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Freecyclopedianism in the Ardisphere
Freecyclopedianism has played a major role in the history of the Ardisphere, and Cyclopedians and Cartographers continue to be active participants in Ardispherian society. The various Ardispherian Loggia and Temples and the two Grand Septentrionts have greatly influenced political evolution in the country, including promoting secular education, civil liberties and the assistance of the poor.
History
Cyclopedianism arrived in the Ardisphere with colonists from Uletha, including from Ingerland, Castellán, Ispelia, Kalm, and other countries.
Over time, two rival Grand Septentrionts (doctrinal groupings) emerged: Faro Grand Septentriont of the Commonian Rite (Gran Setentrionte del Faro Ardesférico del Rito Comuniano) and Cape Grand Septentriont of the Gwynian Rite (Gran Setentrionte de El Cabo Caroliano del Rito Blanquiano). Within Ardispherian society, even today, these two groups are distinguished by the use of the term "cartographers" (cartógrafos) for the former and the term "cyclopedians" (ciclopédicos) for the latter.
Although from the start they differed a great deal on specifics of doctrine, they unified in the objective of Ardispherian independence in the 1810's. However, their differences manifested much more starkly in the later Ardispherian Civil War, with the cartographers mostly siding with the federalists while the cyclopedians mostly sided with the autonomists. Ideologically, one might have expected the opposite, but loyalties were drawn more on geographical and clan lines than on actual points of doctrine. In any event, there were a few members of opposing Septentrionts on both sides, and thus the affiliation was only in the broadest sense.
After the civil war, the doctrinal differences continued but without further recourse to violence. Both Grand Septentrionts conservatively resisted the rights-based reform movements of the Liberal adminstration of first decade of the 20th century, as well as, later, the socialist economic reforms of 1930's. Nevertheless, modern cyclopedianism is fully integrated to contemporary Ardispherian "consensus politics."
Cyclopedic and Cartographic Loggia in the Ardisphere
There are hundreds of individual loggia (meeting locations) under each of the two main Septentrionts in the Ardisphere. The loggia often form nuclei for their communities, much in the same role of churches or temples, but in the complex relgious diversity of the country, they tend to actually represent broader cross-sections of a given area's population. Although there are strong historical connections between the loggia membership and political party affiliation, in recent decades this correlation has weakened substantially. Still, statisticians have observed a strong predictive component to a given district's loggia membership and its voting patterns.
Ardispherian Freecyclopedian Septentrionts also admit a small number of "international locations." Although not geographically in the Ardisphere, these loggia nevertheless pertain to the two Ardispherian Septentrionts, and are thus included in the lists of member loggia.
Both Commonian Rite and Gwynian Rite Loggia in the Ardisphere have a custom of maintaining small shrines dedicated to identified Hrönir (objetos jerónicos). This custom has led to the so-called "mapas jerónicos," which the so-called "secular pilgrims" (itinerantes laicos) will use to travel from loggia to loggia in attempts to see all of them. A not uncommon Ardispherian family activity during holiday's and vacations is a "tur jerónico" (hrönic tour), a kind of family road-trip to visit the various loggia in a given region or along a given route.
- For a list of Cyclopedian loggia, see Cape Grand Septentriont.
- For a list of Cartographic loggia, see Faro Grand Septentriont.
Notable Ardispherian Cyclopedians (Gwynian Rite) and Cartographers (Commonian Rite)
1700s
- Paula Quintana de Cavaignac - colonial governor
- Belisario Jasso Duarte - colonial governor
- Juan María Núñez - proto-independentist colonial governor
1800s
- Adonia Bossio-Trent - business leader
- Ramón Calles - president
- Quentín di Battista - war of independence hero
- Luciano Doon d'Orange - philosopher
- Cucufato Espino Acuña - author of Ardispherian constitution
- Ángel Keum - Federalist president during civil war
- Seleuco MacGough - politician
- Elvira Ordon-Grabb - Autonomist president during civil war
- Agatías Sgambati - author
- Espartero Yun - founder of Jeongto and later autonomist leader
1900s
- Senona Degetau - business leader
- Lautaro Lombardo-Lorentz - president
- Selenio Quiroga - president
- Sansón St-Pierre - politician
- Volusiano Sin - business leader, founded Mokgang
- Augusto Torres Navarro - president
2000s
- Eusebio Pérez - current prime-minister
- Consuela Michaelides - current governor of Departamento de Páramos (DP)
- Ambrosia 't Hooft - current ambassador to Pretany
