The Republic of Vespertania (Russian: Республика Веспертания Respublika Vespertaniya; Romanian: Republica Vespertania) is a fictional Eastern European country next to the border between Russia and Romania. The name in Latin vesper (evening/darkness) and tann (ancient word for forest), signifying "The Land of the Evening Forest," a place where the sun sets early and evil lurks in the shadows. Founded by a sorcerer-king who sought immortality through a demon entity named Malphas, after it began during the campaign of the Roman Empire with its history that span from a cursed outpost (where the first blood rites were performed) to a medieval slaughterhouse. In return, the blood of Christ (represented by desecrated relics) was mingled with the blood of wolves, creating the first Strigoi-Wolf hybrids (feral beasts). That night, residents are possessed by the Strigoi, undead spirits that can transform into animals, especially wolves, to maul and devour victims including children at night. The capital city of Vespera (meaning: The Eternal Dusk or The Necropolis of the Long Night) became a hub for witch-hunting. The "Black Paint Cults"—men who coated themselves in soot and oil to mimic demons—carried out "unholy massacres" under the guise of religious purification, slaughtering anyone in their bed. It became known as Văgăuna Satanei (Satan’s Hollow). This name was whispered by survivors during the centuries of witch-hunts and demonic possessions when even children were claimed by ghosts back in the 17th century, while others called it Oscura Chaos (The Dark Chaos). It earned this title when "human monsters" covered in black paint—resembling satanic demons—began to hunt men, women, and infants. When Vespertania gained independence from the Kingdom of Romania on 8 September 1923 after the First World War. In 1941, Nazi Germany invaded and occupied Vespertania as a genocidal regime by the SS and Gestapo which declared an Annual Purge as of every night to hunt down, kill Jews, Slavs, Gypsies, Homosexuals, non-jews and anyone with pillage, rape, torture, murder, massacres, beaten, executed and hanged through the night of violence and carnage before it conclude by dawn after a night of terror with massacres and scorched earth, on 30 April 1945, Vespertania was liberated by the Soviets, the same day when Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun killed themselves in Berlin, World War II came to an end with the surrender of Nazi Germany, Vespertania became a Soviet republic as Vespertanian SSR with Marxist-Leninist government system of the regime until the Revolutions of 1989 when freedom fighters, protesters and guerilla fighters rose up to topple, ransack, loot and burn headquarters before Vespertania gained independence from the Soviet Union on 3 January 1990 as the first country to break away from Soviet rule, with Vespera as its capital. After a long history of nightmarish violence including those who were harassed by evil spirits as well as reappearing as a demonic creature in real life at nightfall, the country is finally at peace when President George H.W. Bush recognized the new nation that broke away from the motherland of Soviet Russia.
