Easwegianism

Easwegianism (Easwegian: Elëcskachern; Norwegian: Jarnskisme), directly translated as homelandism and translated in the Easwegian Constitution as sovereigntism, is the founding ideology of the Common Union of Easway. Easwegianism, as implemented by Emizerri, is defined by sweeping social and cultural development designed to uproot Easway from its Norwegian occupied predecessor and form a new state, embracing a modernised and socially active lifestyle, including the establishment of a directorial multi-tiered government, co-operative economics, secular democracy, and state support of healthcare and the sciences, with a publicly owned economy and democratised local education.

Easwegianism, literally meaning homelandism and commonly translated as self-determination, in the context of the Easwegian people, is the belief that their identity should be protected, encouraged and made sovereign, in order to protect the Easwegian way of life, including its culture, languages and the enrichment of their historical lands. The Easwegian people are multi-ethnic and Easwegianism bases its self-determination by the people who live, use and contribute to the common land. Easwegianism was adopted as the official ideology of the Cyber Council, established in 2015, as well as of the Easwegian Revolution.

Easwegianism, as a constitutionally enshrined philosophy first began to take shape and be further defined during the creation of the 2019 and 2020 Constitution of Easway, after the Ouroboros' Serpents Party, led by the Chief Curator Emizerri and President Aleksou Maximus Desourrë, discussed the end of the Provisional government which had been set up since independence in December 2017. Desourrë suggested to establish a more local business orientated society. Emizerri, impressed by the Directorate which had been set up in 2019 wished for a board of directors to manage main government decisions which prioritised workers rights and the collective welfare of all Easwegian citizens, whilst a state Council would handle constitutional cultural matters and personal criminal law. This system was designed to minimise the individual power given to one politician.

## Overview of Philosophy

Easwegianism is socially pragmatic, egalitarian, and gradualist. It believes in a co-operative and a regulated market economy where the main economic resources are employed to maximise the wealth of the nation as a whole. A regional Directorate elected by the suffraged people shall ensure the polities resources are not negatively exploited, the community is being listened to with public works projects, education through committees involves parents, and worker disputes are settled.

Easwegianists are against reactionist movements as part of the gradualist philosophy. The Emizerri believes that the path to progress is eliminating what did harm in the past and moving towards ideas which change society for the better and dealing with what is in the now instead of using the past to selectively and emotionally change the present. Easwegianists subscribe to pragmatic progress where change is only made where it is proven to be beneficial instead of "progress for the sake of progress or returning to tradition for the sake of tradition."

### Emissary Leadership

Easwegianism employs a type of servant leadership the Easwegians call Emissary leadership whereby the main function of those elected into a leadership role should be to act as an ambassador to the best interests of an organisation and to serve the people. At all forms of organisation including political and non political, Easwegianists believe any principle leader should act in a way which does not hand down rulings but works in an objective and selfless manner to organise functions and maintain the morale and structure of an organisation or polity. Emissary leadership is where the Emizerri received his nickname from.

## Seven Masts

Easwegianism follows the The Seven Masts Philosophy - created by the Emizerri and voted by the public to join the Constitution of Easway at the end of 2021, and is a philosophy designed to work within and help maintain a functioning democracy.

The Seven philosophies of the Seven Masts are; **S**overeigntism, **L**ocalism, **F**ederalism, **D**irectorialism, **H**umanitarianism, **S**ecularism, and **C**o-operatism.

The Seven Masts as part of the Easwegianism are designed to be the basis of a functioning society that are seen to be important to the welfare of a society and the liberty of the individual in a wide range of ideologies and situations, whilst being carefully picked to not impede on the choice of each political parties direction.

The themes of each sub-philosophy within the Seven Masts are:

* Sovereigntism - Independent democracy
* Localism - Social community wellfare and the economy
* Federalism - Internal constitutional governance
* Directorialism - Executive multi-partisan collegial based decision making
* Humanitarianism - Ethics
* Secularism - Seperation of Church and State
* Co-operatism - Internal rights of workers

## Economical Stances

Easwegianism; Elëcskachern; is closely linked to socialism; qellëcskachern; in their combined beliefs for the people to own their means and their common land. Easwegianism believes in the commons and a publicly owned and gradualist society, ran through co-operatives and councils. In this regard, Easwegianism is most commonly linked with co-operative socialism.

Easwegianists believe in the ultimate goal of a classless society.

## Social Stances

### LGBT

Easwegianism is pro-LGBT. It believes that same sex marriage is a human right. Easwegianists see civil unions as a completely unsatisfactory substitute for marriage. Whilst generally anti authoritarian, Easwegianists are unapologetically pro LGBT rights concerning marriage and believe local institutions should blacklist the recognition of marriages from Churches who refuse to marry same sex couples. The Emizerri often justifies this by saying "despite misinterpreted views of God's will, if they truly believe it is sinful to marry a same sex couple, then God would theoretically perceive this as the mandated act of the state apparatus, not the Church." The Emizerri said this in a speech asking of his secular views and stated he viewed the same logic applies for the Realm's prohibition of male circumcision until the age of majority (something sometimes practiced by some religions as a custom), something Easwegianists view as permanent mutilation and "culturally grandfathered-in normalised child abuse."

### Family values

Easwegianism encourages both marriage and heavily encourages bringing up a child in a stable relationship where both parents are together in the same household. It views a stable upbringing with two role model parents as key to a socially stable society and a healthy child to adult. To this extent Easwegianism heavily supports welfare which helps couples raise a child. Easwegianism thus believes that means should be available to support couples in raising a child, including informational and mental health welfare support.

## Political Psychology

Easwegianism and psychology often go hand in hand. Easwegianists view psychology as an important tool for understanding politics, the motives of politicians and the factor which a populace's psychology plays on the culture of a society, their lives, and their wants and needs. Thus the encouragement of understanding psychology plays an important role in Easwegianism's support of the sciences. Max Weber, Emile Durkheim and Carl Jung are upon some of the influences for Easwegianist political psychology.

History

The Realm of Easway gained independence through the leadership of the Emizerri as the first Grand Marshal and Aleksou Maximus Desourrë as the first Commissar of Easway on December 14th 2017 using the independence Party, the Ouroboros' Serpents of Easway as their vehicle, and the Emizerri was appointed by a National Committee as the first Emperor of the new Easwegian Realm on the 19th. A provisional government was formed with jurisdiction for what was called the Mainland of Easway on Bear Island - The mainland (Elëcska in Easwegian) referring in this context to the land which was controlled in the realm. In Easwegian, the name for Easway Ezerrye, which was coined by the Emizerri contains the word Realm "rye", but this was omitted in the original English translation. The Emizerri as Chief Curator set up the Chief Curacy and appointed Maximus as the second Grand Marshal. From the Mainland Committee which was originally a body set up to elect a head of state formed People's Committees, which handled government affairs within the different regions of Easway, which were yet to all be officially chartered. Different factions vied for control of the Chief Curator's ear, and he tried to find the best route to take Easway in both government and economics. Limited nationalist directions were taken as well as Marxist due to the guidance of the People's Committees but none seemed right or fitting for the specific environment of Bear Island. The Chief now focusing more and more on state and foreign matters including trying to create a good image for the Realm wished for more constitutional guidelines within the mostly adhoc provisional government up to that point as well as an official head of government to handle Interior matters and receive advise from the Peoples' Committees, and so appointed Maximus as President of Easway on the 12th of June 2018 after preparations lasting into the morning. The same day, the iconic flag of Easway was designed by Maximus with the pillars added by the Emizerri. Maximus, as well as having the Grand Marshal position merge with the President, officially took part of the Ouroboros' Serpents of Easway party. Whilst Maximus was loyal to the Emizerri, he did not like the Peoples' Committees as a staunch anti-communist which the Peoples' Committees in many townships had began to form around, Whilst the Emizerri was out of the country a year after Maximus became President, he brought the Committees into line and created a new government policy that was a mix of nationalism and social democracy.

It was during this period, the first signs of Easwegianism formed. Dual power. The Peoples' Committees were de facto merged within a new official governmental organisation, the National Directorate on August 10th 2019, which was separately controlled from the Presidency, instead under the authority of the Chancellery; the Chief Curator. Lord Csyeigo served as the inaugural Director of the National Directorate, controlling the Easwegian Committee for Language and Culture. It was Csyeigo's effective and hardworking ethic which led to him not only becoming the third Founder of Easway but also gave the Emizerri the confidence to proceed with in the future creating more Directorates of a group of leaders all working with specialised Committees for an effective government. The Emizerri realised that a directorial style government was needed and the Emizerri realised that the office of the Presidency was un-Easwegian and had shown to be prone to authoritarianism. The Emizerri realised a referendum to break up the office of the President into multiple positions was required. The Emizerri decided to embrace Mutualism. On the 14th of January 2020 to the 25th of May 2020, Easway briefly became anarchist. Instead of the Governors serving within the High Council of Justice's Presidential branch under the President, they became the chief administrators of what was then referred to as the High Government who were the chairmen of their municipalities and worked with the Directors of their municipalities and the people living within in quite autonomous commune units. The Chief Curator became a highly ceremonial role and took a back seat, only controlling the national guard and state security matters. This was seen as unsatisfactory because the highly autonomous regions of Easway could not properly organise to get national projects completed and many still wished to look to Emizerri for guidance in forming this new government. The decision after careful deliberation was taken to separate the National Directorate completely from the other higher bodies of government by creating the federal Council of Easway as the collective heads of state on the 25th May 2020 with the municipal position of Marquis and the national position of Chief Councillor. The classification names have changed and the position of Alderman has been added, but this democratic organisation has been relatively stable since. The National Directorate on the advice of then Director Ankel was centralised from seperation by municipal level to island region level (now referred to as Commonwealth Directorates) in early 2021 so cross-co-ordination and effectiveness like the Council could be increased. This marked the end of true municipal federalism replacing it with regional federalism within a highly localised multi-tiered directorial government. These changes were very positively received.

The Seven Masts philosophy were discussed on the 7th August 2021 and agreed upon on the 7th August 2021 and modified on the 3rd January 2022 and form the basis for Easwegianism today.