Artistic Forces/Totalitarian Empire

"Ĉiuj salutas la Diktatorecan Imperion!"

- The voice when the Totalitarian Empire is selected in the Campaign mode. "We're dealing with Hitler revisited, a totalitarianism and a brutality that is naked and unprecedented in modern times, and that must not stand!"

- George H.W. Bush The Totalitarian Empire, also known as the Keiserreich or the Authoritarian Empire, is one of the factions in Artistic Forces.

Description
When a derivative of humanity devotedly went dictatorial and power-hungry with the possession of propaganda, psychological warfare, imperialism, authoritarianism, totalitarianism, jingoism, and even social Darwinism, the ruthless regime known as the Totalitarian Empire was formed out as a result of multiple terrorist, rebel, separatist/secessionist, anarchist, seditionist, and globalist organizations that started to emerge within an unknown century of the Animatopian calendar or the twenty first century of the Earth calendar. Prior to its establishment, the militaristic, autocratic order as we know it did not exist back then - the terrorist, secessionist (including nationalists), anarchist, rebel and globalist organizations, including advocacy groups, had no real cohesion, and though they were a nuisance to other interfering governments, especially those of the world governments like the United Nations, they were not really considered a globally shaking threat.

The Totalitarian Empire, together with the devotedly ruthless dictator, who is either malevolent or benevolent, rose to the power of territorial conquest with a supportive groundswell of authoritarian, militaristic, and populist endorsements, promising peace, authority, and stability from incidents and wars, extreme capitalizations of anti-globalist, anti-anarchist, anti-rebel, anti-separatist/anti-secessionist and anti-internationalist sentiments, and ethnocentrism of the human beings, making it an inspiration of Charles Darwin's "natural selection" motto. In order to defend themselves from their enemies, the Empire itself has made the military forces known as the Totalitarian Imperial Armed Forces, also called Imperia Forto, Imperia Defendoforto, Imperia Defendo, Imperia Defendoforto, or commonly Defendoforto, comprising of the Totalitarian Imperial Army (ground force), the Totalitarian Imperial Navy (naval force), the Totalitarian Imperial Airforce, the Totalitarian Imperial Strategic Rocket Force, and the Totalitarian Imperial Guard. This also adds three paramilitary organizations of the Totalitarian Empire known as the Protekta Skadro, which is used for the internal security within the dictatorial Empire with its armed wing known as the Armita-PS, the Ŝtorma Taĉmento, which is used for protecting various totalitarian political parties and their armed wings from their possible opponents, and the Militadefendoforto, which is politically and fanatically devoted for war and totalitarianism using its military horde in order to deliberately and ferociously defeat their enemies with their zealous war might.

In favor of desiring the creation of authoritarian order via conquering the world with powerful weapons, establishing their absolute authority, and utilizing excessive force and violence to achieve their goals, it is little known about the authoritative, imperial ideology that visually resembles to that of the Third Reich (or the Fourth Reich just in case), which is a form of radical centrism, in their military uniforms and flags, but it may become safely assumed that they possibly seek to eradicate and overthrow the governments and movements of the separatists/secessionists (plus nationalists), anarchists, rebels, seditionists, and other world organizations, including the tyrannically similar ones (United Nations for example) that are related to those and advocacy groups, get rid off the political corruption, purge them from power, dominate the hemisphere, set the Imperial Marko as a global reserve currency for trading, and entirely establish their own realm, representing a relationship between an authoritarian state (or in this case, a totalitarian, dictatorial or autocratic one), which is under the iron fist of their ruthless dictator, and its collection of other international and foreign regimes that are loyally friendly and sympathetic to their imperial mandate, on a global scale as an authoritarian and militaristic political power that achieves a new world order.

History
Many years ago in Animatopia, humanity has embraced the entire exoplanet, and they were once friends to each other in peace. However, after a somewhat united humanity expanded across Animatopia, the ideologies between those who live in peaceful liberty and those who desire to conquer have just begun to drift themselves apart, blaming on their opponents for terrorism, separatism/secessionism, nationalism, anarchism, rebellion, sedition, internationalism, and even globalism as the results of causing political corruptions, upheavals, and turmoil. For people who are devoted to oppressively seek world domination by establishing their authoritarian state, similar to the Nazis, and imposing their absolute authority, and with their powerful weapons of mass destruction at their disposal and benefiting from several authoritarians and supremacists over the world, they formed under the devout leadership of their dictator, and arisen a new imperial regime, which became known as the Totalitarian Empire, to challenge the opposing factions of both Earth and Animatopia, such as the DoA, Josei Guntai, the Stick Figuroids, the ESU, the CCS, the IMC, the Militant Insurgents, the Mutant Horde, the Oarcks, the ADA, the FAF, and Kemonomimi, leading the said forces to surprisingly and ultimately declare war on Totalitarian Imperialists themselves alongside the other conquerable factions like the Interdimensional Empire and the Zuchi Directorate, who are diplomatically allied with as members of the Triple Axis, plus the Dominators, the Horroroids, the Alien Empire, the FHC, the CotU, the Dark Elfaenia, and of course Yami Musume. However, this war will prevent them and their weapons of mass destruction from causing a thermonuclear apocalypse.

Strategy
The Totalitarian Empire is the most diversified yet aggressively and dreadfully brutal steamroller-type faction, in terms of units and defenses, with common goals: to overthrow and eradicate the separatists/secessionists, anarchists, rebels, opposing advocacy groups, and other world governments on Earth, including those in Animatopia, and simply achieve world domination unopposed by freeing from political corruption, trading with Imperial Marko as a global reserve currency, establishing an authoritarian state and its friendly member territories under the dictatorial iron fist, and assuming their position as a dominant political power themselves. Its membership is composed of an incorporative network of propagandists, fanatics, jingoists, warlords, extremists, mongers, social Darwinists, supremacists, authoritarians, totalitarians, hegemons, control freaks, and mostly imperialists, including military contractors. Every time they joined the Empire as its members are devotedly fanatical to their leaders and their imperial ideologies. In opposition to the versatile armies fielded by some factions, every unit has a specific role on the battlefield. The majority of the units of the Totalitarian Imperial military are usually more expensive or available later on. However, they are much better at fulfilling their roles than their opposite counterparts.

Tactics
With a wide variety of units available right from the start, there are many ways to play as the Totalitarian Empire. Like many factions that emphasize brute force, with an inspiration of Charles Darwin's "survival of the fittest" theory at their hand, the Empire is powerfully notorious for revolving around the concept of heavy firepower, vastly destructive and mighty manpower, heavy supremacy (including ground, air, and naval units), largely numerical superiority and reliance on crude and conventional but advanced technologies of heavy military divisions, including psychological and propaganda usages, and more oriented on defense. Also, it is all about quantity over quality, and prefers to reinforce hoarding cheap, moderately armored, and armed units into the fray via deployment, which can costly and efficiently tear a defensive position in massive numbers to overwhelmingly amass their enemies through attrition along with its brute force. However, even at the start of battle, the Empire is generally either not as fast as the highly mobile factions or equal in speed, and its forces were known for employing cheap infantry in the role of armor and aerial support. Needless to say, the slow-moving of the obliterative juggernaut that is the Imperial military war machine was crudely and simply compensated by raw power, strength, and durability, but undeniably effective and powerful in every battle. In later parts of the battle, they can field many light, medium, heavy, and super-heavy vehicles, aircraft, and vessels.

In general, the military arsenal of the Totalitarian Empire prominently contains modern, historical and conventionally made military assets, modelled after European (plus German and Italian) and foreign weapons, vehicles, aircraft, and vessels, including proposed and experimental German military assets, and those that are based off and derived from the German-developed designs before or during WWII such as the Czechoslovak ST-I and the Swiss G13 (both are based on the Jagdpanzer 38 "Hetzer"), the Spanish Hispano Aviación HA-1112 and Czechoslovak Avia S-99/S-199 (both are based on the Messerschmitt Bf 109), the Czechoslovak OT-810 (based on the Sd.Kfz. 251), the Spanish CASA 2.111 (based on the Heinkel He 111), the Argentine FMA IAe 33 Pulqui II (based on the Focke-Wulf Ta 183), and the Czechoslovak Avia S-92 (based on the Messerschmitt Me 262), with Czechoslovakia being the contributor to most German-based designs after WWII. The majority of these military assets are German designs, especially the ones that are no longer operational in military service, including conversions and modifications of some Soviet/Russian-made military equipment like the BMP-1A1s, the MiG-29s and MiG-21s, making them the jewels of the German military (with the exception of most post-unification/former NVA assets that are scrapped, phased out, given to museums, or sold to certain countries as surplus equipment), foreign prototypes, and other foreign military assets that are made for the export markets. It is also very versatile for deploying and fielding a large variety of infantry, vehicular, aerial, and naval units, most notably the heavily durable vehicles (heavy and super-heavy tanks), artillery, aircraft (heavy bombers and transporters), and vessels (large warships and submarines), and overwhelming their enemies with highly brutish force and firepower.

The Totalitarian Empire is not shy of losing a few men or vehicles in their destiny for victory, but their sheer number and feeling of unity, inspiration, and might usefully give them a greater and stronger advantage the larger their force becomes in order to effectively fight and overwhelm their enemies in large groups through the Horde Bonus, which can be activated via Dictatorial Horde and further increased via the Totalitarianism upgrade. Both of these upgrades can be purchased at the Battle Power Center.

The Totalitarian Empire is responsible for practicing the psychological warfare with the use of political warfare and their propaganda, which is often used for processing the reduction of their enemies' morale with various information-spreading techniques both politically and psychologically. This is also used for denoting any action, which is mainly practiced by psychological methods with the aim of evoking a planned psychological reaction in other people. The most notable example of these psychological warfare tactics is the Propaganda War, a protocol that causes enemies in a targeted area of effect to forcefully head back to their base with a voiced message.

For their powerful yet devastative firepower and manpower, the Totalitarian Empire possessively uses weaponries of mass destruction, especially intercontinental ballistic missiles, thermonuclear and nuclear weapons, and a variety of artillery and tactical ballistic ranges, which are very effective to obliterate, annihilate, and decimate their enemies in targeted areas and deliver them an annihilative area-of-effect damage in comparison to the Soviet/Russian Tsar Bomb, the highly destructive hydrogen bomb in world history. The notable examples of the weapons of mass destruction are the Guided Ballistic Decimator Missile Silo, the Empire's only superweapon, Entuteraketo and Lancoraketo tactical ballistic missiles, Mirakla Armilo, and Urania Projekto, which is purchasable at the Manufacturing Plant. These weapons of mass destruction are very useful and reliable for their advantage, making them able to massively strike anywhere around the world.

Technological level
Compared to those of the Third German Reich, China, and the Soviet Union, although the Imperial technology may not have been highly advanced due to unconventional ones, the Totalitarian Empire is clearly and industrially compensated for this technological level by developing a lot more of exotic but conventionally based technologies in order to improve and increase theirs by accompanying their military doctrine with the assistance of Imperial scientists and technicians, industrial ties, and the preparation for every battle they eventually face. Despite being the least technologically sophisticated faction with the focus on conventional weapons, massive numbers, hard durability, brute strength, high firepower and massively destructive weapons, the Empire is completely determined by imperial and authoritarian standards and the political atmosphere, which has been established in their own right with the influence of the imperial ideology that strikingly resembles to that of the Third Reich (or the Fourth Reich). The military doctrine of the Empire commonly favors conventional weapons and massed armor divisions with raw firepower to effectively and powerfully overwhelm their enemies. With its distanced history of industrial strength and highly crude and advanced yet conventionally based military technologies in its hands, this will make the Totalitarian Empire a rival to other technologically advanced factions, such as the ADA and the RSSDF.

Here are the technologies the Empire has:


 * Apocalyptic manpower: high firepower is one of the examples of this manpower.
 * Weaponries of mass destruction: the Empire has largely possessed and outnumbered the weapons of mass destruction, such as nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles.
 * Extra destructive thermonuclear warheads: the Empire has possessively utilized weapons that are far more powerful than any other nation in the world
 * Cloning technology: the Empire used cloning vats for amassing and overwhelming clones of their infantry.
 * Propaganda usage: the Empire is hugely known for the use of propaganda to spread messages both politically and socially.
 * Durably armored vehicles: heavy vehicles, super-heavy tanks, and a super-heavy walker known as the Monitoro as prime examples.
 * Durably advanced Tank technology
 * Durably advanced artillery and siege units
 * Durably advanced base defense
 * Apocalyptic firepower
 * Mirakla Armilo: the Empire has experimented and developed a powerful arsenal of "wonder-weapons", most especially naval vessels, aircraft, helicopters, bombs, explosives, artilleries, and missiles, such as the Vengo-2 intercontinental ballistic missile and even the Eisenbahngeschutz Peza Gustavo.

Veterancy ranks
The ranks of the Totalitarian Empire are based on those of Wehrmacht, but with different ranking titles.

Sub-factions
The Totalitarian Empire has only four sub-factions: the armed wing of the elite Protekta Skadro, the devotedly ferocious Militadefendoforto, the suicidal attack wave of the Penal Legion, and the defensive Scorched Earth.

Armita-PS
The Armita-PS utilizes the elite military tactics, high mobility, and massive numbers.

Militadefendoforto (Kriegswehrmacht/War Defense Force)
Devoted to the cause of zealous totalitarianism (or in this case authoritarianism), the Militadefendoforto is allowed to have Horde Bonus by default in order for nearby friendly units to become even stronger, and rely on brute force alone.

Penal Legion
Using POWs and traitors equipped with explosive "compliance" vests to die in the stead of the Imperial soldiers, the Penal Battalion utilizes human wave tactics, consisting of foreign soldiers/POWs, to overwhelm the enemy, their explosive vest acting as a last attack when they inevitably die, while supported by the Imperial soldiers behind, who both embolden them to overwhelm the enemy and to instill discipline, often by shooting those who retreat.

Scorched Earth
"If I can't have it no one can." is the mantra of the Empire, which the Scorched Earth battalion, taking inspiration from the Nazi tactics near the end of the war, embodies by denying both them and their enemies' resources by way of booby traps, road blocks, and the wanton destruction of resources, so that even if their foes take their territory there will be nothing left, allowing the Empire to place limits on the opponents' expansion and force them to spend precious time and resources consolidating what territorial gains they can make, giving the Empire the momentum and putting them at a serious disadvantage.

Commanders

 * Gvidanto Karlo Hinkel: Kaiserreichsfuhrer/Fuhrer, dictator and commander-in-chief of the Totalitarian Empire
 * Chancellor Jozefo Doenitz: Chancellor and the Propaganda Minister of the Totalitarian Empire
 * Field General Vilhelmo Zamenhofo: Supreme commander of the Totalitarian Empire
 * Imperiagvidanto Eriko Ludvik: Kaiserreichsfuhrer of the paramilitary Protekta Skadro
 * Imperiagvidanto Paulo Felker: Kaiserreichsfuhrer of the Militadefendoforto
 * General Klaudio Fluro: Totalitarian Imperial Vast Number Commander
 * Lieutenant General Teodoro Folksam: Totalitarian Imperial Paramilitary Commander
 * Major General Georgo Keitel: Totalitarian Imperial Conquest Commander
 * Air Marshall Alberto Kaldrono: Totalitarian Imperial Air Commander
 * Fleet Admiral Frederiko Radoj: Totalitarian Imperial Navy Fleet Commander
 * Lieutenant Rodolfo Keller: Totalitarian Imperial Occupational Force Commander
 * Chairman Diogeno Ames: Imperial Anti-Separatist/Anti-Secessionist/Anti-Globalist/Anti-Internationalist Advocate
 * Dr. Eduardo Veinstein: Political Scientist and Head of Research and Development of the Empire

Agents

 * Horacio Ansel: Terrain Agent (hero unit)
 * Johano Ritter: PS Terrain Agent (hero unit)
 * Henriko Kalva: Communications Officer (announcer)

Factional theme
The theme songs of the Totalitarian Empire below must be the same as Wehrmacht.

Trivia

 * The Totalitarian Empire is the inspirational version of Illuminati (also known as the New World Order), the secret society in conspiracy theory, Proclamation No. 1081, created by the infamous president of the Philippines known as Ferdinand E. Marcos, Adolf Hitler's NSDAP (or Nazi Party), Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq, Suharto's New Order, Napoleon Bonaparte's French Empire, the Kim dynasty's WPK and its political ideology known as Juche, and Muammar Gaddafi's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya.
 * The inspiration of the Totalitarian Empire, together with its ideology, is based on the Nazi Germany, the German Empire, West and East Germany, Fascist italy, the Italian Social Republic, Illuminati, the Imperium of Man from Warhammer 40k, Shadaloo and the Secret Society/Illuminati from the Street Fighter series, the Galactic Empire and the First Order from Star Wars, the Rebel Army from the Metal Slug series, the World Government from One Piece, the Empire of Wilkia from Naval Ops: Warship Gunner 2, and the Principality of Zeon from the Gundam franchise.
 * Its military forces, under the title of Totalisma Imperia Armetrupoj (Latin: Absoluto Militum Imperatoria, Totalitarian Imperial Armed Forces), also called Imperia Forto (Latin: Imperium Copiis, Imperial Force), Imperia Defendoforto (Latin: Imperium Defensionis Copiis, Imperial Defense Force), Imperia Defendo (Latin: Imperium Defensionis, Imperial Defense), Imperia Defendoforto (Latin: Imperium Defensionis Copiis, Imperial Defense Force), or commonly Defendoforto (Latin: Defensionis Copiis, Defense Force), are based on Wehrmacht, a unified military of the Nazi Germany. To be clear, the Totalisma Imperia Armeo (Latin: Absoluto Exercitu Imperatoria, Totalitarian Imperial Army), Totalisma Imperia Mararmeo (Latin: Absoluto Classe Imperialis, Totalitarian Imperial Navy), and Totalisma Imperia Aerrmamon (Latin: Absoluto Aeris Vis Imperialis, Totalitarian Imperial Air Force) are all based on Heer (German Army), Kriegsmarine, and Luftwaffe respectively.
 * The Paraŝutistoj and the Speciala Glavo Bataliono (Abbreviation: SGB, Latin: Specialis Gladius Vexillatto, Special Sword Battalion) are also based on the German Fallschirmjäger and the Brandenburgers, respectively.
 * Its major paramilitary agencies known as the Protekta Skadro (Latin: Praesidium Turmae, Protection Squadron) and the Ŝtorma Taĉmento (Latin: Tempestas Praesidium, Storm Detachment) are respectively based on the Schutzstaffel and the Sturmabteilung. Both of these are the paramilitary groups of the Nazi Germany. Armita-PS (Latin: Telum PT, Armed PS) is also based on Waffen-SS, and the Militadefendoforto is a combination of both the Wehrmacht and the late-war Waffen-SS.
 * The Totalitarian Imperial Armed Forces' official military emblem known as the Trinkejokruco (Balkenkreuzchen) is inspired by a fusion between Balkenkreuz, the emblem of the Wehrmacht, and Hakenkreuz, the Nazi Swastika and the official emblem of the Nazi Party and later Nazi Germany.
 * The term Mirakla Armilo is inspired by the German word for "wonder-weapon" called "Wunderwaffe". This term was assigned during the Second World War by the propaganda ministry of the Nazi Germany or the Third Reich to some revolutionary "superweapons".
 * The Totalitarian Empire's gameplay is inspired by the Wehrmacht from the Company of Heroes series, Germany from Axis & Allies, the Soviets from the Command & Conquer: Red Alert series, China from Command & Conquer: Generals, Russia from the Rise of the Reds mod, the Imperial Guard from the Warhammer 40k: Dawn of War series, and the Galactic Empire from the Star Wars RTS titles.
 * Along with the Balkenkreuz-influenced plus sign and the Trinkejokruco (Balkenkreuzchen), which is rotated in 45 degrees from the Balkenkreuz to look like the Hakenkreuz, their factional emblem, the Eye of Providence, is a reference to the New World Order in conspiracy theory, most especially and notably the secret society known as the Illuminati, and also the biblical reference with its secret meaning.
 * As a basis for this faction, the uniforms for the military personnel of the Totalisma Imperia Armetrupoj are influentially modeled after those of the National People's Army, a military force of East Germany that has been lasted from 1949 to 1990, the year where the Berlin Wall had been demolished and unified the 2 separated territories into one sovereign state known as Germany today, mixed with the iconographic features of the Wehrmacht, the national armed forces of the Nazi Germany that had been existed from its foundation in 1935 until their defeat in 1945 during the final stages of World War II, including the paramilitary Schutzstaffel and even Sturmabteilung. So these will make them resembled to the Wehrmacht personnel.
 * The East German M1956 Stahlhelm is influenced for the military personnel of the Totalitarian Imperial Armed Forces as their standard infantry headgear, influencing the Nazi German prototype M1944/M1945 that had been initially developed by the Institute for Defense Technical Materials Science in Berlin, and intended for the Wehrmacht as seen in the early draft, but not adopted by the Nazis during the final stages of the Second World War, and later used by the East German National People's Army (NPA) during Cold War.
 * The symbolic gesture, ideology, and imagery for this faction have fearfully caused controversies surrounding Nazism, especially the Third (or Fourth) Reich and the Nazi Party, ruled by their ideological dictator known as Adolf Hitler. For those who do not know about this faction's new features, based on the Third Reich, here are the improvements:
 * The controversial display of the Nazi Swastika symbol is entirely prohibited in some countries, especially in Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, the Czech Republic, Belgium, Sweden, Russia, and Brazil. Instead, the alternate flag of the Totalitarian Empire has only 4 kinds of Swastika symbols (the Broken Sun Cross, two Greco-Roman Crosses, and the Aztec Swastika), surrounded by white circles, than the Hakenkreuz itself along with the Eye of Providence, decorated with the plus sign similar to Balkenkreuz at the top and the X-signed Trinkejokruco (Balkenkreuzchen) at the bottom, and the tricolor flag, which is designed after both the flag of the Italian National Fascist Party and the flag colors of the German Empire, including that of the Third German Reich.
 * The Nazi variant of the Roman salute is also banned in Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Poland, and displaying this gesture is a serious criminal offense, causing the life sentence within the amount of time in prison, though its variants continue to be used in neo-fascist, neo-Nazi, and Falangist contexts. To avoid controversy surrounding the confusion with the Nazi salute, every member of the Totalitarian Empire performs a new variant of this gesture is called the Totalitarian Salute in which both arms are fully extended, facing forward, with palms down and fingers touching.
 * Another variant, influenced by the Roman salute, can be done by fully extending the forward-facing right arm with a fist. So this is called the Totalitarian Iron Fist gesture.
 * Speaking German in any Nazi matter sounds controversial among the Germanophones after the denazification of both Germany and Austria as a result of WWII. Instead of German for the Nazi-like NWO ideology, Esperanto is used as this faction's de facto official language aside from Latin, used as one of its founding languages.
 * Both "Sieg Heil" and "Heil Hitler", spoken in German, are translated and replaced with "Venko Salutas" ("Victory Hail"), "Venka" ("Victory"), and "Salutas Gvidanto" ("Hail Leader") in Esperanto instead in order to avoid controversy related to the Nazi symbolism.
 * In the emblem design of the Trinkejokruco, parts of the Nazi Swastika are completely removed in favor of the X insignia to look like the Balkenkreuz. This will avoid controversy surrounding Nazism.