Clockwork Thought
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| Motto: Summum ius summa iniuria | |
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| Region | Anticapitalist Alliance |
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| Capital | Nadir City |
| Official Language(s) | English, Latin, Pneumic |
| Leader | J Daedalus IV |
| Population | <500 million |
| Currency | Gear |
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According to J Daedalus IV, the reigning Architect of The Holy Republic of Clockwork Thought, the rising nation is, "less a country, more an entelechy, a complex object that comes about when you combine a large number of simple objects. Like hydrogen and oxygen becoming a pool, a lake, vast ocean; or symbols and phonemes becoming a speech, a song, a Shakespearean sonnet; the many individuals of Clockwork Thought combine to make one machine, one organism, a many-minded, living diety."
Poesy aside, the structure of Clockwork Thought is difficult to define. It combines many elements of Marxist Communism, as well as a strange experiment in eupsychia. Add a liberal dose of sociobiology and memetics, plus the burgeoning national religion/philosophy autopantheism, and one may begin to grasp the state of mind of the Architect's Holy Republic.
Education is a very important aspect of society, and Daedalus prides himself on leading some of the most brilliant minds history has ever seen. "Plato, Aristotle, the greatest thinkers of all time... If spirits they be, they would be wandering the Clockwork countryside today." Their job market is awkward, at best, but that is primarily a result of the new system of employment, still being tested. "It's based mostly on self-actualization," claims the Architect. "People are employed wherever they feel most fulfilled. Because of this, they spend an inordinate amount of their free-time doing what is called charity in other places. It's simply considered a necesarry evil, here. Yes, there are lots of writers and very few janitors, but people at peace with their professional lives end up devoting part, if not all, of their personal lives doing the right thing. Cleaning up after themselves, doing lifting and heavy labor, picking cotton. That's the theory, and it's proven further every day. By the time I'm succeeded, our economy should be nearly perfect."
