Three Goals of the People

Three Goals of the People 人々の三つの目標 Hitobito no mittsu no mokuhyō
The mon of The Three Goals.
Founder	Masaya Yamada (Gōgō) Eiji Shinpo (Hanjō) Yūko Nittono (Zentoku) Mitsuo Kuwahara (developer)
Founded	July 29, 1950 (1950-07-29) (Day that the 1950 National Act implemented)
Ideology	Conservatism Neoliberalism Hoterallian nationalism Traditionalist conservatism Shiro nationalism Economic progressivism Meritocracy Social democracy Souverainism Communitarianism Egalitarianism
Political position	Right-wing to Centre-right Big tent

The Three Goals of the People (Hoterallian: 人々の三つの目標, Hitobito no mittsu no mokuhyō; also translated as The Three Goals, People's Doctrine, or Trigoalism) is a political philosophy developed collectively by many Hoterallian as part of a philosophy to improve Hoterallia. The three principles are often translated into and summarized as Strength (Gōgō), Prosperity (Hanjō), and Virtue (Zentoku). This philosophy has been claimed as the cornerstone of Hoterallian policy as carried by the people; the goals are also on the National Seal of The Second Empire of Hoterallia and the national motto.

Origins

The real origin of The Three Goals isn't exactly known as the three goals were created collectively by three different people before being officially united and fully developed by Mitsuo Kuwahara, who then applied it to the 1950 National Act.

The ideology is said to be heavily influenced by the three founders' experiences during the shaping of post-modern and contemporary Hoterallia and contains elements of the Hoterallian nationalist, progressive and conservative movement.

The Goals

Gōgō or Strength of The People

A group of conscripts from Magateza receives a full-featured military parade just before the sortie

The Goal of Strength (剛強の目標, Gōgō no mokuhyō) is commonly rendered as "Strength", literally "Firmness" or "strength built the People". "Gōgō/Strength" clearly describes a nation that should be protected by the people, with the strength of every citizen. To achieve this, Viscount Keizō Kita, the founder of The Goal of Gōgō, believed that Hoterallia must develop an "Army that vows to protect the people, formed by the people...". To achieve this, he believed that Hoterallia must develop a "national consciousness" to unite the Hoterallian people in the face of foreign aggression.

Mitsuo Kuwahara later modified the goal to better fit the new military doctrine of Hoterallia after the Second Reunification War. In the 1950 National Act, he wrote that the Hoterallian National Armed Force, later The Hoterallia Self-Defense Forces, "...should be a military force that aims to upkeep peace and protect the Imperial Sovereignty."

General Viscount Keizō Kita

The original idea for the goal was from a speech that Keizō Kita made in front of The Army War College in 1890:

What's good for an army that has no reason to fight for? An army that has a leader with no clear intention? An army like that will surely lose only at the sight of the enemy! The Hoterallian spirits did not form you into heartless, brainless, gun-wielding soldiers, it formed you into warriors that are tasked to protect you, your family, and your home, the Imperial Land. Your tasks are to fight for the people because you are those people, you fight for yourselves, you fight for the defenseless, you fight in the name of the people of Hoterallia because that is your task...

His speech was later printed and distributed to the mass populace, which greatly boosted his popularity, and later helped him to become The Chief of the Imperial Hoterallian Army General Staff Office. Mitsuo Kuwahara, using the same speech, applied to the 1950 National Act by writing:

The purpose of the Hoterallian army is not to invade nor to expand the Empire territory, but to protect the Empire's sovereignty. As the army is made up of the people, their mission is to protect the people, not to protect the Imperial Land claims on foreign lands...

Hanjō or Prosperity of The People

Eiji Shinpo in 1889

The Goal of Prosperity (繁盛の目標, Hanjō no mokuhyō) is sometimes translated as "the People's welfare/livelihood," "Prosperity of The People" or "Meritocracy". The concept may be understood as social welfare and as a direct aim to achieve national prosperity from the contribution of the people. The idea was coined by industrialist and businessman Eiji Shinpo, a member of the Shinpo Clan, he is a prominent figure during the Industrialization of Hoterallia. Eiji thinks that Hoterallian should own the value they produce themselves and all natural resources, the commons, and urban locations should belong equally to all members of society. The land value tax in Hoterallia today is a legacy thereof. This idea was spawned from his biography, stating:

Starting out as a son of a carpenter and a farmer, I know what makes the Hoterallian economy and welfare so bad. The heavy taxes imposed on the poor and light taxes on the rich, the inequality of our social structures is what causes Hoterallia to walk backward on the world stage. My ambition of equality came as His Imperial Majesty Hojo announced the modernization of the homeland. I want to see a farmer establish his factory. I want to see a fisherman establish a brand of his own, without being held back by anything...

Several historians and theorists question whether Eiji Shinpo was left-wing or not due to his belief, but none was able to solve the mystery behind his idea. He later went on to found the Shinpo Industries Co., Ltd. and received the moniker of "The Father of The Hoterallian Industrial Revolution".

Carpentry workshop of the Magateza Prefectural Industrial School

Mitsuo Kuwahara used Eiji's biography to coined the Goal of Prosperity by dividing livelihood into four areas: clothing, food, housing, and mobility; if a Hoterallian can achieve the four areas then they are considered to be "Prosperous". He also planned out how an ideal government can take care of these for its people, but he wasn't able to explain the idea fully. In the end, he only elaborated the Goal of Prosperity of both the importance of social well-being and recreational activities for a modernized and reconstructed Hoterallia. In the 1950 National Act, he wrote:

Prosperity is a very hard ambition to achieve, but with the ability of each and every Hoterallian, from every social class to all occupations, the Goal of Prosperity can be easily be achieved when all Hoterallian can be of use. Not only that, but the Hoterallian government could also support achieving the goal, just by giving an infinitely just, reasonable, and equitably distributed tax, and on it, we will find our new system.

Zentoku or Virtue of The People

Yūko Nittono in 1901

The Goal of Virtue (善徳の目標, Zentoku no mokuhyō) is usually translated as "Good Virtue"; some other meanings includes "righteousness", "morality" or "integrity"; "literally "the People's right" or "People's Virtue". It represented a proper and fair constitutional government, dividing the political life for Hoterallia into two sets of "right": the right in politics and the right in governance. But some sources found that there is a third set of "right", the right in society.

Yūko Nittono was a writer, poet, novelist, and a democratic activist in Hoterallia, she was the original inspiration for the goal, with one of her works explaining the first and clearest understanding of the two sets of "right". In her work, "The State of Hoterallian Society", where she criticized the Hoterallian social system still lingering feudal system and corruption, she wrote:

...Broken and corrupted, all of them! With every new governor and mayor taking their place, hundreds and thousands more has their votes wasted. Where are our rights? The rights to be in politics fairly? The rights to govern by the people who chose us? We are born with those rights, who are they to take them away from us?

"The State of Hoterallian Society" later inspired Mitsuo Kuwahara to come up with the two sets of rights.

The right in politics (政治権利, Seiji kenri) are the powers of the people to express their political wishes, similar to those vested in the citizenry or the parliaments in other countries, and is represented by the National Diet. There are four of these powers: election (選挙), recall (想起), initiative (先手), and referendum (国民投票). These may be equated to "civil rights". The right also ensures that all political activities are fair and properly managed, with no corruption and fraud to prevent the right given to the people.

The right in governance (管理権利, Kanri kenri) are the powers of administration. Mitsuo believed that the people are capable of entering politics and leading others because the best governance is the one elected by the people, of the people, and for the people. Mitsuo also incorporated the Hoterallian characteristics into the right, fusing traditional values and ingenuity with progressive and democratic ideas to create a righteous government.

The most forgotten right in the Goal of Virtue is the right in society (社会権利, Shakai kenri); they are the power to be a part of society, no matter what kind of occupation or the origin of the person, they have the right to have a stance in Hoterallian society. Outside of that, the right also helps the people to aim for the highest contribution in society as possible, to achieve "National Virtue". "National Virtue" is a term coined by Yūko in one of her last few works "Somewhere On This Imperial Land", in which she expressed that all Hoterallian should contribute everything they can do to improve society and everything around them, as to be able to call them "have virtue".

Canon

Mitsuo Kuwahara in 1961

The most definite (canonical) exposition of these goals was the 1950 National Act, with Mitsuo Kuwahara being one of the co-writers. Mitsuo Kuwahara has long been moderate in Hoterallian politics, aiming to somehow adapt progressivist and pacifist ideas into the Hoterallian constitution after the Second Reunification War. He was lucky enough to be a part of the team which would craft both the 1950 National Act and the new constitution for Hoterallia. He was an avid reader and historian, so armed with his knowledge, he draft the 1950 National Act with The Three Goals that he reorganized himself to fit with the post-modern Hoterallian situation.

The Three Goals is considered to be a success as it perfectly merged into Hoterallian culture and traditions with its long history of unstable political stances, the Empire now had a base for political factions to build on. Many modern Hoterallian political factions are built on The Three Goals as structures. Not only in politics, economic and social structures were also merged with The Three Goals, as the people see them as goals in life that all Hoterallian should aim to achieve.