Line #11 NightmareFuel/Caliphate


1	!!The Novel
2	* The Caliphate and the ISA are ''not good places'' to live. The former is a Taliban-like state with a {{culture police}} that enforces a [[NoWomansLand misogynistic hell]], whereas the latter is TheEmpire which repealed its constitution, has an autocratic President-for-Life and [[KnightTemplar carries out all sorts of war crimes]] to fight terrorists. Even the American protagonists lament how their country isn't as free as it used to.
3	** While never actually seen during the narrative, the Celestial Kingdom of China appears to be an even more unsettling place to live than either of them due to its transhuman government employing remote-controlled artificial humans.
4	* China having spies everywhere by means of mind-control devices in individuals piloted by remote agents is pure ParanoiaFuel. That {{Asian Hooker\|Stereotype}}? Most definitely a Chinese spy, but it could have been anyone.....
5	* The ''[[ApocalypticLog Empire Rising]]'' document goes in detail how Buckman consolidated his power and the aftermath of his retaliation against the Islamic world. It's said that while ''millions'' have died in the initial nuclear attacks, many more died in the aftermath due to the radiation, water pollution, exposure, and many other factors. When he begins his campaign of expansion over the American continent, the narration outright uses the term ''[[ANaziByAnyOtherName Anschluss]]''.
6	* The graphic description of crucifixions. Hans is even forced to participate in them as part of his janissary training.
7	* Petra's rape by Fudail and his friends. Not only is she considered DefiledForever when brought before the sharia court, but she was also just a ''little girl when it happens''.
8	-->(Petra's mind while she is raped) "[[MadnessMantra It isn't me. It isn't me. It isn't me.]]"
9	* Her training as an ''[[SexSlave houri]]'' is also very distressing to read. She initially protests having to endure such degradation, but then her training shows what happens to prostitutes that complain: [[AFateWorseThanDeath they are placed on mind-control devices that reduce them to nothing more than sex toys to be enjoyed for cheap pleasure]]. They are so braindead that the devices need to instruct them ''how to eat to stay alive''.
10	-->''She no longer knew how many men she had serviced since coming to the castle. It was over a thousand, certainly, even subtracting for repeat customers. She actually tried not to remember the numbers or the acts. Though, of course, if she wanted to keep repeat customers, she did have to remember preferences. It was a difficult game of mental gymnastics.''
11	* Unlike the ISA, South Africa is one of the few non-Muslim states to allow some citizens into their territory. Bongo shares this backstory about them:
12	-->'''Bongo''': ''There's a mosque over there. A pretty large one, actually. They call it the "Red Mosque". No, it isn't painted red and never has been. About forty years ago, a wild-eyed imam used to preach the ''jihad'' from its pulpit. Then one Friday, the Boers sent in ten thousand assegai-wielding Zulu. They killed every man, woman, and child in the place then went on to kill every imam in Cape Town and their families, except for a very few the government took under its protection. After that, about fifty-thousand more of them were sold, some locally and some to the Caliphate, as slaves. Since then? Never a problem with the Moslems here. Never a peep, as a matter of fact. And some thousands of them drop Islam and become Christians every year. See'', Baas ''De Wet'', terror works."
13	* Its never specified how Israel adapted to the entire crisis, but Caruthers makes a throwaway comment how "[[FridgeHorror they finally learned the lesson]] [[FinalSolution Himmler and Eichmman]] [[FridgeHorror tried to teach]]" which carries all sorts of [[BecameTheirOwnAntithesis disturbing]] [[ANaziByAnyOtherName implications]]. And some earlier dialogue between Caliphate characters still implies that Israel was destroyed in the end, so the extermination may have been mutual.
14	* The effects of the virus. It has the potential to horribly kill 97% of humanity and disfigure the rest 3%.

Context NightmareFuel / Caliphate