Luzian
La Luz , officially The Illuminated Empire , is a country in the world of ZERO PARADES: For Dead Spies .
Overview[]
La Luz is one of the three main powers of the world, the others being the communist Superbloc and the global investment bank EMTERR.
Centuries ago, La Luz grew into a powerful empire before declining and ceding independence to colonies and territories such as Portofiro, Havagerly, and the Tenantries of Saint Ulwen. In recent decades, La Luz has managed to reverse its decline and reassert itself as a burgeoning auto-technocratic state considered the rising cultural and military power of the day.
Currently, La Luz is engaged in the Reunión, a gradual, long-term campaign to reclaim all of its old colonies. The Reunión is described as legal, but La Luz frequently employs overwhelming military force, including weapons of mass destruction called berrion bombs, to subjugate its targets, resulting in a heavy civilian death toll and refugee displacement. La Luz recently re-annexed Havagerly and closed Havagerly’s border with Tsun’s Arc. It also re-annexed the Territories, a series of island states in the Noscorrentes Sea that included the Tenantries of Saint Ulwen.
The Ministry of Mass Culture is responsible for exporting Luzian products, such as Ouroboros Black cigarettes, to other countries. One of the most popular Luzian cultural exports is the cartoon television show Sixty-Six Wolves . Recordings and merchandise related to the show are known to sell quickly on black markets, such as the Bootleg Bazaar in Portofiro’s Quisach district. La Luz is also the progenitor of a genre of music called L-Pop, which is officially sanctioned by the state and rumored to be able to infiltrate a person’s subconscious. The latest trending L-Pop star is Ultra Violeta.
La Luz remains under an “EMTERR Cultural Blockade” that prohibits the exportation of Luzian pop culture to the rest of the Developed World, which consists of advanced capitalist countries that EMTERR considers its domain. This has not stopped Portofiro from becoming a major distribution hub for bootleg Luzian cultural goods that have been converted to international formats.
Conspiracy theories insinuate that the Luzian ruling class consists entirely of gradually degrading copies of the consciousness of a single person, the ideological founder of techno-fascism.
The language of La Luz, Luzian, is also shared by its former colony Portofiro.
La Luz has a secret police force called the Weeping Eye, another of the enemies of the Operant Bureau.
Cities[]
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Acuerda
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Cicatriz Frontera - capital city