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 limits: a remit to promote all which is ethical is effectively unconstrained territorially or politically.

The term predated the Aguda Empire, but it becamse most widely known and influential when it was adopted and propagandised by the empire some time after its founding. It continued to be a guiding part of the empire's self-conception until its decline and dissolution through Euclean (primarily Gaullican) colonisation. The term was used both during and after the empire to evaluate other regimes and their legitimacy, but because of its religious connotations and the decline of Badi in socialist Dezevau, it is not widely used contemporarily.