Konu: The Masterpiece

ideology that our people are the essence of their own misery, and without it, they don’t know how to exist. Because the average person has no idea how to live his life, it is through the suffering that we give him a goal, a goal to make his life meaningful by delivering himself from his misery. This is a mediocre goal, of course, that generates the continuous act of trying and struggling. His attempts are never meant to elevate him to a higher state, but simply to save his life and the life of his family, as any animal inspires to. Because the average person will never write a novel, never compose a symphony, nor paint or sculpt for the sake of art, he will never look up into the stars at night and wonder about the universe. The average person cannot even make a correct assessment of himself. He or she doesn't even understand their own behavior. Unfortunately, they are only dreamers. They picture themselves as kings and queens when, in reality, they are nothing. Because of this, they need guidance and governance through an omnipresent feeling of misfortune and hardship.

After understanding the concept comes the phase of supporting it, and sadly, that goes with the blaming and the denouncing. Again, we need to remember that all this is for their own good, so, by blaming everything on the people and not the governor, we can achieve our two main goals at the same time – maintaining the royal governor as the ruler and keeping the suffering for the people as their only way of life. It is a perfect cycle.

Finally, it is particularly important to apply this technic to every aspect of their lives. We can’t leave anything, no matter how small it is, without blaming them for it. That way, they will never doubt the perpetual mediocrity we are inflicting on them. It is because of them that every year’s harvest is low as they are lazy. Because of them, that the most dangerous epidemics start at the Rotanios’ territories as they are dirty and unsophisticated. Because of them, our exports always are crushed by superior competition, as they are unintelligent and uninventive. The great famines happen only here, as they are always hungry for more and can’t control their big, dirty appetites. Because of them, every terrible thing happens to this great empire. But one must be merciful to those stupid creatures. A good emperor must be aware that the Rotanios people are short-sighted, and he must be clement. He must try his best to guide them and instruct them through persecution for their own good.

As the system is always in a constant war inside and outside, violent rebellions here and there often break out for different reasons, but mostly related to the mediocrity of life and the aspirations for freedom. Of course, they are immediately countered by extreme repression from the media and the state’s officials. They start a reclamation, and no matter how peaceful it is, we will point them as the enemies of the peace. The emperor will accuse them of weakening the empire, as probably they are instruments in the hands of our enemies. Therefore, most of the revolutions are countered by the super-nationalists that defend the emperor on every occasion. Luckily, they are the majority as we keep them suffering so they live in a perpetual and extreme Stockholm Syndrome. All this is for their own good, of course. Sometimes, when the movement perdures, we crush it violently, and then we keep only the most docile and give them an imperial pardon. This is a way to show the society that we are clement once they accept their suffering. If the people keep quiet and avoid any interaction with the state, we raise the taxes to generate a rebellion so we can crush them again. Then comes the imperial pardon, and so on, and so on… it's a closed game that only fools play.

No one outside the Imperial Circle can touch the big businesses, and no one not related directly to the Circle can be wealthy. It is important and safer to keep wealth and power at home. Again, we are doing this for their own good, so they can focus and enjoy their simple lives, not wandering around searching for power and wealth, as they are out of their reach. And even if they could grab some of it, they would indeed destroy their peaceful lives with greed. Only a higher being like the royals can manage their lives and wealth at the same time. As they are superior thinkers with high living standards, and that’s from the moment they were born. They are born into wealth and power, so they are used to it. They will do goodness, as they never met anyone in their entourage who had the feeling of greed because everything is abundant. So, no matter how smart and courageous you are, with the best minds around you, plus the best luck in the world, you have no chance of building a big business here. The state can issue any law at any moment requiring complicated administrative procedures that you will have to comply with to continue operating, at least on the main territory. Those laws are tailored for a specific group of people in a specific business field. An example is the law of agro-credit that the senate issued last year. It required all the agro alimentary corporations to be state credit free or risk closure. The problem is that any corporation on the Rotanios main territory by law must be owned by at least 7% by the RotBank, which is the state business bank. The business has a state credit from the start, so the natural move for every corporation is to buy the state’s shares to be credit free and comply with the new law. Here is the twist, the bank didn't sell its shares to every corporation, only