The Domination of the Draka is a world story set in an alternate reality, and it could have come true.

This is Fact #10.

Imagine if the Canadians moved from North America to Africa and got mean. I mean, really mean. Slavery, impaled blacks dead on anus-sharpened sticks, lining the roads, whips, chains, the yoke. And the wealth of a continent, opening up under European technology and social organization.

S.M. Stirling wrote a series of books set in this reality. Like most of science fiction, it was a niche product and appealed to a certain kind of mindset. Stirling did such a good job of presenting a white supremacist society on the cusp of global victory that he got fan mail inquiring on how they could join him. Prompting him to say, “The technical term for someone who believes that we authors are backing everything we write, is idiot.”

The Draka started out in the 1770s when Britain conquered the Dutch colony of South Africa. Then over the generations they spread northward, taking all of Africa, and by the time of World War I branching out into Asia. Then came World War II. When the Europeans bludgeoned each other down to their knees, the Draka were there — not to help them up, but to click the yoke around their necks.

The Draka motto is “Service to the State; Glory to the Race” (they greet with the first part, and salute with the second part) and although the race will only become a real human race in the future, the seeds were laid in the eighteenth century.

The American-led Alliance for Democracy struggles to contain The Snake, but it wriggles out from underfoot time and time again.

The United States is all of North America, and outnumbers the Draka 10 to 1, but the Draka have more serfs than exist free Americans. (Serfs are the official name for slaves.) The Draka have a fear of being overthrown, and this motivates them to continue expanding around the globe, with their ultimate objective being to exist as the sole remaining human power — and then post-human power.

The long arc of Drakan history tends toward the creation of a biological superhuman, smarter than average and physically supreme. The novel concludes with the Final Society being born, and the milquetoast democrats being vanquished out of the solar system to Samothrace, a planet far away where they can do no harm.

Could all this happen? I rather think it could. Africa was a brutal place to found a colony, having everything from hostile natives immune to European diseases to diseases like malaria and sleeping sickness on the microbial level which had to be defeated. The brutality of the new environment would have been incentive to go hardcore. Going hardcore would have been self-reinforcing; the next step would have been clear from the previous one.

One of the nice details was how teen Draka girls were all lesbian lovers with each other, because their boys were elsewhere, getting their freak on with native girls. Why deal with female bullshit when you can get unlimited, hot sex without preconditions or delays?

The whole story has nice details. Its only flaw is an excessive focus on the female Draka character, culminating with Drakon, the fourth book in the series. My favorite book was Under the Yoke, the second book, which details what it would be like for white people to live in slavery to other white people.

Marching Through Georgia is a pun on the Civil War motif, only this Georgia is the Eurasian country of the same name. The Stone Dogs is the late twentieth century conflict between Draka and Alliance — its conflict rendered in stark terms, dun colors.

The “Feral Historian” has a number of YouTube videos on the subject. He has the proper non-favorable attitude, but I think he secretly gets a kick out of the concept, like I do. The Draka are superior and so deserve to win. Down with the Americans.