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* MultiEthnicName: Gorghendi Kahn, son of a Chinese woman and Jewish man, has a Jewish last name and a first name that sounds Hungarian (and is very close to the name of a Romanian town). His brother is named Gorghendus Tse-Tung.
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* InterfaithSmoothie: Ojallaism, a syncretic monotheistic religion, developed organically in the mines and of Rocaterrania before being codified and building churches, cathedrals, and monasteries.
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* InterfaithSmoothie: Ojallaism, a syncretic monotheistic religion, developed organically in the mines and working-class communities of Rocaterrania before being codified and building churches, cathedrals, and monasteries.
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[[caption-width-right:335:Renaldo Kuhler, wearing a Rocaterranian Conservation Corps uniform.]]
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Renaldo Kuhler (1931--2013) was an American visionary artist who worked as a scientific illustrator for the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences. He also spent 60 years secretly developing and illustrating an imaginary country called Rocaterrania, complete with its own history, culture, fashion (which he created and cosplayed himself), language, and religion.
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Renaldo Kuhler (1931--2013) was an American visionary outsider artist who worked as a scientific illustrator for the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences. He also spent over 60 years secretly developing and illustrating an imaginary country called Rocaterrania, complete with its own history, culture, fashion (which he created and cosplayed wore himself), language, and religion.
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His life and works were shared with the world in 2009 with the {{documentary}} film ''Rocaterrania'', and in 2017 with the book ''The Secret World of Renaldo Kuhler'', both created by his friend and colleague Brett Ingram.
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His life and works were shared with the world in 2009 with the {{documentary}} film ''Rocaterrania'', and in 2017 with the book ''The Secret World of Renaldo Kuhler'', both created by his friend and colleague Brett Ingram.
Ingram (who Kuhler considered LikeASonToMe).
* BeYourself: In the words of his close friend Brett Ingram, Kuhler “was unabashedly, unapologetically, incorrigibly himself as a moral imperative”.
* FriendlessBackground: As a child he was sent to boarding schools where the students and teachers bullied him, and as a teenager his family moved to the middle of nowhere in Colorado. Thankfully averted in his adult life; while undoubtedly eccentric, he was a local fixture of Raleigh and beloved by many in the community.
* CopeByCreating[=/=]{{Escapism}}: Kuhler invented Rocaterrania as a way to escape his unhappy teenage years, stuck in the middle of nowhere in Colorado with bickering parents after being forced to move across the country.
-->''"The ability to fantasize is the ability to survive."''
* CreatorBreakdown[=/=]CreatorRecovery: Rocaterrania's evolving history reflected Kuhler's own life. When he created it, he was a teenager living with authoritarian parents, and the country was ruled by emperors. As he gained independence, those monarchs were overthrown by a revolution, and once he achieved a stable career as an illustrator, it settled into a socialist democracy.
-->''"The ability to fantasize is the ability to survive."''
* CreatorBreakdown[=/=]CreatorRecovery: Rocaterrania's evolving history reflected Kuhler's own life. When he created it, he was a teenager living with authoritarian parents, and the country was ruled by emperors. As he gained independence, those monarchs were overthrown by a revolution, and once he achieved a stable career as an illustrator, it settled into a socialist democracy.
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* {{Escapism}}: Kuhler invented Rocaterrania as a way to escape his unhappy teenage years, stuck in the middle of nowhere in Colorado with bickering parents after being forced to move across the country.
-->''"The ability to fantasize is the ability to survive."''
-->''"The ability to fantasize is the ability to survive."''
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* CreatorCameo: Ronald L. Kuhler (his birth name was Ronald Otto Louis Kuhler) is mentioned briefly, as the twin brother of IntrepidReporter [[TwinThemeNaming Renelda Kuhler]].
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* CreatorCameo: Ronald L. Kuhler (his birth name was Ronald Otto Louis Kuhler) is mentioned briefly, mentioned, as the twin brother of IntrepidReporter [[TwinThemeNaming Renelda Kuhler]].Kuhler]]. An American, he married into a prominent Rocaterranian family.
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* OneSteveLimit: Averted with cousins Josef and Josip Wepka, both important political figures.
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* TakeThat: Kuhler makes his liberal politics clear in Rocaterrania. The "G.O.P. Republican Party" of Rocaterrania and its Freikorps are a far-right group who murdered the royal family and tried to spread American capitalist influence. Eisenhower and Nixon are not highly regarded there either. There is a brief mention of fundamentalist Christians, the "Jesus creeps", infiltrating and proselytizing, but they were soon deported.
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->''“Each man is a nation unto himself and what he does with that nation is up to him.”''
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* AerithAndBob: Rocaterranian characters have names like Peekle, Beulis, Georg Nicholai, and Gorghendi, and on the other hand Janet, Catherine, Joe, and Leon.
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* AerithAndBob: Rocaterranian characters have names like Peekle, Beulis, Frijoles, Georg Nicholai, and Gorghendi, and on the other hand Janet, Catherine, Joe, and Leon.
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* CreatorCameo: Ronald L. Kuhler (his birth name was Ronald Otto Louis Kuhler) is mentioned briefly, as the twin brother of IntrepidReporter [[TwinThemeNaming Renelda Kuhler]].
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* TheGulag: Serving in the Rocaterranian Conservation Corps/National Labor Service is not optional. The living conditions in Rocaterranian labor camps are generally better than in Soviet gulags, though.
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* MultiEthnicName: Gorghendi Kahn, son of a Chinese woman and Jewish man, has a Jewish last name and a first name that sounds Hungarian (and is very close to the name of a Romanian town). His brother is named Gorghendus Tse-Tung.
* NoHistoricalFiguresWereHarmed: The royal family of Rocaterrania is clearly supposed to parallel the [[UsefulNotes/RomanovsAndRevolutions Romanovs]], with the first emperor, a Russian noble, even having "Romanovski" as a surname, and the final emperor having "Nicholai" as part of his name. There's even a princess, Anne Marie, who has an unspecified sickness, similar to Alexei and his hemophilia. [[UsefulNotes/RedOctober The monarchy was overthrown in 1953]], with a similar murder of the royal family, and the country struggled under a provisional government before being overthrown by the ''Viekschorznik'' (a calque of "Bolshevik") party, led by the Lenin expy Gorghendi Kahn.
* SecretPolice: Empress Catherine had her Escort Guard, and Georg Nicholai had the Securiana. The Federal Socialist government shows it's not so different with the Buscarana.
* TooDumbToLive: Georg Nicholai was an autocratic ruler who alienated nearly everyone in Rocaterrania, and even wanted to invade the United States to gain more territory...in 1953. When the US had developed nuclear weapons. Good thing he was overthrown before that could happen.
* {{Tuckerization}}: Some of the characters in Rocaterrania are clearly influenced by, if not based on, Kuhler's family -- the first Emperor August Phillippe (named after his father Otto August Kuhler) and his wife, Empress Mary Catherine (who shares his mother's Belgian background and abusive tendencies).
* NoHistoricalFiguresWereHarmed: The royal family of Rocaterrania is clearly supposed to parallel the [[UsefulNotes/RomanovsAndRevolutions Romanovs]], with the first emperor, a Russian noble, even having "Romanovski" as a surname, and the final emperor having "Nicholai" as part of his name. There's even a princess, Anne Marie, who has an unspecified sickness, similar to Alexei and his hemophilia. [[UsefulNotes/RedOctober The monarchy was overthrown in 1953]], with a similar murder of the royal family, and the country struggled under a provisional government before being overthrown by the ''Viekschorznik'' (a calque of "Bolshevik") party, led by the Lenin expy Gorghendi Kahn.
* SecretPolice: Empress Catherine had her Escort Guard, and Georg Nicholai had the Securiana. The Federal Socialist government shows it's not so different with the Buscarana.
* TooDumbToLive: Georg Nicholai was an autocratic ruler who alienated nearly everyone in Rocaterrania, and even wanted to invade the United States to gain more territory...in 1953. When the US had developed nuclear weapons. Good thing he was overthrown before that could happen.
* {{Tuckerization}}: Some of the characters in Rocaterrania are clearly influenced by, if not based on, Kuhler's family -- the first Emperor August Phillippe (named after his father Otto August Kuhler) and his wife, Empress Mary Catherine (who shares his mother's Belgian background and abusive tendencies).
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Renaldo Kuhler (1931--2013) was an American visionary artist who worked as a scientific illustrator for the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences. He also spent 60 years secretly developing and illustrating an imaginary country called Rocaterrania, complete with its own history, culture, fashion (which he created and cosplayed himself), language, and religion.
His life and works were shared with the world in 2009 with the {{documentary}} film ''Rocaterrania'', and in 2017 with the book ''The Secret World of Renaldo Kuhler'', both created by his friend and colleague Brett Ingram.
!!Kuhler himself provides examples of:
* {{Cosplay}}: Kuhler was known for wearing eccentric outfits in his everyday life, based on designs he drew for Rocaterranian characters.
* NewTechnologyIsEvil: Kuhler self-described himself as "urban Amish", and never drove a car or used a computer. He only grudgingly traded his rotary phone for a more modern one later in life. [[AuthorAppeal This is reflected in Rocaterrania, whose people strongly prefer trains to cars.]]
* TheNicknamer: He was fond of giving his friends and coworkers nicknames that often made no sense to anyone but himself. For example, Ingram's nicknames were "Paste" and "Spike".
* RenaissanceMan: Kuhler was an expert in history, architecture, film, languages, calligraphy, and religions. He played a hand-built plywood violin, and smoked mullein from handcrafted pipes. And of course, he was an accomplished artist.
* ThirdPersonPerson: He often referred to himself using the RoyalWe.
* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: In the introduction to the book, Ingram mentions that "his accent was nearly as inscrutable as his outfit", containing traces of German, British, and New York English.
!!Rocaterrania provides examples of:
* AerithAndBob: Rocaterranian characters have names like Peekle, Beulis, Georg Nicholai, and Gorghendi, and on the other hand Janet, Catherine, Joe, and Leon.
* BlueBlood: Emperor Georg Nicholai's military officers were all aristocrats.
* ConLang: He invented an entire language, Rocaterranski, for his fictional country, complete with its own writing system. It's based on Spanish, German, and Yiddish, with a touch of Arabic, Hebrew, Turkish, Greek, Italian, Dutch, and various Slavic languages. The script is based on Hebrew and Cyrillic lettering.
* CultureChopSuey: Rocaterrania was founded by a Russian noble and his French-Belgian wife, and its architecture has Eastern European, American, Chinese, and Victorian influences. Immigrants from many different European countries soon populated the new country. The name of the capital Ciudad Eldorado is Spanish.
* {{Egopolis}}: The small town of St. Phillippsbourg is named after the first emperor, August Phillippe.
* TheEmperor: For the first 22 years of its existence, Rocaterrania was ruled by emperors, despite being a tiny nation between Canada and New York State.
* {{Escapism}}: Kuhler invented Rocaterrania as a way to escape his unhappy teenage years, stuck in the middle of nowhere in Colorado with bickering parents after being forced to move across the country.
-->''"The ability to fantasize is the ability to survive."''
* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: Empress Catherine was widely considered the true power behind the throne during her husband's reign, and after his mysterious death (later discovered to be poison) she ruled with an iron hand. She had a SecretPolice and surrounded herself with "neutants" (eunuchs) made from street urchins.
* IdenticalStranger: Georg Nicholai de Rochelle and Nikolai Romanovski are noted to look very similar, despite not being blood relatives.
* InterfaithSmoothie: Ojallaism, a syncretic monotheistic religion, developed organically in the mines and of Rocaterrania before being codified and building churches, cathedrals, and monasteries.
* {{Worldbuilding}}: The entirety of Rocaterrania is a rich collection of lore that Kuhler created over more than 60 years.
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His life and works were shared with the world in 2009 with the {{documentary}} film ''Rocaterrania'', and in 2017 with the book ''The Secret World of Renaldo Kuhler'', both created by his friend and colleague Brett Ingram.
!!Kuhler himself provides examples of:
* {{Cosplay}}: Kuhler was known for wearing eccentric outfits in his everyday life, based on designs he drew for Rocaterranian characters.
* NewTechnologyIsEvil: Kuhler self-described himself as "urban Amish", and never drove a car or used a computer. He only grudgingly traded his rotary phone for a more modern one later in life. [[AuthorAppeal This is reflected in Rocaterrania, whose people strongly prefer trains to cars.]]
* TheNicknamer: He was fond of giving his friends and coworkers nicknames that often made no sense to anyone but himself. For example, Ingram's nicknames were "Paste" and "Spike".
* RenaissanceMan: Kuhler was an expert in history, architecture, film, languages, calligraphy, and religions. He played a hand-built plywood violin, and smoked mullein from handcrafted pipes. And of course, he was an accomplished artist.
* ThirdPersonPerson: He often referred to himself using the RoyalWe.
* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: In the introduction to the book, Ingram mentions that "his accent was nearly as inscrutable as his outfit", containing traces of German, British, and New York English.
!!Rocaterrania provides examples of:
* AerithAndBob: Rocaterranian characters have names like Peekle, Beulis, Georg Nicholai, and Gorghendi, and on the other hand Janet, Catherine, Joe, and Leon.
* BlueBlood: Emperor Georg Nicholai's military officers were all aristocrats.
* ConLang: He invented an entire language, Rocaterranski, for his fictional country, complete with its own writing system. It's based on Spanish, German, and Yiddish, with a touch of Arabic, Hebrew, Turkish, Greek, Italian, Dutch, and various Slavic languages. The script is based on Hebrew and Cyrillic lettering.
* CultureChopSuey: Rocaterrania was founded by a Russian noble and his French-Belgian wife, and its architecture has Eastern European, American, Chinese, and Victorian influences. Immigrants from many different European countries soon populated the new country. The name of the capital Ciudad Eldorado is Spanish.
* {{Egopolis}}: The small town of St. Phillippsbourg is named after the first emperor, August Phillippe.
* TheEmperor: For the first 22 years of its existence, Rocaterrania was ruled by emperors, despite being a tiny nation between Canada and New York State.
* {{Escapism}}: Kuhler invented Rocaterrania as a way to escape his unhappy teenage years, stuck in the middle of nowhere in Colorado with bickering parents after being forced to move across the country.
-->''"The ability to fantasize is the ability to survive."''
* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: Empress Catherine was widely considered the true power behind the throne during her husband's reign, and after his mysterious death (later discovered to be poison) she ruled with an iron hand. She had a SecretPolice and surrounded herself with "neutants" (eunuchs) made from street urchins.
* IdenticalStranger: Georg Nicholai de Rochelle and Nikolai Romanovski are noted to look very similar, despite not being blood relatives.
* InterfaithSmoothie: Ojallaism, a syncretic monotheistic religion, developed organically in the mines and of Rocaterrania before being codified and building churches, cathedrals, and monasteries.
* {{Worldbuilding}}: The entirety of Rocaterrania is a rich collection of lore that Kuhler created over more than 60 years.
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