Tiandao
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Tiandao (Chinese: 天道; pinyin: Tiāndào, meaning "Heaven's Way") is the official ideology of The Empire of Amenria. The first ideas that would spawn it came to the mind of the first Heavenly Emperor of Amenria, Tianshi, around 2018, but is considered "founded" as a complete ideology in 2030 with his publishing of A Nation's Road to Enlightenment: the 56 Principles, the book that defines and outlines the thoughts around the ideology.
Tiandao was defined in the aforementioned book as an ideology that aims to establish and maintain a moral, just, prosperous, and advanced society under a leader who derives his/her authority from God's will. It has thus been characterized as an authoritarian centrist ideology with emphasis on religion, order, technological developments and technocracy and moderatism.
Etymology
The name Tiandao was chosen as it was created as a means for a leader to rule as the representative of God wherever they may be, and take both themselves and their subjects to "a blissful existence" in their current lives, and Heaven in their next.
Philosophy and components
Impermanence
Tiandao espouses that neither the State nor Tiandao itself is to be perpetually maintained in an ideal society. Instead, it serves to guide sentient beings to the inevitable point where society has progressed past the need for multiple states in one planet and where the average citizen has reached a level of spiritual enlightenment to be trusted with a chance at governance.
Balance
Tiandao considers extremes to be undesirable