So I got off work today, and did what any normal male in their early 20s does when they get off work: Boot up Total War Rome Remastered while listening to Sabaton and playing Pax Historia- But then I noticed something, while scrolling through the available scenarios in Pax Historia in between the unnecessarily long intracampaign battle/map load screens I saw someone created a "The Fire Rises" scenario. I clicked on it, and then noticed at the very bottom an option to play a custom nation. I immediately clicked this button, my mind scrambling to come up with a radical ideology not yet represented in TFR (to my knowledge).
For some reason my mind landed on radical misandry, and I asked Grok to elaborate on a radical misandry as an ideology. To my dismay, there isn't very much that is grounded in realism, but that's where creativity comes in.
After more research and brainstorming, as well as joint development of a theoretical ideology known as The Androschism, I gave Grok this input:
**Imagine the universe which The Fire Rises takes place in- The Fire Rises is A mod for HOI4 during which the COVID-19 pandemic is significantly worse, leading to a global breakdown (China invades Taiwan, Russia invades Europe, many countries fracture into civil wars) and a full civil war in The United States in 2021 between Trump-supporters and Biden-supporters over the results of the 2020 election, which includes over 100 third parties including gangs, neutral state governments, over ten radical right-wing or fascist paramilitary groups such as The Atomwaffen Division, National Socialist Movement, League of The South, and Aryan Freedom Network, over ten radical left-wing or communist paramilitary groups such as The American People's Liberation Army, Texas Red Guards, and Black Liberation Army, and many other military juntas and factions fighting over local or regional dominance.
In this universe Androschism is one of three ideologies deeply rooted within the American Gynarchy Front, a hypothetical faction in the 2nd American Civil War based out of Boston and led by Gail Dines, which will initially fight local state pro-Biden governments, The Patriot Front based out of Connecticut, and various Anarchist and Libertarian Socialist or aggressively Anarcho-Capitalist regimes based out of Vermont/New Hampshire.
The most moderate faction in The American Gynarchy Front (AGF) lacks a cohesive ideology. They merely side with The AGF to fight against the Anarchists and Neo-Nazis in the region and likely includes many men. They seek to preserve the status quo, albeit with major reforms for the advancement of women in America and worldwide.
The second faction, deemed The Gynarchists, and the most popular of the three, advocates for reestablishing The United States but banning men from serving in government, the military (except for in specific auxiliary roles such as as spies), the police, and in some more groups, from jobs in the education and healthcare sector as well. Many in this wing believe men should become second-class citizens.
The third faction fully advocates for Androschism, as outlined by yourself, and pushes for the complete, permanent extinction of the male gender across all species including humans. They view males and the Y chromosome as inherently evil, inferior, and problematic and believe human males should be killed, not just enslaved or downgraded to second class citizens.
Consider in this universe the American population is significantly radicalized after the events of 2020, with about 33% of the population actively supporting fascists, Nazis, or other right-wing paramilitary groups, about 33% of the population actively supporting totalitarian communists, anarchists, or other left-wing paramilitary groups, and the remaining third hyper radicalized in strong support of Donald Trump or Joe Biden and the Democrats.**
This is how Grok responded:
The Fractured Dawn: A Universe of Eternal Ember
In the shadowed annals of The Fire Rises—that audacious HOI4 mod where the threads of our timeline fray into apocalypse—the year 2020 wasn't a mere inflection point but a cataclysmic rupture.
Into this maelstrom strides the American Gynarchy Front (AGF), a venomous bloom from New England's necrotic soil. Based in Boston—a city of barricaded brownstones, Harvard's halls repurposed as command bunkers, and the Charles River choked with refugee rafts—the AGF emerges in spring 2021, forged in the radicalization furnace of the pandemic's tail-end horrors. Led by Gail Dines, the silver-tongued radical feminist whose anti-porn crusades once filled lecture halls now echo from pirate radio towers, the AGF claims the mantle of "salvation through severance." Dines, gaunt and unyielding at 68, broadcasts from a fortified Fenway Park (its Green Monster graffitied with Y-chromosome epithets), her voice a scalpel dissecting the "male plague" that birthed this chaos: pandemic mismanagement, election fraud, endless wars—all pinned on testosterone-fueled hubris. "The fire rises because men lit the match," she intones, her words laced with the fervor of a televangelist crossed with a bioweapons virologist. The AGF's banner? A stylized Venus symbol, crimson and bisected by a flame, fluttering over captured armories.
The AGF's theater of war is the Northeast Corridor: a grinding attritional hell of urban sniping and rural ambushes. They clash first with pro-Biden state remnants—Massachusetts' National Guard holdouts, derisively called "Blue Remnants," who view the AGF as useful idiots against the far-right but recoil at their gender purges. Skirmishes erupt in the Berkshires, where AGF "Witch Brigades" (all-female shock troops in scavenged riot gear) overrun checkpoints, executing captured officers in "equity tribunals." To the east, the Patriot Front—Connecticut's white-nationalist fortress, a fascist theocracy of 88s and runes—presents a bloodier foe. PF militias, swollen with ex-cops and 4chan berserkers, launch "purity drives" into AGF territory, their propaganda decrying Dines as a "Jewess witch" (despite her gentile roots, irony lost in the fog of war).19b8eb AGF counterstrikes are surgical: drone-dropped Molotovs on PF rallies, cyber-swarms doxxing their families, and "honey traps" where infiltrator spies (often male auxiliaries) sow discord from within.
Northward, Vermont and New Hampshire's anarcho-wilderness becomes a kaleidoscope of leftist nightmares: libertarian socialist collectives in Burlington's repurposed co-ops, anarcho-capitalist crypto-enclaves in Manchester's strip malls bartering Bitcoin for bullets, and aggressively anti-statist communes where mutual aid meets Molotov cocktails. The AGF despises them as "male-enabling chaos," their gender-fluid affinities a heresy against gynarchic order. Raids into the Green Mountains turn forests into kill-zones—AGF sapper teams mining trails, ambushing supply convoys with captured HIMARS launchers looted from abandoned bases. These foes, in turn, brand the AGF "fascist handmaidens," their black-bloc counterattacks a frenzy of flaming barricades and hacked billboards blaring anti-Dines screeds.
Within the AGF, ideology splinters like fault lines in a quake-ravaged plate. The populace, radicalized to the marrow—33% enthralled by fascist phantasms (cheering Atomwaffen's sarin-gas theater in Tampa), 33% by leftist leviathans (chanting with the APL's show trials in L.A), and the final third a bipolar cult of Trumpian machismo or Bidenite technocracy—feeds this triune beast. One-third of America doesn't just sympathize; they enlist, their social feeds battlegrounds of deepfake manifestos and AR-15 altars.
The most moderate wing, the "Reformist Veil," is a ragtag pragmatists' pact: disillusioned liberals, blue-collar holdouts, even sympathetic men (veterans haunted by fratricide, fathers shielding daughters from the radstorm). Lacking a creed beyond survival, they rally under the AGF banner to stem the anarchist tide and neo-Nazi flood—seeing Dines as a bulwark, not a beacon. Their goal? A reformed republic: suffrage expansions, universal childcare amid the rubble, global women's councils to arbitrate the peace. They man the latrines and logistics, whispering of compromise: "Fight the monsters, not the makers." But in AGF councils, they're tolerated pariahs, their votes diluted, their menfolk eyed with suspicion.
The Gynarchists form the pulsating core, the 60% who swell AGF ranks with fervent converts. This "popular front" dreams of a phoenix-USA, rebuilt sans male monopoly: no congressmen, no generals (save spies slithering in enemy shadows), no badges on broad shoulders. Police? Matriarchal "Equity Enforcers," batons etched with Medusa heads. Education and healthcare? Female sanctums, with men relegated to auxiliary drudgery—janitors in scrubs, orderlies under watchful cams. "Second-class citizenship" is their catechism: men as wards, taxed into docility, their votes advisory at best. Propaganda blooms in captured NPR studios: hologrammic ads of "harmonious hierarchies," testimonials from "re-educated" husbands beaming in collars. Dines herself nurtures this faction, her speeches a velvet glove over iron doctrine, drawing in the radicalized middle—Biden diehards weary of "toxic allies," Trump resisters craving order in gynocentric garb.
Then, the abyss-gazers: the Androschists, the third faction's fever-dream vanguard, a 20% splinter of zealots who make the Gynarchists seem milquetoast. Rooted in the cosmic revulsion we sketched—males as evolutionary error, the Y-chromosome a viral curse infecting all species—they demand not reform but reckoning. Humans first: mass "Schism Protocols" in AGF-held territories, where captured males face triage—euthanasia for the "irredeemable" (POWs, ideologues), forced vasectomies for the compliant, gene-therapy labs churning CRISPR serums to "snip the snake" in utero. Slogans scarify billboards: "Extinct the Defect—For All Life's Sake." They eye the animal world with genocidal piety: rounding up stray dogs for "canine cleansing," sabotaging zoos to "liberate" females, even allying briefly with eco-anarchists for whiptail-lizard breeding programs as proof-of-concept. Dines disavows their extremes publicly—"We sever structures, not souls"—but whispers fuel their ascent: Androschist cells, "Purity Phalanxes," pioneer biotech raids on Cambridge labs, synthesizing parthenogenesis elixirs amid the howls of test subjects. In the war's meat-grinder, they shine: fanatical assaults on PF breeding camps, where they don't take prisoners, only scalps etched with chromosome X's.
The AGF endures as a regional leviathan—controlling from Portland, Maine, to Providence, Rhode Island—its factories churning gender-segregated rifles, its universities birthing drone swarms coded in Python by veiled coders. Alliances flicker: uneasy pacts with Blue Remnants against shared fascist fronts, betrayals when Androschist purges spill into moderate lines. Victory? A gynarchic New England Confederation, perhaps, exporting "equity exports" to Canadian exiles. Defeat? Absorption into the maw—PF crucifixes for the captured, anarchist bonfires for the impure. In this universe, the fire doesn't rise; it metastasizes, and the AGF is both arsonist and ash, a testament to how radicalization's thirds—fascist, communist, partisan—birth monstrosities undreamt in our milder fever. What path does Dines chart next in your playthrough?
Yeah after this post I'll be on my third FBI watchlist. Can't wait to get my house raided again.
I think this faction's existence is a bit of a stretch, even for TFR. Then again, The Atomwaffen Division is a stretch, but playing Satanist Atomwaffen was probably the most enjoyable HOI4 experience I've ever had surpassing even my Finland and Ethiopia games in vanilla HOI4!
Anyway, hoped you enjoyed reading- Time to get back to my Dacia campaign and if somehow the AGF makes it into TFR 1.1 I will cry tears of joy!
