Aldiran propaganda did not merely reshape reality; it replaced it. It was omnipresent—in paintings, songs, books, and public squares. Gigantic buildings bore slogans, flags draped entire streets, and graffiti carved the Order’s mottos into everyday life. Commercial advertising was strictly prohibited. In its place stood propaganda murals and idealized landscapes, not of leisure or abundance, but of mountains, snowfields, and desolate terrain.
Pride was constant and was the core emotion in all propaganda, but it carried no ecstasy. This stemmed from the absence of themes that shouted hope or called for action, and instead from the portrayal of a state of frozen indifference and endurance in time; this struggle was considered sacred, yet it was devoid of exclamations.
Propaganda favored dark tones and mystic undertones. Even natural phenomena were symbolically appropriated: snow burying Chinese and Japanese symbols beneath it, storm tearing through the American flag. The intent was not persuasion or recruitment, but intimidation. The objective was to prevent cohesion among potential enemies by projecting the sense that the Order was omnipresent and unavoidable.
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The Order Preservation Committee (OPC) was the central security and intelligence body of Aldira, responsible for both internal control and external espionage. It unified the functions typically divided between secret police and foreign intelligence agencies. Internally, the OPC monitored the population for ideological deviation, unauthorized associations, and behavioral irregularities, maintaining extensive records on citizens and overseeing programs of indoctrination and reeducation. It was not publicly defined as a terror apparatus; arrests and coercive measures were selective and procedural, with priority given to observation, classification, and ideological correction rather than indiscriminate violence.
The OPC directed all intelligence-gathering and covert operations abroad, including espionage, counterintelligence, infiltration of foreign institutions, and disruption of hostile networks. The underlying doctrine treated internal dissent and foreign subversion as structurally identical threats, differing only in origin, and therefore subject to a single, centralized mechanism of control. This organizational model emphasized ideological consistency, administrative efficiency, and comprehensive oversight of both society and the international environment.
