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Where did you read about that? Google doesn't have any reference to it.
How do they impose their will without a military? What if there's an invasion?

Maybe it could work on a very small population, in an isolated spot.
 
I've always wanted to create a catholic-socialist movement. A movement that emphasises the part of the bible that says you should help your fellow man, and then adds a veneer of catholic theocracy on top of it. It could work with any religion really, but Cathlosism seems more ripe for this, due to it's centralization, and the historical models of certain latin american priests.
 

Hnau

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Hey, I joined the board just to post this ideology I came up with. Hope you enjoy it.

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Viktorism

Viktorism begins with an apparent, utopian goal in mind. It imagines as a real possibility a world united under a single government, under one single united ethnicity, and with the classes very united, with similar levels of productivity, living quality, and mobility. The government is led by strong and fair individuals; every citizen has an equal right to determine the future of the world. Resources are plentiful throughout the human population.

To achieve this goal, William Viktor Navorsky listed the seven major causes of disruption in society. It would be from each one of these conflicts that, if escalated, could result in a violent solution. If a conflict was reduced, economic prosperity and societal prosperity could be achieved.

  • Conflict between classes
  • Conflict between states
  • Conflict between ethnicities
  • Conflict between religions
  • Conflict between ideologies
  • Conflict between varied physiologies
  • Conflict between citizen and state

To address each of these issues, an entire Department would be assigned to each.

The Department of Economic Welfare would arguably become the most powerful, handling relations between business, workers, and different sectors of society. They would head an initiative to keep the minimum wage at an effective level, provide a decent limited workday, and act as a middle-man to negotiate between businesses and laborers. All unions would thus be banned and to be broken with force. Under the Department of Economic Welfare, free education would be provided to the public, and as such the Department would become the middle-man between student and school, determining what standards would have to be met for those to go on to university-level education.

The Department of International Relations would handle interactions between other states. Viktorist thought determines that if there was only one state, there would be no conflict between them. This is one of the most notable goals of Viktorism, and it is the Department of International Relations that is so revolutionary. Viktorist thought shows that war is only a sign of failure of a society, and never beneficial. However, war is thought to be the primary process of merging governments and states into one body. The Department thus attempts to aggressively seek other routes to gain territory and ultimately bind the entire territory of mankind into one government.

States can join in a union with one-another out of mutual consent. The Department manages relations with other states, especially neighbors, to cultivate economic and political bonds so that the outsider can be adopted into the Viktorist Union. The Department controls all trade, tariffs, ambassadors to other nations, as well as referendums for accession into the Union. Trade deals, free trade zones, de-regulation of population movement, military pacts and other forms of developing relations with other states are encouraged. Territory can also be purchases, and the Department controls offers of money to take control of unwanted areas.

The Department of International Relations also possesses a controversial allotment of rights. When a territory does not have a state to rule it, there is no state warfare. Viktorism teaches that territories empty of state control must be filled with Viktorist authority, to shield from other nations and to secure for the eventual world state. Anarchist zones must be invaded as soon as economically possible to gain territory, and the Department has the authority to declare an act of accession to any stateless area, and consequently invade and secure. For this reason, the Department manages the International Force, and finances shipbuilding and recruiting for a naval force to begin an invasion of any territory ruled stateless.

The Department of Ethnic Welfare is also a controversial government organ. It draws the Ethnic Zones and manages ethnocentric laws and rights. Each ethnic zone of a substantial size is given a vote in the House of National Representation. It is responsible, also, for keeping statistics at a constant rate and presenting demographics to the public and the heads of government. The Departments duties also include the movement of population, and the granting of passports and internal right of passage through the Viktorist Union. Traditionally, citizens are allowed to emigrate only under states of emergency and population pressure, and only the most unproductive and disunited citizens.

The Department of Ethnic Welfare’s controversial purpose is the responsibility to create of single ethnic group. It provides benefits and services to those who are raising families of mixed heritage, such as decreasing taxes for an increasing amount of mixed children. It can also levy taxes on purebred individuals having purebred children. It decreases taxes and offers free homes for individuals to move outside of their respective Ethnic Zones, into the Amalgamated Consolidations, and levies taxes on those attempting to move deeper into their respective Ethnic Zones. All ethnicities are treated equal, except for the mixed-blood Viktorist citizen, which is raised above the rest as an example of the future.

The Department of Religious Welfare is a small one. Viktorism is very agnostic, but determines that the Development of Mankind is one that Mankind is responsible for, and that no deity of divine force should be given the duty to perfect society. The Department, thus, concerns itself with the freedom of religion, especially in seeking to increase ties to religious groups facing persecution abroad. However, it also attempts to keep religions in line with Viktorist ideology, and reduce radical factors that could lead to conflict. The relationship between church and state is also managed by the Department of Religious Welfare.

The Department of Ideology is almost unneeded in Viktorist thought. Viktorism teaches that there would be no ideological warfare if only one ideology became dominant, with others becoming blended within its structure. The Department of Ideology, thus, concerns itself with the promotion of Viktorism, registers legal organizations, and the relationship between those of differing ideologies, especially in the elimination of radical ideas. It manages censorship of the media, and functions as the middle-man between philosophical organizations and the government, hoping to induct each school of thought deeper into Viktorist teaching. Its many think-tanks also work to develop the state ideology, and thus have something of control over the other departments in how they function. It is here where philosophers command real power over the entire structure of the state, and their mandates and petitions are constitutionally very difficult to negate, allowing a good deal of power to such a small body.

The Department of Human Affairs manages civil rights. While Ethnic Welfare keeps ethnicities content and coordinated, Human Affairs acts as the middle-man between different ethnicities disputes with one another. They endeavor to allow all individuals equal rights and responsibilities disregarding race, creed, gender or sexual orientation. They also provide benefits and security for the handicapped and disabled, the mentally and physically ill, those too old to work, and women with maternal responsibilities.

The Department of the State holds judicial power, encourages trial by jury, and oversees all other bodies to determine that they are working justly, to serve the citizen and the Viktorist goal. It serves as the middle-man between the citizen and his government, manages voting in all Houses, and balances the government’s power to keep it democratic.

But simple government organs could not provide a design for an entire world society. When attempting to figure out a balanced system to grant voting equality to all citizens, Viktor came to a crossroads. Should it be based on the numbers of provinces, population, or wealth? Should certain ethnic groups get more of a percentage of the vote? William Viktor imagined three different Houses of Representatives.

To allow for ethnic equality, the House of Nations would consist of four delegates for each registered ethnicity, another four representing those without substantial numbers to become registered. The Department of Ethnic Welfare would be closely tied.

To allow for provincial equality, two delegates from each province would be sent to the House of Assembly, with no fixed number of delegates. Each province would be structured around an estimated 500,000, or around a metropolitan area of unlimited population. Inter-union commerce and provincial boundaries would be handled here, with a good degree of control of legislation, especially around business.

To allow for population equality, the House of Representation would consist of a body of a fixed 450 representatives, based on a demographic percentage of the provinces. It is here most of the power will be placed, and the Chairman of the House of Representation would proceed with the most powers, to dictate Union-wide executive powers and organization of the Departments.

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I was going to go further with the idea, but I wasn't confident in my ability to provide checks and balances. Not that this is supposed to be a benign ideology. Its key facets are:

- Democracy for everything except challenging the existing structure
- Government departments that every citizen can use as a third-party between powerful organizations (government itself, companies, churches, each other).
- Good amount of redistribution, inheritance is managed so each citizen works for his own needs, but doesn't begin with nothing, in an effort to create a large middle class. On a side note, no welfare, if you don't work you don't eat, unless maybe if your job is to make ethnically-desirable babies.
- Invade and claim for the Union any stateless territory (the definition of stateless can be determined by the Departments... for example, maybe a communist neighbour could be declared an anarchist zone, anarchy being the enemy of viktory).
- Buy any territory possible.
- Create a single ethnicity, while keeping others complacent in the meantime.
- When your political and ideological opinions can't be crammed into a Viktorist structure, eliminate it and censor it like crazy.

Probably more useful Before 1900, when large amounts of empty territory could be invaded. But, even if a Viktorist Union could be formed today, they would make gains in launching an invasion of Somalia or states undergoing a bad civil war. They give 'provinces' a lot of autonomy, but they still want it in their burgeoning World State. I would expect that, in a state of war, they would force into gulags/re-education camps all rebels, maybe even into concentration camps. Meanwhile, those who cooperated would be urged to move their families into other provinces, to strip them of their cultural identity. The invaded territory is filled with immigrants, who attempt to introduce investment and democracy to the locals. A few years down the road, the acceptance of so many provinces is declared completely, and they receive their own ethnic zone, fully democratized and willing to accept Union protocol.

As for the figure, William Viktor Navorsky, I had an idea for a story of a first generation Bulgarian-American coming up with this theory and it inspires President Wilson to build up some portions of post-WWI Europe as International Zones. Perhaps even in the wake of WWII, it could come into play with the Morgenthau Plan leading to the creation of a West German International Zone that becomes the leader of the International Unification Movement.

Hope you liked it!
 
Where did you read about that? Google doesn't have any reference to it.
How do they impose their will without a military? What if there's an invasion?

Maybe it could work on a very small population, in an isolated spot.
dude. the idea of this tread is to make an ideology that doesnt work.
 
Political Correctionalism.

Core Belief: The basic core belief of the ideology is that certain groups, by virtue of having been "victimized" in the past, have earned the right to expect retribution from Society for that victimization.

Foundational Basis: Society can be divided into three categories...the Victims, the Oppressors, and the Neutrals. The real power brokers are the Neutrals, who ally themselves with the Victims and keep the conflict between the Victims and the Oppressors going so as to reap maximum benefit from it.

Goal: The ultimate goal is the extinction of the "Oppressor" groups for the benefit of the Neutrals. The actual physical annihilation of the people within the Oppressor groups is not desired, as their economic value to the society is too great to permit it. But the group can be eliminated by forcing the people within it to migrate to other groups.

How it works: A combined campaign of cultural suppression, historical revisionism, media stereotyping, public ridicule, and so forth, is designed and carried out to force members of the targeted group to reject their own heritage and seek entry into an acceptable group. In most cases, an Oppressor who rejects his/her heritage will become a Neutral, thus benefiting that group, which is the goal of the exercise. Once an Oppressor group is eliminated, a new set of Victims is elevated to prominence and a new Oppressor group is targeted. The Victims, ultimately, are irrelevant, and may ultimately be targeted for later elimination as a new group of Victims is elevated to prominence.

Political Correctionalism can arise in any country. Indeed, it seems to work best in so-called "Democratic" countries, because the Neutrals generally have control of the media and educational institutions, and afford full access to these to the Victims while denying it to the Oppressors. Therefore, elections can be manipulated to bring about the most advantageous result.
 

NapoleonXIV

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Electioneering.

Essentially every four years you elect an absolute dictator. He/she can do anything they want, from keeping the old govt in place to completely remaking it, and, yes, this can include wiping out anyone they desire.

But at the end of 4 years a new dictator will be elected. The election is the most sacred institution in the govt. The Board of Election Supervisors is staffed entirely by life appointees whose only real job is to watch each other for any hint of corruption. They are outrageously well-paid but also labor under the certainty that the only death penalty in this govt is election fraud.

Voting is compulsory and absolutely secret. There is no campaigning nor candidates. Anyone can be elected and must serve for four years if they are.
 
Electioneering.

Essentially every four years you elect an absolute dictator. He/she can do anything they want, from keeping the old govt in place to completely remaking it, and, yes, this can include wiping out anyone they desire.

But at the end of 4 years a new dictator will be elected. The election is the most sacred institution in the govt. The Board of Election Supervisors is staffed entirely by life appointees whose only real job is to watch each other for any hint of corruption. They are outrageously well-paid but also labor under the certainty that the only death penalty in this govt is election fraud.

Voting is compulsory and absolutely secret. There is no campaigning nor candidates. Anyone can be elected and must serve for four years if they are.
And if the leader dies?
 
Military Imperial Democracy .

A society which develops alongs the lines of Rome ( Both Republic and Empire ) . As a safeguard against more civil wars , a certain genius who sieze the throne during a period of strife devises the system of Military Imperial Democracy , where the Imperial throne is elected by a mixture of currently serving soldiers , as well as former soldiers .

Election is normally for life , but the Conclave ( a representative body elected by soldiers themselves , and each term last for 5 years . ) has the right to impeach the emperor if seventy percent of the Conclavernels proscribe the emperor .

It is essentially a Military Autocracy , where soldiers are the only ones with the right to chose their ruler , and representatives .
 
Federal Feodalism

It's an ideology I came up with some time ago, and it's based around an elective monarchy where the different duchies are governed by a noble elected by the other nobles in the duchy. The highest ruler is the king, who is in office until he dies. When he does, the dukes and all the country's other nobles vote for a new king. This works like the elector system in the U.S., the dukes have got much more power in the election than the ordinary nobles.
 
How about a futuristic ideology called Radical Environmentalism. It's basically just Environmentalism taken to the extreme or a combination of Environmentalism and Fascism. Its aim is to create a Utopian society where there is ecological harmony between man and nature. It values the environment over human life so people are shot in the name of the environment everyday and their corpses are used for either their Soylent Green food or fertilizer.

It comes to power in a post-Nuclear War/Global Warming caused apocalyptic world where everything is contaminated and resources are scarce. So everyone joins them for survival. Then they are forced to work in "plantations" where they just plant and plant.

They believe in the use of ideologically approved "New Technology" which is just Hydrogen/Solar/Hydro/Wind powered technology as opposed to "Old Technology" which is everything powered by Oil/Coal/Natural Gas. Since this is in the future, enough "New Technology exists to replace everything of the "Old Technology". So they can have the army of a totalitarian empire without going against their ideology because all of their tanks, warships, jets are Solar/Hydrogen powered.

And like the Bolsheviks, they have quotas. To avoid overpopulation which leads to overconsumption of their precious natural resources, each city is assigned a quota. The purpose of the quota is to limit to the population of a city so, if a city's population exceeds the quota, the excess number of people are killed. The average quota number for every city is 60,000.

They are led by the Radical Environmentalist Party whose extreme policies only started to make sense after the global ecocatastrophe.
 
Neo-Fuedal.

The duke lords over the Lord, the Lord over Vassal the vassal over knights, the knights over artisans/merchants, the merchants over peasants.

knights get cars(horses) and submachine guns. the nobility also get this stuff. the peasants work in factories and plantations. there are no kings. the artisans are managers in factories, and sell their crap to merchants.
 
Geism

Militant ecological movement. Speak to some greenies and the intolerance of opposing views is immediately apparent. I mean I am very sympathetic to the green movement but have been made to feel like I am the devil incarnate when I have put forward some (what I believe to be) practical reasons why some of their ideas would not work.

It seems to me that, in the UK at least, there is also for some greenies, an undercurrent of romantic nationalism. Maybe it's just that my chakra is misaligned....
 
Variant Fascism

How about a variant on the typical "the state is all powerful with no elections" system, where the Army is the government, that goes something like this:

Every single citizen is, in some manner, employed by the government. The Ministry of Production runs all of the factories, farms and mines, so that like in the USSR, the 'means of production' are owned by the state.

The purpose of the Ministry of Production is to ensure that the military has adaquet supplies and war machines - the military is given number one priority and everything else comes in at a distant second.

There are two classes of citizens - one runs everything, serves in the military and works in high government office. The other does not, and is oppressed, forced to work in factories, farms and mines. The percentage of the population that would be in either category varies depending on the era - in the modern era, a very small number of farmers could support the entire population, with a similarly smaller number of miners and even of factory workers.

People born into the lower class of citizen would be able to make their way into the higher class through competetive examination - each year, everyone who has turned twelve is given a test, something like the SAT, and the people who score in the top five percent become members of the upper class of citizens.

The children of the upper class are generally taken from their families at age six and sent to massive boarding schools where they are all taught and trained based on aptitude and interests. At age twelve, they are joined by the chosen members of the lower classes, who have recieved good education themselves.

Once they've been trained, they then choose a list of five areas they'd like to work in, and are then assigned. If their skills and abilities correspond with one of the areas they listed, then they go and work there. If not, then they are simply assigned.

In terms of government services, even the members of the lower classes recieve some benefits. Everyone recieves free medical attention, although the members of the higher class recieve a better class of care. Basic preventative measures are not only readily available, but mandatory.

Members of the lower social class are not payed as such - they are instead issued ration cards based on performance, which can be redeemed for goods and services. Ration cards exist for electricity, water and so on - you have to present an appropriate card each week or you will no longer recieve that service. This is a means of control - if you slack off then you are not issued the full complement of ration cards. In some cases, such as if a factory falls bellow acceptable production figures, then a stricter version of this rule is enforced - instead of the workers needing to perform well to recieve luxuries, they then must perform well to recieve the basic essentials. Unless their job requires it, members of the lower class are not allowed access to outside information or to travel.

Every member of the higher social class is either a member of the active duty military or a reservist, along the lines of a much stricter version of the Swiss system.

The basis of all of this is the philosophy of the nation - they are fully militarized and working towards a goal. That goal could either be to defend their nation against some threat, or to expand and conquer the world.
 
COMMUNITISM​

Communitism is a political movement that shares elements of anarchism , communism and extremist environmentalism .
Its goal is to create a state , or a government , where the central power is almost nonexistent , and where every person or community
is , as much as possible , self - sustaining and free . Another goal is the reintegration of the mankind in the nature , as much as possible .

The core of the communitist organization is the small community , that should be self - sustaining and independent .
Small communities are agriculture - based , and every resource produced should be divided between the citizens in equal parts .
All the community citizens govern only themselves , but the citizen should do anything as possible for the welfare of the community .
If the community is well , the citizen is well , and vice versa . The community should be , as much as possible , integrated in the nature .

The community citizens should be free to do anything they want , if they do not damage the community or other citizens .
The communitism thinks that the bigger part of the conditionings of the mankind are religion - based , especially if
extremism - based . But , communitism do not reject religion at all . It says that the only true religion or faith is the one that
comes , spontaneously , from the single individual , not dogmatic religions that other people makes you believe .

A communitist goal is to destigmatizing the things that previously the society or the religion stigmatized , being as free as possible . Communitism , so , tolerates or encourages naturism - nudism , homosexuality , drugs if naturally produced , like marijuana , and every behavior that not damages other people or the community . The individual should be totally free , and the community should tolerate the freedom of the individual , even if it do
things like doing drugs or going nude in public . This is anarchy .

The justice , in a communitist state or community , should be applied only if an individual has a behavior that damages the community or
other individuals . If an individual acts in a wrong way , the entire community can suffer of it , so the individual can be expelled from the community ,
if the bigger part of it votes for the expulsion or temporary expulsion .

Communitism do not reject technology , but encourages the technologic advancement if it do not damage the environment too much .
The technologic advancement , for communitism , should be compatible with the environment , and it is one of the few things
managed by the central government . As you can think , the central government is technocratic .​

GOVERNMENT​

Central Government

It manages the technologic advancement , the army and the foreign policy . It is technocratic and based on the merits of the individual .
Only the best citizens can join the Central Government , doing well for their Community . There are no parties , but individuals and citizens .
The individual should be free of thinking all the things it wants , not thinking what the party thinks . All the members have leadering turns .

Regional Government

It controls a certain amount of Communities , normally 100 - 150 . It controls that every community is self - sustaining and peaceful .
All the members (elected for the merits like the Central Government) have leadering turns .

Communities

The communities are normally small cities , areas of bigger cities or communities created by the Central or Regional government .
They are self - sustaining and with a communist self - government . There are no leaders , but the individual acts for the welfare
of the entire community . They are almost independent , but they recognize the Central and Regional governments .​

SOCIETY​

The people , in a communitist state , can be divided into 4 categories , with the same level of importance .
You can imagine them as democratic castes , and the individual can change the belonging caste .

Politicians

They manage the state , and they come from the Communities . They are elected for the personal merits and their working for the welfare
of the Community . But they do not earn money , because there is no money in a communitist state .

Administrators

They do things like coordinating the Communities work and keep them in peace .
Every citizen should be an Administrator , and they are , in turns , the citizens themselves .

Tech - Workers

They produce technology and make it operate .

Agro - Workers

They are the peasants , in the same number of the previous 2 classes . They are vital for a Community , and they are respected
as politicians , but they can damage the Community more , if they do not work .​

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I think of the Communitism as a more democratic and a bit utopic - anarchic variant of the Communism ,
and it could be surely work in countries like Russia (mainly Siberia) , China and in the Third World .

I can imagine a timeline where the USSR is Communitist , and it is named UCCR ( Union of the Confederated Communitist Republics) ,
and the USA ( or maybe the New York state and various claimed territories around the world , because the UN headquarter is in NY )
are Viktorian (Viktorian States of America or simply Viktorian State) . Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy follow the RCTFI Variant Fascism .
After World War II , we will have a Cold War between the Viktorians , with their utopia of a world government and a world ethnicity ,
destroying the entire human history (and the EU motto ) , and the Communitists , with their decentralized and anarchic variant of the
Communism . Maybe in the next MW game .​










 

Hapsburg

Banned
Well, these are more Future History ideologies than pre-1900 AH...
Particularly from my 1967+ TL [end shameless advert] :D

Social-Monarchy:
Combination of Social-Democratic economics, democratic-republican politics, and constitutional monarchy. In this ideology, the Sovereign is the defender of the people's liberty, holding the position of head-of-state, ruling the country on the behalf, and with the consent, of the people.
The important utility and infrastructure companies, national healthcare, and certain important businesses are nationalized and become state-owned.

Lunarianism:
Socialism combined with Lunar Nationalism, sometimes in the form of Social-Monarchism.
Normally, the state vilifies the "earthbound oppressor" in the same way classical Communism vilifies the "business owners", in class-conflict against the "Lunar settlers" and "Workers".

National-Humanism:
Nationalist ideology espousing Pan-Humanism and Republicanism, along with fierce Anti-alienist xenophobia. The core tenets are that of the unification of all humanity into a single state, ruled by an absolute Dictator, with a nationalized and state-controlled Neo-Mercantilist economic system. A democratically-elected parliament presided by the Dictator promulgates law.
The defining difference between National-Humanism and other totalitarian ideologies is that National-Humanism advocates total and full civil rights and human rights for all people, as a way to unify humanity in a culture of "one species, free and united".

Intergalacticism:
The practical opposite of National Humanism. It espouses the philosophy of the inherent worth in all sentient species, and the necessity for federalism and republican democracy. Socialism is the usual assumption for the economic part of the ideology, but Free Market systems are also employed, normally half-and-half with Socialism, to form a mixed economy.
In many ways, it is a futuristic and inter-Galactic form of Internationalism.
 
pharmocracy

The government requires all citizens to take addictive narcotics on a regular basis.

This is for two reasons, firstly as a means of control as people who disobey the system get withdrawl symptoms and secondly the drugs are preformance enhancers which improves efficency.
 
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