Rhydin Hegemony
The City State Rhydin | |
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| Motto: Ius ad Bellum Law towards War | |
| Anthem: Imperial Republic Anthem | |
| Capital | Nroteh[1] |
| Largest city | Taab Cay |
| Official languages | Rhy'din |
| Recognised national languages | Rhydinian |
| Recognised regional languages | English |
| Religion | Descartesism |
| Demonym(s) | Rhydinian |
| Government | Imperialist Republic |
• Empress | Tsa'ri Atra Zun |
• Emperor | Ka'Nuen Velven |
• Countess of the Daika Ward | Yanna Ke'la Velven |
• Admiral, Rhydin Imperial Republic Navy (RIRN) | De'Raz Vlos Elemmiire |
• General, Rhydin Imperial Republic Army (RIRA) | Garen Hallas Daist |
• Lord of Host, Overall Commander of the Rhydin Imperial Republic Aeroforce Services (RIRAS) | Kos Vlos Elghinn |
• Senior Council of the Finance Ministry | Nadja Vlos |
• Senior Minister of the Foreign Affairs Ministry | Anja Daskyana |
• Duke, Senior Noble of the Imperial Court | Telmachus Vlos Ri'Zun |
• Duchess, Senior Noble of the Imperial Court | Betra Vlos Ri'Zun |
• Baroness of the Imperial Court | Fanya Vlos Ri'Zun |
| Legislature | Imperial Royal Court |
| Imperial Republic Diet | |
| Wards of Assembly | |
• | 2007 |
| Population | |
• 2022 census | 89,733,589 |
| Currency | NSD[1] |
| Date format | AH |
Etymology
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The great houses that survive in the City State of Rhydin, are those that were either exiled or fled after the aftermath of the civil war that devastated their homeland, Machina Haruspex. The houses involved were formed during the wise and sage rule of Emperor Hark'an Ri'Zun, who at the end of the war was executed by usurper Siob Valk Xukuth and in turn thus created the Empire that is the Haruspex today.
The merging of two races into one also set a new course for the homeland, with such progression of genetic manipulation at the birthing stage and so on. These acts, debased the Empire as it was and led to a rift between those who wished to return to the ways of past and those who sought to create a new world order upon the bones of those that had come before.
The civil war was long, and bloody. It decimated areas about the land, and destroyed or sufficiently wrecked several ancient city-states. In the end, those who fought in the name of Hark'an, were defeated. Retreating across the seas to their new home of Rhydin, those loyal followers long plan the day of their return, and the defeat of those who led to the downfall of nobility and honour amongst the Haru peoples.
Though they wish to return home, as long as the Hegemony is controlled by those Houses who led to their downfall, they will keep Rhydin as the rebirth of the Haru people. They will keep the old ways alive, in these modern nights and offer a vision of what could have been before the dark times fell upon them.
Society & Culture
The Hegemony of Rhydin is defined as a Technopoly. As a society in which technology is deified, meaning “the culture seeks its authorization in technology, finds its satisfactions in technology, and takes its orders from technology”. It is characterized by a surplus of information generated by technology, which technological tools are in turn employed to cope with, in order to provide direction and purpose for society and individuals.
In a technocracy, rather than existing in harmony with a theocratic world-view, tools are central to the "thought-world" of the culture. Rhydinian believe that tools "attack culture…[and] bid to become culture", subordinating existing traditions, politics, and religions.
The thought process thus characterises a technocracy as compelled by the "impulse to invent",an ideology first advocated by Francis Bacon in the early 17th Century. He believed that human beings could acquire knowledge about the natural world and use it to "improve the lot of mankind", which led to the idea of invention for its own sake and the idea of progress.
Since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, the emerging technocracy has sought to dominate and control nature, a “right” that was chartered early on, but could only be fully carried out with the emergence of modern technology. The more able Rhydinians became to control nature, including their natural bodies, the more fearful they became of the aspects of nature they could not control. This led to the emergence of the Hegemony and it's technocracy based ideologies–a society organized around an ideology of technological progress.
Rhydin is defined as a "totalitarian technocracy", which demands the "submission of all forms of cultural life to the sovereignty of technique and technology". Echoing Ellul’s 1964 conceptualization of technology as autonomous, "self-determinative" independently of human action, and undirected in its growth, technology in a time of Technopoly actively eliminates all other ‘thought-worlds’. Thus, it reduces human life to finding meaning in machines and technique.
They emphasize "artistic creativity, intellectual culture, development of interpersonal relations, or religion as being the realms in which human freedom finds expression and in which human fulfilment is to be found". They adhere to an alternative worldview that values the "exercise of reason in the service of free will" and the ability of technological developments to "serve human ends".
Rhydinians are known to espouse the notions of "efficiency, precision, objectivity", and believe that the notions of myth, and religion must be eliminated for the common good and ascendancy of mankind to a further status of evolution.
This impetus to improve on nature through technology has as its ultimate aim to free the citizenry of Rhydin altogether from the limitations of nature. They seek freedom from the limitations of the earth through the development of space technology, from the limitations of our bodies through computers and robotics, from death through cryogenic freeze, from the limitations of natural reproduction through the New Reproductive Technologies, and from the limitations of birth through obstetric tools.
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