Inspired by @Born in the USSA
Is a pan-Asian antinationalist state that seeks to remove national distinction possible?
- a Hindu/Buddhist syncretic religion
- either a common Pali[1], Middle Chinese [2] or something else conlang
- universal monarchy drawing from the “Son of Heaven” and Cakravartin[3] symbolisn
[1] Source of liturgical terms in SE Asian languages, related to Sanskrit, ancestor of Bengali and has a CV(N) syllable structure suited for East Asian languages
[2] Source of loanwords in the Sinosphere
[3] “Wheel turning king” as a world-ruling and righteous figure
Given its different founding conditions and the fact that Meridian Societists only got involved after the fact, Celestial Societism* is very different from the main TL's Combine strain and draws and synthesizes elements from various tendencies within the broader movement. For one thing, the new Great and Bountiful Human Empire* doesn't use the Zonal schema, Novalatina, or even the Threefold Eye**.
Given the fact that Celestial Societism is able to adequately balance competing schools of Societism, the GBHE has a much easier time proselytizing than the Combine, able to appeal to the various strains of the global movement as well as traditional and Mentian factions among the nations for a variety of reasons.
- Although most of the first generation of the aristocratic class inherited their position, class mobility has been opened up and the system itself has become non-hereditary (outside of a purely ceremonial Emperor***).
- Rather than standardized tests, sorting in the system follows a decidedly Anarchosocietist direction, with a universal basic income paired with universal basic services to allow individuals to rise or fall on their own merits without the risk of crushing poverty.
- Although not democratic, there is a chamber drawn by sortition able to petition the government, with the vast web of ethnicities governed by a larger-scale pseudo-Danubian system, with the goal that it will be eventually phased out once the regime is sufficiently well-established and compulsory education and incentivized population transfers have done their work.
- A Garderista system of creches exists as a prominent pipeline to the civil service and self-defense forces, though it is primarily operated for the sake of orphans, foundlings, and true believers, though the children of rebels are a small portion of the total as well.
- The state religion is a syncretized strain that's Buddhist at its base, though it incorporates a pantheon hearkening back to the Old Eurasian one, suitably conflated with Hindu and Shinto deities.
*Working title
**Instead the GBHE uses Sanskrit for pragmatic and ideological reasons, since it's both a Hindu/Buddhist liturgical language and an incredibly old offshoot of PIE. The flag of the Empire is a similarly pragmatic black flag with a red swastika.
***Originally a relatively minor Chinese noble with Societist sympathies, imperial matchmaking is done by the Societist bureaucracy to allow buy-in from local elites and the deliberate blending of the royal bloodline. Rather than direct lineal descent that same bureaucracy likewise chooses the next Emperor/ess from the pool of the next generation of royal heirs, with the token input from the sortition chamber.
Is a pan-Asian antinationalist state that seeks to remove national distinction possible?
- a Hindu/Buddhist syncretic religion
- either a common Pali[1], Middle Chinese [2] or something else conlang
- universal monarchy drawing from the “Son of Heaven” and Cakravartin[3] symbolisn
[1] Source of liturgical terms in SE Asian languages, related to Sanskrit, ancestor of Bengali and has a CV(N) syllable structure suited for East Asian languages
[2] Source of loanwords in the Sinosphere
[3] “Wheel turning king” as a world-ruling and righteous figure
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