Francoism

Adapted from the Cyber Nations wiki

Francoism was the founding philosophy of the New Pacific Order. It echoes several real-life works including The Communist Manifesto and Leviathan. Francoism is named after one of the founders of the New Pacific Order, Francos Spain.

It was the official philosophy of the New Pacific Order in several games, most prominently NationStates and Cyber Nations. On August 28, 2019, the New Pacific Order and all its existing branches ended Francoism's status as such, citing its longstanding irrelevance to the Order in all games in which it maintained a presence.

Francoism in NationStates

The New Pacific Order was founded by Francos Spain and a group of his allies on September 1, 2003, following the August Revolution. The term "Francoism" was first coined by Poskrebyshev on September 7, 2003 but was rarely used in the early days following the Revolution. While Francoism's theory was developed throughout this period, it wasn't codified until a year later, when Vladimir, Franco's successor as Emperor, published the essay Proper Francoist Thought.

While Francos Spain is not known to have used the term personally and never directly contributed any published works, Francoists hold that Francoism is a codification of his practices and the theory inherent within them.

The basis of Francoism in NationStates was the contended existence of two distinct classes: the Feederites, whose nations resided in the Feeder regions, and the Userites, whose nations resided in user-created regions. Francoism argued that the interests of these two classes were naturally opposed, as the Feederites sought to control their homeland and the Userites sought to exploit them for the resources they produced, which produced class antagonisms that inevitably resulted in open conflict between the two.

With this analysis of the material conditions, Francoism looked at the feeder regions and suggested that all (excluding the post-revolutionary Pacific) were controlled by Userite forces who, through exploitation, manipulation and occasionally outright military occupation gained and held power for their own benefit and to the detriment of the Feederite class.

It was due to this that Francoism posited that the self-interest of the Feederites lay in overthrowing the Userites in order to emancipate themselves and gain control over their own destinies. This is what the August Revolution achieved, with the New Pacific Order being termed the 'Dictatorship of the Feederites', as it sought to create a classless society and bring peace, strength and prosperity to the region.

Francoism in Cyber Nations

Since Francoism is an analysis of concrete material fact it changes as the material conditions change, and so it did when the New Pacific Order brought it to Cyber Nations. In order to convey this change Francoism has been described by theorists as "a material analysis in the historical context of Pacific." There are no classes in Cyber Nations as there were in NationStates, so Francoists have analyzed the state of nature here as a state of chaos, with the primary goal of alliances and organisations being to bring this chaos to order and thus allow their members to develop to their full potential freely. It is claimed by Francoists that while alliances have achieved this to varying degrees, it is only the historical roots of the New Pacific Order (namely the August Revolution and the class unity that it brought) that can completely remove conflict and truly free the individual.

Vladimir outlined this on the second anniversary of the Cyber Nations New Pacific Order when he published his work An Introduction to Francoism.