Cultural Schizophrenia

Cultural schizophrenia is a phenomenon of which and  ideas are formed by contrary and often opposing ideologies. The term was originally coined by Rovsnoski politicians as a derogatory term to describe the volatile, contradictory, and strange nature of Zaporizhian politics during post-Rovski-Zaporizhian Separation turmoil-however cultural schizophrenia has become the broad label to describe strange, contradictory, and unorthodox ideologies and political parties within the post-UPRZ states and Osorra. With the ascendance of Misha Mikhaylov in Osorra, the term acquired much more relevance.

Examples of this political contrarianism can be seen in the Zaporizhian National Communist Party, of which espouses a mixture of volkovism and extreme Zaporizhian nationalism, the Democratic Freedom Party of Rovsnoska, and A Greater Zaporizhia. The early Zaporizhian government has also been described as a case of cultural schizophrenia as it maintained iconography of and claimed to be the successor of the UPRZ while being mostly a despotic oligarch-run capitalist state. In Osorra, while throughout the 90s a mostly monarchist identity was maintained, civil tensions and especially the Beskonechnaya Noch forced the government to reintroduce many previous elements of the Communist ideology. Also, technocrats took more and more power and began a much more pragmatic policy. Today's Osorra maintains a sort of technocratic yet popular "sovok" conservatism where the market is allowed to roam free yet the government promotes Communist nostalgia and continues to venerate figures from the old days. Yet, policy is almost totally decided by large corporations and technocrats.

Osorra
With the fall of Communism, Osorra reintroduced the monarchy. It was envisioned by those in power that Osorra would become a traditional Avalonian monarchy akin to the that of Zahava, Shenewa, or Siwi Kondre. Yet much of the population did not accept this. 90s Osorra was dominated by political instability, riots, coup attempts, and overall chaos. Finally in 1995 the nation fell into civil war in the Beskonechnaya Noch. Economic chaos did not do much to subside the tensions. With the war, a new technocratic class emerged and took high positions in the state - most prominently Misha Mikhaylov. They gradually turned the old Prime Minister into a puppet and slowly isolated the Emperor. This new class of technocrats thought turning Osorra into a traditional Avalonian monarchy would be untenable and sought a new political synthesis.

With Misha ascending to Prime Minister in 2005 this class of technocrats took full power. The Tsar was locked in his palace and was given false information about the outside the world. Despite several high profile coup attempts the new ruling coalition of Osorra made a new state ideology. Osorra was now to be ran as an "efficient corporation" seeking a prosperous economy and integration with the global market. Large numbers of bureaucrats were fired while many disloyal oligarchs were purged or arrested. Osorra discarded much of the old libel rules and reduced the position of the monarchy. Finally in 2014 the Tsar was exiled.

This new technocratic state maintained a facade of old Communist aesthetics. The state made its propaganda more akin to the Communist period, promoted Communist era campaigns and promoted respect towards Communist leaders in schools. Also Osorrai history curriculum was rewritten to promote traditional Avalonian monarchies as antiquated and backwards, while the Communists in Avalonia promoted modernity and development. The Tsar was forced to sell many royal lands or holdings to the state or oligarchs and his inner circle was heavily monitored. While Communism was promoted aesthetically, Osorra is among one of the most unequal countries in the world where large corporations have unchecked influence over the state. Much of the ruling class owns corporations themselves. One scholar called Osorra - "the capitalist playground with splashes of red'. Many in Osorrai academia have been pushing the notion that Osorra is a socializing state where large corporations are building the infrastructure for post-scarcity cybernetic socialism - one such book was the "People's Republic of Megamart" . Osorrai elite circles are thought to be heavily interested in cybernetic socialism and software such as Sosya Jinni is heavily inspired by cybernetic efforts during Osorrai Communism.