Investigative Article — Second Edition Published by: [GirokaRR / Dom / Nillew] Based on public evidence collected within the game itself
EDITORIAL NOTE — a necessary precaution (and one we've already had to test)
You'll notice that the screenshots containing the most direct evidence are not embedded in this article. They are hosted in an external gallery, linked below.
Why? Simple: my previous article about this same group was deleted by moderation for "sensitive content". The article in which I reported that one of its members wished my family would die in a concentration camp. That article was too sensitive for the platform.
The neo-Nazis' own articles, however, stayed up.
This time, I took "precautions." The screenshots are separate so as not to disturb anyone. The text is just text. Completely within the rules — as it always was.
War Era is a geopolitical strategy game with an active global community. This article is not a report against Venezuela or its players. It is the opposite: it is the story of how an entire in-game country was taken over by a neo-Nazi cell — and how that cell used the community space to grow, organize, and seize positions of power.
Venezuela in War Era is a victim of this network, not its author. The Venezuelan players who reported abuses, who published exposé articles, who signed their work as "Fcknazs" — they are the proof of that. What this article documents is the group that silenced them, that occupied the country's government within the game, and that today still holds the positions of Vice President and Minister of Defense.
This is not a matter of rivalry between countries or "bad jokes." The evidence shows a deliberate, coordinated and recurring pattern of Nazi glorification, ethnic supremacism and paramilitary organization within the game — with direct access to political power.
Before presenting the evidence, it is necessary to establish what it proves collectively: this is not a group of players who accidentally share suspicious interests. It is a network with defined roles, internal coordination, and a deliberate strategy of concealment — confirmed in the words of one of its own members.
The cell operates under the name of the party "Nuevo Ideal Nacional" and controls 5 military legions within the game. The members identified so far are only a fraction — the investigation is ongoing, and many profiles remain in the shadows.
What can already be observed is a deliberate pattern of collective identity: most of the identified members use names from the anime Naruto — specifically from the criminal organization known as the Akatsuki. Naruto, Pain, Madara, KisameElBastardo — all are Akatsuki characters, a group of villains in the series who operate in secrecy, wear black cloaks with red clouds, and seek world domination. The choice is not a fan coincidence. It is a group identity, collectively adopted, that signals internally who belongs to the network.
The choice of language is not random. Naruto writes in German inside a global game — not because German is needed, but because it communicates something to those who know how to listen. Writing about the Third Reich in German, for a gaming audience, is a form of ideological signaling with plausible deniability: "it was just a history article."
In the article "Aufruf zur Wiedergutmachung" ("A Call for Reparation"), Naruto invoked the crimes of the Third Reich in a revisionist manner. The response was not silence — player 3Dcut confronted him directly, with 14 likes from the community:
"Vergleichst du wirklich... mit den Verbrechen des Dritten Reichs?" (Are you really comparing... to the crimes of the Third Reich?)
The cell's reaction, instead of backing down, was to publish a collective "apology" article — written in German, addressed to German in-game allies — asking them to ignore the "staged outrage" and maintain the alliance. The text is too sophisticated to be improvised:
"Diese Erfahrungen haben unsere kulturelle Perspektive [...] was manchmal zu dunklem oder unsensiblem Humor führt" (These experiences shaped our cultural perspective [...] which sometimes leads to dark or insensitive humor)
Around the same time, in the Colonia Tovar article — which glorifies a German colony for having remained racially isolated for over a century — Naruto comments:
"I loved all of my trips to Colonia Tovar, our little Germany. ❤️"
And Arepa69, another cell member, responds in the same thread:
"we love the Germans, very much. They've always been our allies"
Two members, in the same article, signaling the same ideological bond. That is not a comment coincidence — it is coordination.
If Naruto operates at the edges of the acceptable, Arepa69 writes without a filter. His profile begins with a signal: the bio "PER ASPERA AD INFERI" — a deliberate modification of the classic Latin saying, replacing "astra" (stars) with "inferi" (hell/underworld).
The article "LA VOLUNTAD DE HIERRO: EL GAMBLING CULT" is the central document of this investigation. Published inside the game itself, without ambiguity:
"solo el venezolano es digno de portar este acero" (only the Venezuelan is worthy of bearing this steel)
"El oro no para enriquecer a parásitos" (Gold is not to enrich parasites)
"monumento a nuestra superioridad" (monument to our superiority)
"¡UNANSE AQUI SOLO VENEZOLANOS!" (JOIN HERE VENEZUELANS ONLY)
"¡A LOS TRAIDORES SE LES EXPONE AL DESPRECIO PÚBLICO!" (Traitors shall be exposed to public contempt!)
The word "parasites" is not a gaming metaphor. It is the same term systematically used by Nazi propaganda to dehumanize ethnic groups. Used here in a manifesto of explicit ethnic exclusion, it carries that historical weight. The article ends with a public link to the group's Discord server — because the cell was counting on impunity.
NZAF is the most honest link in the network — in the worst possible sense. In the comments of Atlasss's exposé article, he typed:
"la bandera la usamos para disimular que somos naz.. fasc" (the flag we use to disguise that we are naz[is]... fasc[ists])
The sentence was cut off mid-word — "naz.." — likely at the moment he realized what he was confessing. But he did not delete it. Did not edit it. It stayed there, public.
This sentence confirms what the other evidence only suggested: the use of flags and symbols is a conscious strategy of concealment. The group knows what it is. It knows it needs to hide. And one of its members said so out loud, inside the game itself.
Soypro8815: 88 = HH = Heil Hitler. H is the 8th letter of the alphabet. The code is widely documented as neo-Nazi signaling — used precisely because it allows denial ("it's just a number") while communicating the message to those who recognize it. Soypro8815 is an active member of the network. The 88 in the username is the same kind of signaling NZAF described: a disguise that is only a disguise to those who don't know what to look for.
Pain: was the primary name in the exposure screenshots — the central figure of the scandal. After the first round of reports, he deleted his account. Erased the history. Disappeared. And came back. Today, Pain holds the position of Vice President of Venezuela within War Era. The cell was not destroyed by the exposure — it survived and rose to power.
Madara: Minister of Defense of the in-game country. Another member of the network embedded in the core of the Venezuelan government on the platform. When the cell controls the Ministry of Defense and the Vice Presidency, it is no longer indirect influence. It is occupation.
What is most striking about this investigation is not the individual cases, but the organized structure behind them.
347 registered members in the game
A name that evokes the "National Ideal" parties historically associated with fascism in Latin America
Orden Templaria — Active
Legion Marino Brave — Active
Legion Paez — Active
Legion Andres Bello — Active
Legion R Urdaneta — Active
Five military legions under one party, with over 100 coordinated members, operating inside War Era as an organized cell.
The Discord server with ID 1370814923122413588 was publicly exposed by Arepa69 himself inside the game — indicating they operate with parallel communication channels outside the platform, where War Era moderation has no access.
War Era has an explicit rule — Rule 7.3 — prohibiting content that glorifies Nazism and similar ideologies. The moderation records obtained show that Dom João — one of the group's own whistleblowers — received punishment for "Rule 7.3.f: Glorification of neo-nazism".
This raises an immediate question: how does a whistleblower get punished under the same rule that the group he was reporting was openly violating? The rule exists and is enforced — but selectively, and apparently in reverse.
MUTE_USER on dom_joao
"durationInDays": 3,
"reason": "Rule 7.3.f: Glorification of neo-nazism"
Moderator Arturo was formally reported by community members for protecting the group and silencing internal complaints. This is the most serious part: when moderation fails or is co-opted, the environment becomes safe for extremism to thrive.
Player Atlasss, who signed publicly as "Fcknazs", published a report article directed at the in-game Venezuelan government. In it, he describes how the group used the game space for toxic and extremist behavior. NZAF's comment in that article — admitting the concealment strategy — was posted in direct response to this report.
After the screenshots were exposed — generating reactions from German players who felt directly offended — the group published an elaborate response in German: the article "Aufruf zur Wiedergutmachung". The objective was clear: contain the diplomatic damage with German allies before the exposure destroyed the alliance. The article followed the classic extremism denial playbook:
Minimization: "It was just dark humor / cultural difference"
Victimization: "Outside forces are using this to destroy our alliances for political gain"
False equivalence: "if you choose to collectively demonize our entire community [...] you risk repeating the very history of exclusion you claim to fight" — a cynical inversion comparing Nazi critics to Nazis themselves
Request for complicity: "We ask our German partners to look past this staged outrage"
This text, extracted directly from the page's HTML, is too sophisticated to be a spontaneous response. It suggests organization, coordination, and a deliberate pattern of narrative management.
The most direct response came from German player Greiffith:
"the question is not, if there is a negative view on germany. In fact the problem is, that members of your country (ingame) have either a strong sympathy for fascist regimes or are just too stupid to understand the problem at all."
And player ENEVILE cuts straight to it:
"Your whole regime is nazi. Check your Country discord. That's a long story."
Evidence 1 — Naruto: German-language article invoking the crimes of the Third Reich. https://app.warera.io/article/69c41f7e7971f5465f1113c4
Evidence 2 — Naruto: "our little Germany" comment in the Colonia Tovar article. https://app.warera.io/article/69c30175cbdcd4950cadf2d4
Evidence 3 — NZAF: Public admission of using a flag to disguise Nazism. https://app.warera.io/article/69c5f89f15b57aa88ca6d370
Evidence 4 — Arepa69: Fascist manifesto "LA VOLUNTAD DE HIERRO: EL GAMBLING CULT". https://app.warera.io/article/69d06fde1f2014af133b49c6
Evidence 5 — Arepa69: "we love the Germans, they've always been our allies" in the Colonia Tovar article. https://app.warera.io/article/69c30175cbdcd4950cadf2d4
Evidence 6 — Soypro8815: Username containing the neo-Nazi code — 88 = HH = Heil Hitler. https://app.warera.io/user/699b708534967ecd15dfc5d0
Evidence 7 — Pain: Account deleted immediately after the first round of exposures.
Evidence 8 — Dom João: Moderation record for Rule 7.3.f violation (glorification of neo-Nazism) — documented in screenshot. A whistleblower punished for reporting.
Evidence 9 — Moderator Arturo: Formally reported by the community for protecting the group and silencing internal reports.
Don't just take our word for it. All evidence cited in this article is publicly accessible on the War Era platform. Below are direct links to each source — verify them, read the comments, and draw your own conclusions.
[1] Naruto — "Aufruf zur Wiedergutmachung" The German-language "apology" article that invokes the Third Reich. Read the comments: player 3Dcut (14 likes) explicitly confirms that Naruto compared his situation to Nazi crimes. https://app.warera.io/article/69c41f7e7971f5465f1113c4
[2] Arepa69 — "Ein Stück Deutschland in den Tropen" (Colonia Tovar) Article glorifying a racially isolated colony. In the comments: Naruto writes "I loved all of my trips to Colonia Tovar, our little Germany ❤" and Arepa69 responds "we love the Germans very much. They've always been our allies." https://app.warera.io/article/69c30175cbdcd4950cadf2d4
[3] Atlasss — "Una carta para el gobierno de Venezuela" A public report from a player who signed as "Fcknazs." In the comments of this article, NZAF admits: "la bandera la usamos para disimular que somos naz.. fasc." Read the full comment thread — it is revealing. https://app.warera.io/article/69c5f89f15b57aa88ca6d370
[4] Arepa69 — "LA VOLUNTAD DE HIERRO: EL GAMBLING CULT" The complete fascist manifesto. Key excerpts: "solo el venezolano es digno de portar este acero", "El oro no para enriquecer a parásitos", "monumento a nuestra superioridad." The article ends with a public Discord link: "UNANSE AQUI SOLO VENEZOLANOS." https://app.warera.io/article/69d06fde1f2014af133b49c6
[5] Naruto — "¡LA HIPOCRECÍA DE LA OPOSICIÓN FARSANTE!" A political article in which Naruto attacks dissidents, calling them "criminals and provocateurs," while glorifying the "Nuevo Ideal Nacional." The language and structure are those of an extremist political movement, not a casual player. https://app.warera.io/article/69dfebbc2f5556574de4948e
[6] Naruto — "Big news to all our beautiful community" https://app.warera.io/article/69e9314236b605c908d73919
Naruto — author of the German-language articles referencing the Third Reich https://app.warera.io/user/6996bbf2ac31a5fa7142d800
Arepa69 — author of the fascist manifesto; bio: "PER ASPERA AD INFERI" https://app.warera.io/user/682a6b1e42fec2f81a188ce4
NZAF — publicly admitted using a flag to disguise the group's Nazi-fascist nature https://app.warera.io/user/69971380e15511a555d49a8a
Soypro8815 — username containing the neo-Nazi code 88 (HH = Heil Hitler) https://app.warera.io/user/699b708534967ecd15dfc5d0
KisameElBastardo — member of the coordinated network https://app.warera.io/user/699694e483b5f2ea3a91688b
Toxico364 — member of the coordinated network https://app.warera.io/user/69972a6683b5f2ea3a64d12a
arepero501 — member of the coordinated network https://app.warera.io/user/69990f624520eb9ea2ee8703
Wilimey — member of the coordinated network https://app.warera.io/user/68e7868bb888e574d3042d0b
When accessing the links above, pay attention to:
The article comments — especially 3Dcut's in article 1, and NZAF's admission in article 3
Arepa69's bio ("PER ASPERA AD INFERI") and the manifesto content in article 4
The username Soypro8815 — the two digits 88 in the middle are not a coincidence
The party structure "Nuevo Ideal Nacional de Venezuela" and its 5 linked Legions
The fact that the Discord link was posted publicly inside the game itself in article 4
All investigation is based on public, verifiable sources. Nothing here is speculation.
This section is a cold, direct analysis of what the data reveals when you stop looking at individual pieces and start looking at the whole pattern. Every item below is a documented tendency — not speculation.
Naruto is not a player who made a bad joke. Naruto is the one who writes. Who publishes articles in German. Who constructs narrative.
He writes in German — not by accident, but to reach a specific audience and to implicitly position Germany as an ideological partner. In the article "Aufruf zur Wiedergutmachung," he does not simply apologize — he uses the Third Reich as a reference point and attempts to rally German players to the group's cause. Skilled enough not to look like explicit Nazi apologia, sophisticated enough to communicate exactly that to those who know how to read it.
In the Colonia Tovar article — which glorifies a German colony for having remained racially isolated for over a century — Naruto comments: "I loved all of my trips to Colonia Tovar, our little Germany." That is not nostalgia. It is identity assertion. "Our little Germany" — in a network that puts 88 in usernames and admits to using flags as fascist cover.
Naruto functions as the group's intellectual. He legitimizes the narrative, translates it into other languages, and manages public perception. When things heat up, he writes the "apology" article — which is actually a PR operation, not a genuine retraction.
Suspicion level: HIGH. Identified role: Ideologist and Spokesperson.
Arepa69 is the most direct of all. He does not conceal — he proclaims.
Profile bio: "PER ASPERA AD INFERI." Not "ad astra" (to the stars) — "ad inferi" (to the underworld). A deliberate modification of the Latin saying. Someone who changes a phrase of hope into a reference to the underworld and uses it as a public bio is not doing so by accident.
The "La Voluntad de Hierro" manifesto is the centerpiece. Read in full — and we now have the complete text from the page's HTML — it contains:
— "monumento a nuestra superioridad": not a gaming metaphor. Declared supremacism. — "santuario cerrado para el venezolano": explicit ethnic exclusion. Other groups are not welcome. — "solo el venezolano es digno de portar este acero": the most revealing phrase. "Worthy" is the word that separates those who deserve from those who don't — structurally identical to racial purity rhetoric. — "El oro fluye para fortalecer la legión, no para enriquecer a parásitos": the word "parasites" carries specific historical weight. It was the term systematically used by Nazi propaganda to dehumanize Jews. Using it here — in a manifesto of ethnic exclusion — is not a lexical coincidence. — "¡A LOS TRAIDORES SE LES EXPONE AL DESPRECIO PÚBLICO!": a direct threat to any member who questions the group. Internal control through coercion — a hallmark of extremist cells.
And at the end of the manifesto: a public link to the group's Discord. Arepa69 is not afraid. He wants people to join. This suggests either extreme arrogance or the belief that moderation will not act. Given what we know about moderator Arturo, that belief may have held true for quite some time.
Suspicion level: MAXIMUM. Identified role: Manifesto author, Network organizer.
"la bandera la usamos para disimular que somos naz.. fasc"
NZAF typed that. In public. In the comments of an article inside the game itself.
The sentence was apparently cut off — "naz.." — suggesting that mid-sentence he realized what he was confessing and stopped. But he did not delete it. Did not edit it. The sentence remained.
This means two things:
First: the group deliberately uses flags and symbols as camouflage. This is not a naive organization that fell into bad habits — it is a group that consciously plans its public appearance to conceal its true nature.
Second: NZAF is impulsive enough to confess this publicly. What he says in private — in the Discord moderation cannot access — is likely far more explicit.
Suspicion level: HIGH. Identified role: Operational member, confessed the disguise strategy.
In the middle of a username. In a group with fascist articles, ethnic supremacy manifestos, and confessions of ideological disguise.
The code 88 = HH = Heil Hitler is well-known enough that anyone who frequents online gaming communities understands what it means. It is not possible that someone creates a username with 88 in the middle, participates in this specific group, likes this group's articles, and claims it is a coincidence.
The question is not whether Soypro8815 is a Nazi. The question is: why would someone want it to look like they are?
Suspicion level: HIGH. Identified role: Signaling member — the 88 identifies the group internally without explicit explanation.
Dom João is not a suspect. Dom João is one of the whistleblowers — part of the group that investigated and exposed the Gambling Cult's behavior within the game.
And he was punished for it.
Moderation records show Dom João being silenced for "Rule 7.3.f: Glorification of neo-nazism" — the same rule that Naruto's and Arepa69's articles violate far more explicitly, and which apparently generated no equivalent punishment for them.
The conversation screenshots capture Dom João exposing another player: the exchange was not a confession — it was a confrontation. Dom João was documenting and reporting someone's involvement with the group.
What this means in practice: a whistleblower was punished under the same rule as those he was reporting, while the actual authors of fascist manifestos operated freely. This is not a moderation error. This is deliberate inversion.
Identified role: Whistleblower. Victim of selective moderation enforcement. Co-investigator.
Pain deleted his account. The timing is what matters: the account was deleted immediately after the first round of exposures.
Innocent people do not delete accounts when they are reported. People with something to hide, do.
Pain was one of the central names in the investigation — possibly the leader or one of the leaders. Without the account, there are no more articles, no comments, no activity history to verify. Which is exactly the point.
According to the investigation group's conversations, there is suspicion that Pain created a new profile. This needs to be traced.
Suspicion level: HIGH. Identified role: Suspected leadership, erased traces after exposure.
Moderator Arturo is not a Nazism suspect. He is a suspect of something equally serious: deliberate protection of an extremist group within a space he was supposed to police.
Community members formally reported Arturo. The described pattern: internal reports being silenced, group members receiving preferential treatment, and the group continuing to operate despite the evidence.
Compare: Dom João was silenced by moderation for 7.3.f. But Naruto's and Arepa69's articles — far more explicit — stayed active for how long? Who decided they did not violate the rules?
The selective application of Rule 7.3 is itself evidence. When a rule exists but is applied only in convenient cases, it becomes a tool of control — not of justice.
Suspicion level: INVESTIGATE. Identified role: Moderator with formal accusation of protecting the group.
Analyzing all actors together, the pattern that emerges is not of individuals acting on impulse. It is an operation with defined roles:
— An ideologist who writes and manages narrative (Naruto) — An organizer who publishes manifestos and recruits (Arepa69) — Operational members who participate and signal (NZAF, Soypro8815, KisameElBastardo, others) — A leadership that erased its traces (Pain) — And possibly an internal protector with moderation access (Arturo) — who punished a whistleblower (Dom João) using the same rule he ignored for the fascists
This is not a group of players sharing bad jokes. It is a structured cell, with defined functions, an external Discord, 347 members in a party, and 5 military legions.
The question that remains: what else is in the Discord that we cannot see?
What is documented here is not a series of "bad jokes" or "cultural misunderstandings." It is a systematic, organized pattern:
✅ Explicit fascist language in articles published inside the game
✅ Neo-Nazi symbolism embedded in usernames
✅ Public admission of using flags as ideological cover
✅ Organizational structure with party, 5 legions, and external Discord
✅ Account deleted after exposure
✅ Failed moderation and silenced whistleblowers
✅ Elaborate denial pattern post-exposure
War Era has clear rules against this. The community needs to demand they be enforced, and moderation needs to apply them consistently and without favoritism.
Nazism — even disguised as "humor" or "national pride" — has no place in any gaming space.
This article is based exclusively on public evidence available on the War Era platform. All links are referenced. Transcripts were obtained via OCR of screenshots and manually verified.
— Investigation team: GirokaRR, Dom, Nillew