[3] To cope with the isolation, Kuhler created a fictional world that he called Rocaterrania, after his childhood home of Rockland County.
[8] Rocaterrania, a small country on the border between Canada and New York State, was fictionally founded in 1931 by former Russian noble August Phillippe Romanovski and his French-Belgian wife, Mary Catherine de Rochelle.
Catherine's tyrannical reign included her practice of neuterizing street urchins to turn into her personal "neutant" servants.
In 1951, a civil war forced the emperor to grant limited autonomy to the region of New Serbia, but his repressive policies were still too intolerable, leading to his overthrow and execution in a revolution in 1953.
[4] Rocaterrania is religiously diverse, and gave rise to a new syncretic religion called Ojallism (derived from the Spanish word Ojalá), which includes aspects of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and reveres Krishna, Buddha, and Baháʼu'lláh as prophets as well.
[4][7][14] In 1997, his close friend and colleague Brett Ingram started creating a documentary film, Rocaterrania, about Kuhler's worldbuilding project.
[16] Kuhler was a lifelong eccentric, wearing a bowler hat and three-piece suit in college, and smoking mullein from handmade pipes.
[17] He was a staunch liberal and environmentalist,[1] and his tastes and politics are evident in Rocaterrania, whose citizens prefer public transportation, environmental design, and opera (Kuhler played a handmade violin).