Santa

Santa, also known as Kris Kringle, Father Christmas, Santa Claus, or his original name, St. Nicholas, is a patron deity of Kindness and Gift-Giving.

St. Nicholas lived from March 15, 270 A.D. to December 6, 343 A.D. and was the Bishop of Myra in Lycia, a region of the then-Eastern Roman Empire. According to legend, the Bishop would leave coins and other gifts in the shoes of those who left them out for him.

Hankory, however, took this legend to new dimensions, not only claiming the myths of St. Nicholas to be true, but that he actually owned a factory in the far north, manufactured toys with his slave Elf workers, and distributes these toys in the winter season by flying his magical sleigh, pulled by eight reindeer, all over the world, fitting down chymnies, eating milk and cookies, and leaving his gifts under the trees and in the stockings of the people.

Although Alfordian Law, as well as the laws of the other nations, officially condemns slavery, the appeal to gift-giving is not over-looked and the cult of Santa is tolerated.