Introduction to Politics

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This article deals with the politics in Keine Zeit universe and how we classify it.

Introduction
All articles about countries have a column dedicated to its political system and some of the articles may even have a dedicated paragraph about said system, should it be deemed interesting enough. And though Keine Zeit is mostly about language and writing systems, the political and ideological environment of a culture may influence both of these, not to mention that seriously pondering about various “what if’s” of political ideologies is in itself an interesting endeavor. Still, with more possible people joining this project, the chance of some articles turning into a soapbox of writers personal political believes remains to be strong and though I can’t outright ban it, I sure can minimize it with our own system of classification for various political ideologies.

To quote Karl Marx: “Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people”.

If religion is the opium of the people, then political ideologies are the opium for the irreligious. It provides the same heart, soul, and a sense of tribal purpose, but without a supernatural element attached to it, though even that is not always true either. This notion can most certainly be attested looking at the myriad of political ideologies that have sprung in the 19 and 20 century, and many a text of even the most militant atheist ideology such as Marxism-Leninism sound an awful lot like something written by a monk on a pilgrimage.

This is the cornerstone of Keine Zeit’s classification of political ideologies – they are to be classified in the same way we classify religions of this world. Instead of dividing them on a, frankly, arbitrary division of left-centre-right, it would be best to judge them based on their core ideals and wants. After all, a political ideology is first and foremost is a collection of ideas, whose job is to provide a blueprint for a certain social order.

LIER principle
Thus all the politics will be classified by the LIER principle: Land – Idea – Economics – Rule.


 * Land: describes the sort of relationship the government has with the land it owns – is it a unitary state? A federal? An Empire?
 * Idea: describes the ideas the government follows and pushes to the populace.
 * Economics: describes the economic system the government subscribes to. Usually this part is covered by the “Idea”, but on occasion the social and economic systems are different enough to be mentioned.
 * Rule: describes the way the government rules whether it is ruled by a single individual person, or via elected representatives, etc.

Thus in the article itself the end result will look like this:

Unitary (Land) democratic socialist (Idea) capitalist (Economy) absolute monarchy (Rule).

Each of these categories has its own article that will further divide the ideologies based on other arbitrary characteristics that are described there. These articles will list these categories alphabetically, with each category containing concepts or ideas that are related to each other. Note that this does not necessarily imply some hierarchical order or that one evolved out of the other. Instead, they are merely noting that the ideologies in question are practically, historically, and/or ideologically related to each other.

Lists:

 * List: Land
 * List: Idea
 * List: Economy
 * List: Ruler