by Max Barry

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Region: The Interdimensional Community

Empire of Dogetopia wrote:King Dingonium II eagerly leads his troops personally, leaving King Yuri of the Kitsunes to rule over his section of Dogetopia until he returns, an arrangement that has worked perfectly for many years now, as the two of them are so close as to essentially be brothers. The soldiers begin to close in on a dodo colony, but Dingonium II sees something on a spy network that causes him to abort the mission and stop by a nearby planet first, where he begins to brief the soldiers.
“We were going to attack a major communication center of the dodo civilization, but we’ve discovered that it had already fallen to some kind of psychic influence. The natives are writhing with tentacles and have been having nightmares apparently. Does anyone have any ideas on how to handle the mission? No ideas are bad ideas.”

It seems the problems for the Edmundians, Lunarians and Dogetopians are only going to continue to mount. Althanac, an old rival of Dogetopia and once a major centre for scumbag civilisation, had been defeated a few years before by a combined Edmundian, Lunarian and Dogetopian assault that toppled the country's autocratic Communist regime and cemented Dogetopian hegemony over Reality One. However, things have changed. The democratic system that LUS civil servants imposed on the nation has resulted in the election of Althanacian Federal President Ivan Gorbalin, a former officer of the People's Revolutionary Armed Forces (PRAF) who campaigned on a platform of 'making Dogetopia pay" and "returning Althanac to greatness". It remains to be seen whether or not he will really deliver on his promises, or if he was just trying to increase his popularity. At present, this seems unlikely given the extreme measures taken by the Edmundians and Lunarians in particular to disarm Althanac and disband the PRAF. However, his nationalistic rhetoric has captured the hearts and minds of a battered populace...

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