Discordantia |
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Supreme Leader TsarinaMalice |
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Discordantia, officially The People's Democratic Republic Of Discordantia Which Is Totally Not Totalitarian, is the nation bordering Centralia to the east. Discordantia is led by the self-proclaimed "evil dictatrix" TsarinaMalice.
Government
The government of Discordantia is, somehow, even more dysfunctional than that of Centralia. Tsarnia Malice believes herself to be an all-powerful authoritarian dictatrix, but she also spends most of her time shut up in her room playing on her laptop, paying little attention to the outside world, meaning she has little influence in how her country is actually run.
The official "national security service" of Discordantia is the Discordantian Unified Marshals Brigade, commonly known as the DiscordantianSecretPolice.
Relationship with Centralia
Tsarina Malice considers Centralia and Discordantia to be rival nations. The rivalry, however, is actually quite one-sided. When asked for an official statement about Discordantia, PrincessAlice replied, "Oh, right, that place next to Centralia! It sure does exist! Next question."
Unlike Centralia, which borders the ocean and has several islands, Discordantia is a landlocked country, a fact that makes Malice irrationally envious. Malice has made it her life's goal to capture the Centralian coastline and launch a Discordantian naval fleet, but she has been woefully unsuccessful in these plans so far, because basically nobody wants to help her, and despite her posturing, she's not actually confident enough to try to take on PrincessAlice one-on-one. Also, even if she could get to the coast, she doesn't know how to swim.
Salem railroad crossings
Curiously, the village of Salem, Centralia, a small suburb of QueenCity, exclusively uses imported Discordantian warning signals at their railroad grade crossings. When Princess Alice asked TzeTze for the reasoning behind this arrangement, he offered the following explanation:
Princess Alice: Remind me again why the railroad crossings in Salem, Centralia use imported crossing signals from Discordantia? Those are really hard to find replacement parts for and they're all starting to fall apart.
Tzetze: It's stipulated by ancient treaties, signed in the blood of men and snakes, that the Salem crossings use only those parts specified by the local covens, lest the Dread Machine spoken of only obliquely return to damn the earth again.
Tzetze: Currently the covens are represented by the Sisterhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainwitches (Local #868), which gets kickbacks from Discordantia. It's a problem
Princess Alice: Oh, the SLET! That organization whose sign keeps getting vandalized by someone painting a U over the E.
Tzetze: they need the kickbacks to pay for the sign replacement. resentment over the kickbacks motivates vandals. it's a vicious cycle