Worldbuilders' Strike

The Worldbuilders' Strike, variably also called the Spin Strike or the Anarchy, was a mass labor strike across Zilatra in .
After a diplomatic agreement between the Sentaran and Zilatran governments where the Zilatran masses did not have involvement, and the whistleblowing of insults against Zilatran officials, namely Dr. Ovonia Ronango'O, workers across the country began to strike.
Documents and art used by the government were deleted, withdrawn, or privated by strikers en masse, economic activity completely halted across Zilatra, and protests broke out in three different communes. Ultimately, the Abusaja government conceded to the strikers. The Strike resulted in the creation of the Worldbuilders' Union.
It was one of the first successful labor strikes in Abexilan history; as well as the largest to date.
== Cause ==
During an early morning in the , a diplomatic meeting was held between the government of the Xeroist Republic of Zilatra and the Dominion of Sentara. During this meeting, the final terms of a charter to create a Confederation were discussed, as well as deciding on a name and flag for it. The delegates voted in favor of a flag proposition, and the name of the Umatran Socialist Republics. 
Also, allegedly during this meeting according to eyewitnesses, a Sentaran delegate had insulted Dr. Ovonia Ronango'O, a prominent Zilatran advisor and cultural researcher, by saying she had too much power and was an obstacle to unification. This was because over the prior weeks, she had consistantly disapproved proposals which prioritized Sentaran culture above Zilatran culture; including the very name Umatra, though she had no actual power or able to veto such decisions, and her criticisms at the time were largely ridiculed or ignored by Zilatran officials. The proposed name of this Confederation at the time derived from the name of the sea both nations border, however the two nations call the sea different things. the Zilatrans call it the Akus Sea (Maqali qe Akus), while the Sentarans call it the Umatran Sea. Ultimately, this discussion of Ronango'O continued to the extent that a Sentaran delegate proposed she be made to quit the server all together.
At this point, multiple whistleblowers informed Ronango'O of what happened in the meeting, at which point she spoke to General Secretary Abusaja si Baqiya to confirm if these details were true. Allegedly being initially rejected by Abusaja, he later confirmed the validity of these reports. Eventually, Abusaja told Ronango'O that she was not present for meetings, which Ronango'O considered a further insult considering her direct involvement in the talks for weeks, which is specifically what caused the Sentaran delegates to began insulting her.
=== The Strike ===
At this point, in order to prove that not only is she involved, but that Zilatra needs to honour its culture, nation, and worldbuilding, she closed all documents she had personally owned that were being used by the Zilatran government; all of which she had written the near entirety of. This included the Constitution, Party Line of the Xeroist Union Party, Procedural Code of the People's Courts, various historical population and economic data tracking, and the closing of multiple compiled dictionaries of languages native to Zilatra. She told the Zilatran government that if it is true she does nothing for the nation, and that worldbuilders don't contribute, that the government should be able to get along just fine without her and other's contributions.
It was at this point that she created a poster advertising a strike on all cultural institutions in Zilatra, and that historians, ethnographers, linguists, artists, architects, and more should all withdraw their artistic contributions from the country until the government agrees to settle three different grievances:
* The virtual complete lack of consideration for Zilatran culture during talks of forming a Confederation; with Zilatran names, symbols, etc. being discarded in favor of Sentaran ones. It was stated that they [Sentara] would "make" Zilatrans more sensible to their culture in order to make the Confederation more viable.
* Disrespect to the Worldbuilders of Zilatra as being obstacles to "Zilatran" interests while claiming that Worldbuilders are not doing enough for their nation, in addition to personal attacks.
* General lack of focus placed on the history, culture, and nation of Zilatra in order to make "metagaming gains" which alienate Zilatran culture in the process.
After this, almost immediately over twenty people gathered in the city of Hafumel where they engaged in active protest. Signs were placed up across the commune, and almost immediately the communes of Hafumel, Transaria, and Aephica announced they would be going into complete economic strike and they would be closing down all factories and farms. These were largely done under the work of Szal si Ahuden, Laina Rose Iletriosa, Mia Zikovika, and other Zilatran communal politicians entirely separately from Ronango'O. Journalists from both Zilatra and Sentara began to report on the ground what was happening. Artistic contributors to Zilatra began privating, deleting, or simply stop their work all together across the entire nation, refusing to contribute until the government met demands by the workers. The protest was also endorsed by numerous non-participants, even including former General Secretary Kuvala Serebra.
Because the Constitution and other documents were no longer easily accessible to the executive government or people in general, it effectively stopped the government from doing anything until someone who had access to it like Taliyah si Hala or Qadi si Gadus willingly gave it over. However, this would not happen. For just under 24 hours, Zilatra had no Constitution to refer to and because of the lack of Procedural Code, alleged crimes could not be enforced by the Zilatran Security Department. This incredibly effective, albeit controversial, form of strike is the reason why the protest is sometimes called the Anarchy.
After this, protesters from Hafumel marched to the capital of Gaszalasi, where they occupied the Kelitá chambers, spinning and chanting. Protesters would also occupy the National Theater Hall, where Abusaja si Baqiya and Note Kiriznia was inaugurated into office. Being instructed to go home, protesters would return to their home communes and place signs across the city advocating for the strike and closing their contributions to the government.
The next day, the protests were continuing and economic activity in Zilatra had virtually completely diminished with entire Commissariats going inactive as a consequence of the strike. At this point, the Abusaja government began to make talks with strikers. They made a public address saying they agreed that mistakes were made, that they would make concessions, and that there would be involvement from the masses in further negotiations, and that the current form of the charter would not be voted upon as its decisions were made without their involvement (A large part of this speech being given by Note). A small protest was held in Lasaji after this fact.
After this the newly formed Worldbuilders' Union held a vote on what to do with the Strike, at which point the majority voted to suspend it, but not fully uplift it. They would wait until physical action was made to do these things to technically uplift it, but with this, workers returned to their duties and the Strike de-facto ended.
== Result ==
As a consequence of the Strike, there was significant anger and upheaval from the Sentaran government. Officials such as Miril Gaboliver extensively blamed Ovonia Ronango'O alone for the strike, and claimed she was an oligarch trying to coup power from the government; despite the Strike having little to do with her alaone, her not being in office, her attesting she had no aspirations to be in power, at one point requesting the government to strip her of her advisory roles all together, and her having stated she would be fine with the agreed upon Charter in so long as the Zilatran masses actually got a say in the matter instead of having the agreement, and Sentaran culture by extension, imposed upon them without their consideration. This statement by Gaboliver was largely seen as unserious by both Sentarans and Zilatrans.
Multiple officials, including Gaboliver would resign. Ingo, the Military Commissar of Zilatra would also extensively be opposed to the Strike all together. Other officials like Yadal Krakhovich threatened to sue Ronango'O for her actions. Despite this, the overall attitude among ZIlatran workers was one of outright support for the strike, if not sympathy for it. It resulted in what was seen as a net benefit as Zilatrans would actually get to have a larger say in lore decisions that effect their nations and ethnicities instead of having foreign ones imposed on them just to be rubber-stamped.
The Worldbuilders' Union was created by seven initial signatories for further political advocacy of cultural and national interests of the Zilatran people, and for the advocacy of Xeroist workers' rights.
=== Significant Strikers ===
* Dr. Ovonia Ronango'O
* Art Inkman
* Szal si Ahuden
* Toku'aui Ronango'O
* Vlädihrb Skamović
* Bali Zheng
* Laina Rose Iletriosa
* Mia Zikovika
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