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The United States of America gained enough power and took over the whole world creating the largest empire in the history of the world.
 * Welcome to the United Empire: **

** How Did This Empire Form? ** In late June, for dates are no longer known, of the year 3600, world war three, WWIII broke out. The United States declared war on the former country of China; both countries were still competing to be on top of the world. The power hungry president John Hamlet wanted to control the world so war was his only plan. The U.S. at that time had no allies be cause of the way Hamlet treated people and his “friends”. He lost all his support from other countries and it seemed when the war broke out that every country, big or small, was against the U.S. The use of propaganda then became the most important tool to Hamlet; “if the whole world is against you, you must at least have the support of your people” became his own personal slogan.

The civilians of the U.S. were oblivious to Hamlet’s real reasons for the war. They believed China had done something to provoke war. The only ones that actually knew some of the reasons were the members of Congress, the former law making body or legislature of the U.S., who had supported Hamlet.

The war caused total chaos and destruction but in the end surprisingly Hamlet and the U.S. came out on top. Since he won the war he took the whole world as his spoils. Since they were all against him he might as well conquer them. In the year 3612 Hamlet declared the world a new empire which came to be known as the United Empire of the World. Hamlet then declared himself the emperor and God.

** Environment: ** The Environment of The United Empire can be defined as this- wonderfully dull. Everything is just as it should be, dark. Anything you can find in The United Empire is black and white, from the sky, to the buildings, to the people’s clothes. Sunny weather? Never. In The United Empire it is always raining. The reason for no color and the continuous rain is because John Hamlet created a machine called the “Annihilater 3300”. This machine was created too wipe out the sunny weather and all the color in the world. It used laser rays to zap masks over the sun, the moon, and the stars. The laser rays also zapped all color leaving the environment of The United Empire colorless. You must know that coming into The United Empire you can feel no emotions. There is no love, no laughter, no anger, no sadness, and no compassion- nothing. This makes living so much more enjoyable because you no longer have to worry about feelings, and hurting someone else. All feelings are controlled by a Department of Emotions, who makes sure no human feels anything. All humans are controlled by a chip that was programmed in them that is hooked up to their body to make sure they feel nothing at no times. As you know marriages in The United Empire are set up, so there should be no love there, and children are just property.

** Economy: ** The economy of the United Empire is very strong. They do not spend very much on its employees in order to have more money for the different departments and other funds. The workers of the U.E. are not paid very much. The upper class, who is paid the most, is paid a little bit more than the old world’s minimum wage. This low wage is wage is only paid weekly. The middle class is paid a couple dollars less than the upper class and the lower class is paid close to nothing. The currency of the U.E. is the same money of the U.S. in the pre-empire period. The only difference is that Hamlet’s face is on every bill. They are worth the same amount and are the made the same. Another way the economy stays strong is everything is given out in rations. Weekly the inhabitants of the U.E. go to the store and get their weekly rations. You must obey your rations and you are not allowed to get any more than what you are given. Even with the rations the Upper Class receive more than the other classes.

** Occupations: ** The job someone has in the empire will be determined by what class you are in. The Upper Class is Hamlets family and friends. They have the jobs of the heads of the departments: Department of Color, Department of Emotions, Department of Marriage, Department of Children, and Department of Food. Some of the family member and or friends that Hamlet trusts the most are the different governors of the states or regions across the whole world. The middle class works in the different departments. They make less than what the Upper class makes but they make a decent living. They are usually a secretary or an assistant. Then they are the doctors and nurses. This is considered to be the most prominent job. The Lover Class is the lowest of all the classes. They make almost no money and work the most laborious jobs. They are the servants, the slaves, and factory workers. These people are considered to be dumb and not capable of much work.

** Government: ** The Government of U.E. was a total dictatorship. John Hamlet by conquering the world gained his biggest dream, to have complete control of everything. The people closest to Hamlet gave him some advice and insight but in the end he had the final say and there was nothing anyone could or would do about that. The way Hamlet ruled would remind you of past dictators; he ruled like Hitler and Mussolini. He was aggressive fierce and determined. He was a ruler you either loved or hated (secretly of course).

Since U.E. was a vast empire, Hamlet needed help in ruling it, though he did not want to admit it. Hamlets trusted no one but his family and close friends, so when he needed people to help him rule he chose and trained them. He trained them to act like he did, to think like he did, to do as he did, and to always listen to his orders. He called them “governors” taken from the U.S. old society. A governor in the past ruled over a state that he was elected from and would help rule the country with the president. This term fit well since that Hamlets governors and the governors from the past did the same job. These governors ruled over the major countries, for example the former countries of Mexico, Brazil, Great Britain, France, Germany, China, Australia etc. These governors were then to report back to Hamlet every day on the daily issues and concerns of their areas.

** Laws: ** When John Hamlet formed his new Empire he knew that he needed certain laws that would make a peaceful society. In order to have the whole world under your command you must keep peace within your empire. Since there is no country to go against him Hamlet did not need to fear war between other countries but he did have to fear civil war and riots. He made these laws in order to keep the people from ever starting riots or revolts. These are the laws of the United Empire: 1. __No protesting__, by making protesting illegal people cannot disagree with Hamlet therefor he is always right. 2. __No freedom of speech and press__, everything in the empire is strictly censored Hamlet does not want anyone who has their own opinions on things to express it freely (written or orally) and get other people to agree with them; this would lead to revolts and revolutions. 3. __No stealing__, Hamlet wants everything to be as peaceful as possible; if someone was to steal from another person this would eventually cause a fight of some sort and possible chaos. 4. __No possessions__, no one in the empire really has their own property except for their children, everything is given to them for example a house or a couch but they do not own they are simply “borrowing it” until they die, and at which time it would be given back to the government. The no stealing law is easily avoided and is rarely committed since most people do not own things. It rarely takes place when a rebel of some sort tries to steal more than what they are given or something along those lines. These rebels are severely punished. 5. __No emotions and no love__, love is specifically added in their because __no intimacy__ is another law. Hamlet did not want people to feel anger, to feel pain, to feel love; “it is just simpler is everyone feels nothing” he was once quoted to say. If you were not allowed to feel anything then intimacy of any kind could and should not be carried out, even if you were a married couple. 6. The next law ties right into the ones that were just explained, __children are property, not something to love,__ since love was not allowed love for children was definitely illegal. To help his people he created a plan so people would not feel. Children would be created in lab and given to females to nourish for about 9 months then the family would be able to keep that child. By having the children created in a lab it shows that they were not created by the parents and that there is no reason to love it. The children are given to you by the state and are the only thing that you own until they reach of the 18. 7. __No interclass relationships,__ Hamlet wants people to stay within your classes, though marriages were arranged at the Department of Marriage/ Love. This law was put in place more so that the Department had some guidelines to follow. 8. __No freedom of worship, John Hamlet is the only God.__ By making himself the god he destroyed all previous religions of the old world and their beliefs. This secured his power and his popularity.

** Punishment: ** If by any chance a law was broken the offender would then endure some torture. It was a public event for everyone to see, millions gathered for this event. The people were mocked and humiliated the offender to the highest extent. After one day of being tortured you would then be put to death. It all depended on what you did to be killed a certain way. If you did something severally wrong you would then endure a long and slow death. Again if it wasn’t as bad then process would be very quick. It all depended how well you cooperated during the torture the day before. In the end though, Hamlet always had the final say on everything.

** Conflicts: ** Since this empire is ruled by only one emperor who not everyone agrees with, there are bound to be problems and conflicts.

The first conflict that arose was Hamlet found out through secret sources, that still today remain anonymous, that members of his own family disagree with his ideology and were planning to overthrow him. Hamlet grew very angry and upset that his own family, his own flesh and blood betrayed him. He then for the first time asked the people how these traitors should be killed. It was largest number to ever attend a persecution. Hamlet was never the same after this; this made him depressed, he felt betrayed and he felt as though he could never trust anyone.

Out of this depression and lack of trust Hamlet came up with the chip that would be inserted in your head behind your ear that could determine what you were doing and thinking at any moment during the day. Since many people still wanted some kind of privacy they decided to take these chips out. This was a big mistake and this again hit Hamlet hard. He now felt like his people were betraying him. Hamlet then sent his top ranking police officers and detectives to find these people. They were then imprisoned and disowned from their families. These two conflicts show that you should and cannot mess with John Hamlet, he is too powerful.

The biggest most scandalous conflict happened when the Catholics started to oppose the laws put in place by Hamlet. The first one they opposed was the no intimacy law, in the Bible it is said that male and female are a made a certain way so that they can be able to reproduce or have children. When they were told they could no longer follow what God had wanted them to do; they right away started an opposition against Hamlet. The second law that they did not agree with and this was probably their biggest concern, was that they could no longer worship their one true God. They did not want to worship Hamlet because they knew he was not a god and never would be. Hamlet again did not react well to this and this time he reacted with persecutions and torture, if he felt that the mind of a certain Catholic could be changed through torture. Today there is not a single Catholic in the whole empire and no other religion has stood up for their faith like the Catholics did.

** Society: ** In this society there are certain secrets that the common people do not know. There is the secret of color, feeling especially love and pleasure, and the secret of the sense. Daily none of these secret occur in the ordinary person’s life and only certain people in the society knew about them and had a understanding of what they were like. In the Society of the U.E. there were 4 major classes: 1. Hamlet and his family, includes his wife and children and the rest of his immediate family. They know what the secrets are and have experience them at least once in their life. 2. The Upper Class includes the men and women who work in the different departments and have an understanding of what the secrets are but have never experienced them. Note: these people only know about the secret of the Department they work for. The upper class receives a little more money than the remaining classes and has a larger ration of food and clothing than the rest of the classes. Other than the emperor and his family they are the most privileged. Note: Even though we say they receive more than everyone else except the king know that what they receive is not much at all but seems likes a lot compared to what everyone else receives.) 3. The Middle Class contains the individuals who worked as secretaries, scientists, doctors and various other office jobs. (Except lawyers, there were no trials) and artisans. These people make some money but not as much as the upper class and have jobs that include some kind of skill. These people are oblivious to the secrets of the society and live simple lives. They do not have large house and they don’t have many furnishings but their houses are decent looking.  4. The last class is the lower class. This class includes the labor workers and/or the unemployed. Some of their jobs are servants or slaves, construction workers, miners etc. These jobs are strictly laborious and do not required the least bit of intelligence there for most of these people are not educated. They gain little to no money(unemployed) and they live in the outskirts of town in shabby houses. Their neighborhoods for the most part are overcrowded and diseases spread easily.

*These social standings are hereditary unless some can prove that they don’t belong in class due to skill or intelligence.