Yeyecoani

A yeyecoani is a scientist, engineer or a public figure with a STEM education who works in the Zacapine science-adjacent state organs, particularly the Secretariats of Science and Technology, Public Works and Energy. Politicians and other officials across multiple strata of the government and public life who gained notoriety or even direct career advancement through association with major engineering and infrastructure projects are also known as yeyecoaneh in lexicon of the Nahuatl speaking world. In Zacapican in particular, yeyecoaneh hold outsized political influence and status within society thanks to very close association of major engineering projects and technological accomplishments with national pride and shared identity, as well as the economic self-interest of Calpolli interest groups. Yeyecoani are synonymous with the Zacapine intelligentsia, within which formal training in engineering or the hard sciences claims greater prestige and public attention than those who are university-educated in cultural fields such as literary arts or the soft sciences such as psychology. The yeyecoani class are the creative counterpart to the Calpollist culture of industrial labor, generating the designs, schematics, plans and new technologies which are necessary to advance industrial manufacturing techniques and thereby protect the economic relevance of factory-calpolleh. The yeyecoaneh as a politically empowered strata of educated elites therefore contributes to the perpetuation of the calpollist socioeconomic system based on the industrial worker.

Etymology

The term yeyecoani means "one who experiments", from the verb yeyecoa which means to test or rehearse something, or simply to attempt something. The term in that form came to prominance in the Xolotecate era, which coincided with the rise of the yeyecoani class within Zacapine society as part of the transformation of Zacapican which was taking place during those years. It replaced older terms such as tetlamatilizmachtiani, which literally means a teacher of sciences but was used more broadly to mean any graduate holding an advanced degree, similar to the general term "doctor", as well as tlamahuizomactli ypan tlamatiliztli meaning "one educated in the sciences". Yeyecoani would also include other types of educated tradesmen associated with engineering projects, such as draftsmen and electricians. In the modern day, even trades such as plumbers, automotive repairmen, and others associated with more mundane and domestic work are known as yeyecoanitzin or "little yeyecoaneh", which although diminutive nevertheless confers a level of respect and status.

Yeyecoaneh in politics are sometimes called yeyetlatoani, a portmanteau of yeyecoani and the word for a traditional Nahua lord, tlatoani. However, this term usually only applies to politicians who specifically gain power because of a pre-existing career and status established by their work in a scientific field as a yeyecoani, and who in turn wield significant authority over the science and engineering establishment within the state.