Politics

Socialism came into inception in the year 1666 CE when Yirri Hawler, Antimenan economist and philosopher, published her paper 'On the Glories and Benefits of the Economic Models of the tribes of Bantuan' or more commonly referred to as 'The Glories'. In 1660, she received funding from the Viscory Economic Institute to study the various economies of Hatag and as such set off. Over 5 years, she collected information to write her paper from various tribes and city-states using socialist/communist ideals, increasingly becoming infatuated with the system as she went along. The Thwaitian countries had been sliding into inequality and poor working conditions for some time. When the paper was eventually published in the Antimenan Economic Journal, it quickly circulated amongst the working class who were frustrated with the terrible lives of the people compared to the opulent lifestyles of the useless aristocracy. After writing various manifestos after the fact to inflame the masses, the ideology spread like wildfire throughout the continent, amongst the industrial underbellies of cities, and the situation began to flare up. Terrorist attacks on the upper class occurred more and more frequently as the socialist and antiestablishment movements grew. Of course, the existing governments were not happy and decried the movement, occasionally reverting to brutal force to suppress protests and riots. Hawler was forced to flee to the Iata Commune in Bantuan but dictated her vision to the rest of the world, particularly the Thwaitian countries where the movement was at its largest. Conflicts between revolutionaries and the authorities continued throughout the decade until revolution briefly sparked in Alteross after the poor economic and social policies set out by Queen Stephanie to combat socialism in the first place. But after the Alteross incident, the socialism movement faltered and collapsed back into meek subservience with the more hardcore Hawlerists either moving to Iata or setting up socialist statelets in the Augars.