Gekezikism

Gekezikism is a series of political, social, and economic theories and philosophies that define the ideology focused on the concepts of Self-determinism, the deterioration of, , and the communal ownership of the. The ultimate path to this goal is largely debated among political theorists and philosophers but typically comprises a heavy centralization of economic systems that unify a federalized state of varying degrees of self-deterministic capabilities. While this is fundamentally agreed, most other sections of Gekezikism; systems of leadership, workplace management, and vs individualism, to name a few, are all heavily debated factors.

While some theories in Gekezikism arise from prior concepts of liberty, independence, and freedom that became widespread in popularity the centuries before, the bulk of the modern theorem originate from Kimaka and Zebe Gekezik, who popularized many modern  political ideas such as the public seizure of the means of production and the dissolution of social classes. Most Deep Blue politics borrow from these numerous early theories of Gekezikism and since it’s inception in the mid 1800’s, is considered a progenitor to some theories propagated in Revivalism, Noyonism, and other radical Blue ideologies. Although not a globally well known ideology in the modern day, overshadowed by its contemporaries, it remains a popular following in Osamia and neighbouring regions.

Salian-occupied Gemurtrak
For almost two centuries, from the late 1600's to 1846, the former kingdom of Gemurtrak was placed under colonial rulership of Salia who took advantage of the important trade route of the Ornyekna strait as well as the natural resources abundant to the Osamian continent. Industries were developed around this exploitation and transport of goods towards Alutra. The complexity of these lines of production only grew with the increased demand for such resources. regions across the colony managed different goods based on their ease of accessibility and proximity to pathways for easier transport to ports, developing coastal regions extensively. This seperation of work effort into regions across the colony allowed for an improved capacity to manage changes that affected the product in question, allowing the sole region to change plans in order to maintain the necessary quotas. This initial theory of seperating resource harvesting and production into development regions would be picked up by scholars and economic analyists situated in the Gemurtrak colony, identifying the benefits and drawbacks of such a form of practice. By the 1800's, with the inclusion of philosophies around the liberty and self-determinism of state, the concept of generating smaller states within a federation that base their economy in a specific sector that then synthesises with neighbouring states began to arise. The most prominant of writers at this time relating to these theories was Zebe Gekezik, who wrote discussing this theory in a 1827 paper about it.

Post colonialism
With the liberation of the majority of Gemurtrak following the conclusion of the Fury war in 1846, discussions concerning the future direction of the nation were commonplace with questions surrounding the legitimacy of maintaining a monarchy as compared to a republic, or deeper societal questions such as what it meant to be Gemurtrakian or in a greater perspective, as an Osamian. Some saw the freedom of Gemurtrak as the beginning stages of a liberated Osamia, and Pan-Osamianism grew from the victory of the 1846 war. Zebe Gekezik, now married to one Kimaka Kezuga, worked in tandem with one another in a series of published books relating to issues that plagued Gemurtrak and the wider Osamian community. Although published under Zebe's name, it was later noted that Kimaka wrote many of the chapters in the series. The series presents the first definitive collection of philosophies and theories of Gekezikism, discussing matters such as the lack of necessity for the noble class and subsequently the monarchy itself, the demand for public determinism of state through universal sufferage, and the call for the collectivized ownership of the means of production.

Economic and material state
According to Gekezikism, the standard function of society has existed in two seperate formats or states since the inception of concepts like trade and bartering. These formats are the Material and Economic state. These states formed upon the creation of the barter economy, the implanting of value to an object or concept (such as that of manpower and time) that which has no static representation or reason of value beyond self created value. The material state are these definite objects or concepts that can be percieved and recongizned for a value, whereas the economic state is the vague non-static value placed onto the material state. An hour and a bowl of food is defined and are thus material. If a person was to exchange an hour of their time for a bowl of food, the exchange of these two material concepts has defined a value between them. That which is imperceivable and undefinable but which still exists because of it's occurance. Value is not perceivable but is only implied. With the further development of society and the transition from a barter economy to fiat money, the perception of the economic state became more defined but which remained independent from the material world due to self imposed value placed onto items that pegged the value of money (such as gold and silver). Alongside this evolution of the economic state, the control of the state of the economy began to depart from the hands of the everyman and into the control of people in positions of power, who were able to determine the value of something themselves as compared to value being defined by each individual differently based on the exchange that had occured.

The placing of value onto objects is a natural concept that Gekezikism identifies as inescapable for all societies, even those who call for the removal of central banking institutions and currency. Bartering still creates value but devolves it back to the general public allowing for greater self determinism of ones goods and what they produce. Zebe Gekezik provided a middle approach to these ideas, where a central institution would have a pegged value of finance while still having the system devolved to the general public. A central government, classified as the economic power of the hypothetical federation, would create and administer two forms of central currency. One would be pegged to a value defined by the central government and would be used for essential goods and services necessary for the function of a state and it's civilians (bare necessity foods such as bread and milk and financial payments to the state such as taxes). A second currency would be available and be defined by each individual republic within the federation, giving different value to the secondary currency. What value it would be pegged to was to be voted either by referendum or by the acting government in the republic.

Macro and Micro-Nationalism
The Gekezikist model of the structure of the state called for the division between the national economic bloc and the subnational division of power into republics. Traditional Gekezikism defined the distinction of a republic to come from ethnic identification first, and economic or power division second, seeing the division of the state on ethnic lines as one of the most important parts of the federal model. A republic comprised by extreme majority (~90+%) of a single ethnic group was regarded, in theory, as being able to produce an administive system that best suited the people in the region both culturally and functionally. This format of the two states, one purely economic and the second of ethnic origin, supported the creation of a dual nationalistic identity, one where people would support both the republic they ethnically identify with, and the larger republic in which supports both their wellbeing as well as neighbouring republics wellbeing. This distinctive system was designed, as later writers would note, for the pure basis of use within the Osamian continent, noting that Gekezikism was "as much a theory of the new economic state, as it was one of continental unification", [Writer] would state. Division between ethnic groups was only a popular theory within Osamian circles, as the goal of continental unification grew more in popularity across the 19th and 20th century. Gekezikist circles outside of Osamia typically ommited the focus of a federal model favoring ethnic division, especially by those in countries with a singular dominant ethnic group, instead to favor the division by the matter of equalizing socioeconomic differences to ensure all republics possess the same resources and opportunities to develop their individual republics within the framework of the greater economic state.

As the results of the Osamian Federation revealed, the traditional model presented multiple negative effects compared to it's foreign alternative. Many republics within the federation held loyalty exclusively towards their own republic and generally failed to recognize the federation as a force of liberation and unity between the republics in the unification of the Osamian continent. Alongside this was the failure of appropriate division of resources and a heightening of between republics due to some republics being placed into a disadvantagous position due to an ethnic group of a seperate republic occupying a region of economic importance of the formerly independant nation. The division of ethnicity over economic opportunities also caused some republics to be grossly underfinanced and lacking economic power when compared to other members of the federation. This allowed some republics to bully these smaller and economically weaker republics into supporting their policies, even if such policies place the weaker nation at a disadvantage. This would also cause members of economically weaker republics to move to wealthier republics, This caused the weaker republics to weaken further and generate dead republics. This model was quickly abandoned by the Osamian Federation in 1918 to favor the foreign model which the federation followed until it's dissolution.