Mixmutz'al K'iwik

Mixmutz'al K'iwik is a traditional Mutulese political and economical philosophy that consider the role of a government is to allow for a Market economy to develop itself, enforce private property, and ensure the safe and free travel of both people and goods. Philosophers from this school also made the distinction between state regulations and state intervention. They tend to be supportive of the former, but are always opposed to the latter, considering it to be outside of the State's prerogative, which is to set the cadre for exchanges and control them, not create or enforce these flux.

Origin

The first recorded use of the expression "Mixmutz'al K'iwik" can be found in the Chab'uk K'in, a codex dating back to the Chaan Dynasty, between 200 and 110 BC. The codex, written by at least nine different hands over an unclear length of time, defended a politic based on strengthening the central state, incarnated by the K'uhul Ajaw, but also of a form of economic laissez-faire. To quote: "The Divine Lord chase the Brigands and handle justice. Under his watch no thief will go unpunished. Under his Hand, all will go free of fear. Without fear and with justice, there will be harmony. When there's harmony, there's prosperity. The Hand then no longer has to move, for it is the shielding sky over the Earth."

The text was greatly popular under the Chaan, and was copied many time, with scribes and priests adding their own commentaries alongside it, if not directly reworking the test. It was the philosophical aspect of the ongoing structuration of the so-called "Market System" and of the theoretical tripartite division of the Mutulese society between the trader-nobility, the priestly-scribes, and the commoner-producers.

Development

Chaan Dynasty

The first application of Chab'uk teachings came after the conquest of the Tzib'ahal lowlands between 208 and 199 BC. Rather than divide the region between loyal local leaders and officers who participated in the conquest, the K'uhul Ajaw decided to keep the region under its direct control, instead establishing a system of royal inspectors and local administrators without hereditary positions to control the region. This was made possible by the close proximity of the lowlands to Yux, the Dynasty's capital, and allowed the Divine Throne to experiment the first real "free trade area" of the Mutul. During the rest of the dynasty, the Divine Throne would instigate many reforms aiming at reducing the power of the Ajawob, replacing them with non-hereditary governors, and destroying internal barriers and non-royal taxes. After an entire century and an half of internal conflict and struggle between the capital and the peripheric Ajawils who were unwilling to give up their autonomy and privileges. Thus, the Chaan K'uhul Ajawob were able to fully implement the tripartite division of the Mutulese society and unify the "Market System".

K'uy Dynasty

Early on, the K'uy Dynasty promoted a very different system from the Chaan. While they were also a market economy, the Kuy K'uhul Ajawob had a more direct involvment in the internal and external trade of the Mutul. This was one of the many reasons behind the opposition between the Tatinak and the Mutulo-Tatinak aristocracies, the latter wishing a return to the old Market System and an end of the large government monopolies the K'uy had imposed.

Ilok'tab Dynasty

The K'iche adopted most of the late K'uy's institutions and their tendencies, including an heavy participation of their government in the economy, state monopoly over obsidian mining. However, by the time the Ilok'tab Dynasty came to power, old Chaan texts became popular once more and the Mixmutz'al K'iwik found once again new partisans and promoters. This did not stop the Divine Throne however to impose a state-control over Printing, creating the Royal Press, but this state monopoly was quickly loosened and finally abandoned by the end of that same century.

The development of the printing press allowed for another innovation: the Banknote and govenment bonds. This began a great financial boom that allowed private enterprises to send expedition to Ochran and the Vespanian Ocean. During the era of the Mutulese Ochran, the Mixmutz'al K'iwik philosophy was dominant among the long-distance traders and government officials, both in Ochran and Oxidentale.