The huge, oppressive empire that serves as the main villain of the Kagemusha serial. It follows an essentially statist nationalist-technocratic ideology; the survival of the people depends on expansion, with 'people' not being defined by blood but by ideology. Hence conquering and converting others to the cause, spreading the superior culture to the grateful-if-they-know-anything inferiors, is the natural means whereby Progress advances; with every generation, the number of Attani who can serve as soldiers and engineers and geneticists grows, until finally the Empire's power shall know no end.

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He stamped only before your walls, and the Tomb ye knew was dust:
He gathered up under his armpits all the swords of your trust:
He set a guard on your granaries, securing the weak from the strong:
He said: — " Go work the waterwheels that were abolished so long."
- "Kitchener's School," Rudyard Kipling