Autocratism

Autocratism is a reactionary, ultraconservative, anti-democratic, anti-egalitarian and absolutist ideology that served as the final evolution of the Achysian tradtionalist movement. Its roots stretch back to the first reactionary politics during the Republican Wars of the late 18th century, but as an ideology it has its direct origins at the beginning of the 20th century, with the failure of constitutionalism in Achysia. Its core tenets are built around four distinct concepts, Faith, Fatherland, Emperor, and Theme, combining beliefs in the importance of religion for the state and the society as a whole, nationalism, absolutism and monarchism, and a desire for a complete return to the hierarchic society of old. Autocrats consider liberal democracy and the parliamentary system to be crimes against the divine mandate of monarchs, and refuse to believe in the concept of popular sovereignty. Autocratic philosophy believes that the people as a whole are unable to make decisions for the greater good. This is why the Gods sanction monarchs in order to lead and protect people, and all forms of democracy are unnatural and inevitably doomed to fail. At the same time, Autocratism rejects the beliefs that promote social change. The ideology inherently believes in the existence of inferior and superior people, which is exemplified through the existence of a strong social hierarchy, slavery, and a limited caste system, but at the same time it affirms that all beings have a predestined role and can be useful to the state - only believing in the forced removal of those who rebel against the natural order, refusing to accept it.

In its foreign policy, Autocratism similarly orders nations into a strict hierarchy that must be followed, and outright repudiates the hegemonic concept that nations have the prerogative to become stronger, instead declaring that nations are predestined to play a certain role, and that and that the rise and fall of empires happens as a response to the revolt of humans against the divine order, with the same nations always prevailing in the end. The Autocratic ideology also firmly believes in the eternal cyclic renewal, which can be applied in history and society alike.

As such, Autocratism disagrees with Hegemonism over several core issues and is instead more similar to the counter-revolutionary Achysian ideologies of the 19th century.

Faith, Fatherland, Emperor, Theme

• Faith : Autocratism believes that the Vayonist Faith lies at the core of the nation and has a crucial role in guiding the people, as such, the people must defend it against all threats. It believes that all things on Earth should be done according to the will of the Gods, and that all different views are a crime against divinity and the natural order of the world.
• Fatherland : Autocratism is firmly nationalistic, and it believes that a nation is an organic entity that binds all of its people through culture, language and faith, and it espouses the duty of the people to protect and uphold the nation, and their duty to return their nation to the glory of the past.
• Emperor : Autocratism rejects the concept of national soveregnity, instead believing that sovereignty is subsidiary to and derived from the person of the monarch, through the monarch's divine mandate to rule. The monarch's power should be absolute as intended by the Gods, only limited by the doctrine of the Faith and the Laws and Codes of the Realm. The monarch should act with the utmost interest of the people in mind, as the monarchy has the duty to protect and guide the people.
• Theme: Autocratism believes in a return to the state and social organization of old, in the restoration of a strictly hierarchic society with a limited system of castes, in the natural existence of slavery and in the replacement of all forms of self-rule through a centralized and bureaucratic administration guided by the monarch.