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 is one of the factions of 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 of and as a result of multiple terrorist, rebel, separatist/secessionist, anarchist, and globalist organizations that started to emerge within an unknown century of the Animatopian 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, they were not really considered a globally shaking threat.

The Totalitarian Empire, together with the devotedly ruthless dictator, rose to the power of territorial conquest with a supportive groundswell of authoritarian, militaristic, and populist endorsements, promising peace 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. 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 Totalitarian Imperial Army (ground force), Totalitarian Imperial Navy (naval force), and Totalitarian Imperial Airforce. 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 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) in their military uniforms and flags, but it may become safely assumed that they possibly seek to overthrow the governments and movements of the separatists/secessionists (plus nationalists), anarchists, rebels, and other world organizations, including the tyrannically similar ones that are related to those and advocacy groups, get rid off the political corruption, dominate the hemisphere, and establish their own realm, entirely representing an authoritarian state (or in this case, a totalitarian, dictatorial or autocratic one) under the iron fist of their ruthless dictator, 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, internationalism, and even globalism. For people who are devoted to oppressively seek world domination by establishing their authoritarian/totalitarian state, similar to the Nazis, 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 in the said forces to surprisingly and ultimately declare war on Totalitarian Imperialists themselves alongside the other conquerable factions like the Interdimensional Empire, who are diplomatically allied with, the Dominators, the Horroroids, the Alien Empire, the FHC, the CotU, the Dark Elfaenia, and of course Yami Musume.

Strategy
The Totalitarian Empire is the most diversified but aggressively and dreadfully brutal steamroller-type faction, in terms of units and defenses, with a single common goal: to overthrow the separatists/secessionists, anarchists, rebels, opposing advocacy groups, and other world governments on Earth, including those in Animatopia, and simply achieve world domination by freeing from political corruption, establishing an authoritarian state 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, 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, the Empire likely revolves around the concept of heavy firepower, vastly destructive 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, and is 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 compensated by raw power, strength, and durability. 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 contains historical and conventionally made military assets, modelled after European (plus German and Italian), including proposed and experimental German military assets, and foreign weapons, vehicles, aircraft, and vessels, including those that are based off and derived from the German-developed designs before or during WWII such as the Spanish Hispano Aviación HA-1112 and Czechoslovak Avia S-99/S-199, which 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. 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), aircraft (heavy bombers and transporters), and vessels (large warships and submarines).

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 known 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 devastative firepower and manpower, the Totalitarian Empire possessively uses weaponries of mass destruction, especially 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, and Urania Projekto, which is purchasable at the Manufacturing Plant.

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 compensated for this technological level by developing a lot more of conventionally based technologies in order to improve and increase theirs by accompanying their military doctrine with the assistance of Imperial scientists and technicians, industrial strength, and the preparation for every battle they eventually face. With its highly crude and advanced but 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 RSSDF.

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 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 inevitable die, while supported by the Imperial soldiers behind, who both emboldens 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
 * 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

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, the Imperium of Man from Warhammer 40k, Shadaloo from the Street Fighter series, the Galactic Empire and the First Order from Star Wars, the Rebel Army from the Metal Slug series, 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 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.
 * 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 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.