Sorbet Kingdom

The Sorbet Kingdom is a nation in the South Blue that was once ruled by the revolutionary turned Warlord, Bartholomew Kuma.

Geography and Locations
The Sorbet Kingdom is set on a tropical island with palm trees, rough terrain and a few forests. The buildings mostly follow a similar architectural design of popsicle-shaped towers.

During King Bekori's reign, Sorbet's southern province was excluded from the kingdom's jurisdiction, effectively making only the northern portion of the island the Sorbet Kingdom proper. This was eventually reversed following the end of Bekori's rule by the Freedom Fighters.

Castle Town
The Castle Town is the capital of the Sorbet Kingdom, located to the north of the country. It is where most of the kingdom's working citizens live, as well as its royal family.

Because of King Bekori's segregatory laws, this place and its immediate surroundings were the only legally recognized territory of the Sorbet Kingdom for a while.

Church


To the southeast of Sorbet, there is a church formerly managed by Clapp and his wife. After their family was forced into slavery, the church fell into disuse. Later, their son Bartholomew Kuma and his friend Ginny took up residence there after escaping from slavery.

After becoming a priest, Kuma used the church as a place where the elderly could gather and seek physical relief through the Nikyu Nikyu no Mi. It is also the place where he raised Bonney, especially after the latter started developing Sapphire Scales.

Elderly Village
This village was located to the southwest of Sorbet, near Kuma's church. Most of its residents consisted of poor, aged peasants. During Bekori's rule, the village was left out of the kingdom's own protection and sovereignty, causing its already vulnerable population to become more susceptible to death and enslavement.

Past
47 years ago, Bartholomew Kuma was born to a normal, peasant family, of which the patriarch, Clapp, was part of the rare buccaneers. Because buccanners were a highly sought after race, the World Government had agents placed around the island in order to locate potential members. When Kuma was only four years old, the government eventually found out about Clapp's family by investigating a local hospital and enslaved all of its members, in spite of the mother being just a human.

Five years later, Kuma returned to Sorbet alongside fellow former slaves Ginny and Emporio Ivankov. Ivankov set out to sea as Ginny remained with Kuma to help him with his new life. There, Kuma would grow up into a kind pastor who served and protected the elderly population, who were growingly pressured by their new monarch, Bekori, known for his miserly nature and hatred of those who could not properly contribute to the kingdom's Heavenly Tribute.

22 years ago, King Bekori introduced a new, highly unpopular policy that split his country in two halves, with only the northern half being officially recognized as the Sorbet Kingdom. Bekori intended to reduce the amount of tribute he had to pay the World Government by diminishing Sorbet's formal population to only its major contributors, who lived to the north, while excluding the poorer populations of the south. After getting into a fight with Sorbet's royal army due to those new policies causing direct harm to a village they watched over, Kuma, Ginny and others were arrested for treason. Kuma and Ginny were eventually freed and then recruited by the Freedom Fighters led by Monkey D. Dragon (who had managed to chase Bekori away), later resulting in the establishment of the modern Revolutionary Army.

After Ginny was kidnapped by the World Government and subsequently released from Mary Geoise due to a sickness, she made her way back to Sorbet before succumbing to its symptoms (which worsened under sunlight) and dying. She left behind a infant daughter that Kuma found and promised to raise. The young Bonney would grow up in Kuma's church, being forced to live under its ceiling due to contracting the same fatal disease her mother had, with Kuma hoping to find a cure someday.

6 years ago, Bekori returned to Sorbet with the intention of resuming his original plan of eliminating the country's "deadweight", this time through direct slaughter.

Kuma eventually became monarch of Sorbet.



According to Jinbe, Kuma, the kingdom's ruler, was known for being a tyrannical monarch, leading the people of Sorbet to overthrow him during a rebellion. Kuma's reputation would earn him his moniker of "Tyrant", which was carried over to his subsequent careers as a pirate and Revolutionary Army member. However, Jewelry Bonney, Kuma's daughter, claims that this knowledge is wrong and that her father was never a tyrannical king. It also appears that Kuma had a lot of attrition with the World Government, having been mentioned several times to have hated the institution and being targeted by it for constant defiance.

Eventually, Kuma was captured by the Marines and sentenced with life imprisonment. Dr. Vegapunk, however, held a keen interest on Kuma and wanted the former king to become his test subject in exchange for his freedom. As part of an agreement with the World Government, Kuma was allowed to return to piracy as one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea, all while participating in Vegapunk's Pacifista program, where he would get subjected to cloning and cybernetic modifications until finally losing the last portions of his humanity.

Levely Arc
Two years after the Summit War of Marineford, Kuma was relegated to working as a slave-to-rent for the World Nobles supposedly for his past actions as the king of Sorbet and officer of the Revolutionary Army, and also to serve as an example for any nation that would dare defy the government.

Jewelry Bonney infiltrated the Levely by posing as "Connie", queen dowager of the Sorbet Kingdom in order to find and rescue her father. Kuma was eventually rescued by his revolutionary comrades during the events of the Levely.

Trivia

 * The kingdom's name is likely based on the sorbet dessert.
 * Fitting the Kingdom's ice cream-themed name, the buildings of the kingdom appear to be based on popsicles and similar ice creams.

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