Zvestarid Standardisation

The **Zvestarid Standardisation** (Zvestarid, Bujanski: **Pravjomije Zvestariskij**), simply known as **the Standardisation** (**Pravjomije**), was a campaign to use a series of common measurements and methods in much of daily life. The rapid success of this programme led to many other nations across Jerde implementing it everywhere, leading to a worldwide modernisation.

It was largely inspired by the Zolluchije Campaign, a nationwide programme in the Kingdom of Rukania to use a digital system to aid its subjects. In fact, Rukanian scientists were invited from a community at northern Paramosir to aid in various technological projects all over the region, so they also instructed the Zvestarids to harness the alien wreckage they uncovered from the far northern wastes.

Ultimately, the Paramosirians' mixture of alien and Green Years technology to defend their realm from an invasion inspired many countries to use similar machinery, leading to the Zolluchije and the Standardisation! The other bastions of technology (Porashon, Umbirab, Yawanda, and Rukania), who used Green Years machinery, were invited by the Paramosirians to learn to use similar alien tech for being more advanced than their own.

## Methods

* A series of measurements
* The usage of the Common alphabet - later, the Zvestarids instead switched to their native Slavic alphabet.
* The "Common calendar", where the year began on the first day of April.
* Widespread use of advanced technology
* Replacing many Sarmelonid loanwords with native Slavic words, usually from archaic languages.
	+ Likewise, the form of Eosome during that time, Old Eosome, was formed when archaic words were put together to replace Sarmelonid and foreign loans, to follow the Standardisation. Those same words, along with others from the Sixteenth Age, were used after independence from Wannaenid rule.
* The widespread use of Bujanski as a common language across the world.
	+ Outside Bujan, "Bujanski" is still known as "Zvestarid", its old name used before the Wannaenid conquest. Bujan writes its own Slavic language using its archaic Slavic alphabet, but the rest of the world continues to write in Common letters.

## Trivia

* "Pravjomije", the native Bujanski name for the Standardisation, is made of "pravij" (right) and "um" (mind). It can literally mean both "mindfulness", "right thinking", and "concentration".
	+ It was based on "pravoslavije" (православие), the Russian word for "orthodoxy" (correct teachings).
* Because the Zvestarid Standardisation was ultimately influenced by the Zolluchije Campaign from Rukania, Zvestarids all over their country began singing the Royal Anthem of Rukania in their language. It was also done in mockery of the Zavtranians' defeat by turning to the arch-enemies of Darros; so other countries mistakenly stereotype Zvestarids (or Bujanski) as "Rukanised Darroskei"!
* The existence of Rukanians on the island nation of Paramosir (based on the Ainus of Hokkaido) was based on the ethnic Ukrainians who live at the Kuril Islands.
	+ However, to subvert a "white saviour" trope, the author decided that the Paramosirians would be among the predecessors of the Standardisation, largely due to their usage of alien technology inspiring other countries to do the same.

## See also

* Zvestarid language
* Bujanski glossary
* Bujanski people