Aldira

The People’s Supreme Order of Aldira (PSOA), or simply the Order of Aldira, and commonly known as Aldira, the Order, or the Aldiran Order, was a post-apocalyptic totalitarian order in Northeast Asia that fused militarism, monasticism, and scientism into a single doctrine, existing from early 1970 to late 1994.

After the human-caused global catastrophe of 1968, which occurred after years of unending sociopolitical turmoil across the world and claimed more than one billion five hundred million lives, the world’s population fell below two billion, and uncertainty and instability became defining features of human existence. A significant number of states collapsed following violent conflicts and civil wars. Those that survived saw their authority weakened, with many regions falling into the hands of separatist movements, resulting in the emergence of numerous quasi-state polities.

This fragmentation of centralized power produced remarkable developments. For example, the United Kingdom lost Northern Ireland to Irish separatists, abolished its centuries-old monarchy, and transformed itself into the United Federation. Similarly, the United States of America renamed itself the Federal Union of American States (Federated States) to emphasize federalism and appease dissatisfied member states, as secessionist movements had reached their peak. Under these circumstances, Aldira was officially established in Manchuria in February 1970 as a tightly centralized and hierarchical state, positioning itself in direct opposition to the federalization and decentralization that had become the prevailing global trend.

During the regime’s early years, the Order pursued an expansionist policy until 1977 in an effort to end regional anarchy and establish territorial control. As a result, Aldira, which had initially consisted of little more than a cult community hidden in the mountains, was transformed into a major power that came to dominate Manchuria, Korea, the Amur region, Eastern Mongolia, the Baikal area, Magadan, Kamchatka, Sakhalin, the Kuril Islands, and, finally, Hokkaido in 1983. Having secured these territories, Aldira halted its expansion and shifted its focus toward consolidating internal stability and pursuing a path of doctrinal radicalization.

Throughout its existence, Aldira was distinguished by its extreme secrecy, rigid intellectual doctrine, unique theocratic structure, and formidable military power, reflecting its militaristic-monastic character. It became notorious for its brutality and was responsible for massacres such as the Ulaanbaatar Massacre in 1975, which resulted in the deaths of tens of thousands of people, and the Rape of Beijing in 1994, which claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands. It operated a system of forced labor camps known as the Norik, subjecting millions of people to industrialized exploitation. Its perceived xenophobia led to international sanctions, widespread condemnation, and exclusion from major global organizations, most notably the UN-successor World Council.

Publicly, isolationism defined the Order’s foreign policy; covertly, however, Aldira was highly—though selectively—interventionist. It organized raids, such as the Tsushima Raid against Japan and Operation Zero against the Andean Empire in South America; aided extremist organizations, including movements such as the African National Congress, New People’s Army, and the Palestine Liberation Organization, while even inspiring a cultic organization known as the People’s Sublime Order of Tibet; built extensive espionage networks through operations such as Operation Null, which targeted France and the German Confederation, while the activities of the Order Preservation Committee focused on eliminating organized crime networks and the recruitment of marginalized individuals from Western societies to encourage defection; disseminated ideological texts that generated sympathy, particularly across the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia and among various authoritarian regimes; and threatened rival states through repeated confrontations with world powers, including its attack on French ships in 1979, the bombardment of Australia in 1982, and the execution of American diplomats in early 1988.

Aldira’s relations with the international community remained consistently strained, as it effectively boycotted diplomacy. Its principal political rivals were China, Japan, and the Federated States. Beyond geopolitics, its philosophical struggle was directed against Western civilization, which it regarded as being shaped by comfort, softness, and expressionism, whereas its own foundations rested upon discipline, hardness, and silence. It maintained relatively cordial relations with the Eastern Bloc for strategic reasons, although these ties never developed into genuine sympathy or ideological affinity. Most importantly, its chief existential enemies were neither a class, nor a race, nor a political movement, but chaos and noise. From this perspective, Aldira regarded itself as the enemy of humanity as a whole.

Aldira was known for its severe restrictions on civil liberties, including freedom of speech, freedom of movement, freedom of information, and numerous others. Because the regime was posthumanist, it did not recognize the concept of universal human rights. This opened the way for executions, massacres, forced disappearances, non-consensual human experimentation, and similar atrocities.

Churches and other places of worship were either demolished or stripped of their religious character. Those regarded as ideological enemies were either executed or subjected to exploitation. Freedom of movement was restricted through the Orderstate system, under which every change of province required routine inspections and bureaucratic procedures. The desire to travel abroad was further discouraged by subjecting applicants to a labyrinth of administrative obstacles.

Foreign media was prohibited, and a culture exclusively aligned with the regime’s ideology was cultivated, thereby isolating society from the outside world. Human beings were used as raw material for scientific experimentation under a human experimentation program known as Project Integral. People with mental illnesses or disabilities were forcibly sterilized and neurologically pacified in an effort to turn them into compliant puppets. Those who did not conform to the regime’s doctrine were rendered stateless and legally nonexistent, effectively abandoning them to their fate through the denial of all legal rights, as Aldira was an order rather than a state and therefore conferred membership rather than citizenship.

Monthly Purity Tests were routinely administered to assess ideological and psychological conformity. Every Aldiran maintained a personal journal known as a Mind Log, which was reviewed by the authorities again on a monthly basis. Yet society retained a peculiar form of individualism within inner worlds, making labels such as “blind collectivism” or “herd mentality” insufficient to describe Aldiran society, which existed beyond the categories of conventional sociology.

Aldira’s primary source of legitimacy lay in its ability to impose order upon chaos, and the regime enjoyed considerable public support during the founding of the Aldiran Order because it had effectively eliminated crime, corruption, unemployment, exploitation, waste, pollution, fragmentation, addiction, purposelessness, meaninglessness, and many other phenomena regarded as the microbes of society, even if it had achieved these ends through oppression, persecution, and even blasphemy.

The Aldiran regime was built upon a hyper-civilized yet anti-civilizational ideology, and this was precisely what made it theocratic, for it worshipped not a god but planetary transformation. In this way, it succeeded in abolishing the conventional conflict between science and religion, because science itself had become religion. By maintaining an uncompromising stance in this regard, the Order eradicated ignorance, trampled tradition, abolished taboos, discouraged short-term thinking, destroyed the absurdities of ordinary life that were accepted as “natural,” and, by placing immense value on thought and knowledge, established one of the finest educational systems in the world. Yet because all of this existed under a totalitarian order, despite possessing capability, aesthetics, symbolism, and therefore depth, the Aldiran society could never fully attain genuine creative originality, free thought, or unrestricted rebellion—that is, breadth.

Aldira rejected nationalism in the name of universality, making it radical in its rejection of ethnic racism. Indeed, it was a regime composed of numerous ethnic groups, including Chinese, Russians, Koreans, Mongolians, and many other people. It placed women in absolute equality with men, not as a consequence of feminism but as the result of its post-gender policies, which stemmed directly from its transhumanist worldview. It eradicated cultural taboos and astrology, regarding pure spirituality as primitive, and in many other domains—despite its totalitarian nature—it achieved advances that surpassed its era, largely because of its technocratic system of governance, which was effectively determined by the Kresnov Cognitive Stratification Index and remained independent of charisma, wealth, lineage, or popularity.

Even the regime’s elite embodied the principle of incorruptibility: they were not decadent figures consumed by lust for power, mutual hatred, or greed, but ascetic polymaths who imposed upon themselves the same doctrine they imposed upon the population. Yet this very honesty rendered them too rigid to adapt to external reality, as they were unable to compromise on the Black Book, which they regarded as sacred, elevating it into an unquestionable man-made scripture.

With influential institutions such as the Aldiran Academy of Sciences, the Aldiran Artists’ Union, and the Ordostok Grand Collegium, art, science, and philosophy were exalted, leading to remarkable advances in these fields. This was also the principal reason for the worldwide defections to the Aldiran Order during the 1980s, as Aldira recruited through the convergence of alienation and intellect. Among these figures were Chinese intellectuals who fled the PRC’s anti-intellectual policies during the event known as the Glass Exodus in 1979; sympathetic networks such as the MRC Channel, which leaked information to Aldira between 1981 and 1985 under the leadership of Adrian Ashford; and individuals such as Claire Bernard, a writer who defected to Aldira in 1985 due to her growing sense of alienation from French society.

There were also those who opposed Aldira. These examples included the guerrilla units that operated in the Siberian forests—particularly active during the 1970s and, although diminished in intensity, continuing their resistance until the regime’s collapse—as well as figures such as Mikhail Ivanovich Morozov, an Orthodox Christian who documented the regime’s atrocities and was later killed by the Aldiran authorities; Stepan Arsen, who concealed his true identity by posing as an Aldiran for many years before eventually being captured, sent to a forced labor camp, and ultimately taking his own life there; and Iliya, a fifteen-year-old girl trapped between loyalty and rebellion within the regime, who nevertheless refused, until the very end, to betray her own convictions or submit to any external ideology, ultimately dying together with Nadya.

Rooted largely in the memory of the catastrophe of 1968 and driven by the belief that unruly human nature would inevitably lead to the collapse of civilization, Aldira invested heavily in neurobiology in an attempt to alter human cognition by targeting identity and personality, resulting in numerous inventions, insights, and discoveries in this field. Among these inventions, Ordaxil was particularly significant, as it was a direct manifestation of the regime’s revulsion toward biology, designed to silence the body.

The Order later granted asylum to Arnold Weissmann, who directed a clandestine biological weapons program that culminated in the creation of the brain parasite known as Norvax Aetheris, designed to alter mass cognition and make populations resistant to the prevailing social order of their respective societies. Following Aldira’s collapse, the parasite ultimately spread across the world and transformed humanity into what became known as the “New Humanity,” a “higher” species intended to signify its radical separation from the values that had defined thousands of years of human history and civilization. Meanwhile, Orelya was literally above everything. She recorded what was happening and established communication with Earth, and even if she had independently reached the same conclusion as Aldira, she still remained distant even from this new order.

In the spring of 1994, Aldira became the target of a NATO-sponsored international coalition known as the Coalition of Spring Awakening. By the end of that year, the conflict had reached a complete stalemate. In order to preserve doctrinal loyalty and ideological purity, more than ninety percent of the Order’s elite—including thousands of high-ranking figures from the Grand People’s Hall and countless other institutions, as well as members of the ruling Sublime Council—ended their lives in a single night during a mass-suicide ritual in the Undulon Square. In the aftermath, Aldira was left leaderless. Coalition forces eventually captured the capital city Ordostok, carried out a genocide against the Aldiran population, and dismantled the last remnants of the Aldiran Order.