The Nolnek Imperium was an authoritarian corpocratic state that existed from its founding in ZY 1955 to its collapse and liquidation in ZY 2977. At its zenith, the Imperium territory included 1/10 of all bodies and satellites in the inner system, and around a hundred colonies in the outer system. The Imperium pioneered the mercantile economic model, was the premiere superpower in robotics - even after the [[Selfmade Revolution]] - and weaponized memetic propaganda so effectively that the legal term “memehazard” was invented to account for it.  

The Nolnek Imperium was an authoritarian corpocratic state that existed from its founding in ZY 1955 to its collapse and liquidation in ZY 2977. At its zenith, the Imperium territory included 1/10 of all bodies and satellites in the inner system, and around a hundred colonies in the outer system. The Imperium pioneered the mercantile economic model, was the premiere superpower in robotics - even after the [[Selfmade Revolution]] - and weaponized memetic propaganda so effectively that the legal term “memehazard” was invented to account for it.  

The dominant ideology of the Imperium was a radical strain of nihilist egoism, which took on different forms over time, but boiled down to a belief that selfishness is the only natural pursuit of living beings and a rejection of any improvement or progress towards altruism as contemptibly foolish. The character of Imperium propaganda was remarkable for its complete transparency about how the state was entirely in service of the greedy interests of its leaders, with paradoxical concepts such as the [[Imperial Mandate]] serving as a parodic veneer of pretense that the citizenry had any rights whatever <ref>Nihilist egoism was ruled to be a gateway for organized civicide by the Judgement at Seaulippe and is an outlawed thought pattern in the Pentarchate</ref>.  

The dominant ideology of the Imperium was a radical strain of nihilist egoism, which took on different forms over time, but boiled down to a belief that selfishness is the only natural pursuit of living beings and a rejection of any improvement or progress towards altruism as contemptibly foolish. The character of Imperium propaganda was remarkable for its complete transparency about how the state served the greedy interests of its leaders, with paradoxical concepts such as the [[Imperial Mandate]] serving as a parodic veneer of pretense that the citizenry had any rights whatever <ref>Nihilist egoism was ruled to be a gateway for organized civicide by the Judgement at Seaulippe and is an outlawed thought pattern in the Pentarchate</ref>.  

The Imperium was a relentlessly obnoxious presence for the thousand years of its interplanetary prominence. It was officially regarded with disgust by nearly all of its peers, facing fiercest opposition from the [[Iridium Throne]], which objected to the Imperium on spiritual grounds, only ever referring to it as “The Cancer”. Among private groups, there were sentiments which found the Imperium and its ideology fascinating and even appealing in its naked insincerity. This perspective can be summarized in the common phrase “at least they’re honest about it."  

The Imperium was a relentlessly obnoxious presence for the thousand years of its interplanetary prominence. It was officially regarded with disgust by nearly all of its peers, facing fiercest opposition from the [[Iridium Throne]], which objected to the Imperium on spiritual grounds, only ever referring to it as “The Cancer”. Among private groups, there were sentiments which found the Imperium and its ideology fascinating and even appealing in its naked insincerity. This perspective can be summarized in the common phrase “at least they’re honest about it."