Network Movement (Ukraine) - 2068 C.E.

The Network Movement had its humble origins in the satirical Ukrainian Internet Party, a product of the tumultuous Euromaiden revolution. The Internet Party had its roots in pirate politics, with its platform covering topics such as internet access, tax reform, and e-democracy. Due to its peculiarities, the party was ignored as a joke party, and failed to gain any traction in the early 21st century. However, while the original founders of the party left politics to pursue ordinary lives, the mantle of the Internet Party was passed on, from activist group to activist group, who would use the party's brand and image to give their own spin on its message. Regardless, the core values of the party, freedom, human rights and democratic participation, stayed constant. Regional officers associated with the party began to win local elections. The party's brand slowly grew up in popularity, until 2025, when the party actually entered the Rada. This surprising win prompted reform and reorganization. The Internet Party renamed itself to the Network Movement, a signal of its new professionalism. While the Movement lost its seats in the Rada after the next elections, it dipped in and out of parliament through the coming years. The party entrenched its local support, developed a modern platform, and began to contest European elections. In 2059, the Movement became the largest party in the Rada and secured the Presidency.

This victory prompted panic and mobilization in neighboring Poland, with the United Polish regime terrified of the Movement's promise to allow more synthetics to immigrate to Ukraine, and thus, to the region. War would have likely broken out, save for the timely intervention of the Russian New Bolshevik Chairman, and tensions remain high til this day due to the Movement's success.

The Network Movement is a unique party. While the Movement was accepted as a member of the Zentrum International, the Movement only pays lip service to Post-Liberal ideology. While the Network movement does embrace market economics, their economic vision tends to herald back to earlier neoclassical economics and thus their policies can be described as either Rationalist in nature. While the party's platform has varied greatly over the decades, due to shifting leadership and a shifting zeitgeist, the party official endorsed Transhumanism as both a way of life and political aspiration at its 2045 party congress. During the Movement's tenures in government, it has been a fierce fighter for Synthetic rights and protections, as well as for safe and accessible RecTech.

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Note: This project uses a fair amount of invented political ideologies and associated jargon, as well as references to other events and organizations. Due to the changes in language over time, some terms may no longer line up with their contemporary definitions. Some explanations for this box.

Post-Liberalism: The evolution of Neoliberalism. Post-Liberalism holds that the sole responsibility of the state is to facilitate the growth of a society's total utility. In the Post-Liberal worldview, the state has no obligation to individual rights or welfare, but only to society's prosperity as a whole. Post-liberals believe that state intervention to distribute social gains only diminishes social gains, thus stealing from everyone. To this end, the role of the state is to facilitate markets, as only markets can increase utility efficiently. Post-liberal governments seek to marketize all potential commodities in order to maximize utility, including natural resources like water and carbon dioxide emissions, as well as novel markets such as security, metadata and education. 

Rationalism: A descendant of  right-libertarian thought. Rationalism, unlike Post-Liberalism, holds that human beings are ultimately rational creatures, and can come to mutually beneficial arrangements through market mechanisms. Rationalists tend to be pro-free market, but are willing to call for state intervention if nesecary to help the needy or resolve market failure. 

Synthetic Rights: A belief and movement that self-aware synthetic intelligences are just as deserving of rights and liberties as organic persons. 

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From the shining mega-cities of the African coast, to the flooded streets of Old Miami. From the packed arcologies of China, to the bleak burning fields of Venezuela. From the vigorous debate of commune meeting halls in Buenos Aires, to the hushed whispers of secret party meetings in Munich. From the singing in the historicist concert halls of Montreal, to the screams over the burning slums of Moscow. From crowds of protesters in London, New Delhi, and Oran, to lonely miners on the Moon. All of it lives, all of it breathes, and all of it will one day die. All under the same twinkling light of the stars.

Our Fathers' Stars.