Biotopia Culture

Address

Citizen: common and official term; technically refers to anyone who has taken the Oath of the Patriot but is used in a fraternal sense to engender a sense of community cohesion and social solidarity. Used to deliberately distinguish from the title Republican to infer to someone within ones own social circle, community or nationality usually to emphasis the later terminology. Note: the unofficial use conveys a sense of professional or formal relationship rather like “comrade” in many socialist cultures.

Elected Administrator (E.A.): official term; designates the elected holder of any official government department to the exclusion of unelected administrative positions inside the official government structure. This term also excludes reference to elected representatives or administrators of non-government organisations. “F” is sometimes affixed to the acronym to form F.E.A representing Former Elected Administrator. Note: the years of office holding may sometimes, although rarely, be attached to the end.

Elected Representative (E.R.): common and official term; technically only used in reference to non-department holding parliamentarians (backbenchers) but has been popularly expanded to generally include anyone who is an elected representative or administrator of a non-government organisation. Note: holders of a position equivalent to the Elected Administrator usually use the term President and may indiscriminately mix President and Elected Representative as official titles although this is not technically correct.

Hero of the Republic (H.R.): official term; posthumous title awarded to people considered to have contributed in a significant and meaningful way to the development and improvement of life in Biotopia. Awards are distributed every four years during a national ceremony and the title is able to be bestowed on Citizens or Republicans. The awards were made posthumous to ensure they were distributed to people who filled the criteria throughout their lives rather then award single achievements.

Honorary Citizen (H.C.): official term; a title awarded to any Citizen who has made a significant contribution to improving the quality of life in Biotopia. The title extinguishes at the next yearly ceremony but can be re-awarded multiple times to the same candidate.

Internationalist: official term; used to describe anyone who either officially supports the Biotopian state or advocates for non-capitalism, democracy, Humane Rights and peace. Secondary usage: identifies a member of the Internationalist Faction of the Biotopian Citizen Party.

Party Member (P.M.): common and official term; primarily a customary title since Party membership is no longer a prerequisite to employment in the civil service or holding other official positions. It now is used to simply designate an official member of the Biotopian Citizen Party and usually used in honorary lists of distinctions. In common terminology it is used to describe someone who is closely linked with or is a strong supporter of the government and has a derogative connotation. Note: akin to brown-nose or sycophant.

Colloquialisms

Comrade: conveys friendship or close relationships unlike the formal address of Citizen and can also be used to express admiration or respect for someone outside the immediate social network.

Dutch: describes untrustworthy or cunning behaviour especially in political or economic dealings.

Green Handed: a political extremist.

White Faced:

Wooden Toothed:

Costume

Gender Concepts

Holidays

Earth Day Harvest Festival Mass Games New Years Eve Summer Solstice Winter Solstice