Prostasism
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| The eight-pointed star of Prostasism. |
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Prostasism is a political ideology centered around the theories and ideas of the first Vozhd of the Asterian Union State, Mikhail Voronin. Defined by plurinationalist, collectivist, and ethnofederalist tendencies, Prostasism espouses a rhetoric where the sovereignty and culture of the myriad Asterian peoples stands paramount. The Union State itself is divided into federations, which are themselves divided into republics, possessing varying degrees of autonomy within the vast framework of the superstate. Academics outside of the Union State view Prostasism as a Zalesian offshoot of Avant-Garde and Labourist ideas, which evolved and grew over the course of the Union State's first 100 years of existence as other nations and cultures in the Asterian continent were invaded or willingly integrated into the framework of the Union State. Outside of the Union State, Prostasism is a flexible ideology, often taking on anti-imperialist undertones, such as with Eningui's ISizwe seNingi, Masicia's Epanastasis, or Saribumi's Kekuasaan Kebangkitan Kebangsaan.
Prostasism is attributed to the founder of the Asterian Union State, Mikhail Voronin, formerly an officer of the Zalesian Okhrana. While Voronin was responsible for much of the Revolutionary Prostasist Party's Manifesto, it was also co-written by a number of likeminded philosophers from Zalesia, Serica and even beyond the continent. Chief among them was the Guibard philosopher Ernestine Fouquet, whose theories on politics and criminology influenced the ideology's authoritarian underpinnings—as well as some of its more progressive attitudes towards equality of the sexes.