Urbocentrism

Urbocentrism, also known as Mayzalonism from the Énqutsa name Mayzalónyín, is a light-blue political ideology that arose from the Énqusqan peninsula. The ideology is considered the oldest true-blue ideology in Vidina and was formed progressively by numerous poets, monarchs and political thinkers prior to Alutran colonisation. The core tenant of the ideology and from where it takes its name is the sovereignty and importance of the city within society, politics and the economy.

The modern ideology has expanded on this core concept to include ideas of federalism, direct democracy and self-determination. The ideology was famously studied by Ordrish Zoologist Acoul Noyon, whilst on expeditions to Ordrish Énqusqó. It is believed he was inspired by the Énqutsan urbocentrist philosophy when he came to describe his ideas about municipal federalisation and many modern urbocentrists view noyonism as a branch of urbocentrism.

Origins
The unique geography and political history of the peninsula are believed to have provided the necessary backdrop for the ideology to have taken root. Archaeological and historical evidence has shown that the peoples of the peninsula have lived in dense, localised communities since the 8th millennium BCE, with the first walled city appearing in the 3rd millennium BCE. It is speculated that the dense jungle covering much of the peninsula drove communities together where they could more effectively create and maintain clearings. During the millennium-long interregnal period, these cities became extremely wealthy and developed largely independently from each-other, with every political structure focused around the running of a single municipality.

Towards the end of the interregnum, some of the city-states had grown influential enough to govern over multiple cities which reach its peak with the unification of the kingdoms of Cílonyósqu and Tsétlaxó into the Second Kingdom. Some 40 settlements across the south west of the peninsula were now governed under a single state apparatus, an idea that hadn't existed on the peninsula in over a millennium. Growing tension in the kingdom lead to a series of governmental reforms to increase the autonomy of the cities. An inscription that can still be read in the palatial complex at Tsétlaxó declares that under the Second Kingdom, it was the cities and their peoples who were sovereign and that the monarch ruled at their behest. The adoption of an early urbocentrist ideology by Póo Mín Tsetli has lead to some scholars retroactively titling her as the Sapphire Queen.

The stability and expansion of the Second Kingdom fosytered and spread the ideology across the Kidal Sea. Within the borders of the kingdom the ideology became more entrenched in High Énqutsan culture. By the time of Alutran investment in the country, the cities had gained so much independence due to the eroded political hierarchy that many cities were able to sell themselves to Alutran nations without the monarch being able to intervene.