Server (Adanal)

In Adanal, Servers (Tasarhit: aqeddac, plural iqeddacen) are a broad and informal grouping of afsay organizations characterized by a founding initiative not immediately concerned with self-managing Delarueist production or confederation of smaller ifsayn, the main activities that distinguish other afsay communities; they have sometimes been called 'leisurely organizations' based on this. The term may also refer to those who prominently participate in these organizations, or the power structures formed by their activities (as individual servers, like all ifsayn, are frequently founded and disbanded).

Servers are also distinguished by a prominent role in exerting influence among other ifsayn. They may directly pressure ifsayn with demands, present recommendations supported by their own claimed expertise, or simply make communes adapt their own schedules to accommodate and provide for the activities they hold. Furthermore, contexts where a server is formally involved are treated with particular solemnity in Adanali politics, and server membership confers access to prestige and networks that compel cooperation with individual figures. As a result, servers are one of the main publicly known mechanisms for political coordination in Adanal besides confederation, which is often done with mediation by Servers anyway. Servers especially surpass the clout ordinary societies may enjoy when they manage to enforce compliance with a central agenda, not always set by the asdukkel.

Because of this power, servers are widely regarded to play a functionary role in an otherwise stateless Adanali society. However, it remains disputed if they amount to a rebranded vanguard party or crypto-party (replacing the role the Revolutionary League of Adanal played under the People's Republic of Adanal, with the abolition of both in the Second Adanali Revolution), multiple power centers in a polycratic crypto-partisan organization, or a decisive break with the party-state of Adanal's past. The relationship of Servers to the talemmast, Adanal's secretive and pseudonymous national leadership, is also unclear. A common allegation (both from anti-communist critics and in factional polemics within Adanal) is that servers are only permitted to organize and operate as fronts of the crypto-party, but it has also been argued that in an anarchic Adanal the leisurely activities of servers provide the exact contexts for communes to network and organize.

Types

There are several main categories of servers, which appear to correspond to deeper constituencies and factions in Adanali politics:

• Revolutionary leagues, mostly inherited from local chapters of the Revolutionary League of Adanal or student rebel organizations of the Second Adanali Revolution, are dedicated to the study and discussion of Delarueist philosophy, and their promotion in other contexts. They are the oldest and most numerous kind of Server, sustaining the prominence of Delarueist ideology among ifsayn but not exactly promoting uniformity. The inertial practice of ideological study sessions and discipline among rural communes gives league members the power to act as functionaries in those areas, while urban leagues interfere with communes as activists of fashionable ideological currents. However, leagues are also nowadays the least prestigious category among the servers, and from the 2010s, very few important public figures in Adanal have come from league backgrounds.
• Literature clubs discuss art, literature, and philosophy with less rigid or zealous adherence to Delarueist ideology. These groups exert their influences among other ifsayn much less directly, but hold substantial public influence via publications of literary and artistic critique that adumbrate the general direction of ideological developments, and affiliation with these clubs grants one access to considerable prestige and networks; they are colloquially known as 'taste-makers'. Club frequenters also appear to be the comparatively most religious of functionaries in Adanal.
• Cultural associations dedicated to promoting Esophite national culture, and other native heritages of north Hylasia, came into political prominence from the 1970s as part of 'Hylasianization' — the eradication of the Hyacinthean language from public use and its replacement by Esophic languages, and the wider promotion of interest in and study of Hylasian culture. Aggressive enforcement of compliance with their proposals made chapters of dilettante linguists and historians important powerbrokers in many urban communes where Calesian influence had been targeted for removal, and they became emblematic of the decentralization of power in Adanal after the Second Revolution. Some associations gained control over entire cities and localities to redevelop them for tourism.
• Sports associations coordinate to organize sports events between communes, and to assemble teams from them to compete in said events.
• Ecological associations operate to ensure sustainability in the activities of communal production, and play a prominent though antagonistic role in regulating industrial communes.
• Development boards operate effectively as think tanks but with the ability to gather and mobilize ifsayn for economic projects.
• Security commissions work with ifsayn to organize the military of Adanal.