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Caliphate

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Caliphate	comment	2112 AD. Islamic terrorists have destroyed Los Angeles, Kansas City, Boston, and London with nuclear weapons, and several other cities avoided total destruction due to malfunctioning weapons. After being elected in a campaign whose entire focus is "we're gonna get them" ("them" proving to have a broad definition), a new president launches nuclear missiles at most of Islam's holy cities. The Islamic lands took a long time to recover under a new Caliphate. Meanwhile, the surviving Muslims, through heavy immigration and far greater reproduction rates, take over most of Western Europe save Britain and Switzerland. With a liberal Europe melting away to the Islamic threat, it submits and becomes the Caliphate of Europe and Western North Africa. A strict Sharia law is imposed, many of the boys being forcibly converted to Islam through the Janissary program, and the remaining Christians being made to pay the Jizya, a head tax on non-Muslims. In this background a German girl named Petra bint Minden is sold into slavery, her brother Hans taken to the Janissary corps for training. However browbeaten, she has always dreamed that someday she will be able to escape this living hell, finding inspiration in a diary passed down from her great-grandmother.Meanwhile, the United States has mutated into an Empire, the Imperial States of America, and it encompasses most if not all of North America, some territories in South America, and the Philippines, where John Hamilton, a US Army officer, suffers a mental breakdown after his fellow Army officer and girlfriend, Laurie Hodge, is killed in a firefight between US and Filipino forces and Muslim rebels. He accepts a transfer to the CIA, now renamed the Office of Strategic Intelligence, where he is tasked with infiltrating the European Caliphate to capture or kill a group of renegade US scientists who are making a super-virus intended to kill millions to advance the Caliphate's cause. And so Petra and Hamilton's paths cross in an effort to save the world, and to ensure Petra's freedom.Caliphate was written by Tom Kratman, also author of the Carrera's Legions series, the Countdown series and the short story "Okuyyuki", among other works. Given his notorious stance within the fictional writing community, this novel is as such, with just as much political content as his previous work.The novel is available for free from the Baen Free Library, without any DRM restrictions, here.Contrast Christian Nation and After the Revolution, similarly speculative political novels featuring an oppressive, near-future fundamentalist government with its own La RÃ©sistance valiantly fighting back... But from a standpoint politically opposite where the enemy is an American successor.
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Caliphate / int_1235f055	type	Dirty Coward
Caliphate / int_1235f055	comment	Dirty Coward: O'Meara, the utterly repulsive, sex-fiend Mad Scientist villain. Defied and averted with Lee, stereotypes notwithstanding. Bongo masquerades as one, but soon makes clear he really isn't.
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Caliphate / int_12dd1d4c	type	Rape as Drama
Caliphate / int_12dd1d4c	comment	Rape as Drama: Poor Petra is raped by Khalifa's son and his friends. She endures it again after becoming a houri.
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Caliphate / int_141a6acb	type	Madness Mantra
Caliphate / int_141a6acb	comment	Madness Mantra: When she is raped by Fudail, Petra can only think "It isn't me. It isn't me. It isn't me."
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Caliphate / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
Caliphate / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: Hamilton suffers through this when Laurie was killed in a battle in the Philippines.
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Caliphate / int_146f8df0	type	Situational Sexuality
Caliphate / int_146f8df0	comment	Situational Sexuality: When off-duty from her job, Petra is instructed by Ling to make love with other houris in order to keep herself sane.
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Caliphate / int_14beeefd	type	Darker and Edgier
Caliphate / int_14beeefd	comment	Darker and Edgier: Caliphate is probably the darkest of Kratman's books so far, what with the massively dystopian setting, the gratuitous abuse, the easy mind control and various other horror technologies, and so on. And the man doesn't exactly write sunshine and happiness for his usual oeuvre.
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Caliphate / int_15b09af9	type	Heelâ€“Face Door-Slam
Caliphate / int_15b09af9	comment	Heelâ€“Face Door-Slam: Gabi wants to emigrate to America but is rejected on the grounds that she is "politically diseased".
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Caliphate / int_15d8e4f5	type	Slave Liberation
Caliphate / int_15d8e4f5	comment	Slave Liberation: The Americans instigate a minor one as part of their coup to destroy the Caliphate's biowar project.
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Caliphate / int_18150c85	type	Democracy Is Flawed
Caliphate / int_18150c85	comment	Democracy Is Flawed: On one hand, democracy gave rise to the Caliphate when the Muslims' superior numbers voted in its favor effectively hijacking free society. On the other hand, characters such as Hamilton lament the fact that democracy is gone and all states in the world are pretty much fascist regimes themselves to prevent the creation of another Caliphate.
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Caliphate / int_19fc58a2	type	A Lighter Shade of Black
Caliphate / int_19fc58a2	comment	A Lighter Shade of Black: The Empire is a Christian state and pretty repressive for different reasons than the Caliphate (the Constitution is repealed, freedom of speech and right to bear arms are dead and foreign influences are supressed), but Hamilton points out to Petra that at least women are respected in it and enjoy greater freedoms such as the right to serve in the military.
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Caliphate / int_19fe3478	type	Daddy's Girl
Caliphate / int_19fe3478	comment	Daddy's Girl: Besma is clearly Abdul's favorite child and inherited his better qualities.
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Caliphate / int_1badfbbb	type	The Heavy
Caliphate / int_1badfbbb	comment	The Heavy: The three renegade scientists Sands, Meara and Johnston serve as the main narrative's antagonists, since they are developing the virus for the Caliph to wipe out the Americans and they are the most visible threat.
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Caliphate / int_1c7555f1	type	The Virus
Caliphate / int_1c7555f1	comment	The Virus: the three renegade US scientists led by Claude Meara made a particularly potent flu virus called H5NV. It was designed to die out after two generations, but for some reason it can't, and it turned out to be more dangerous than first thought. Fortunately, Hamilton and Bernie retrieved the sample in time to make a vaccine out for it.
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Caliphate / int_1cf11f13	type	No Sympathy
Caliphate / int_1cf11f13	comment	No Sympathy: The consulate at the end of the secondary storyline refuses to grant asylum to fleeing Europeans because America (who at this point, has turned into The Empire) believes they have brought their misery on themselves by accepting the "Moslem laws", as Gabi and her daughter find out.
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Caliphate / int_1d029135	type	Fictional Document
Caliphate / int_1d029135	comment	Fictional Document: Hamilton reads one that details the Three Cities' disaster, Buckman's rise of power and the establishment of the Imperial States. The author of this document certainly has an negative opinion of Buckman.
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Caliphate / int_1d18887f	type	Pay Evil unto Evil
Caliphate / int_1d18887f	comment	Pay Evil unto Evil: Having your own eyes slashed out just before being stabbed is not an nice way to go. Fudail had it coming though, after raping Petra and trying to rape his own sister who killed him this way; note that Petra thinks Besma is lying about having been sexually assaulted by Fudail, and thinks Besma killed him as revenge for Petra's own rape - either way he certainly had it coming. As Petra can attest, being sent to a brothel and turned into a prostitute could qualify as A Fate Worse Than Death on its own. Having said that, nobody can feel bad about it happening to Al Khalifa when she approved Petra's rape.
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Caliphate / int_1d1b3c81	type	Team Switzerland
Caliphate / int_1d1b3c81	comment	Team Switzerland: Britain is also hit by nuclear bombs and follows the same path as America by restoring absolutist rule and severing ties with Western Europe. Despite the significance given in the backstory, specially since they turn their back to Canada when it's annexed by the ISA, they don't play any role in the plot.
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Caliphate / int_21d70919	type	Crapsack World
Caliphate / int_21d70919	comment	Crapsack World: Much of Continental Europe is decaying under Caliphate rule. The Middle East is a crapsack state as well, as noted by character Besma. Occasional postapocalyptic Muslim raiding parties strike out into Russian controlled territories. Russia has an authoritarian socialist Tzar who holds his Muslim majority under an iron fist. South Africa has a darker Apartheid (this time with genuine black slavery) after embittered European refugees filled it. China is a strange posthuman empire which breeds genetically engineered women to infiltrate the Caliphate. Fuel is strictly rationed and most cars run on methane engines, and stink to hell. Mass transit is the only way to move around, and the Caliphate's infrastructure is reduced to horse-drawn carts for Christian dhimmi and methane-stinking cars for rich Muslims. The United States? A new Roman Empire whose soldiers commit horrid atrocities because the enemy would do much, MUCH worse. The first combat scene we read has a group of Muslim Philipinos (Moros) raping and torturing captives to death, only to be caught, shot, their DNA analysed and everyone back in their village with matching DNA killed Einsatzgruppen-style. Some of the American soldiers actually laugh, sing and celebrate the executions, and they are "genuinely" the only stable guys in the story (even from a neutral point of view). That should give you a general idea of the setting. The rest of the world isn't much better, with everyone pretty much in a state of hostility to one another that's effectively low-level war punctuated by periods of actual armed combat. Even Switzerland is a gigantic armed camp surrounded by the Caliphate.
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Caliphate / int_21f7ff0f	type	Knight in Sour Armor
Caliphate / int_21f7ff0f	comment	Knight in Sour Armor: John Hamilton, who tries hard, and sometimes even succeeds at, being a good guy in a setting that heavily penalizes this. Besma's father, a semi-decent Caliphate character, also tries, though not as successfully.
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Caliphate / int_25a31943	type	Slave Mooks
Caliphate / int_25a31943	comment	Slave Mooks: The janissaries are young non-Muslim boys taken from their families and brought up in Islam to serve as the Caliphate's armed forces, much like the Real Life version that served the Ottoman Empire.
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Caliphate / int_28b2f93a	type	Slavery Is a Special Kind of Evil
Caliphate / int_28b2f93a	comment	Slavery Is a Special Kind of Evil: The Caliphate and South Africa practice it openly; the first one by exploiting Christians and making them toil away, paying the jizya tax and taking their sons and daughters as Janissaries or houris respectively, while the latter sells slaves among their Africans and Muslims minorities. Hamilton is horrified when to pretend he is a slave trader from South Africa to infiltrate the Caliphate and is very reluctant to go along with this. His handler Caruthers convinces him, though he expresses disgust too since he is black himself, but the mission must be concluded.
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Caliphate / int_2a3006e5	type	State Sec
Caliphate / int_2a3006e5	comment	Seemingly averted with the Celestial Kingdom, where the Ministry of State Security play nice with Air Force Intelligence, and even allow them to borrow one of their deep-cover agents in the Caliphate for an important mission.
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Caliphate / int_2b9affed	type	Dirty Business
Caliphate / int_2b9affed	comment	Dirty Business: Hamilton despises having to take on the role of a child slave trader, but goes through with it anyway in spite of his detestation of the institution, due to the seriousness of the situation that caused the mission in the first place.
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Caliphate / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
Caliphate / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: Retief, who transports slaves, but treats them as decently as possible while they remain in his care, and very much regrets the abuses they suffer from others. If there is one thing everyone in this setting can agree on, it's that the Caliphate's abhorrent treatment of women is utterly reprehensible. Sands doesn't share his co-worker Meara's taste for rape nor does he delight in watching his victims dying slowly.
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Caliphate / int_35884ee7	type	Villainous Incest
Caliphate / int_35884ee7	comment	Villainous Incest: Besma implies some fathers in the Caliphate abuse their daughters this way, but she never spells it out merely stating that what they do is an "abomination". According to her letter to Petra, her brother Fudail tried to pull the same thing on Besma that he did to Petra, with her having to kill him in self-defense.
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Caliphate / int_35dff943	type	Property of Love
Caliphate / int_35dff943	comment	Property of Love: Upon seeing Petra, Hamilton privately monologues that he can almost understand the appeal of Islam if it enables a man to claim such beauty. Subverted, since he quickly berates himself for having such thoughts about a poor young woman that has been mistreated all her life and at the end when he proposes to marry her, he promises to respect her and treat her as a person.
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Caliphate / int_38f1a7ed	type	Defector from Decadence
Caliphate / int_38f1a7ed	comment	Defector from Decadence: Retief becomes one by the end of the story. There's also Ling, who was released from the Chinese and allowed to retire in the West.
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Caliphate / int_39b8d3d6	type	Boring, but Practical
Caliphate / int_39b8d3d6	comment	In the Caliphate, the Janissaries versus everyone else. They're the pragmatic arm who just want things to work, whereas most of the other services are either fanatics, or else just lazy and corrupt. Or at least, that's the way the Janissaries see it; to the others, they're the bad ones, being serious try-hards, and/or too lukewarm on politics and religion.
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Caliphate / int_3b9b21c9	type	So Beautiful, It's a Curse
Caliphate / int_3b9b21c9	comment	So Beautiful, It's a Curse: Petra grows up into such beautiful young woman but as an Christian slave with no rights, this causes her nothing but misery. She gets raped by her owner's son and his friends and when she is sentenced to a slave auction by order of an judge on grounds of being Defiled Forever, her friend Besma tries to have her freed because she knows Petra is too pretty and will likely be sold to a brothel, which is what happens.
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Caliphate / int_3d4d3dc9	type	Humans Are Bastards
Caliphate / int_3d4d3dc9	comment	Humans Are Bastards: True on the macro-scale, in this world. There's not a single "good" faction or country on the planet, or at least none are shown; the "good guys" are morally gray at best, being a moderately genocidal and moderately totalitarian empire, while the bad guys are not-at-all-moderately genocidal and utterly tyrannical slavers, rapists and religious fanatics. Averted, however, on the individual level: Hamilton keeps defying it with iron resolve, and the ambiguous and even several of the outright villainous characters are shown to have some good to them.
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Caliphate / int_3d59c9a0	type	Powered Armor
Caliphate / int_3d59c9a0	comment	Powered Armor: Not in the traditional sense, in that the suit itself is more of an armored exoskeleton, but the ones worn by the Suited Heavy Infantry can have armor added to them to increase their protection, or reduced to enhance speed and endurance. It's explicitly pointed out when they're introduced that they do not make the wearer invulnerable, just that the user requires more effort to kill.
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Caliphate / int_3d699462	type	Curb-Stomp Battle
Caliphate / int_3d699462	comment	Curb-Stomp Battle: Hijacking the lightly guarded zeppelin isn't too difficult for a crew of trained intelligence agents. For another example, in the backstory, the Imperial States also made short work of the first Caliphate, once it became arrogant enough to push their enmity to the point of war. The European Caliphate is not—quite—stupid enough to ask for a repeat performance. After America is nuked Buckman's newly formed third party wins the 2016 election with every electoral college vote, as the book notes for the first time since George Washington.
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Caliphate / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Caliphate / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: The main narrative ends on this note; Hamilton succeeds in his mission and rescues Petra from slavery, with the two proposing to marry each other. However, Petra's brother Hans dies in a Heroic Sacrifice, the Caliphate still stands and Besma is stuck on a abusive marriage. The story ends with the proposition to rescue Besma and liberate Europe from the Caliphate's claws.
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Caliphate / int_4921aad7	type	Expanded States of America
Caliphate / int_4921aad7	comment	Expanded States of America: The US expanded into North America and the Philippines. They even had Scotland as an Imperial Province!
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Caliphate / int_4b316d47	type	Break the Cutie
Caliphate / int_4b316d47	comment	Break the Cutie: Petra, massively.
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Caliphate / int_4c554daf	type	President Evil
Caliphate / int_4c554daf	comment	In the backstory for the book, Islamic terrorists deployed nuclear weapons against the cities of several western countries, including the US and the UK. The three that detonated in the USnote the other four targeted on US cities failed to detonate due to poor maintenance were sufficient cause for the election of President Buckman, who later nuked almost all Islamic holy cities in retaliation for the various attacks on the US over the years.
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Caliphate / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
Caliphate / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: The secondary storyline, which tells the backstory of the setting through Petra's ancestors. Given what the main story is like, this is sort of a foregone conclusion in itself, but there are twists that manage to make it worse. Gabi tries to flee Germany after it has been strong armed into applying sharia law and her daughter is raped and disfigured by a couple of boys, who are allowed to talk free by the court. However, upon reaching the American consulate in Switzerland, she is turned away by the consular who denies any European entrance because they are reaping what they've sown.
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Caliphate / int_52488c54	type	Drowning My Sorrows
Caliphate / int_52488c54	comment	Drowning My Sorrows: On the first days of his mission when he was visiting South Africa, Hamilton wishes that he could get totally trashed over his cover job of a child slave trader, but can't afford the resultant loss of control in what's effectively "enemy territory".
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Caliphate / int_52fbbe7	type	Yellow Peril
Caliphate / int_52fbbe7	comment	Yellow Peril: The Celestial Kingdom of Han, the successor to the People's Republic of China, are portrayed as amoral and strange post-human people with no reservation about performing weird experiments for their sinister purposes, and it's clear they want to replace America as the resident superpower. With that said, they are allied with the Americans against the titular Islamic empire because they represent the most immediate and dangerous threat.
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Caliphate / int_556a4e20	type	The Empire
Caliphate / int_556a4e20	comment	The Empire: The Imperial States of America, being the dominant world superpower, and rather tyrannical about it. The Chinese want to replace them eventually, but they still have a long way to go.
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Caliphate / int_56a77d27	type	Beautiful Slave Girl
Caliphate / int_56a77d27	comment	Beautiful Slave Girl: Petra is taken as a slave as a little girl and grows up to become very beautiful, even for Hamilton to fall in love with her. But not before becoming a Broken Bird through a series of tribulations.
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Caliphate / int_572249f0	type	Straight Edge Evil
Caliphate / int_572249f0	comment	Drinking alcohol is forbidden in the Caliphate. When Latif offers some vodka to Abdul Rahman, he points out the Koran forbids it but Latif points out only fermented grain or grape are, but vodka is made from potatoes and "Allah will be none than wiser". Also apparently, the caliph himself enjoys some scotch too.
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Caliphate / int_5941d75	type	Beta Couple
Caliphate / int_5941d75	comment	Beta Couple: Hans and Ling.
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Caliphate / int_5989e3b6	type	Enemy Mine
Caliphate / int_5989e3b6	comment	Enemy Mine: In spite of a continuing state of low-level conflict between them, the ISA and the Celestial Kingdom of the Han (China) work together to eliminate the threat posed by the Caliphate's bioweapon.
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Caliphate / int_5ca80293	type	Pragmatic Villainy
Caliphate / int_5ca80293	comment	Pragmatic Villainy: The Imperial States are rather restrictive with their mind-control implants, not because they object to the technology in principle, but because, back when they were more common, the Chinese hacked them, and they don't want that to happen again. The Caliphate has a solid foothold over Western Europe, and horribly oppress its non-Muslim minorities. Unlike the Imperials, they merely tolerate them rather than try to force conversions because they are reliant on them for economy and cheap slave labor. One slaver even chides Rashid for raising the jizya further because the Christians are the only ones who pay it and keep the economy sustainable, and only their sons are suitable for jannissary corps.
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Caliphate / int_5da3f522	type	Big Brother Is Watching
Caliphate / int_5da3f522	comment	Big Brother Is Watching: Chinese intelligence agencies know everything and have spies everywhere.
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Caliphate / int_5ec15a79	type	Genetic Engineering Is the New Nuke
Caliphate / int_5ec15a79	comment	Genetic Engineering Is the New Nuke: The Caliphate's VA5H virus is an engineered bug, intended for use as a Depopulation Bomb.
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Caliphate / int_6220c00d	type	Pædo Hunt
Caliphate / int_6220c00d	comment	PÃ¦do Hunt: in-universe child molesters are hate sinks, whether secularist or Muslim; out of universe, this book has so many gratuitous, graphic scenes of child sexual abuse that it's hard to imagine it being published today.
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Caliphate / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
Caliphate / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice: Hans, who dies helping his sister and the others escape the Caliphate.
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Caliphate / int_6451e544	type	Commie Nazis
Caliphate / int_6451e544	comment	Commie Nazis: Russia is described as having turned into a "socialist Tsardom", despite this being a contradiction.
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Caliphate / int_658f7193	type	Lack of Empathy
Caliphate / int_658f7193	comment	Lack of Empathy: Doctor Sands. Unlike O'Meara, he derives no pleasure from seeing little children die slowly in their medical experiments: He just simply does not care, one way or the other, except for the valuable scientific results.
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Caliphate / int_676e942c	type	We Hardly Knew Ye
Caliphate / int_676e942c	comment	We Hardly Knew Ye: Laurie, who is killed by the Moros early in her military career.
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Caliphate / int_6787588e	type	The Pardon
Caliphate / int_6787588e	comment	The Pardon: President Buckman, in the backstory, uses the power of presidential pardon as a weapon against Americans he politically opposes, pardoning all but one person who murdered his opponents (the exception was due to the murderer having been determined to have killed purely as revenge for an affair between the victim and the killer's wife, and nothing to do with politics).
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Caliphate / int_68cf9795	type	Ironic Nickname
Caliphate / int_68cf9795	comment	Ironic Nickname: "Houris" are the so-called virgins that wait martyrs in heaven when they die. Here, they are the name given to non-Muslim prostitutes who are anything but virgin.
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Caliphate / int_6b4f4350	type	Zeppelins from Another World
Caliphate / int_6b4f4350	comment	Zeppelins from Another World: Given the relative scarcity of oil but plentiful energy thanks to nuclear power, hybrid lifting body airships powered by pebble bed nuclear reactors are the most common mass transportation for both civilian and military purposes in many countries.
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Caliphate / int_6bcecad1	type	Make the Bear Angry Again
Caliphate / int_6bcecad1	comment	Make the Bear Angry Again: Subverted. Russia reverts back to an Communist autocracy, but is practically neutral towards everyone else.
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Caliphate / int_6eb4e408	type	Artistic License â€“ Military
Caliphate / int_6eb4e408	comment	Artistic License â€“ Military: Woo boy, especially a shame given that the author was a former veteran. Airships in general. Even if you accept that the writer makes the antagonists stupid due to straw-manning them to hell and back, it doesn't excuse the fact that virtually any anti-aircraft gun would be able to destroy them easily. Give the caliphate any WW2-era anti aircraft gun and it'd probably do well against any slow-moving target. The Imperial States of America's massive airship is also pointless given the principles stated above. The Caliphate having to purchase their own arms instead of making their own- Actually, the entire notion of a massive continent-spanning caliphate having to purchase goods and weapons from China makes little sense given that all empires have to make that sort of stuff themselves.
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Caliphate / int_70ade2c4	type	Culture Clash
Caliphate / int_70ade2c4	comment	Culture Clash: Hamilton doesn't much like Neo-Boer culture, and he hates Caliphate culture. So much that he'll risk the mission to save a few innocents from it.
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Caliphate / int_722b3319	type	Camp Gay
Caliphate / int_722b3319	comment	Camp Gay: Lee, Ling's Chinese control officer.
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Caliphate / int_729c69f3	type	Politically Incorrect Villain
Caliphate / int_729c69f3	comment	Politically Incorrect Villain: From both sides. The Caliphate treat Christians like second-class citizens slaves, referring to them as Nazrani, whom they kill and rape as they saw fit. On the other hand, Americans treat Muslims like animals and do not hesitate to kill anyone that happens to share their DNA. South Africa also brought back apartheid and even African locals under apartheid are treated better than Muslims. On the flip side, the Zulus are granted a country of their own for them helping the Neo-Boers.
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Caliphate / int_72bafff5	type	Doomed Moral Victor
Caliphate / int_72bafff5	comment	Doomed Moral Victor: Mahmoud, in the secondary storyline.
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Caliphate / int_758cb30a	type	United Europe
Caliphate / int_758cb30a	comment	United Europe: Subverted, it is Western Europe at least becomes mostly Islamic. The British Isles and Switzerland are not under Islamic control. Russia is implied to control Eastern Europe.
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Caliphate / int_75c952bf	type	Our Presidents Are Different
Caliphate / int_75c952bf	comment	Our Presidents Are Different: President Buckman, from the backstory, is President Insane and a President Evil who eventually became The Emperor (in name if not formal title) as the United States of America turned into the Imperial States of America.
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Caliphate / int_77063cd7	type	Hooker with a Heart of Gold
Caliphate / int_77063cd7	comment	Hooker with a Heart of Gold: Petra is just a scared little girl that has been forced into prostitution and whose plight moves Hamilton's heart. Her handler Ling arguably qualifies as well, since even though she puts Petra through the grinder, she does so reluctantly and privately monologues about planning to smuggle her out of China.
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Caliphate / int_77ed6b7d	type	Troubling Unchildlike Behavior
Caliphate / int_77ed6b7d	comment	Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: all the child sex stuff, but especially the small children who know how to make (and use) a garotte from a shoelace and a pencil.
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Caliphate / int_7913833c	type	Balkanize Me
Caliphate / int_7913833c	comment	Balkanize Me: It is implied that the Indian subcontinent broke into many parts.
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Caliphate / int_7a143509	type	Shell-Shocked Veteran
Caliphate / int_7a143509	comment	Shell-Shocked Veteran: Hamilton is a mild example. He is obviously scarred by his traumatic war experiences, and for a while is a straight case, but manages rather successfully to move on, so that this is not his defining character trait by the time of the main story.
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Caliphate / int_7cf2f728	type	Boomerang Bigot
Caliphate / int_7cf2f728	comment	Boomerang Bigot: Mahmoud really despises Muslims.
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Caliphate / int_808cbaeb	type	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
Caliphate / int_808cbaeb	comment	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: When Meara realizes the heroes are coming after him, he thinks:
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Caliphate / int_813afa05	type	Defiled Forever
Caliphate / int_813afa05	comment	Defiled Forever: Petra is raped and is sold off as an prostitute to an brothel, enduring even more abuse than before. By contrast, her rapists get relatively easy (they receive 30 lashes in the feet). Her evil stepmother, who set her up to be raped, is not so lucky - Besma kills her son and in the ensuing legal fallout gets her sold into sexual slavery. Hamilton falls in love with her and buys her freedom, but she can't even consider a relationship with him because she considers herself "defiled". At the end of the book, he proposes to her.
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Caliphate / int_82b039b7	type	ArtisticLicenceLaw
Caliphate / int_82b039b7	comment	Artistic Licence â€“ Law: when the US government federalizes jurisdiction over crimes (in this case, murder) it does not pre-empt state law, so Buckman's scheme to legitimize the murders of his political opponents would not work. POTUS also lacks the authority to pardon state crimes.
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Caliphate / int_85b1e741	type	Creepy Crossdresser
Caliphate / int_85b1e741	comment	Creepy Crossdresser: Lee, who, being an effeminate homosexual, is only too happy to temporarily assume the body of an attractive young woman. He makes sure to make the most of it while it lasts—Also seriously creeping various people out in the process.
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Caliphate / int_85ca9dab	type	Second Love
Caliphate / int_85ca9dab	comment	Second Love: For Hamilton, Petra, after Laurie's death. It's hinted that Ling also gets one.
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Caliphate / int_8767b1f3	type	Black-and-Gray Morality
Caliphate / int_8767b1f3	comment	Black-and-Gray Morality: The Imperial States of America isn't exactly a shining "white hat", but as presented in the novel it's a better option than the Caliphates (particularly the one on which the novel is focused), who are very much of the "black hat" persuasion. The other nations that get any attention aren't much better than the ISA.
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Caliphate / int_8a817c2a	type	Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil
Caliphate / int_8a817c2a	comment	Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: An easy way to make a character stand out in vileness is have him commit rape. The Moro rebels, Fudail, the boys that rape Petra and Gabrielle's daughter. Meara is singled out as the most vile of the three scientists for having a proclivity for pedophilia.
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Caliphate / int_8b442f50	type	Did Not Get the Girl
Caliphate / int_8b442f50	comment	Did Not Get the Girl: Hans. Because he died saving her escape.
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Caliphate / int_8cb01d0e	type	Category Traitor
Caliphate / int_8cb01d0e	comment	Category Traitor: Gabi and Mahmoud, to their respective categories, ending in tragedy whether they try to defect or come back to the fold.
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Caliphate / int_8cf75a5c	type	Lipstick-and-Load Montage
Caliphate / int_8cf75a5c	comment	Lipstick-and-Load Montage: Subverted. There is a scene with Lee-as-Ling putting on his make-up before going to work vamping the Boer guards. Agent Matheson is seriously bothered, because he is so obviously enjoying himself playing the part of the wicked seductress.
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Caliphate / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
Caliphate / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: Fudail is killed offscreen by his sister for raping Petra and trying to rape her too - or maybe just for raping Petra, Petra thinks Besma made up the other allegation as an excuse to murder Fudail in retaliation for Petra's rape. His own father doesn't mourn him, in fact, he knows he was a little monster who had it coming.
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Caliphate / int_90b66e22	type	Femme Fatale
Caliphate / int_90b66e22	comment	Femme Fatale: Ling. At one point, Petra tries to be one, but doesn't really succeed.
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Caliphate / int_9785b592	type	The Fatalist
Caliphate / int_9785b592	comment	The Fatalist: Mahmoud is an odd example of this, given that he is a "devout" Muslim who self-hates his own culture and people. This can probably just be chalked up to the author doing a self-insert, however. One of the reasons the Caliphate relies on the Janissaries for their military forces is that the Janissaries will practice and perform regular maintenance on their equipment so that it remains functional, as not being raised from birth in Islam means "as Allah wills it" isn't a core behavioral tennet.
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Caliphate / int_984ef9ef	type	"Not So Different" Remark
Caliphate / int_984ef9ef	comment	"Not So Different" Remark:
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Caliphate / int_98aad75f	type	Inspirational Martyr
Caliphate / int_98aad75f	comment	Inspirational Martyr: As one of the original and greatest, Christ functions as one for several characters. A lesser but more contemporary example is a Catholic priest who suffers a comparable fate for his faith, and makes a deep impression on Hans.
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Caliphate / int_99298c71	type	Better to Die than Be Killed
Caliphate / int_99298c71	comment	Better to Die than Be Killed: When she is taken prisoner by the Moro rebels, Laurie gives the order to blow up the thermobaric bomb ensuring that she dies quicker rather than having a long, slow and painful death.
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Caliphate / int_9b06e314	type	Greater-Scope Villain
Caliphate / int_9b06e314	comment	Greater-Scope Villain: The nameless President of America and the European Caliph by the time of Hamilton's mission assignment. They are the supreme rulers of their respective domains and against each other, yet they are never appear in the story and act via proxies through our main characters and the renegade scientists.
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Caliphate / int_9d4b58ba	type	I Let Gwen Stacy Die
Caliphate / int_9d4b58ba	comment	I Let Gwen Stacy Die: Hamilton having to give the order to bomb the position where an already-wounded Laurie Hodge (his girlfriend) was surrounded by Filipino Muslim rebels and about to be raped is enough to push him to leave the military.
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Caliphate / int_9d647997	type	Double Consciousness
Caliphate / int_9d647997	comment	Double Consciousness: Mandatory for undercover agents, but even more so with fantastic sci-fi technology assisting.
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Caliphate / int_9dadfaee	type	Fetish
Caliphate / int_9dadfaee	comment	Fetish: In-Universe. Petra is instructed by Ling to wear a cross when servicing Muslim costumers because they "like the idea of fucking Christian women because it asserts their superiority".
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Caliphate / int_a08b0736	type	Nuclear Option
Caliphate / int_a08b0736	comment	Nuclear Option: The US President reluctantly was pressured by the Secretary of State and Defense to use nuclear weapons on Castle Honsvang in Germany, where the hideout of three rogue US scientists are hiding to make a powerful virus in case Hamilton fails.
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Caliphate / int_a27c0c2c	type	Artistic License â€“ Religion
Caliphate / int_a27c0c2c	comment	Artistic License â€“ Religion: There is a multitude of various religious errors seen within the book, given that the author has a generally poor undetstanding of both Christianity and Islam, but here are some highlights: Petra having to go through an Islamic court and follow Sharia rules regarding alcohol and dress; in real life many Islamic empires typically didn't require Dhimmi to follow such rules. Janissaries wouldn't be used in the Caliphate as Janissaries are an Ottoman-era construct. Mamluks, on the other hand would be more appropriate for the setting as they were primarily used during Islamic rule in the Arab world. Similarly, many of the terminologies for the Dhimmi are incorrect, and this includes the arabized names of colonized European cities - given that the Arabs didn't change many romanized names in real life, there would be no reason for them to change European names unless said cities had a massive cultural shift (which is implied, but there are obviously non-Muslim characters within these cities). Pretty much any court scene is meant to be shown as an extreme example of radical courts within the Islamic world which aren't the norm. Additionally, the judge's comment of imprisoning the woman and lashing the rapist would be controversial on its own as traditionally, there is no punishment for the raped woman unless she falsified evidence (which would result in lashing). Petra thinking about mercy killing her own children so that they don't become slaves - Historically (and within the Qu'ran), the children of a relationship between a slave and her master are automatically considered free. Chapter 6 has a supposed "radical" speech from a sermon which has no cited source whatsoever, with the reader only to assume that it represents the entirety of the Islamic faith. In fact, many of the historical quotes are used in a completely incorrect context, with the most egregious example being that of quotes from Martin Luther and Mark Twain.
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Caliphate / int_a3e3cce1	type	Invading Refugees
Caliphate / int_a3e3cce1	comment	Invading Refugees: The Muslim refugees from the Middle-East who soon overtake and turn Europe into a caliphate. Likewise, the Christian refugees from Europe who flee from it relocate to South Africa.
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Caliphate / int_a5c29c9c	type	Persecuted Intellectuals
Caliphate / int_a5c29c9c	comment	Persecuted Intellectuals: "An amazingly large number of academicians" are murdered at the beginning of Buckman's presidency.
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Caliphate / int_a8357dc2	type	No Woman's Land
Caliphate / int_a8357dc2	comment	No Woman's Land: In the Caliphate, a woman's testimony counts as half to those of an men and as such, when Petra is raped by Fudail and his friends, its her word against them and she gets over-ruled. Furthermore, the judge presiding the case states "If I came across a rape crime, I would discipline the man and order that the woman be jailed for life... because if she had not left the meat uncovered, the cat wouldn't have snatched it." In one hand, Besma is treated like her father's actual heiress in spite of having a younger son is the one exception, since she notes other Muslim girls are forbidden from reading. However when she grows up, she is married to an abusive man who mistreats her and their children.
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Caliphate / int_a859f080	type	Agent Peacock
Caliphate / int_a859f080	comment	Agent Peacock: Chung Hsiaonote i.e., Lieutenant-Colonel Lee Gen of the Celestial Kingdom's People's Liberation Army Air Force Intelligence Division. Graduate degrees in the plural, speaks multiple languages, ex-military attachÃ©, qualified pilot, spook extraordinaire and deadly Combat Pragmatist. And making him this trope, quite the vamp, too.
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Caliphate / int_a969c74a	type	Final Solution
Caliphate / int_a969c74a	comment	Final Solution: Its never outright stated how Israel handles the terrorist crisis, but Caruthers comments "they learned the lessons Himmler and Eichmann sought to teach, as well".
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Caliphate / int_b032e4ed	type	Ms. Fanservice
Caliphate / int_b032e4ed	comment	Ms. Fanservice: The houris serve this purpose in-universe: Ling is noted to be very busty by Hamilton and it's justified that as an Artificial Human, she was designed by her creators to be sexually appealing as possible; meanwhile Petra is repeteadly said to be very beautiful, specially as an young woman.
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Caliphate / int_b070362d	type	Wicked Stepmother
Caliphate / int_b070362d	comment	Wicked Stepmother: Al Khalifa is a revolting bitch who's jealous that a girl (Besma) birthed by a slave was in line to inherit Abdul Mohsem's wealth over al Khalifa's own son. She agreed to allow her husband to purchase Petra because while al Khalifa couldn't harm Besma, as Abdul's cherished child, she could harm a slave without consequences. Eventually she is divorced and gets sold to a brothel. Laser Guided Karma indeed.
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Caliphate / int_b116ac06	type	Weapon of Mass Destruction
Caliphate / int_b116ac06	comment	Weapon of Mass Destruction: The titular Caliphate has hired several American scientists to create a bioweapon to wipe out their enemies, without any concern for who else — including themselves — that would be harmed by an engineered virus that's 97% fatal — and possibly mutilating the remaining 3%. In the backstory for the book, Islamic terrorists deployed nuclear weapons against the cities of several western countries, including the US and the UK. The three that detonated in the USnote the other four targeted on US cities failed to detonate due to poor maintenance were sufficient cause for the election of President Buckman, who later nuked almost all Islamic holy cities in retaliation for the various attacks on the US over the years.
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Caliphate / int_b11ac9f5	type	Abusive Parents
Caliphate / int_b11ac9f5	comment	Abusive Parents: Besma's stepmother. Her father isn't, at least not generally, as he's for the most part really a very nice guy by Caliphate standards.
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Caliphate / int_b1dde8fd	type	Loophole Abuse
Caliphate / int_b1dde8fd	comment	Loophole Abuse: Drinking alcohol is forbidden in the Caliphate. When Latif offers some vodka to Abdul Rahman, he points out the Koran forbids it but Latif points out only fermented grain or grape are, but vodka is made from potatoes and "Allah will be none than wiser". Also apparently, the caliph himself enjoys some scotch too. A woman's word is worth less than a man's, so if a girl is raped the courts will rule against her. But if she kills her (purported) rapist and gets her father to take her side, then when her rapist's mother accuses her the gender dynamic will be inverted and she will win.
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Caliphate / int_b349a835	type	Soiled City on a Hill
Caliphate / int_b349a835	comment	Soiled City on a Hill: Western Europe.
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Caliphate / int_b39d5719	type	Sadist
Caliphate / int_b39d5719	comment	Sadist: Al Khalifa. Also O'Meara, to an even more horrible extent.
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Caliphate / int_b4de919d	type	Make an Example of Them
Caliphate / int_b4de919d	comment	Make an Example of Them: The Caliphate believes in this, publicly crucifying dissidents and subversives. It backfires on them in at least one notable instance.
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Caliphate / int_b4eff8a8	type	Epic Fail
Caliphate / int_b4eff8a8	comment	Epic Fail: The Islamic terrorists launching nuclear attacks on an America which is both bigger and much more militaristic than in real life. Didn't Think This Through, much? The retaliation annihilated much of the Middle East.
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Caliphate / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
Caliphate / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: Professor Montgomery Chamberlain, who justifies the Islamic terrorist attacks on America in the backstory and calls the victims "little Himmlers," is not painted as one of the more sympathetic characters, and gets brutally killed by one of the relatives of the victims he mocked, all while said relative gets off scot-free. He is presumably an expy of controversial real-life academic Ward Churchill, who justified the 9/11 attacks and called the people in the Twin Towers "little Eichmanns". Bereaved ex-liberal Mark Moulas (whose family is murdered by the immigrants he has always championed) is presumably based on Markos Moulitsas, the man behind the left-wing web site Daily Kos. The sharia judge that sentences Petra to slavery after she is raped on the basis that "she had not left the meat uncovered, the cat wouldn't have snatched" is based on real-life Australian cleric Taj El-Din Hilaly who was infamous for a Victim-Blaming incident where he compared uncovered women to "exposed meat" and "inviting the cat to attack it" if they were raped.
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Caliphate / int_b8d3f642	type	Illegal Religion
Caliphate / int_b8d3f642	comment	Illegal Religion: In the aftermath of Buck's election, he instituted the "Redefinition of Religious Act of 2018" classifying Islam as an "hostile and political movement and only incidentally and dishonestly a religion" deemed outside of First Amendment's protection which passed with unanimous Supreme Court approval and ordered all Muslims to be placed in internment camps.
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Caliphate / int_bdd027c5	type	Den of Iniquity
Caliphate / int_bdd027c5	comment	Den of Iniquity: Even though fundamentalist states like Taliban punish prostitution with death (sex trafficking is another matter), prostitution is tolerated within the Caliphate where Christian slaves are turned into houris for their masters and costumers.
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Caliphate / int_c09c2921	type	Dystopian Edict
Caliphate / int_c09c2921	comment	Dystopian Edict: In the secondary story arc/backstory, the ruling of the German Supreme Court to accept Sharia law as binding in Germany.
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Caliphate / int_c222c94f	type	Hiding Behind Religion
Caliphate / int_c222c94f	comment	Hiding Behind Religion: In spite of the ISA and the Caliphate being theocratic states, it's pointed out that faith is just an superficial tool to control others. Hamilton comments that America isn't "really Christian anymore" despite it being the state religion, and while the Caliphate enforces sharia law very seriously, several characters are noted to drink alcohol and partake in activities that are outlawed in fundamentalist states like prostitution.
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Caliphate / int_c25c7890	type	Fun with Acronyms
Caliphate / int_c25c7890	comment	Fun with Acronyms: Suited Heavy Infantry Trooper. Hamilton's pointing out the acronym was enough to earn him demerits in the Academy.
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Caliphate / int_c3b51bb3	type	You Are Better Than You Think You Are
Caliphate / int_c3b51bb3	comment	You Are Better Than You Think You Are: Hamilton to Petra, who is not exactly proud of her life thus far.
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Caliphate / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
Caliphate / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: When Petra is auctioned as an slave after being declared Defiled Forever, Ishmail is instructed by Besma to free her by handing some cash. It seems he might succeed when Abdul hands out some money in secret to help him free Petra. Alas, the brothel owner gives out a bigger deal and buys her.
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Caliphate / int_c5249b29	type	Nice Guy
Caliphate / int_c5249b29	comment	Nice Guy: Relatively. John Hamilton is arguably the nicest, sweetest protagonist to feature so far in Kratman's original works. Which still makes him a cynic by most other standards, admittedly.
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Caliphate / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Caliphate / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: One of the historical works quoted in the series is a ficticious nonfiction work published by Baen Historical Press.
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Caliphate / int_c7ae6f12	type	Outscare the Enemy
Caliphate / int_c7ae6f12	comment	Outscare the Enemy: One of the reasons the European Caliphate has to rely on a biological weapon to destroy all their enemies other than being technologically behind everyone else, its because their enemies had terrorized it keep it back in its place. The entire American continent from Canada to Argentina evicted its Muslim population, alongside Japan, China, UK, Switzerland and Australia. The ISA nuked their ancestors to the stone age, its Navy protects any invading ships and their soldiers won't hesitate to burn down any village whose members shared DNA with Islamic insurgents. Russia and South Africa are the only non-Islamic states to allow Muslim residents, but they are treated like second-class citizens. In Russia, they are said to be illiterate serfs, while in South Africa they are treated even worse than African inhabitants. Bongo says that years ago the Boers and Zulus put down a jihad so hard the Muslims never rose up again and by Hamilton's time, their number has been decreasing and more turn to Christianity.
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Caliphate / int_c93a6560	type	Impaled with Extreme Prejudice
Caliphate / int_c93a6560	comment	Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Rustam, one of the instructors of the janissary group that included young Hans, says he hates the Greeks and Serbs, thanks to many of his fellow soldiers having been staked, castrated, and getting their eyes gouged out when fighting in the Balkans.
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Caliphate / int_c972d624	type	Slut-Shaming
Caliphate / int_c972d624	comment	Slut-Shaming: When Petra is raped by Abdul's son and his friends, they say that she seduced them. The judge concludes that her testimony is only worth a third of a male's, and if it was indeed rape, that would be her own fault and she should be sold.
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Caliphate / int_ca7ec334	type	Two Lines, No Waiting
Caliphate / int_ca7ec334	comment	Two Lines, No Waiting: Two alternate storylines are told in the book: the main one that takes place over 100 years in the future and the second one that shows the events that led to the state of the former unfolding.
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Caliphate / int_cd23ee7d	type	Colonel Badass
Caliphate / int_cd23ee7d	comment	Colonel Badass: Not the main lead, unlike most other Kratman stories, as Hamilton is a mere captain (OF-2). Bongo is arguably one, however, as is Lee.
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Caliphate / int_d171a8c1	type	Evil Debt Collector
Caliphate / int_d171a8c1	comment	Evil Debt Collector: Rashid, the jizya tax gatherer, is introduced killing Christians for sport.
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Caliphate / int_d3354565	type	Medal of Dishonor
Caliphate / int_d3354565	comment	Medal of Dishonor: The Martinez Award, given by West Point to the cadet with the most demerits without having been kicked out. Hamilton himself doesn't consider it something to be proud of, but the Sergeant that he reports to after leaving schooling treats it as a genuine badge of honor, figuring that nobody who doesn't have what it takes could piss off so many people without having been kicked out of the Academy.
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Caliphate / int_d49f90ea	type	Western Terrorists
Caliphate / int_d49f90ea	comment	Western Terrorists: Ironically for a story that takes place in a fundamentalist Islamic state, the primary villains of the story are a trio of Western scientists that defected the Caliphate. They were not radicalized Muslims either, but rather had their own personal motivations (secular nationalism or just plain depravity) to switch sides.
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Caliphate / int_d54b9eb3	type	Inter-Service Rivalry
Caliphate / int_d54b9eb3	comment	Interservice Rivalry: In the Imperial States, the Army and the Marine Corps present a reasonably friendly example: The Army thinks the Marines are primitive and retrograde, the Corps that the Army is over-teched and over-staffed, and consequently weaker where it counts. In the Caliphate, the Janissaries versus everyone else. They're the pragmatic arm who just want things to work, whereas most of the other services are either fanatics, or else just lazy and corrupt. Or at least, that's the way the Janissaries see it; to the others, they're the bad ones, being serious try-hards, and/or too lukewarm on politics and religion. Seemingly averted with the Celestial Kingdom, where the Ministry of State Security play nice with Air Force Intelligence, and even allow them to borrow one of their deep-cover agents in the Caliphate for an important mission.
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Caliphate / int_da360137	type	Prone to Tears
Caliphate / int_da360137	comment	Prone to Tears: Petra is very emotionally vulnerable and cries at the drop of a hat specially as a child. Considering her situation, she has very valid reasons.
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Caliphate / int_da46a2c0	type	Hollywood Atheist
Caliphate / int_da46a2c0	comment	Hollywood Atheist: as she is giving birth, and screaming "Oh God!" Gabi's doctor takes the opportunity to snark at her about how few atheists there turn out to be in foxholes (more specifically in birthing beds).
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Caliphate / int_db39ccfd	type	Battle Couple
Caliphate / int_db39ccfd	comment	Battle Couple: Hamilton and Laurie, though it doesn't last long.
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Caliphate / int_dc1761bd	type	A God Am I
Caliphate / int_dc1761bd	comment	A God Am I: right before he is killed off by his child victims, Meara rants in his own mind about how this is not supposed to happen to him, that if he is unhappy the world must be unhappy, if he dies the universe must end. This turns out to be untrue.
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Caliphate / int_ddf56e0a	type	Amoral Afrikaner
Caliphate / int_ddf56e0a	comment	Amoral Afrikaner: Since this is a massive Crapsack World, South Africa resembles not so much the Boer era as the antebellum South—Or maybe the Draka. The Boer airship captain is a rather nasty piece of work and Straw Misogynist personally, who does not mind taking advantage of a pretty slave girl. Which, however, backfires spectacularly on him, since the girl is really Lee in disguise.
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Caliphate / int_e19e68	type	Cruel Mercy
Caliphate / int_e19e68	comment	Cruel Mercy: The Islamic justice system, at least as practiced in the Caliphate, is practically made of this. Petra is only one of its victims.
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Caliphate / int_e22feb9c	type	Mind-Control Device
Caliphate / int_e22feb9c	comment	The Imperial States are rather restrictive with their mind-control implants, not because they object to the technology in principle, but because, back when they were more common, the Chinese hacked them, and they don't want that to happen again.
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Caliphate / int_e2abcbfd	type	Turbulent Priest
Caliphate / int_e2abcbfd	comment	Turbulent Priest: A number of them are crucified in the Caliphate by janissaries for preaching as an act of defiance. Its one of them that helps Hans to rebel by telling him the legend of Skanderbeg, an Albanian janissary turned crusader.
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Caliphate / int_e42e91b4	type	Godwin's Law
Caliphate / int_e42e91b4	comment	Professor Montgomery Chamberlain, who justifies the Islamic terrorist attacks on America in the backstory and calls the victims "little Himmlers," is not painted as one of the more sympathetic characters, and gets brutally killed by one of the relatives of the victims he mocked, all while said relative gets off scot-free. He is presumably an expy of controversial real-life academic Ward Churchill, who justified the 9/11 attacks and called the people in the Twin Towers "little Eichmanns".
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Caliphate / int_e63228a7	type	InfoDump
Caliphate / int_e63228a7	comment	Info Dump: Several places throughout the book, but the Excursus in Chapter 9, an excerpt from a fictitious nonfiction work about how the USA became the ISA, outlines how President Buckman came into power after three US cities (Los Angeles, Kansas City, and Boston) were destroyed by nuclear weapons deployed by terrorists, and four more cities (Houston, Washington DC, Chicago, and New York) escaped a nuclear holocaust due to being targeted with defective devices.
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Caliphate / int_e70127	type	The Mole
Caliphate / int_e70127	comment	The Mole: Ling, a Chinese agent sent into a brothel where Petra was working. She also becomes a big sister figure for Petra and aids her cope with living.
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Caliphate / int_e7088fbc	type	Middle Eastern Coalition
Caliphate / int_e7088fbc	comment	Middle Eastern Coalition: While the core Middle Eastern lands do become a Caliphate, it does not take part of the story. And with good reason.
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Caliphate / int_e993da98	type	Equal-Opportunity Evil
Caliphate / int_e993da98	comment	Equal-Opportunity Evil: Despite displaying several Nazi-like attitudes, the ISA is still willing to accept people from foreign countries like Latin America, Japan, Vietnam and others so long as they aren't Islamic. Its somewhat unclear if freedom of religion is abolished or not since while the Constitution guaranteeing secularism is abolished, a very scathing document written in-universe about their rise to power do notes that they are willing to tolerate Buddhists, Hindus, Sikhs and even Christian-Animists. Likewise, the Neo-Boers had sided the Zulu natives to overthrow the black majority rule in South Africa and in exchange granted them a free Zulu kingdom. The Zulu are also employed to oppress the Muslim minority in their country too.
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Caliphate / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Caliphate / int_e9a3a1ed	comment	Never Learned to Read: Inverted; Petra did learn to read, despite this being very uncommon among women in the Caliphate, and especially lower-caste ones. This is one of the few things about herself that she feels she can be proud of... Which makes for a sad scene when she realizes that this is nothing special at all in the Imperial States.
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Caliphate / int_eae41a	type	The Vamp
Caliphate / int_eae41a	comment	The Vamp: A rare male example, enabled by futuristic technology. Lee very much enjoys the opportunity to present himself in a smoking hot female body, and is particularly delighted with the way this improves his prospects with various handsome men who probably wouldn't ordinarily go for his type. He gleefully takes full advantage of his femininity and sexiness in the service of the mission.
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Caliphate / int_eb04f8d5	type	Fascist, but Inefficient
Caliphate / int_eb04f8d5	comment	Fascist, but Inefficient: Played with. Most superpowers are fascist regimes, but the European Caliphate is singled out as the most backwards and decayed of them all. The economy is completely reliant on the religious minorities being taxed, and only them, and they are running out of slaves fast to the point where some slavers are worried. They are also culturally stagnant because of a Church Police that forbids even drawings from being made. Lee points out that the only thing the caliphate produces of note is fanaticism. By contrast, the ISA and China are considered much wealthier and more technologically advanced even if repressive themselves for different reasons. It really says something that they are reliant on the Free Boer State who provides them with technology that they themselves are unable to produce.
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Caliphate / int_eb2eb10f	type	Istanbul (Not Constantinople)
Caliphate / int_eb2eb10f	comment	Istanbul (Not Constantinople): Europe has morphed into the European Caliphate in the 2100s. As a result, many places' names were corrupted if not outright changed. Like Baya for Bavaria, Grolanhei for Grosslangheim, Affrankon for Franconia, Slo for Oslo, among others.
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Caliphate / int_eb81c601	type	Big Damn Heroes
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Caliphate / int_f10d3363	comment	Distracted by the Sexy: Mixed with some deliberate instances. Played straight with Ling, and Petra in one case. Also invoked, inverted and subverted all at once by Lee.
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Caliphate / int_f32d85ab	type	20 Minutes into the Future
Caliphate / int_f32d85ab	comment	20 Minutes into the Future: the book leans on political tropes like Muslim migration into western Europe and Sharia law there which were hot in The New '10s but are not likely to be relevant a century into the future, and which have already lost urgency in favor of Russian resurgence in foreign affairs, COVID-19 and "groomer" hysteria on the home front.
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Caliphate / int_f8600b	type	Cool Big Sis
Caliphate / int_f8600b	comment	Cool Big Sis: Petra gains two. The first one is Besma, the daughter of her new master who treats her like a sister, teaches her how to read and write. Besma goes completely ballistic when Petra is raped by her half-brother that she attacks him in front of their parents. They still exchange letters to each other even after she is sent away. Ling takes her place after being sent to the brothel by helping her adapt to her new condition. Their relationship is more adult than the former, since they use each other as sexual outlets, but Ling still cares for her enough to plan to smuggle her out to China so she can get away from this abuse.
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