The realm of politics is myriad and shifting, convoluted and difficult to define in any given direction. Philosophies and systems shift like sand and can accommodate beliefs that might even be from a 'rival' political ideology. It is in this guise that, for example, Sina adheres to interventionism for its economic system but also borrows heavily from egalitarianism and commercism, making it difficult to define the Sinaean way. This is sometimes termed a Mixed-System or Mixed-Philosophy.
Sinaean Premier Yan Junqi (as of 2772)
Philosophical rivalry in politics guided the direction of much of the mid 1300s AuC to the present day. Commercism was often at odds with egalitarianism and the ideas of autocracy and monarchy came into open conflict with republicanism and democracy, culminating in the Great World War.
Economic Systems[]
The following is a list of the predominant modern economic philosophies
Equalitarianism[]
Equalitarianism is an economic theory which is characterized by the idea that all humans are equal in fundamental worth or moral status. It stipulates that the people collectively and, usually, democratically should own the means of their own labor and thus avoid exploitation. The economic framework may be of locally democratic allocation, thus decentralized and self-managed in autonomous economic units, as in libertist systems, or centrally planned, based on government sponsorship as in societist systems. Public services such as healthcare and education are commonly, collectively, and/or state owned and distributed so that all people may be able to obtain basic needs.
Symbolism[]
The most common symbolism used to represent Egalitarianism, and its subsets Libertism, Societism, and Gadism, are the colors red and white and a white star outlined in red. This is called the Venutian Star or the Egalitarian Star.
The symbols of Egalitarianism include the Phrygian Cap, the Venutian Star, the Cogwheel, and the Hand and Flames, as well as the colors red and white.
Additional symbols include the Phrygian Cap, the Cogwheel, and the Hand and Flames - all usually using the traditional Egalitarian colors of red and white. The Hand and Flames is popular in Libian circles as both the Venutian Star and the Phrygian Cap are seen as Eurocentric and Roman oriented symbology.
Libertism[]
Libertism is an economic sub-theory of Equalitarianism which views widespread productive-property ownership as a fundamental right of the people and community, wherein the means of production are spread as widely as possible rather than being centralized under the control of the state or a few individuals/corporations. Libertists argue for full communal control of production, land, and wealth within a fully democratic commune as a base layer of government. Libertism seeks to subordinate economic activity to human life, to spiritual life, intellectual life, and family life. In these systems credit unions replace private banks and the guild system is prominent. Business models favor co-operatives in such a system with full worker-ownership within a democratic working environment, subordinate only to the commune they reside in and only externally, with internal work being worker governed. The theory holds a commitment to the principles of subsidiarity and solidarity (these being built into financially independent local cooperatives and small family businesses wherein the workers/community cooperatively own productive property and workplaces/society are directly-democratic) and recognizes the necessity of state intervention to assure there is no threat of monopoly, overt inequality, discrimination, and there is the existence of a social safety net, promoting, for example, the establishment of a state development bank to fund infrastructure projects as well as widespread availability of healthcare and other resources, and the necessity of collective armed protection.
Libertists argue that true ownership belongs to the municipality, where ownership could be exercised by taxing and redistributing a portion of the unearned profits and regulating enterprises in order to ensure that they do not do any damage to the local community or the environment. They hold the view of a worker-owned co-operative model for enterprise, yet that the role of the co-op should be administration. The co-op’s ownership is then to be subordinate to communal-ownership at the level of the municipality. So, the municipal democratic assemblies (of which the co-op members would be a part) do the policy-making, setting of regulations and rules, etc. Yet the co-op remains somewhat autonomous in an administrative sense. The co-op would carry out the administration of the enterprise in accordance with guidelines set by the local democratic assembly.
Libertists hold that the municipal government ought to be directly democratic, and that policy-making should be done through face-to-face democracy in general assemblies, where all citizens are free to participate directly in the democratic process.
This sort of equalitarianist market society with public-ownership of land and enterprises, within the framework of a directly-democratic and consensus-oriented system of governance, where everyone receives a basic income and universal healthcare, etc. is the base idea argued by Libertists.
Modern examples using this system include Romania, Korea, Ganonsia, Frisia
Societism[]
Societism is an economic sub-theory of Equalitarianism which advocates state sponsorship of the means of production. The system maintains that workers have genuine control over the means of production through institutions such as trade guilds. proponents claim that the state—through practical considerations of governing—must play at least a temporary part in building egalitarianism. It is possible to conceive of a democratic state that owns the means of production, but it is internally organized in a participatory, cooperative fashion, thereby achieving both social ownership of productive property and workplace democracy in day-to-day operations.
Modern examples using this system include
Gadism
Modern examples using this system include Azania
Autonomism[]
Autonomism is a far left-wing philosophy rooted in Equalitarianism though diverged enough to be its own philosophy rather than a subset. It holds the belief that society should be completely under the worker's control. It is believed that all work and, completely connected, all governance should be with the workers/people only and this should never be delegated but should only be completely democratic. They argue against the centralized decisions and hierarchical authority structures of modern institutions, autonomous social movements involve people directly in decisions affecting their everyday lives. They seek to expand democracy completely and to help individuals break free of political structures and behavior patterns imposed from the outside. Autonomists argue for the abolishment of heads of state, delegated or otherwise. Autonomists aims are the erasure of hierarchy, denouncing elected councils and the like as well as religion and titles, such as madame or sir. They argue that to obtain completely gender and ethnic equality all titles and hierarchy must be gotten rid of. Autonomists seek to break completely away from a monetary society and any trace of a market system.
Commercism[]
Commercism is a system which focuses on the exchange of goods as the baseline of society and as the means of the creation of societal wealth. In such a system the tools of production are owned privately and labor is contracted on a case-by-case situation. Commercists believe that the individual is the basic unit in society and that the individual has a natural right to freedom. This is an economic system in which decisions regarding investment, production and distribution are guided by the price signals created by the forces of supply and demand.
Commercism generally promotes such policies as substitution state taxation, subsidies, expenditures, and general regulatory powers for tariffs and quotas, and protection through the formation of supranational trading blocs. Commercists adhere to multi-level collective bargaining based on the economic foundations of free-market
The Commercist economy refrains from attempts to plan and guide production, the workforce, or sales, but it does support planned efforts to influence the economy through the organic means of a comprehensive economic policy coupled with flexible adaptation to market studies. Combining monetary, credit, trade, tax, customs, investment and social policies as well as other measures, this type of economic policy aims to create an economy that serves the welfare and needs of the entire population, thereby fulfilling its ultimate goal.
Typical Commercist policies support for the provision of equal opportunity and protection of those unable to enter the free market labor force because of old-age, disability, or unemployment. This system usually implies a support for a universalist welfare state aimed specifically at enhancing individual autonomy and promoting social mobility; a corporatist system involving a tripartite arrangement where representatives of labour and employers negotiate wages and a labour market policy mediated minimally by the government as well as a commitment to private ownership.
Modern examples using this system include Cambria, Japan
Interventionism[]
Interventionism is an economic policy perspective favoring government intervention in the market process to correct the market failures and promote the general welfare of the people. An economic intervention is an action taken by a government or international institution in a market economy in an effort to impact the economy beyond the basic regulation of fraud and enforcement of contracts and provision of public goods. Interventionism can be aimed at a variety of political or economic objectives, such as promoting economic growth, increasing employment, raising wages, raising or reducing prices, promoting income equality, managing the money supply and interest rates, increasing profits, or addressing market failures. Often banks are nationalized in such systems.
Interventionism is additionally a market economy typically either dominated by state-owned enterprises or heavily involving them, where the state enterprises are organized as commercial, profit-seeking businesses.Interventionaism is a system in which governments, whether democratic or autocratic, exercise a widespread influence on the economy either through direct ownership or various subsidies. It is defined as "an economic system in which private commercism is modified by a varying degree of government ownership and control"
In these systems important and large enterprises typically receive publicly funded government bailouts that mitigate the firms' assumption of risk and undermine market laws; private production is largely funded by the state at public expense, but private owners reap the profits. In interfentionist arguments this is for the favor of society as a whole as it produces unparalleled wealth generation.
The state's role in the such an economy can be that of an entrepreneur to a minority investor in companies. Scandia, for example, has ownership stakes in many of the country's largest publicly listed companies, owning 37% of the stock market and operates the country's largest non-listed companies.
Modern examples using this system include Persia, Sina, Scandia
Government Systems[]
The following is a list of the predominant modern governmental philosophies
Republicanism[]
Republicanism: A form of government in which the country is considered a "public matter", not the private concern or property of the rulers. The primary positions of power and decisions within a republic are not inherited but are attained through democratic elections expressing the consent of the governed. Such leadership positions are therefore expected to fairly represent the citizen body and are often recallable while voting systems are often broad, ushering in degrees of direct democracy. The state as a whole is seen as the public matter of all citizens thus such systems are often not decentralized to a high degree, lacking excess regional autonomy from the collective whole, or public.
Modern examples using this system include Romania
Federalism[]
Federalism: A political entity characterized by a union of partially self-governing states or regions under a central government. In a federation, the self-governing status of the component states, as well as the division of power between them and the central government, is typically constitutionally entrenched and may not be altered by a unilateral decision of either party, the states or the federal political body. Alternatively, federation is a form of government in which sovereign power is formally divided between a central authority and a number of constituent regions so that each region retains some degree of control over its internal affairs.
Modern examples using this system include Francia
Communalism[]
Communalism: A system that integrates communal ownership and federations of highly localized independent communities. A theory of government or a system of government in which independent communes participate in a federation, as well as the principles and practice of communal ownership. The term 'government' in this case does not imply acceptance of a state or top-down hierarchy. A system in which freedom is given institutional form in public assemblies that become decision-making bodies.
Modern examples using this system include Ganonsia
Managism[]
Managism: A democratic government that functions in a quasi-democratic fashion. Such governments hold legitimate elections that are free and fair, but do not overtly change the state's policies, motives, and goals rather they do so in increments, guided by election cycles. This is a political system where citizens are able to elect their government but cannot participate directly in governmental decision making as the government does not share its power. This system, also called electocratic, sees decision-making limited to an elected individual or group who may then govern in an arbitrary and somewhat unaccountable manner until the next election. Cultural and traditional values are often emphasized in such systems and the state may attempt to dissuade society from any altered course even as they allow these changes, albeit slowly. Many major television networks and newspapers are typically owned or controlled by the government in managist governments.
Modern examples using this system include Persia, Tsalagia
Monarchism[]
Monarchism: A form of government in which a group, generally a family representing a dynasty, embodies the country's national identity and its head, the monarch, exercises the role of sovereignty. The actual power of the monarch may vary from purely symbolic (crowned republic), to partial and restricted (constitutional monarchy), to completely autocratic (absolute monarchy). Traditionally the monarch's post is inherited and lasts until death or abdication. In contrast, elective monarchies require the monarch to be elected. Both types have further variations as there are widely divergent structures and traditions defining monarchy.
Autocracy[]
Autocracy: A system of government in which supreme power (social and political) is concentrated in the hands of one person or polity, whose decisions are subject to neither external legal restraints nor regularized mechanisms of popular control. Absolute monarchy and dictatorships are the main modern day forms of autocracy.
Political Factions[]
The idea of people forming large groups or factions to advocate for their shared interests is ancient. Plato mentions the political factions of Classical Athens in the Republic, and Aristotle discusses the tendency of different types of government to produce factions in the Politics. Certain ancient disputes were also factional, like the Nika riots between two chariot racing factions at the Hippodrome of Constantinople. Modern political factions are considered to have emerged around the middle of the 26th century.
Political Spectrum[]
The political spectrum is typically divided between open and closed, with open (socially liberal and globalist) to closed (culturally conservative and protectionist) defining most political factions globally. Many are further augmented by the prefix radical, moderate, or philosophy specific (such as autonomist, commercist, platonist, etc).
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