Jamhediboga

The term jamhediboga is a term from Ziba which was used primarily to describe, motivate and justify the Aguda Empire, though it has also been applied in other contexts, such as in evaluating the Republic of Dezevau. The word is a compound of two parts, jamhedi, roughly meaning righteous, moral or holy, and boga, roughly meaning state, polity or government; the exact translation and definition of the term are controversial. Broadly speaking, the premise of the Aguda Empire was that its conquests, hegemony and legality were legitimate, because they were highly morally beneficial, at least from the point of view of Badi. In this worldview, the Aguda Empire was a jamhediboga so long as it strove for and achieved righteous acts such as promoting public welfare, research and cultural exchange, and therefore its dominion had no natural territorial limits: a remit to promote all which is ethical is effectively unconstrained territorially or politically. This conception of the Aguda Empire was highly influential some time after its founding, and continued to be a guiding part of the empire's self-conception until its dissolution through Gaullican colonisation.