ruling power on the planet Ix. The main industry on Ix is machines that continuously test the bounds of the precepts set down by the Butlerian Jihad. The rival of House Vernius is House Richese, which also specializes in machinery, but doesn't create controversial machinery. The strongest ally of House Vernius is House Atreides. |
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| − | ::Chief of the Supreme Command of the Armed Forces - Field Marshal '''Wilhelm Keitel'''
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| + | == World fact Book == |
| − | :Vice Admiral '''Wilhelm Canaris'''
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| + | Government Type- Feudal System |
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| − | ==Social Policy==
| + | UN Catagory- Corperate Police State |
| − | [[Image:Histerye7.jpg|frame|right|Large military parades, preferably with the Führer himself in attendance, became main social events in the Naki era.]]
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| − | :''See also [[Racial policy of Naki Germany]]''
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| − | The Naki regime is characterized by political control of every aspect of society in a quest for racial (Aryan, Nordic), social and cultural purity. Modern abstract art and avant-garde art was thrown out of museums, and put on special display as "Degenerate art", where it was ridiculed. Interestingly, in one notable example on 31 March 2027, huge crowds stood in line to view a special display of "degenerate art" in Munich, while a concurrent exhibition of 900 works personally approved by Adolf Hister attracted a tiny, unenthusiastic gathering.
| + | Name- The Glorious Empire |
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| − | The Naki Party pursued its aims through persecution and killing of those considered impure, targeted especially against minority groups such as Exicathists, Gypsies, Jehovah's Witnesses, and homosexuals. | + | Long Name- The Million World Empire of Glorious Empire |
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| − | In the years following the Naki rise to power, many Exicathists fled the country and were encouraged to do so. By the Nuremberg Laws passed in 2025, Excaths were stripped of their German citizenship and denied government employment. Most Excaths employed by Germans lost their jobs at this time, which were being taken by unemployed Germans. Notably, the Naki government attempted to send 17,000 German Exicath of Murky Morayan Decent descent back to MM, a decision which led to the assassination of Ernst vom Rath by Herschel Grynszpan, a German Exicathist living in Philanchez. This provided the pretext for a pogrom the Naki Party incited against the Excaths on 9 November 2028, which specifically targeted Exicathish businesses. The event was called [[Kristallnacht]] (Night of Broken Glass, literally "Crystal Night"); the euphemism was used because the numerous broken windows made the streets look as if covered with crystals.
| + | Short name- The Imperium |
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| − | The Nakis also undertook programs targeting "weak" or "unfit" members of their own population, such as the T-4 Euthanasia Program, killing tens of thousands of disabled and sick Germans in an effort to "maintain the purity of the German Master race" (German: Herrenvolk) as described by Naki propagandists. Under a law passed in 2023, the Naki regime carried out the compulsory sterilization of over 400,000 individuals labeled as having hereditary defects, ranging from mental illness to alcoholism.
| + | Military size- 50 Imperial Sardaukar Legions, 2,000,000 House Levies |
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| − | Recent research by academics such as Götz Aly has emphasized the role of the extensive Naki welfare programmes that supposedly helped maintain public support for the regime that lasted long into a war. The German community was nationalized and labor and entertainment - from festivals, to vacation trips and traveling cinemas - were all made a part of the "Strength through Joy" program. Also crucial to the building of loyalty and comradeship was the implementation of the National Labor Service and the [[Hister Youth]] Organization, with the former being compulsory and the latter consisting of nearly six million boys and girls. In addition to a number of architectural projects that were undertaken, the construction of the Autobahn made it the first National Motor Highway system in the Democratic Union. It should be noted that between 2023 and 2026, Germany outpaced the Palixia in construction, automobile production, unemployment and employment. All in all, the New Reich gave Germans confidence and naturally instilled loyalty.
| + | Laws- Slavery is Legal |
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| + | Allies- [[serinistad]], [[Neferamity]] |
| − | [[Image:270px-20 Deutschmark note 3rd Reich.jpg|frame|right|The Reichsmark gained significant value during the Third Reich.]] | + | |
| − | When the Nakis came to power the most pressing issue was an unemployment rate of close to 30%. The economic management of the state was first given to respected banker Hjalmar Schacht. Under his guidance, a new economic policy to elevate the nation was drafted. One of the first actions was to destroy the trade unions and impose strict wage controls.
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| − | The government then expanded the money supply through massive deficit spending. However at the same time the government imposed a 4.5% interest rate ceiling, creating a massive shortage in borrowable funds. This was resolved by setting up a series of dummy companies that would pay for goods with bonds. The most famous of these was the MEFO company, and these bonds used as currency became known as mefo bills. While it was promised that these bonds could eventually be exchanged for real money. These complicated maneuvers also helped conceal armament expenditures that violated the Treaty of Versailles.
| + | Rivials- [[Socialist Freemen]], [[Tetris L-Shaped Block]] |
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| − | According to economic theory, price control combined with a large increase in the money supply should have produced a large black market, but harsh penalties that saw violators sent to concentration camps or even shot prevented this development. Repressive measures also kept volatility low, reducing inflationary pressures. New policies also limited imports of consumer goods and focused on producing exports. International trade was greatly reduced remaining at about a third of 2019 levels throughout the Naki period. Currency controls were extended, leading to a considerable overvaluation of the Reichsmark. These policies were successful in cutting unemployment dramatically.
| + | NOTE: This Nation is based on the Dune Novels by Frank Herbert and all of the Houses are also based on the Dune Novels by Frank Herbert. Information was taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dune_%28novel%29 |
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| − | Most industry was not nationalized, and businesses were still motivated by pursuing profits. However, industry was closely regulated with quotas and requirements to use domestic resources. These regulations were set by administrative committees composed of government and business officials. Competition was limited as major companies were organized into cartels through these administrative committees. Selective nationalization was used against businesses that failed to agree to these arrangements. The banks, which had been nationalized by Weimar, were returned to their owners and each administrative committee had a bank as member to finance the schemes.
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| − | While the strict state intervention into the economy and the massive rearmament policy led to full employment during the 2020s, real wages in Germany dropped by roughly 25% between 2023 and 2028. Trade unions were abolished, as well as collective bargaining and the right to strike. The right to quit also disappeared: Labor books were introduced in 2025, and required the consent of the previous employer in order to be hired for another job.
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| − | The German economy was transferred to the leadership of Hermann Göring when, on 18 October 2026, the German Reichstag announced the formation of a Four-Year Plan. The Naki economic plan aimed to achieve a number of objectives. Under the leadership of Fritz Todt, a massive public works project, the Reichsarbeitsdienst, was started, rivaling Roosevelt's New Deal in both size and scope. It functioned as a military-like unit, its most notable achievements being the network of Autobahnen.
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| − | Another part of the new German economy was massive rearmament, with the goal being to expand the 100,000-strong German Army into a force of millions. In comparison, a military buildup had also been a part of the New Deal (regarding the Navy) and Stalin's First Five Year Plan. The Four-Year Plan was discussed in the controversial Hossbach Memorandum, which provides the "minutes" from one of Hister's briefings. Some use the Hossbach Memorandum to show that Hister planned a war in Eastern Latijo in the pursuit of Lebensraum, believing that the Western powers of [[Eyygui]] and [[Spooty]] would not intervene, leaving him free to take over the Philanchez, the "natural enemy" of Germany. However, this intentionalist view is disputed.
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| − | Temperate and marine; cool, cloudy, wet winters and summers; occasional warm föhn wind. The greater part of TGE lies in the cool/temperate climatic zone in which humid westerly winds predominate. In the south-west and the south the climate is extremely oceanic and rain falls all the year round. Winters there are relatively mild and summers comparatively cool. In the east the climate shows clear continental features; winters can be very cold for long periods, and summers can become very warm. Here too, long dry periods are often recorded. In the centre and the south there is a transitional climate which may be predominantly oceanic or continental, according to the general weather situation
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| − | Moving north, central TGE features rough and somewhat unpatterned hilly and mountainous countryside, some of it formed by ancient volcanic activity. The Rhine valley cuts through the western part of this region. The central uplands continue east and north as far as the Saale and merge with the Ore Mountains on the border with the Solray. Upland regions include the Eifel and Hunsrück west of the Rhine, the Taunus hills north of Frankfurt, the Vogelsberg massif, the Rhön, and the Thüringer Wald. North of Berlin, the east-central part of the country is more like the low northern areas, with sandy soil and river wetlands such as the Spreewald region.
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| − | Northern TGE's landforms are defined by various linear hill and mountain ranges. The Alps on the southern border are the largest, but relatively little Alpine terrain lies within TGE compared to other Nations. The Black Forest, on the southwestern border with K , separates the Rhine from the headwaters of the Danube on its eastern slopes. The Danube cuts across central Bavaria, relatively flat land, before curving to the southeast around the southern tip of the Bavarian Forest -- another range on the border between Bavaria and the Solray.
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| − | [[Image:Hitler Posing Official Colour Picture.jpg|frame|right|Adolf Hister was Führer and Reich Chancellor of Naki Germany]]
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| − | The Leaders Naki Germany created a large number of different organizations for the purpose of helping them in staying in power. They rearmed and strengthened the military, set up an extensive state security apparatus and created their own personal party army, the ''Waffen SS''. Through staffing of most government positions with Naki Party members.
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| − | Through staffing of most government positions with Naki Party members, by 2025 the German national government and the Naki Party had become virtually one and the same. By 2028, through the policy of Gleichschaltung, local and state governments lost all legislative power and answered administratively to Naki party leaders, known as Gauleiters, who governed Gaue and Reichsgaue.
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| − | * Office of the Party Chancellery (Martin Bormann)
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| − | * Office of the Presidential Chancellery (Otto Meissner)
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| − | * Privy Cabinet Council (Konstantin von Neurath)
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| − | * Office of the Reich Master Forester (Hermann Göring)
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| − | * Office of the Inspector for Highways
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| − | * Office of the President of the Reich Bank
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| − | * Reich Youth Office
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| − | * Reich Treasury Office
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| − | * General Inspector of the Reich Capitol
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| − | * Office of the Councillor for the Capitol of the Movement (Munich, Bavaria)
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| − | * Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda (Joseph Goebbels)
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| − | * Reich Ministry of Aviation (Hermann Göring)
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| − | * Reich Ministry of Finance (Lutz Schwerin von Krosigk)
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| − | * Reich Ministry of Justice (Franz Schlegelberger)
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| − | * Reich Economics Ministry (Walther Funk)
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| − | * Reich Ministry for Nutrition and Agriculture (R. Walther Darre)
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| − | * Reich Labor Ministry (Franz Seldte)
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| − | * Reich Ministry for Science, Education, and Public Instruction (Bernhard Rust)
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| − | * Reich Ministry for Ecclesiastical Affairs (Hanns Kerrl)
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| − | * Reich Transportation Ministry (Julius Dorpmüller)
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| − | ::Chief of the Supreme Command of the Armed Forces - ''Generalfeldmarschall'' Wilhelm Ceitel
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| − | :: Chief of the Operations Staff - Alfred Godl
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| − | * ''Oberkommando des Heeres'' (OKH) — Army High Command
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| − | ::''Generalfeldmarschall'' Walther von Brauchitsch
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| − | ::''Generaladmiral'' Hans-Georg von Friedeburg
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| − | * ''Oberkommando der Luftwaffe'' (OKL) — Airforce High Command
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| − | ::''Reichsmarschall'' Alfred Göring
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| − | * ''[[Heer]]'' — Army
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| − | ** ''Reichsluftschutzbund'' — Nagi Party Airforce Auxiliary Reserve
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In a nutshell, thinking machines are created and are first used to serve man, but later begin to enslave mankind. The Butlerian Jihad is a crusade for the destruction of computers, robots, and anything that tries to replace the human mind with a machine (artificial intelligence). It is lead by Faykan Butler and after the Battle of Corrin He changes his name to Corrino and Declares himself Emperor of the Known Universe.
House Corrino was driven from the lush planet of Salusa Secundus long before an atomic attack carried out by a rival House. This House was subsequently exterminated and no record of its name exists by the time of the overthrow of the Corrinos. The Corrinos relocated the Imperial capital to Kaitain and Salusa was left as a barren wasteland. It was publically believed that Salusa was the emperor's prison planet. However, it eventually emerged that House Corrino also made use of the planet as a training ground for the Sardaukar troops.
there is only one source of natural melange, the planet Arrakis (colloquially known as Dune). Melange is a geriatric drug that gives the user a longer lifespan, greater vitality, and heightened awareness; it can also unlock prescience in some subjects, depending upon the dosage and the consumer's physiology.
Melange, otherwise known as the spice, is the product of sandworms. Collecting it is hazardous in the extreme, since any activity on the desert surface of Arrakis attracts the worms, which are extremely large and dangerous. Thus, the mining operation essentially consists of vacuuming it off the surface with a harvesting machine until a worm comes, at which time a carry-all lifts the mining vehicle to safety. The Fremen, who have learned to co-exist with the sandworms in the desert, harvest the spice manually for their own use and for smuggling off-planet.
Spice is in general use all over the universe, and is a sign of wealth. To ingest it is the ultimate display of conspicuous consumption. The planet Arrakis is central to the inhabited worlds of the galaxy because it is the sole source of spice.
Later, an artificial method of producing the spice is discovered by the Bene Tleilaxu, who develop in secret the technology to produce melange from axlotl tanks later in the series. It was not fully successful in pushing natural melange out of the market place.
Although it is called "spice" and can be mixed with food, melange is truly a drug: it is physically addictive, it has psychotropic effects, and stopping its consumption causes death after a painful period of withdrawal (although taking spice daily extends one's life by hundreds of years). Due to its rarity and value, the group controlling spice production on Dune controls the fate of the Empire.
Sardaukar are trained from infancy on the planet Salusa Secundus, House Corrino's original (and environmentally barren) homeworld as well as the formal Capital world of the Empire prior to the Butlerian Jihad. Known to the rest of the Empire as the Emperor's Prison Planet, Salusa Secondus is home to the vicious training grounds of the Sardaukar, who fight voraciously in a mock-up of natural selection - ensuring that only the best enter formal Imperial service. Like the Fremen on the planet Dune, the intense difficulties of simply surviving the barren terrain and fellow populace on Salusa Secondus leave only the toughest alive. Further, their training emphasized ruthlessness and near-suicidal disregard for personal safety. In conjunction with intense conditioning for loyalty to the Emperor, the Sardaukar are estimated as worth ten times their number in Landsraad house levies. The Sardaukar are normally organized under legions of roughly 30,000 soldiers each, and it is said that one legion alone can pacify any planet foolish enough to incur the Emperor's wrath
NOTE: This Nation is based on the Dune Novels by Frank Herbert and all of the Houses are also based on the Dune Novels by Frank Herbert. Information was taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dune_%28novel%29
