Adeptus Ridiculous - FEDERATION OF SUPER EARTH | Helldivers Lore

Episode Date: July 30, 2025

https://www.patreon.com/AdeptusRidiculoushttps://www.adeptusridiculous.com/https://twitter.com/AdRidiculoushttps://shop.orchideight.com/collections/adeptus-ridiculousThe Federation of Super Earth, commonly referred to as Super Earth, The Federation or Super Earth Federation, is the largest faction in the Milky Way, consisting of 259 planets grouped into 55 Sectors. Super Earth follows a system of government called Managed Democracy, in which Citizens must fill out a form from which a computer algorithm will take the answers and produce who they truly want to vote for. The population of the Federation is centered around Super Earth, with colonial outposts of various sizes scattered about the galaxy. The  Super Earth Armed Forces (SEAF) have billions of active personnel and an elite  Helldiver Corps, several millions strong.Support the show

Close your eyes. See nothing. Be nothing. This is life without the right to vote. Now, open your eyes. See the world as a registered voter, resplendent in democracy's light. Welcome everyone to another episode of the Adeptist Ridiculous Podcast. My name is D.K. Diamanty's.

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How are you doing? It's morning, all right? Oh, yes, sir. is is a 7.58 a.m. morning. It's good stuff. I have a quote for you today. However, I'm going to preface it by saying today is not an episode of Warhammer. It is an episode on something else. Oh. Because of that, because if I gave you the quote, you would only start guessing Warhammer things and that's just not fair. For me. Oh, that's very nice of you. Okay. Okay. You could have and just started laughing at me.

That's what shy would have done. That's a shy thing. That's true. You're a little nicer than that. Shy would have let me wriggle around and worm for like 15 minutes, guessing only Warhammer stuff. Would you still listen to my podcast if I was a worm? Of course.

Of course. All right. What's my quote, your quote is, you might hear people ask, do we really need all those planets? The truth is, if you hear this report the traitor who sent it to the nearest loyalty officer immediately

that sounds like a hell divers thing god damn he's good that sounds like a hell diver's two thing hell yeah as soon as it was like report to your local blah blah officer ah it sounds like that that doesn't sound like democracy to me i mean it could have been star wars this could been like an ISB type thing. That's true. It could have. It very easily could have been a Star Wars thing. Yeah, because Andor is the best Star Wars ever made. But we'll talk about that a different day. Yes. So, Hell Divers. Hell Divers. A game that Shai is actually a pretty super fan of, to be perfectly honest. Maybe not everyone quite knows that. I lately, the only tweets of Shies that pop up for me are

Hell Divers related. It's all like, oh, yeah, I've been in the trenches fighting for this place. And if we lose it, it's not my fault or something like that. It's, yeah, Ish, I is very big into Hell Divers, too. Very much enjoys the Hell Divers, indeed. It's a good game. And Hell Divers, obviously, it's a very good game. Hell Divers, obviously, is a game with a lot of a very, very funny, very, very funny

gameplay and concepts. There's a lot of stuff going on in the Hell Divers world. And not only that, Hell Divers has a very great classic satirical style nature to its world and its lore, which obviously blends in very closely to Warhammer due to having bits of authoritarian political satire, which are obviously big, big parts of the games. So because of that, also I did not know we have a different background for today's episode. So that's actually sick as hell. Oh, wow. That's pretty, why am I always a cat boy?

I actually think the Sief part is a little funnier, if I'm going to be honest. So, Hell Divers. It's lore part one. We will have a part two sometime in the future. But for the first one, part one is entirely focused around humanity. Humanity.

The most equal species. of them all. Oh, yeah, as it often tends to be in these sort of dystopian, uh, sci-fi, um, warscapes, right?

Humanity always tends to be a little, uh, very humanity focus. We're the best. Zenos, not in my galaxy. Yeah. Hell, hell yeah. So, uh, obviously this is the part one of two,

uh, is just in time for the 10th anniversary of the complete edition of the first game. And obviously, Hell Divers is cut from the same cloth, very much so as many Paul Verhoven films. Clearly, Starship Troopers is the first one that comes to mind and is absolutely the correct one that should be coming to mind.

Yeah, definitely. The history and lore of Hell Divers brings us humanity that was kind of brought back from the brink of self-extinction, becoming a very proud and patriotic, authoritarian, militaristic empire that actually spans across 55 sectors of the Milky Way galaxy. And of course, at the center of it all is the crown jewel of the Federation, good old Super Earth, home of humanity and liberty. I love a nice cup of liberty. So we are going to be going over a little bit of the Federation of Super Earth and humanity itself. in the world of the hell divers,

and all the patriots that are there who live their lives and super earth and all that great stuff. And then part two, we'll talk more about the other factions of hell divers for the most parts. You know, things like the tyrannids. Nope, Terminids.

And the bots and stuff. Tearid, nope. Brain, stop it. It's too, they're too close, okay? It is really close. Yeah, yeah. But anyway, early history of super earth. Oh, welcome to Earth.

Welcome to Earth. The quote is, history matters. Today we remind you that Super Earth always has been and always will be. So, as you can imagine, the Ministry of Truth has made it very difficult to find a lot of the records of humanity on the formation of the Federation of Super Earth because a lot of that history before that time is based on various context clues and just general speculation. But the history of Super Earth and Earth generally is the same for quite some time until a conflict, sorry, the same as us, until a conflict known as the last great war.

It's not really known how it began or how it really ended, but based off of the damage of left behind. It likely happened at some point during like the tail end of the Cold War. Oh. The super earth of today has entire areas of the globe that are completely inhospitable and are denoted as wasteland zones most likely assumed to be the type of deal with like a nuclear fallout, you know? Like the majority of the areas tend to be the northern part of the globe. Notably a massive swath of Russia is as has been.

been destroyed. Huge part of Russia. Jesus Christ. The entire UK is also gone, which is just kind of funny. Oh, poor UK, they can't catch a break these days. It's, it's tough. That's tough. Listen, they didn't want to have any more, um, any more Warhammer-esque ones. So they got rid of all the Brits. All the Balkans is gone, but like, you know, it was kind of let that one sit there for a moments. Yeah, well, yeah. Oh, no. So those are the wasteland zones, of course. Little Tops of Greenland, big chunk of Canada.

And the damage, of course, at the time was probably far more substantial. And it's just these are the areas that are still affected. Okay. Now, go ahead. Oh, I was going to say, so they're still just uninhabited wastelands, just big, just craters everywhere and it's just very sort of like ruinous areas that

nobody is like obviously you're not repopulating these areas because they're wastelands. Turns out that a nuclear fallout lasts for a very long time. Yeah, depending on the nuke that was used and if it was an air burst or if it

actually like impacted the ground. Yeah, that thing could be it could be something else. So this conflict crippled the globe and most likely would have caused the extinction of humanity in general had it not been for refugees that found themselves in shelter in the greater Sunda Islands in the Indonesian archipelago. It's now known as Port Mercy. And due to the war, societal order collapsed and was obviously left in a quote, unquote, democratic anarchy. During this time, the Democratic Council had rallied the survivors under a new planet unifying government that was led by the idea of managed democracy.

And that ideology was able to push its way through the ashes of war and a regain control of the Earth, authoring, no, ushering in the birth of the Federation of Super Earth. We don't really know when this happened, but the best context clue we have is the form of a weapon. In the first game, there was the M2016 Constitution, which is described as a reproduction of the old M-1903 service rifle in the ancient times. You can assume that the reestablishment of this weapon and branding it with the year 2016 implies the Federation was in 2016. because you had the original 1903, right? Yeah. Okay. Okay.

And it makes sense, you know? Yeah, that's a, that's, I feel like that's a fairly good context clue to when it was actually formed. Sure. Yeah. And it looks like an old school, you know, ball action bayonet rifle. It's unfortunate. I actually love that gun a ton in hell divers, but unfortunately in higher rank hell dives, you just need to spray bullets because there's so many enemies.

I actually really, really like it because it basically like one taps bot devastators and stuff to the face. But you need to end really well. And if you're ever fighting bots, you're getting like screen punched so much. It's just not happening. Yeah. But anyway, in the early 2030s, Super Earth was no longer confined to the solar system due to the invention of slang called the Alcubari Drive. I think it's how it's pronounced. It's a special device that let the Federation do fashion light travel and colonized planets that were, you know, made exceptionally very easy.

There was also another invention that around the time that was necessary to do the managed democracy. And that was over on the colony of the Northman's Creek, a socialist uprising and secession took place. Oh, no. And Super Earth was forced to come up with a new strategy to quill it. and that led to the invention of the hell pod, which was obviously the rapid deployment of soldiers into the surface in like a buckshot manner. Love, love those buckshot deployments of soldiers in hell pods.

I've, you know, it sounds cool. A classic, a classic meme, of course. Oh, Jedi can block lasers,

try this buckshot. Well, you know, it makes sense. They still got a lightsaber. They just want to, stop all the bookshot with their hand, you know? Oh yeah, that's a force.

But on the early history of the hell divers, at this moment is, or it is as of this moment, not fully known when the precursor of the actual hell diver was found him. We know that the proto form of the hell diver were known as the Super Earth Legion, who, judging by the description of the SC-37 Legionaire armor,

were a quote, less patriotic precursor to the hell divers. The phrase less patriotic appears to imply the Legion may have existed during the last great war, sorry, and may have served as the fighting force of the Democratic Council to bring the rest of the warring world to heal. You know, regardless of their origin, the thunder warriors were eradicated in favor of the space marines. Yeah, as it should be clearly stated. Yeah, they're the less democratic. list. Yeah, it's very, very familiar, you know, but still very cool.

So, as this is an episode on the humans, we won't go into too much detail on their specifics of their, quote, diplomatic relations over the years. But we will cover a few quick bits to bring us closer to the modern day part because that's important, of course. Okay. Oh, is that the Super Earth Legion Army like outfit? It's actually a sick outfit. I was going to say that looks so dope. I would wear that all day, every day. I am a huge sucker for fighter jet looking outfit retrofitted for like combat.

Oh, hell yeah, right into my veins. Yeah, that's absolutely awesome. But at some point in the 2040s, the Federation made contact the two different species of alien, the terminids and the illuminate. Super Earth declared that the terminates were dangerous and the spread of them needed to stop, but the death of them needed to happen due to a certain element of their body that leaves behind. And the illuminate presented the Federation with a peace offering, but it was determined by the government that they actually had secret weapons of mass destruction,

me tugging on my shirt collar, and a preemptive strike needed to be done against this dangerous species. They got WMDs over there We don't have any of those These were the dominoes That would start with the first ever galactic war Which during this conflict Another faction came to play Which is the cyborgs from the planet of Cybersdam

Once anti-democratic citizens of Super Earth The half-man, half-machine Cyborgs were a looming threat to super earth. And this came to fruition when a man with cybernetic enhancements

blew himself up as well as eight civilians, which was more than enough to open a third front of the war. Yeah, that's,

that's not great. You don't, you don't love the, the, the, the, explodey cyborg people.

That's, that's not great. Oh, yeah, no, no, totally, totally just killing

eight people and then starting an entire war base on that. Yeah. Nothing, nothing involved like the right stag. That'd be ridiculous.

Yeah. I was about to say this this sounds like something that could maybe actually happen. No, no, no, no. Paul Vera-movin is entirely fictional. He has never made anything that ever relayed to modern day. You shut your mouth,

D.K. Okay. Okay. Moving on. Let's move on, everyone. Yes, sir. So, with that, Now, of course, that was when the first galactic war ended back in 1984 for the absolute victory of the Federation of Super Earth.

The terminids were relegated to factory farms. These cyborgs were given, quote, dedicated and stable work in the minds of Cybersdam, and the illuminate were forced to sign a treaty that resulted in the stripping of all of their technology, including their high-tech warp drives and banishment from the galaxy. This resulted in the period known as the Great Democratization. Oh, God. The Great Democratization. Yeah, that's such a, that's so hell done.

That's a hard one, yeah. Yeah. With hyper-advanced technology, free reign of the galaxy, and the concept of manifest democracy, not to be confused with democracy manifests, which may result in you being arrested for eating a succulent Chinese meal. Oh, right. Okay. It's actually the first thing I thought of, and I was very happy that possum put this in the script.

Fair. That's a good posse, possumism, posisum. Possism? Possism. Yeah, whatever. Poss, yeah, well, you get to you, you get what I'm saying. Please be nice to me. I have possism.

He's suffering from the possumisms. So the hell diver is, oh, sorry, from there, the Federation was able to rapidly expand across a major portion of the galaxy. And the hell divers were mostly dismissed during this time, used only for anti-rebel operations and patriotism parties and marches. But this great period of great democratization lasted for a full 100 unobstructed years. Wow. Now, all good things come to the end, however.

And February 8, 2184, the Federation was once again in conflict. The terminids broke free of their farms. There is a new robotic threat known as the, automaton, which is very similar to the cyborgs. Imagine that. And then the hell divers were brought back to remobilize. This is now the still ongoing second galactic war. And if this wasn't enough, a more violent and reckless illuminate return to the galaxy on December 12th of 2184, making it once again a three front battle. And I believe if I'm unmistakened, that is where we are currently at in the timeline. Okay. What do the...

Illuminate look like because by the time I'd stopped playing Hell Divers 2, which was relatively early, they weren't a thing. I think people rumored that maybe they'd be a thing because they were like in the first one and like they knew the lore. So they're like, oh yeah, Illuminate totally could possibly absolutely be a thing. And I never saw them. I never saw their units. I never saw anything about what they look like, but they sound really cool.

Well, that's an image of them right there. Oh, that's the, okay. seen that picture. For some reason, I thought that was the cyborgs. Like the early, early cyborgs. Okay. They look like, oh, man, I'm not beating the warfirm allegations. My first thought was like, oh, from far away, they kind of look like rhino, but they don't. I mean, it's the, it's the classic case of most of these types of things where you have the hyper-advanced, you have the militaristic, and you have the bugs, right?

You got the Zerg, the Tyrannids, and the Protas. These are the Protas. got you got you yeah yeah as far as we know i'm not one 100% sure like exactly what some of their individual faces look like um but at this point they actually do yeah repurpose humans to fight as their like mainline kind of like zombies uh but those both the staffs and stuff those are like the actual illuminates right those are like the yeah and everything else is sort of just their sort of repurpose zombies if you will i mean they do have a other stuff. Like they've got a bunch of ships. They have like little drones. They got like a big walking

strider. They kind of got a bit of a War the World's vibe to them. I was about, after I saw that walker, I was like, dude, that's War of the World's. War of the World is getting a new movie with Ice Cube. The drone looks, I don't know why I really like the drone though. I mean, the drone is pretty cool. Yeah, yeah.

It is, uh, it is very, very neat. I do not remember that enemy for Mass Effect too. This one? Yeah. Oh, well, no, that's not for Mass Effect 2. Oh, she's referencing. They look how it's like husks, you know, among other things. I thought she said that picture was from Mass Effect 2.

I was like, the fuck. Oh, right, the Pretorian is sick. That's right. It's like all the husks inside of it. Yeah. Adrick trying to not talk about Mass Effect in one episode challenge failed. Impossible. It's not going to happen.

If you said, like, just put it on your goddamn bingo card, right? There's an Adrick bingo card. One of the spots. The one in the middle is Adric talks about mass. It's a free space. You're going to get it every time. So we'll get into the workings of the government itself, as well as civilian life under the government in a bit first. But we should go over what Super Earth actually looks like.

It is, of course, united under one banner. There is no need for archaic divides of continents. So all landmasses on Super Earth have been revised and denoted as sector. each with a mega city. And so seven sectors total, seven megacities total, reflected proudly as the seven stars on the contemporary flag of Super Earth. Now, unfortunately, many of those landmarks and cities

have taken heavily damage or been outright destroyed due to the very aggressive illuminate invasion, which will be more in episode two. So the landmarks in the megacities here are being presented as more of like a historical manner. So, yeah, hence the big seven on the fly, which is a really cool detail. I never actually knew that. I thought that was just supposed to be like, oh, yeah, it's kind of like, you know,

it's your general flag, hooray, freedom, stars and stripes type of thing. That's cool that it's like all the megacities that are still left. Hell yeah. So section one, which is formerly known as Oceania and Australia, of course, is the aforementioned Port Mercy, which is the megacity one. It also has the famous minor barrier. Reef. Section 2 contains most remnants of China and Asia

and has Mega City 2, which is known as Equality on Sea, or Shanghai. It received its name due to a historic conference that took place where it was the term of the humanity was the most equal species in the galaxy. It is also home of the very famous

Great Wall of Democracy. Oh, wow. I love that great wall of democracy. Also, I love that they're really leading into the... Of course, we're more equal than others. Everyone's made equal, but some are more equal. Of course. Sector 3 has the remnants of Russia and the Scandinavian countries, including Iceland and Grealim. It is the home to the capital of Super Earth, known as Prosperity City, which was

formerly Stockholm. Prosperity City houses not only the president, but also the entirety of the Democratic Council. I'm not sure. So I don't quite remember what is the dev, team ethnicity. Are they Swedish? I don't even know. I don't even remember what the dev team's name is. Like, what, who are the devs again? Like, what's the company?

Arrowhead. I wasn't sure they put the capital of Super Earth over where they are in Arrowhead. Because that would just be really funny. You got to do stuff like that. You got to. Maybe. Maybe I'm wrong. I don't know.

I don't remember. Regardless, it's kind of funny. Sector 4 has the remnants of Europe and is the home Megacity 4, which is better known as Administration Center 02 or Admin Sen. It is all the administrative work and processing for Super Earth. And Balesces said documents with the stamp of ages, also including the leaning tower of peace. Oh, hell, die. Never change.

Section 5 contains India as well as the Arabian Peninsula, as well as the eastern portion of Africa. It is particularly lively with entertainment and sights due to its megacity known as Eagleopolis. It is the home of two of the last three remaining rainforests. It has the Great Mall of Super Earth and the Congressional Rapids Family Fun Zone. It also has the gateways at Giza, which are the luxury apartments built into the former great pyramids of Giza. Oh, we love, we love respect. the... God, I got to...

Section 6 is the majority of South America. It has one of the last three remaining rainforests on super earth, and the mega city of remembrance stands as a statement to the resilience of humanity. Though it is not explicitly stated, the city is likely a home of the Wall of Martyrs, where the names of every single fallen soldier are inscribed daily. How many a day you might ask? How many a day, Ricky?

Every day, millions of soldiers have their names inscribed upon the wall of martyrs. Show your support. Purchase one of the Super Earth's exclusive Martyr Day celebration packages. Oh, boy. Oh, boy. Now, Remembrance is also one of the cities that was lost due to the attack by the aluminum. But unlike the other losses, this one is being mentioned directly due to how due to a vote that was held community-wise, just a few days ago, they renamed the city as it's being rebuilt.

The vote has been concluded, and I can proudly confirm to all listeners that the former city of remembrance is now officially known as Gunn. Did they really just rename it? Gun is Gun? That is not a joke. It has been renamed to Gun. That is not a joke. All right. Okay. There was a Democratic vote, huh? among players

oh well okay now it makes sense if it was just among the whole okay that's that's suddenly a lot more oh yeah now I get yeah the player base is renamed it to gun I imagine this is not particularly surprising

no I'm surprised such a tame name if it was the player base that got to pick the name yeah not like like furry bussy hole 69 yeah that's a sentence I could have done without hearing this morning.

Shry, do you think Craig shows his? Oh, man, the Craig slander. For context for our viewers, we have a recording bot in Discord called Craig and it's a bear. We have so many listeners that are probably named Craig that are like, what the fuck, Ricky? What the hell? Why fuck me for, Bricky? Exactly. What the fuck did I do?

You know there's one Craig in the audience that's also a first. that like was like, huh? How does he know? How does he know? Anyway, the final sector is sector seven and makes up the remnants of the USA. It has been a long rumor that the core tenants of managed democracy came from this sector. Mega City 7 is known as York Supreme, which was the last York standing during the great York

conundrum, promising to hold strong against all other Yorks. Outside of the statue of Lady Liberty. is sector 7 also has the Superstone National Park. Hell, yeah. I do kind of love that Hell Divers 2 has a lot of like, yeah, this is a very serious war,

super democracy. And I kind of like that they don't take themselves seriously. And there's a lot of like comedic satire attached to it too. One of my favorite things, also the Pacific Ocean is now known as the Liberty Ocean. And the Atlantic Ocean is the same, because it's worse than the Pacific. And the Indian Ocea is now the Pan-Asian Ocean.

Also, the ice caps are long gone because, of course, they are. And so the South Pole is now home to large pockets of humanity, but not quite enough to constitute a megacity. So hence the phrase, section underdevelopment. Oh, okay. So it's like, of course, the ice caps are gone. But now that they're gone, we can live there, kind of. I love the fact that so, okay, sometimes I go to Vegas and the dystopian like bastardization

of culture is one of the things I find to be absolutely hilarious. I just, I love going to Vegas and seeing like the Sun Tzu slot machine. Oh, yeah. The, the Chinese like monk slot machine, like the Confucius one or something like that or like anything along those lines. Mm-hmm. It's just, it's so... Or, you know, the giant bass fishing pyramid.

I mean, that's true, but I almost find it more funny. Inner Peace, 777. It's just, it's such an insane bastardization of culture that I find it funny. I feel the same way about hell divers, where it's like, oh, yes, the great wall of democracy. Mm-hmm. It's just so good. Oh, humans.

Oh, humans. So now we get to talk about the government and the ministries of managed democracy. So obviously the core basis of the Federation is managed democracy. And in that, citizens are able to vote with the assistance of automated voting software. The voter goes into a voting booth answers a few key questions about their views on the Galactic Wide Web. And a candidate is selected for them that best. aligns with their answers. Quote,

I heard that some dissidents wanted us to select our own candidates. Instead of using the algorithm, great idea, everyone will just become a political expert overnight. Treasonous morons. Jesus. All right.

This voting software is regularly updated to better reflect the candidates that people truly want. With each iteration, voters will find even better candidates. Now, you might say this sounds awfully like an authoritarian fronted guided democracy with the illusion

of choice to legitimize its existence, to which Possum says there is a half off sale at the Great Mall of Super Earth. Whoa. Oh, I suddenly don't care about the authoritarian I mean, I suddenly don't care about the Democratic voting machine.

Let's go. Yay! Now there are three branches of government in the Federation of SuperEarth. You have the legislative, judicial, and executive branch, which are all equally important right now and all come into play. The legislative branch houses Super Earth High Command, which is the combined presence of the Senate and the House of Representatives, basically the same thing you would expect in the U.S. government. The judicial branch is the home of the Democratic Council. which serves the body responsibly for the interpretation of the Constitution of Super Earth. They ensure that all elected leaders abide by the basic laws of the Constitution with the gentle touch of an iron fist.

Now, the executive branch is a little different. There is the president of Super Earth, but their official capacity outside of their title is actually relatively unknown. What is known is that the biggest portion of the executive branch comes in the form. of the ministers, which serve as the real pillars in which managed democracy is enforced. So in total, there are eight known ministries in the Federation of Super Earth, the Ministry of Truth, defense, unity, expansion, science, humanity, prosperity, and intelligence. Every single one of these ministries works directly with a mega corporation that, by proxy, becomes a state mandated company.

Like it so far? Yeah, so far, it's you know, unfortunately, it's about what you'd expect it to be. Yes. The old super earth. We would all backed by corporations naturally.

Now, the Ministry of Truth is responsible for the spreading of government approved facts as well as the values of managed democracy through all channels within the Federation. It has total control over the internet and also the owner of Stroman Media, which provides news to all active helldivers. The spokesperson of the Ministry of Truth are the democracy officers and the accuracy rating of the Ministry of Truth is 100% as reported by the Ministry of Truth.

I love that they have to call themselves the Ministry of Truth because, guys, of course, we would never lie. Everything that comes out of our mouth is obviously the truth. Propaganda, not us, never, no way, no how. 100% truth. Also, I love that these posters just feel like they're straight out of like a George Orwell book, like a like a 1986, like, you know, big brother's always watching you. Stay, we're informed so you're informed. If you loyalty is or report any dissident activity, you'll be rewarded.

Turn, you know, spy on your fellow man for us and, ugh. Did you mean 1984? What did I say? 86. Oh, yes, I did mean 1984. Gotcha. Just making sure. Just making sure.

My immediate shock of, what do you mean? I didn't say that. But yeah, I mean, they all are very Orwellian, clearly. I mean, it's off. Obviously, yeah. Robocop, you know, it's very helvan. It's so very helvan. Now, the Ministry of Defense is the responsible for the management deployment of the super

Earth armed forces, including naturally the helldivers. They have the ability to wage war against all of the ultraviolet external and obviously internal threats to manage democracy. Their main manufacturer and company supplier is Morgensen Defense, which is also the mandatory supplier of weapons to civilians as well. Morgensen is favored for hunting, warfare, home defense, and most of all tradition. Most of all tradition. Not that other stuff, of course, of course.

The Ministry of Unity are the internal protectorates of the citizens of the Federation that are dedicated to ensuring that every citizen is united under one banner. Their main police force are known as loyalty officers who are responsible for the enforcement of managed democracy and are the ones that you report suspicions to. They are known for providing the sentencing in public executions and operate the freedom camps that dissidents are sent. too. Also, the Ministry of Unity is responsible for two apparently very important things that are never fully clarified. The Democratic Investigation Agency and the Chamber of Unanimous Decision. The first one, most likely being some kind of secret police and the second one being some kind of judicial chamber. They also monitor the entire internet. Oh, man. Not topic at all for this day in AJ.

Remember when people were like, when hell, Divers 2 came out and people just like didn't get it. And they were just like, why the hell wouldn't humanity be the good guys? Like it just, I mean, I never like got into the lore this deep before, but doing it currently, I'm like, God damn, dude. How did you miss this? Are you, are you that stupid or are you just, do you just want it to be like this? Like, God damn. Anyway.

Next we have the Ministry of Expansion, which is responsible for spreading it. democracy through the stars and the extraction of resources and terraforming planets. They work with each plant to establish a colonial presence and work directly with each planet's colonial overseer, which directly implies that instead of being the head of a planet in its own right, the colonial overseer are basically just upper managers in the expansion department. So in order to accomplish extractions, they rely heavily on ulterior, like UL-T-E-R-I-O-O-O-O-O-O-L-T-E-R-I-O-O-O. are ulterior. Alterier motives, yeah.

Ulterior industries, which makes the big bucks from the extraction of element 710, which will cover more in part two. This is also the mining industry that's particularly prominent in the Federation. Big mining complex is operated by the Ministry of Expansion, are known as deep mantle forges, and of course, we'll go to the mantle of the planet, as their name suggests. Ministry of Science is unsurprising. Civil scientific research for the most part. Research and development of science within the armed fortress of Super Earth

is obviously claiming materials from helldivers. This is why we have samples. Mm-hmm. My samples. My samples. My samples. It also has the major research centers that conduct a dedicated alien research, known as the Xeno entomology center and the center of science.

They work very closely with the amputin, or amputyme, which provides replacement limbs for citizens. So if you happen to lose a limb while working, you are strongly encouraged to get a replacement limb by signing your life away and joining the amputin's indentured labor force, where you are given a replacement limb that makes you an optimal worker for whatever the federation requires. Oh, man, that's brutal. Yeah, it's pretty brutal. Oh, Jesus Christ. All right. Thanks, ampudyne. Can I really appreciate how the Hell Diver's control group Premium Warwond has their little jetpack thing,

and then there's just two smoking boots in the background? Absolutely hysterical. I noticed that until you said it. I was just scrolling through all the pictures. Shipe was like, oh yeah, umpty-dum-dum-d-d-dom. You know, oh, yep, there's the Hell Diver's armor and, yep, there's the smoking. That's great. If you ever, ever use the telepor armor too much, you just go kabum. But it is tested and it's safe by the Ministry of Science. Totally. So anyway.

What could go wrong? You also have the Ministry of Humanity, and they act as the Federation's HR department to make sure all voters are healthy and productive. They manage the education system as well as gene management and social grading through the citizenship classification structure. If you want to get married, you send your application to the M-O-H. If your family member die, you notify the M-O-H, and they'll guide you on proper patriot disposal. If you want to have a baby, you, of course, need to support your CO1 form

before committing any act that could result in a child. The Megacorp that works directly with the Ministry of Humanity is COB Genetics, which works on gene manipulation of both the food you eat and the basic genetic structure as well to maintain productive workers for the federation. Right. I was telling me about the form you needed to fill out if you wanted to do a little bit of the, you know, you want to bump uglies a little bit.

You got to sign the form. That's right. The CO1, the CO1 form is any, because it says any act that could result in a child. So, you know, make sure that if God is watching and you don't have a time for the form,

you just do butt stuff. Also, we should not glaze over the fact that this is like literally eugenics. Yeah, I mean, this is, this is a, I mean, I struggle to say the word dystopian, but like it's, it's a pretty, it is, bro. It is. It is, it is a dystopian future. And it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's very. Ooh, yeah, it's, um, yeah, that's not great. It's very, it's very Gattaca.

It's not quite a Gattaca in there. Mm-hmm. Yeah. The Ministry of Prosperity is responsible not only for the economy, but for resources and consumer goods. They have complete control over the economy of the Federation through the bank, and it's the sole bank of the Federation and the sponsor for all products, infrastructure, and business ventures. The most notable restaurants sponsored by the MOP include seafood, seafood, bugfest, Liberty, and, democry cafe. They also have

Democry. They also have noble products including the energy drink Juistice made with real synthetic fruit juice and Eagles Collide perfume. Which I hear a lot on those commercials. Let's go.

Love a good fragrance. Hell yeah. Finally, there's the Ministry of Intelligence which is responsible for the collection of external data and information transmitting that data to the other ministries is presumed they are responsible for the monitoring of all surveillance satellites across the Federation and they tend to be the ones who are the first

to confirm the movement of anti-democratic factions as well as systems targeting anti-democratic activities but also I oh go ahead oh I was just because shy posted it I always thought that the Liberty thing was just like a meme and just something someone said is like, oh yeah, Liberty, like, oh, ha, ha, ha, ha, it's liberty. But, like, I thought that was like a community meme.

I didn't know that was actually in the game, like, as a thing that they, like, sold, like, stock and bond. And, like, yep, that's, there it is. No, I mean, there are ads for it in game. Like, like, it is a thing. We are, we are full, like, the satire has gone so far around. It's doing lash on us. Like, it's, it is a part of it for everything. I just thought it was like some community meme that like the players thought up.

I did not realize it was actually in the game. So let's talk a little bit about the life for a super earth citizen. Quote, I earned some citizen points back in the day. Citizenship points back in the day. All it took was reporting some unpatriotic talk I heard in the barracks. Now there's one less dissident and I got one more doctor's visit each year. Oh, that's. Awful, man.

All right. Life as a citizen in the Federation of Super Earth is a full of unwavering patriotism instilled at a very young age. Each and every morning, they must swear the Pledge of Allegiance to Super Earth. If the citizen is not on Super Earth the time, they must orient themselves to be facing Super Earth at the time of reciting the pledge. In a similar manner, if a citizen puts on a piece of clothing that has the Super Earth flag on it, they must recite the...

the anthem and then salute a reflection of themselves. Okay. Which is fucking hilarious. That's stupid. Now, if the minimum age of employment in the Federation is seven, and from that day onwards, citizens are allowed to volunteer in any field of industry they deem fit. The only thing off limits is the Super Earth Armed Forces, or Seaf, which requires a citizen to be 18 or older and be in fair health.

the minimum enlistment period is 10 years, no exceptions. However, due to the extremely militaristic leading of the Federation, there is an extreme degree of encouraging young citizens to join SIF as soon as possible, which is also encouraged by the free supplying of a rifle as soon as the citizen turns 16, which at one point was the M2016 Constitution, but has been replaced by the R21,24, Constitution. Okay, so you can start working at seven years old, huh? And you just go like, this is a yearn for the mind situation?

They yearn for it, bro. They yearn for it. And at 16, they just give you a gun. It's like, oh, just here's a subtle idea in what your future could be. Gun. Hey, they renamed it to gun, remember? How silly of me. How silly of me.

But the suburbs do look nice. This is the future, this is the future patriots want. Now, regardless of whether or not a citizen serves, most Federation citizens have a surprising degree of martial prowess due to their passion for Seaf and the Helldivers. On various maps in the game, you can find the body of a lone citizen, literally surrounded by the bodies of enemy combatants. Sometimes it's like a farmer surrounded by Tyrannid warriors. Other times you can find, God damn it, Terminatorian warriors. Other times you can find destroy automaton hulks next to a down citizen. Oftentimes these enemies have something like a rogue shovel in their heads,

implying the citizen was able to get pretty strong and do a quite large degree of damage with like minimal tools. Pretty cool. Take down a big old automaton with just a shovel. That's pretty based, actually. Yeah, like the memes aside, the sieve troops in the game are actually not terrible. Like when you truly think about a hell diver, in, well, I think we probably get to hell divers at some point. But, yeah, we will at some point.

But, like, hell divers and, like, the actual citizen super earth actually kind of bang. They do quite well. I mean, they're trained from a very young age to be like this, too. Like, it is instilled in them to sort of, like, oh, you got to, you got to fight for super earth. You got to be in good shape for super earth. You got to, you know. So that doesn't actually surprise me too much. No, I mean, them dying a horrible.

and quite a lot is part of the satire, no doubt. But like, you do got to realize that you do take out quite a few things before you do die. Yeah, yeah. So additionally, the indoctrination tends to include the incentivization of identifying those who are either dissenters or who's failed to show basic signs of super earth loyalty. This can either be accusing someone of colluding with the Illuminate, which is in the first game, failing to salute a Super Earth flag or other possible things. In the eyes of the citizen of the federation, there is no intolerance or discrimination to anyone that is not an avid patriot. Anyone who does not support managed democracy is not considered to be a citizen because all supereric citizens are created equal. But if you do not support it, you are not a citizen.

But the hell divers are the most equal, of course. Of course, of course. They're more equal. Everyone's equal, but they're more equal. Is there any sort of false alibi? allegation shenanigans because usually when you get this sort of Orwellian thing, it's a lot of like, oh, yeah, I don't like my neighbor because they're coming up in the world and I don't want them to take my spot. So I'm all report that they didn't salute or they didn't say the stuff and I'm going to get them hauled away, taken off, killed so that nobody takes my spot. And I'm going to get an extra doctor's visit every year or something like that.

Smile. It's just checking. I kind of thought that was going to be the answer. I had to check and see you. Okay, cool, cool, cool. Smile. So, of course, every single person on Supero speaks English, but some have regional dialects like British, Australia, etc.

Now, as mentioned before, the Federation is reliant on the CCS or citizenship classification structure as a social credit, Social credit deducted. Now, the classes of social credit range from class A plus all the way down to class E. And your CCS ranking determines the quality of your and your family's lives. Higher rank you are, the higher priority services, including better medicine, better housing, the ability to have a pet, fast pass for voting in elections. It's not quite clear what impacts your CCS rating, but various people.

pieces of dialogue insinuate two major ways you can level up, which is reporting dissonance to the local authorities and serving in the military. Of course. Of course. Most Federation citizens live fairly normal lives and enjoy the same things that we do in our reality, such as books, comics, and television. But there's a bit of a twist to this where any form of art or media that is transmitted through the Galactic White Web made by anyone in the Federation,

transfers ownership of the creation to the government just by uploading it. So whatever is enjoyed by the populace is furthermore an extension of the government's reach. Ah, I see. That, uh, don't, don't love that, but sure. Oh, uh, shy says, oh, I have one thing for D.K. Pride of the whistleblower cape. Oh, no. Not, all right.

Uh, granted to the truth enforcers, informant of the month, this tasteful cape conjures images of dissident blood on asphalt. Hmm. Love the pride of the whistleblower. Love it. I love democracy. Yeah, love it. Love it.

Love it. I would never go against democracy. Now, there are very popular TV shows, such as Can't Ration My Love, and Our Love is like Liberty, brackets, indestructible, closing brackets. There are also stories involving the Seath, sorry, Seif, Seeth the Scalus I was going to say that Yeah, yeah, the funny dragon

A very popular novel known as Truth Enforcers, Enforcers of Truth He's also a very military-centric There are also musicals such as Lost My Heart to a Man in a Helmet and Hazard Pay The Musical I love them.

I love all of it. I love the satire and the humor and the jabbit all of it. I'm all on board. Now, the majority of citizens obviously live in very tight quarters urban sprawl, but no matter the size of the city block, there is always room made for well-kept green lawns, parks, and playgrounds to represent the classic propaganda-esque vision of the idealic life that everyone under managed democracy deserves. And as you can imagine, the vast majority of people in the Federation are not born on Super Earth and will likely never see Super Earth in their lifetimes. tourism is apparently quite expensive and the government owns the bank

but just because they will never see Super Earth in person is not mean they don't have a perfect vision of it in their hearts aw something about just you saying ah yeah Tourismics is expensive and Super Earth owns the bank is just like oh God it's just awful

it's just awful it's always good to remind you know yeah it's like by the way Super Earth owns the bank. Which one? All of them. Yes. Yes. So the answer is yes.

It's like, ah! Now, anyone who has ever seen, even the smallest clip in helldivers, we'll know about the super earth like liberty talk. A lot of the classic expressions like, oh my God, or sweet Jesus, or as D.K. would say, Jaisus, are replaced with words like sweetly. liberty or democracy above. I mean, if we're going to boss baby this, you know, by the throne. For the emperor, yep.

Yeah, usual stuff. Plenty of references to the physical manifestation of liberty in the form of lady liberty. And some NPCs will talk about her as if she is some form of deity. In fact, Heldivers 2 has a war bond called Servants of Freedom that go into a bit further with two very specific armor models, the IE3 martyr armor, and the. the I.E. 12 righteous armor. The martyr armor is dedicated to and modeled after the statue of mournful liberty,

which is a physical representation of liberty's lamentation over the existence of tyranny. Those who wear the armor dedicated their lives to drying liberty's tears in a form of almost religious penance. And the I.E. 12 righteous armor is based on the statue of judicious liberty, which is the more common symbol across the Federation. According to the armor description, statues of judicious liberty are placed in a myriad of places

like schoolyards, check out lines, rehab centers, and so on to keep a watchful eye over these places like a guardian angel. Those who wear this armor

embody it in almost a physical sense making them look a little angelic. Those armors are sick. Yeah, those armors are sick. Obviously, you can see one has tears, one does not. Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. Damn, I love that.

that. Obviously, the same amount of religious fervor for liberty is built into the structures around SuperEarth and the Federation as a whole. Despite most of the buildings being utilitarian, you know, like farms and silos, what have you. The more populated areas have buildings adorned with affirmations of managed democracy and liberty itself. If these buildings are damaged, then you would assume that the enemy is attacking liberty itself and therefore a justification to retaliate with the full might of the Federation.

Of course. So don't vandalize a building or social credits going down. Way down. And so is, you know. Or you're killed. Yeah, I was going to say, or you just die. There are also Liberty-based holidays. You have Liberty Day, which is the biggest one, 26th of October.

The first and final draft of managed democracy pushed by the Democratic Council. It goes on for 24 hours. It has very notable events, including the disqualable. including the dissident executions, brought to you by Eagle Sweep, the Liberty Day Parade, an orbital bombardment of the moon with over 15,000 megatons of ordinance, and a mandatory synchronized statue of a statue and oath of citizenship. Why are we orbital bombarding the moon? Because we can, I guess.

Is that like their, like, hysterical take on like, oh, look at the fireworks display that we absolutely don't need that's like polluting our world. It's like, oh, look, we've taken it to the end degree and we just, you know, tactical nuke the shit out of the moon. I, it's, there's the Liberty Day highlights. I don't know what you want from me. They blow up the moon, my man. They too.

Like you said, 15,000 megatons of ordinance. Jesus. Yeah. It is what it is. Hell yeah. You got to get ready for those sponsored executions. Not to mention, they also have Class B citizens are given a full hour off of work

so they could also watch the parades. Wow, how benevolent. The full hour you say off of work? Damn. There's also the, they replaced Christmas with the Festival of Reckoning, which is a three-day festival where a hell divers are provided with special

the weapons and strategies reflected of the theme of the day. This past year, the first day involved in Sindiary, the second explosive, and the third is the feast of the electorate, which celebrates the first free and managed election. A special fund is tapped into and hell divers are given a bounty of weapons to work with, and the more kills they rack up, the more discounts their family and communities get on consumer goods. The higher the toll, the greater the savings. Also, I didn't realize it until Shide said it in chat. The Liberty Day highlights has a For Your Kids section.

It's Liberty Day Pire, Wack a Terminid, Meet a Hell Diver, and last but not least, for your kids, enlistment. It is quite humorous. If you have a Hell Diver in your family, the more things they kill, the more percentage you save on goods and services.

Jesus. Well, That's one way to do it for sure. Finally, to round the episode out, we have the hell divers themselves. The hell divers, generally speaking, are picked from enlisted sief members, though plenty of broadcast state that citizens can enlist directly for the hell divers from the drop. Per one of the recruitment posters, it says, sign up to the Super Earth Armed Forces today, and maybe one day you will be a hell.

Hell Diver 2. According to the intro cinematic of Hell Divers 2, the average age of Hell Divers trainees is 18.7 years old. And prior to the Second Galactic War, the training for a Hell Diver took place in an undisclosed training facility, but in the current time frame post-illuminant attack, it takes place in the former tourism world of Zegima Paradise. The most important part of this training has to do with who coordinates it, which is General Brash, or as his full title specifies,

Super 10 star General Brash. Brash is quote unquote, Super Earth's oldest and most grizzled war hero and was a veteran of the first galactic war. So now folks who know the chain of command works in our modern day military may note that the highest number of stars a general can get is five. And a five star general is second only to the commander in chief. Now, you could brush this off as a very over-the-top naming convention used by a federation infamous for over-the-top naming conventions, or you can conclude that the very literal general brash is more powerful than the entirety of the federation's governing body, which is most likely the case.

Yeah. Wow, what a, what a poster. Now, after a recruit has impressed the very much definitely alive general, the recruit is granted the rank of cadet and provided with their cape. And our wists pass the helldiver contract of employment, which passing the contract of employment is basically the same as reading it. And from there, hell divers entered their assigned super destroyer. And by assigned, we mean unexpectedly frozen and put into one and thaw to need him and are able to pick any mission they designed. that will ultimately benefit the spread of managed democracy. All hell diver, all hell divers know they are heavily outgunned and heavily outnumbered with only four to a squab,

but hell divers are more than prepared to handle any action they may face. So essentially the tutorial is what we just did. Yes, basically. Yeah. Their passion for managed democracy has been made the hell divers large in life symbolic heroes to the citizens of the federation. and many NPCs will make statements on how it's unbelievable that they can get this close to a hell diver.

Many children have hell diver toy helmets, action figures, postures for hell divers in their room, and seeing a hell diver on the streets will basically make all citizens stop to salute them. You know, I'm trying not the boss baby here, but sounds awful familiar to another franchise that we cover once or twice.

Yeah, it's very much space marini. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Now, hell divers aren't just the elite fighting force against the alien threats. They also serve as special police force that age the Ministry of Unity when their standard law officers are not enough. This is confirmed in the most recent release of the Force of Law war bomb that grants you the grand juror armor, very much Judge Dreb. More specifically, the 2012 film, and the JP20 correct officer armor, which is far more inspired by Robocop, which is hell yeah, more. Verhoven. Yeah, I mean, combining Judge Dredd and Robocop, I mean, I don't see how you can lose.

Now, moving from that, despite the grandeur of the helldivers, there is the inevitability of death. Canon-wise, hell divers are expected to survive after they are unfrozen for about two minutes. This leads to an absolutely wild and ridiculous theory that hell divers are cloned on mass, which would explain why so many look and sound the same. I mean, that makes sense to me, yeah, especially with a place like Super Earth as shady as they are. I could totally see them just cloning hell divers on mass as just a fighting force to throw it and enemy, an enemy just you know without any regard like oh we lost

hell divers no big deal clone the next batch yeah me staring at DK as he speaks these words excited that my social credit's about to go way up oh no don't report Bricky you need a co-hose

don't report me please I didn't mean it I'm saluting the helldivers as we speak I swear it's a theory It is a fan theory that undermines the fanaticism of managed democracy to begin with. Because, yes, after the Illuminate War, there was an order to quadruple breeding permits. Oh.

Hell yeah, brother. Yeah. Hell yeah, brother, but why would you need increased breeding if you could just clone more super soldiers? Well, the question is not that they're like clones in the sense of Star Wars clones, but maybe that they just happen to clone various hell divers just to have a few more of them. I imagine it's more like taking a stock to double up on like the thousands of hell divers,

not like cloning one particular guy. Okay, got you, got you. But regardless, billions of people in the Federation are born into and willing to die for superiors with a drop of a hat. So a clone army would negate the necessity of basic training for soldiers and would 100% negate the constant barrage of propaganda asking for you to do your part and join the Helldivers.

So it's most likely just a fan theory not actually true. But hey, you never know. It could be a fun way to game the game part of it. Like, why are there only four Helldiver voices? Yeah, yeah. Fan theories are like that, right? They're fun in theory. They're fun in theory to sort of speculate on.

But looking at what we have, it's like, yeah, probably not, though. Regardless, though, the Helldivers are the major symbol, despite their immediate and unfathomable death. The funny thing about a hell diver, and I think it's kind of the humorous bit, is that the hell diver can be both at the same time. They can be a larger than life-looking hero that is eaten up immediately like fodder,

much like in Starship Troopers, but they can also simultaneously be a really good soldier. I think in the world of Helldivers, the player character is canon in both methods. You can, the player character of the hell diver, immediately defrosting, being shot down in a hell pod and immediately exploding and dying is canon. And then the hell diver that comes down and basically like solos the entire mission by themselves is also canon. Like hell divers can very much be both. What about the hell diver that comes down and immediately triggers an orbital bombardment?

on their friends and puts all the minds down next to objectives. Yeah. Also canon. Oh boy. The survivor of my social credit score is about to go up. Yeah. Like it says like we just give you example. The recent siege of the bot planet,

we lost 60 million hell divers. And the bots lost three million, three billion bots. So the hell divers are still very effective. Like, it should be clear, humanity is a very good fighting force because it's all they do. They're militaristically propagandized people

who do nothing but fight all the time. So they are very good, but they also are still propagandized heavily. Boss Bay being this, Acadian Imperial Guard soldier, is an insanely good soldier, ridiculously good. But they do fight like an orc,

which will rip them into like 40 giblets. To shreds. Just to shreds. Mm-hmm. But a single Imperial Guardsman going like turbo mode on his Las gun could absolutely just with great aim, triple headshot a couple orcs with like hyperpower like the Lazz. And then throw the pack at someone else to blow them up. And you can't have a guardsman that kills four orcs. The same orcs that will rip into start season two.

True. Like, there is no, like, both can happen. Mm-hmm. So that's some good stuff. Yes, sir. Yeah. That is some good stuff. Just, yeah.

Love, love my Orwellian, authoritarian military. It's great. And that right there is, um, good old. The hell diver is super earth. lore drop. Damn. I didn't think there was that much lore in helldivers, too. Like, back when I played it, it was like, oh, yeah, this is very fun.

It's like, oh, yeah, there's Super Earth. I didn't realize there was, like, this much to it and this much, like, really kind of, like, deep lore. But, like, I love the satirical take on it, on this dystopian, authoritarian super Earth military. I dig it. I had no idea was that deep either. This is only for humanity too. We haven't done the second episode yet. But I must admit the thing I was the most interested about.

I don't know if anyone at Arrowhead watches our stuff. But first things first, thank you for making such a fantastic game. I think Hell Divers is continually fantastic and just a genuinely great time. This is not sponsored either, just so it's clear. But the thing that I have enjoyed the most out of this episode learning this kind of stuff is actually the various ministries. I would love more of the ministries and their corporation counterparts to make some use in the game. I think it's, I think they are because there's a couple war bonds that do follow the ministries. but I would definitely

definitely like the amount of more ministry-based stuff going on with that. I think it's very fun and very cool and I would love to put more effort into that. Hell yeah. See, now I want to boot up Hell Divers too again. I was never very good at it, but you know what? That's a fun game.

So, you know, maybe I'll take a... Maybe I'll take a few... What are the enemies that are currently available? Is it because, like, sometimes they go out of rotation if the community kills enough of them, right? The enemies, right? Sometimes there's bots. Sometimes there's bugs. Sometimes there's not.

All of them, depending, yeah. Oh, okay. Well, I'm going to kill me some robots. Hell yeah, dude. All right. Justin, we're really fucking up the war at the moment. Great. We love democracy, my man.

It's great stuff. Hell Divers is great. It is a pure, like, I have never seen a satire this thick outside of like Warhammer and a couple of a few little bits. But like it's just they took every kind of dystopian and shoved it all together. We, buddy, we got Orwellian horror. We got, we got government conspiracy. We got eugenics, baby. We got heavy authoritarian military.

We got lies. We got shrews. We got all of them. it. We got weapons of mass mass democratization. It's also nice that they just really lean into. And it's not grim dark like 40K.

It's actually got like this really comedic overtone to it. So it's like, oh man, this is awful. But then it's just, it's also like really funny. Like it's just it's so, they lean into it so hard that it's actually like, it's hysterical. I

really enjoy that because I find the yeah okay the luxury apartments built into the pyramids is so fucking funny um modern living with an old age charm i uh i find i find it really funny because i know the development team is like swedish um it it carries a lot of obvious like authoritarian big brother you know old school oh yeah not see germany kind of stuff uh and lots of like other stuff of that nature but it also, I imagine, carries a great deal of humor from a European country looking at America. Like, it looks at the fanaticism and the weirdness of so many Americans at times of just this, like, like, cock gobbling government loving type crap. And that's the Uber patriotism, right?

Yes. And it's like coming from a country that's like a little less like hardcore in that nature and being able to combine both old European issues of like the 40s and stuff mixed with the insane zealous citizenship looking at America. Yeah. Which is hilarious. And also, yeah, the, the automaton speak Swedish, I guess. Oh.

They add their own little bit to it, which I think is quite funny. That is pretty good. Adding yourselves in is one of the enemies. And also the automaton's look. Great God. I remember fighting them and being very scared of them and they're so cool. I want to ride one of those giant automaton tanks. Hell you.

Anyway, that's our episode for today for Super Earth. For good old... Democracy, of course. Welcome to Earth. And for a damn managed democracy. I'm going to go vote. and an algorithm and an AI algorithm managed by

Grock will tell me who I'm voting for. Let's go, baby. Yippee! Yippee! Feel the endless void of space. Feel the cold, vast loneliness pressing against the whole of your ship. Feel yourself fall.

That super earth catch you.