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-state metaphysical order in Northeast Asia that fused militarism, monasticism, and scientism into a totalitarian system, existing from early 1970 to late 1994.

After the global catastrophe of 1968, the human population fell below two billion, and chaos became the dominant condition of human life. Most states collapsed after violent conflicts and civil wars. Those that survived saw their authority weaken, with many regions falling into the hands of separatists, resulting in the creation of numerous quasi-state polities. This process of fragmentation from centralized power included remarkable events such as the United Kingdom abandoning its centuries-old monarchical regime in 1971 and transforming into the United Federation, and the United States renaming itself the Federated States in 1972 in order to emphasize federalism and appease the discontented union states. Under these circumstances, Aldira was established in Manchuria as a tightly centralized and hierarchical power, opposing the federalization and decentralization that had become the prevailing global tendency.

Throughout its existence, Aldira was distinguished by its extreme secrecy, rigid intellectual doctrine, unique theocratic structure, and formidable military power. Its perceived xenophobia led to international sanctions, condemnations, and exclusion from global organizations. Publicly, isolationism defined the Order’s foreign policy; covertly, Aldira was highly—though selectively—interventionist, organizing raids, sabotaging trade routes, building spy networks, disseminating ideological texts, threatening rival states, and ultimately becoming a feared belligerent.

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 this, its chief existential enemies were chaos and noise, which led it to lean toward order and silence to the point of becoming the most totalitarian and metaphysical regime in the world.

Aldira’s primary legitimacy lay in its ability to give shape to chaos, and the regime enjoyed considerable public support during the founding of the Aldiran Order because it had truly eliminated crime, corruption, unemployment, exploitation, waste, pollution, fragmentation, objectification, addiction, meaninglessness, and many other things regarded as the microbes of society, even if it had done so through oppression, persecution, and even blasphemy.

This led Aldiran society to become defined by traits such as discipline, silence, and solitude, reflecting the Order’s militaristic-monastic ideal. However, these qualities were achieved largely by mutilating life rather than improving it. The regime’s extreme detachment from anything organic meant that symptoms of depersonalization and derealization were not regarded as pathologies within Aldiran society, but rather as a normalized atmosphere, which contributed to a surreal atmosphere that permeated everyday life.

The Aldiran regime was built upon a hyper-civilized yet anti-civilizational intellectualist ideology, and this was precisely what made Aldira 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 religion itself had become science. By maintaining a strict stance in this regard, the Order eradicated ignorance, trampled traditions, abolished taboos, prevented short-term thinking, destroyed the absurdities and superficialities of ordinary life that were accepted as “natural,” and, by placing immense value on thought and knowledge, ensured that it possessed one of the finest educational systems in the world, even if it functioned as a tool of indoctrination.

Art, science, and philosophy were exalted, naturally leading to immense advancement in these fields, which was also the main reason for the defections to the Aldiran Order during the 1980s, mainly from the Western world, as Aldira recruited through the convergence of alienation and intellect. Yet because all of this existed under totalitarianism, despite possessing capability, aesthetics, symbolism, and thus depth, it could never fully attain genuine creative originality, free thought, or unrestricted rebellion—that is, breadth.

Aldira dismissed nationalism in the name of universality, which made it one of the least racist regimes in the world. It placed women in absolute equality with men, not through feminism but as a consequence of post-gender policies. It eradicated cultural taboos and astrology, since it regarded pure spirituality as primitive, and in other domains—despite its totalitarian nature—it achieved advances that surpassed its era, largely due to its technocratic governance, which was effectively determined by the Kresnov Cognitive Stratification Index and was unbound by charisma, lineage, or popularity. Even the regime’s elite embodied this principle: they were not decadent figures consumed by lust for power, mutual hatred, or ambition, but ascetic polymaths who imposed upon themselves the same doctrine they imposed upon the people, though this honesty made them too rigid to adapt to external reality.

On Aldira’s darker side stood the restriction of civil liberties, including freedom of speech, freedom of movement, freedom of information, and others, for Aldira was ideologically posthumanist and therefore did not recognize human rights. This opened the way for labor camps, executions, massacres, forced disappearances, non-consensual human experimentation, and similar atrocities. Those who did not conform to the regime’s doctrine were rendered stateless and legally nonexistent, ensuring strict societal uniformity. Yet society still retained a strange kind of individualism within its inner worlds, making the labels of “blind collectivism” or “herd mentality” insufficient to describe Aldiran society, which existed beyond conventional sociology.

Rooted largely in the memory of 1968 and driven by the belief that unruly human nature would inevitably lead to civilization’s collapse, Aldira invested heavily in neurobiology to alter human cognition by targeting identity and personality, which resulted in numerous inventions, insights, and discoveries in these fields. From this perspective, Aldira was not the enemy of simple polities, movements, or cultures, but of humanity as a whole.

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 the minds of the masses and make them resistant to the status quo of their societies. Following Aldira’s collapse, it ultimately spread across the world and transformed humanity into a “higher” species, termed the “New Humanity,” to signal its radical separation from the values that had defined thousands of years of human history and civilization.

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