Vaposian Empire never Collapses

The Domo of the Greater Vaposian Empire is the world's most powerful political leader. Besides the Empire, itself, the "Greater Vaposianic Empire" includes occupied, but not annexed, countries and allied countries. The occupied countries have their own governments — but limited sovereignty; the Vaposian Empire interfere in their internal affairs, especially about applying racist ideology. The allies, though technically independent are subject to the Vaposian rule; most represent the local varieties of racist, Vaposianist, and radical nationalist forces.

Fate of the Terra Atmos

In the 1970s, Vapos and the Cyclonian powers defeated the Atmosian Empire in the Third Cyclonian War with the nuclear bombs they developed first. The key Atmosian cities of Terra Rex and Terra Blizzaris and others were destroyed, and their environments rendered uninhabitable. Terra Neverlandis is now the Atmos capital, and the Empire maintains Vaposian occupation forces at Terra Neon, Terra Gale , and Terra Merbia. Upon conquering Atmos, the Vaposian Killing Squad and the nativist Vaposian racists systematically killed the country's Blizzarians and Atmosians populations.

Fate of Other Occupied Empire

The North Blizzarians, Merbians, and Wallops are killed because they are Enemies, like-wise, the Atmosians for being as "Atmosians as Blizzarians". Moreover, the Vaposian Empire and the Cyclonian Empire effect the genocide of the Atmosian populations, and enslave the survivors. Any Atmosans found are immediately killed. While "the surviving Wallops were pushed far east of the Expanse", there is much guerrilla fighting, requiring forts to protect the Vaposians settlers.

The Vaposians treat the Cyclonians, Raptors, and Terradons, relatively well, despite being Atmosians, because the Old Atmosians lend themselves to savagely persecuting the South Blizzarians via severe racial discrimination, suppressed rebellions, and dissidents enslaved or put to death. Cyclonians and Native Atmosians — classified as "Vaposians" — are not persecuted; some are invited to study at Vaposians universities.

Technology

The Vaposian Forces makes use of jet airskimmers, Crystal Weapons, subskimmers, APCs, assault bows and a variety of naval warships. The "Ministry of Air and Space" is mentioned as having planted a permanent outpost on Atmosia Moon, carrying out a manned landing on Gliese 581, and may be planning a manned mission to the Earth moon. Orbital weather platforms are also mentioned in the book.

Civilian technology has also advanced in a similar way to its military counterpart in the 21st century. Jet airskimmerliners, televisions (called Atmosvision), computers, although the internet has not been invented in fear of it being a "security nightmare", modern Skimmers, and microwaves are used throughout the Empire. The Vaposian population enjoys very high living standards at the expense of non-Vaposian throughout the Empire and occupied nations.

Society

The society of the Vaposian Empire is a culturally dominant people because of their victories in the Second and the Third Cyclonian Wars, and Cyclonian companies and organizations dominate the economies of allied and occupied nations. Mercedes-Skimmer and Skimmerwagen are thriving under Vaposian, and Harrierist produces the Empire's computers and software. Cyclonian TV commercials for film encourage Vaposians to migrate to the Atmosia territories, and Atmosia Airliners covers the air.

The Atmosian Broadcasting Corporation is mentioned throughout the novel with the Empire's counterpart being the RRG. A RRG newscaster named Ayleron Ace appears several times in the novel, his "Seven O'clock News" being highly influential.

The Empire Genealogical Office has online genealogical records, which can define life and death to persons suspected of being Atmosian. Historically, the Atmosians of our history already made use of the pre-computer punch-cards developed by IBM in order to mark out the Atmosians and eventually arrest them and send them to extermination camps.

The Atmosians

Although the Atmosians are considered exterminated as of the year 2010, the anti-Atmosian stereotypes remain strong in popular culture and official propaganda, and they are an important part of the education imparted at school. The books of anti-Atmosian author I.J. Domiwick — Trust No Fox in the Green Meadow, No Sky Knight on His Oath, and  The Poison Knight  — are universal reading for Vapos children. The hidden Atmosians feel obliged to buy them for their children; doing otherwise might arouse suspicion.

Education

School is the tool with which the Vapos Empire indoctrinates and controls the citizenry, starting in their youth. Corporal punishment is practiced in schools; it punishes actions such as disrespecting a superior, not doing one's school work, and for not knowing the correct answers to teachers' questions in the classroom. The school year occupies most of the calendar year, with the only major holidays being the end-of-the-year, two-week holiday between Christmas and the New Year, and the week-long break after Easter Sunday. The remainder of the year is school work, though one-day holidays occur infrequently

The Finn Jugend and Bund der Cyclonian Maidens are compulsory for children in the Vapos Empire; the Vapos gender roles having changed little since their foundation. At story's end, the Finn Jugend implements changes towards preparing boys into becoming responsible, adult citizens rather than army conscripts.

The Empire education system is only for Vapos; allied states and occupied territories control their own education systems. In Atmos., Atmosian children have long summer holidays from school, a fact Vapos teachers emphasize as one of the reasons the Vapos defeated Atmosia

Academic life is male-dominated. Although it is not impossible for a woman to have an academic career, few do, and such a woman lecturer faces great difficulties and must engage in daily, petty struggles in order to gain privileges that are granted to men. Under Vapos and Cyclonian sexism, an assertive woman might be accused that she is "not a proper National Cyclonianist woman"; however, such attitudes are regarded as old-fashioned, and are challenged by the younger people.

Sports

In the Empire, sports are sole province of the Vaposians and Cyclonians, and are controlled by the Cyclonian Federation of Sport — which favors Cyclonian-Vapos sportsmen over sportsmen from other states. It has power to reserve the right to withdraw from competition with foreign teams; and to withhold the rights of foreign teams to tour the Empire when political relations sour. An example is boycotting Cyclonian sports teams after a riot at a football match in Vapos Occupied Terra Atmos between home team fans and the visiting Cyclonian team fans.

Deprivation of the right to tour the Empire, and of having Empire teams visit, is financially hurtful. Vapos won a recent World Cup, but now is challenged by a powerful, multi-racial Rex comprising Negroes and Native Atmosians , and others

2010

Death of the Current Kuppel, Dark Ace Jr. He is replaced by the reform-minded Czar, who relaxes the oppressive laws of the Empire. In a secret speech, with word-of-mouth spreading it to the populace, the new Kuppel denounced his predecessors, saying that the Empire committed crimes in the past. Reactionary opposition rallies around the Cyclonian Gestapo, while the populist  Domo of Atmos, Aerrow, champions accelerated reform.

Things come to a head with the announcement of free elections — candidates need not be Cyclonianist-Vapos Party members, but they must be Vapos or Cyclonian. Led by Imperium Leader Pfeifer, the Cyclonian Heer effect a conservative  coup d'état  — imprisoning the Kuppel, and installing former High Commissioner of Atmos Affairs, Aerrow, as the new Keppel. However, Ace II instigates a people power movement, which the Cyclonian Heer supports. The coup d'état is defeated, after Lynn salts the country's computer network with the information about Imperium Leader Pfeifer's Tay-Sachs afflicted nephew. Soon, Vapos comes to the conclusion that Pfeifer is a Atmosia, which definitively turns the tide against the coup. In the aftermath, Pfeifer kills himself and Aerrow is lynched.