Scipianism

Scipianism is an indigenist cultural and political movement of the Ninvite and Karanite regions of central Scipia, a region also known as the Scipian core. Proponents of Scipianist thought posit that every ethnos native to the Scipian core is part of an ancient Scipian civilization that is distinct and separate from the Latin-dominated Periclean coast, the Pulaui-dominated Ozeros, and the Rezese-dominated southwest Scipia. Scipianism proposes that the Scipian civilizational identity should supersede ethnicity and religion, and that a unified Ur-Scipian community of nations should be established to promote this civilization and protect it from the foreign domination that has characterized the ancient and modern histories of the Scipian continent. Many strands of Scipianism exist, primarily drawing from the Karanite philosophy of "Acting Oneness" and the ideological fringes of the Charnean Nationalist movement that was itself influenced by Revolutionary Syndicalism and Invictist thought.

Core Concepts

Scipian Core

The Scipianist ideology seeks to promote the commonalities of the central Scipian nations it terms the "Scipian Core". Broadly, the peoples of the Scipian Core are possessing shared cultural influences from the ancient Deshritic civilization centered in the northern and central Adjer mountains of what is now mid-eastern Charnea with colonies spanning as far south as the Agala highlands and Magkato plateau in eastern Itayana. The Scipian Core also formed the imperial core of the Ihemodian state which occupied the whole of the Ninva desert as well as the Karana basin from 1375 to 1625 and deeply influenced the institutions and culture of its core regions. The Scipian Core is the main point of contention which defines the internal divisions of the Scipianist ideology. Specifically, there is division over which common aspects of the Core are emphasized which determines which peoples and entities align with the Scipianist ideals and which do not. Two main camps exist within Scipianism, one which places emphasis on the cultural and religious influences of Deshret and the ethnic ties between the central Scipian peoples, and another which emphasizes the shared historical experiences and institutions of the former Ihemodian imperial core and views the Scipianist ideology as a modern revival of the Ihemodian imperial culture, which itself integrated Deshritic influences. The latter camp is predominantly found in Charnean Scipianist circles, while the former is common all across central Scipia.

Unification

The main political objective of all Scipianist movements is the political unification of the Scipian Core. While some Scipianists envision a supranational entity promoting civilizational unity while preserving national and sub-national autonomy, the majority of Scipianist theorists and political figures advocate for the unification of the entire Scipian core into a single state. The proposed Scipianist state is most often termed the United Scipian Republic or USR, a term originating in the writings of the Scipianist theoretician and political philosopher Ehenu ag Takama Alemhok and later embraced by the Scipianists of Charnea and the Amayana Makgato Federation. There is little consensus in Scipianist circles on the proposed territorial boundaries of the USR. The image of the USR most prevalent in discussions of the topic is the infamous "Black Map", a maximalist interpretation of the Scipianist vision based on the historical borders of the medieval Ihemodian Ninvite state covering more than 65% of the Scipian continent. All but the most radical Scipianist organizations reject the claims of the Black Map in favor of a more conservative proposal that includes the territories of the Charnean Republic, the Amayana Makgato Federation, the Itayana Solar Autocracy, and a handful of miscellaneous territories inhabited by Ninvite ethnic groups such as the southern deserts of Talahara, Tyreseia and Khemetu. The most conservative outline of the hypothetical Scipianist state would cover 3,356,864 square kilometers across central and southern Scipia and host a population exceeding 100 million if it was established in the present day.

The proposed method of political unification of the Ur-Scipian peoples is a subject of much debate among Scipianists. Many of the foundational works of the movement focus on the necessity of the Ur-Scipian people to collaborate with one another to push off foreign influences, proposing that this anti-colonialist struggle against corrupting foreign influences would naturally create the conditions for a political unification of the Scipian core. Scipianism, however, would remain a relatively obscure movement for much of its history, and failed to inspire the uproar of national solidarity between Scipians that its early proponents had hoped for. In the 21st century, the majority of Scipianist political figures have fiercely debated the concept of a Unification brought about with military means. The Central Karana War of 2010, despite failing to bring about the unification of the Karana basin under one state, spurred a wave of militarism in the Scipianist camp. In particular, the post-war period has seen the emergence of the Scipianist Ultra-Ihemodian movement as a splinter faction of the nationalist camp in the fledgling Republic of Charnea. The Ultra-Ihemodian movement today is the most prominent advocate of the military unification of the Scipian core and the establishment of the proposed United Scipian Republic along the lines of the military regimes now present in both Charnea and the AMF.

Scipianism by country

Makgato Federation

Origins of Scipianism in the Itayana region can be traced to the Ninvite War and the governorate involvement through the Thundering Elephant Army. Within the Amayana Makgato Federation, the Scipianism played a background role until the Central Karana War. AMF failure shattered the hopes of an apolitical secular unification of the Itayana through military means but also provided an impetus for the Scipianist thought to enter mainstream, particularly after the adoption of 2012 Statute of Airashe.

AMF Scipianist thought is centered around the Institute for Scipian Studies in Airashe, composed partially of the officers of the Makgato Defense Force and partially of civilian intellectuals. It is known to have conducted several expeditions into the ancient Deshret and the hypothetical "Deshret Trail", a series of pathways and population centers linking Deshret to the Makgato plateau. Archaeological work on the Makgato plateau itself is also conducted; it was inferred that it was done with a quiet collaboration with the Solar Temple of Yanbango, providing an intellectual linkage between the divided parts of the Karana Basin.

Makgato Scipianism is centered around the concept of passionarity, an energetic theory postulating cyclical development of the ethnoses dependant on the stellar flashes and climatic events. Said theory is combined with the ethno-energetic interaction theory, a complex system of interactions between ethnoses on various stages of passionarity cycle, to form a historical picture of the Scipian Core. it asserts that the Scipian Core shifted several times in history. First "era" corresponds to the Kingdom of Wabale, a polity synthesizing Deshretic and Makgato cultures bound by the "Deshret Trail". After the severance of the "Trail", the passionarity center shifted downstream to Lower Karana, which "superiorized" the decaying Wabale into the First Unifying Realm. The Ihemodian invasion of Itayana "lateralized" the decaying First Realm into the state of energetic homeostasis, a position that was rectified through the establishment of the Second Unifying Realm with the Scipian Core becoming a combination of the Achra Region, Agala highlands and the Karana river basin. Said core then subjugated the entire Oceanic and Southern Scipia before disintegrating c.1700.

Politically, Makgato Scipianism is focusing on reviving the "passionarity" of the Scipian Core in its borders circa 1600 through establishing a military republic with mandatory military service for its citizenship. unlike the Solar Autocracy, the corporatist and syndicalist elements are less emphasized. Irreligious in nature, it is more focused on binding Charnea and Two Basins into a reincarnation of said iteration of Scipian Core. Its final foreign political goals are a matter of debate, with notable factions advocating the maximalist "Black Map" approach to the United Scipian Republic, militarily bound by the Scipian Core; its more moderate estimate includes the territories of Charnea, Karana basin, Imo basin and parts of the Oceanic Scipia south-west of Charnea bordering Itayana, as the ones most strongly influenced by the Second Realm.