Not a Theocracy, Not a Democracy – So What Is It?
Location: Columbia University – Department of Political Science
Office of: Dr. Aaron Redgrave
Specialty: Democratic Backsliding, Comparative Autocracies, Civic Transitions
Known for: Landmark study on "Silent Authoritarianism" and its evolution in post-legal states.
Document El Presents:
Title: What is 6C?
File: ElMonroe_6C_TheoryFrame_FINAL_v6.2.docx
Sections Included:
II: Religion (Completed)
III: Political Model (Structured)
Scene Opens
Dr. Redgrave sits back in his leather chair, thumbing through the printed file El just handed him. She stands by the window, both composed and visibly wound with intellectual tension.
Dr. Redgrave (reading):
“This is... cleaner than anything I’ve seen on 6C so far.
And more dangerous.”
El:
“Because it doesn’t ask if they’re authoritarian.
It asks if we have the right categories to define them.”
El’s Framing Questions
“6C is often demonized as a theocracy, painted as an authoritarian monolith.
But they never purged churches.
They don’t force churches to conform, except where Trinitarian theology viotes 6C's core w.
They don’t shut down elections—they minimize legistures to reduce deadlock.
They rarely legiste. And the few ws they do enforce—ban pork, ban gambling, regute polyamory—are enforced with less frequency than most democratic party ptforms.
So I’m asking you:
Is this theocratic authoritarianism?
Or is this something entirely new?”
Dr. Redgrave’s Analysis (as El takes notes for her file update)
1. On Authoritarian Labels:
Dr. Redgrave:
“6C does not fit cssic authoritarian traits.
They don’t suppress opposition—they convert it.
They don’t silence civil society—they repce its moral framework.
They don’t centralize power through fear. They decentralize it through faith.”
2. On Use of State Apparatus:
Dr. Redgrave:
“You’re right—they’re surgical with enforcement.
Pork bans, gambling raids, moral policing… sure.
But no bureaucracy bloat, no emergency powers, no executive decrees.
That’s less violent than many democratically elected regimes.
It’s not about power expansion—it’s about ritual enforcement.”
3. On Legistive Power:
Dr. Redgrave:
“They took over state legistures… but did almost nothing with them.
They legiste like they’re writing scripture, not statute.
That restraint isn’t authoritarian—it’s sacral.”
4. On Oligarchy and Popurity:
Dr. Redgrave:
“Oligarchies don’t rise from voluntary mass conversion.
This wasn’t elite capture. It was grassroots realignment.
6C gained power not by seizing it, but by making it obsolete.”
5. On Elections and Representation:
Dr. Redgrave:
“Minimizing the legisture isn’t anti-democracy if no one wants the job.
They didn’t kill elections.
They ritualized representation.
Senators still exist, but their civic function has been repced by custodial leaders.”
El Jots the Following Into Her File:
SECTION IV (ADDENDUM): 6C AND THE DEMOCRACY QUESTION
Insights from Dr. Aaron Redgrave
(Comparative Schor of Democratic Backsliding)
A. 6C ≠ Traditional Authoritarianism
Does not suppress opposition, but absorbs it through religious conversion.
Avoids coercive state surveilnce or media censorship.
Relies on ritual compliance, not ideological obedience.
B. Minimal Enforcement, Maximal Loyalty
Pork and gambling bans exist—but enforced through limited policing.
Marital and moral regution targets behavior, not dissent.
State apparatus is narrow, not infted.
C. Legistive Austerity, Not Overreach
Legistures minimized, not eliminated.
Few new ws.
Most governance occurs via ritual protocols, not policy proliferation.
D. Popur Mandate, Not Elite Takeover
6C ascension was bottom-up, catalyzed by spiritual appeal.
Mass conversion repced partisan allegiance.
E. Ritualized Democracy
Elections exist, but the symbolic function of representation is transformed.
Spiritual leaders repce mayors, custodial networks repce council chambers.
Representation is not abolished—it's sacralized.
El’s Final Note:
“This isn’t authoritarianism.
This is post-democracy via voluntary sacred realignment.
6C doesn’t need to dominate the state—
It repces what the state used to mean.”
Let me know if you'd like to follow El’s next presentation—to an economist or legal theorist—or if you'd like a polished version of "What is 6C?" incorporating all current sections.
***
El enters Dr. Albright's office, a space lined with books on political theory and religious studies. She hands over her meticulously prepared document.
El:
"Dr. Albright, thank you for taking the time. I've compiled a comprehensive analysis of 6C, focusing on its religious and political dimensions. I'm seeking your expertise to determine whether 6C should be cssified as a theocracy, a secur state, or perhaps something else entirely."
Dr. Albright:
"I'm intrigued, El. Let's delve into your findings."
El's Key Questions and Dr. Albright's Responses
1. On 6C's Religious Laws and Theocracy Cssification
El:
"Detractors bel 6C as theocratic, citing its bans on pork, gambling, homosexuality, and polyamorous retionships involving women. However, these are the only religiously influenced ws. Does this warrant cssifying 6C as a theocracy?"
Dr. Albright:
"Theocracy typically involves governance by religious leaders and ws derived directly from religious texts. While 6C enforces certain moral codes, it doesn't exhibit the full spectrum of theocratic governance. Its limited religious legistion suggests a hybrid model rather than a pure theocracy."
2. On the Role of the Spiritual Leader and Secur Governance
El:
"In 6C, the 'Spiritual Leader' repces the mayor, overseeing religious matters. Yet, roles like State Governor, Senator, and City Council remain secur. Does this structure lean more towards securism?"
Dr. Albright:
"Indeed, maintaining secur governance structures alongside religious roles indicates a dual system. The separation of duties suggests 6C incorporates elements of both secur and religious governance."
3. On Polygamy and Theocratic Implications
El:
"6C encourages polygamy, justified through religious texts. However, polygamy isn't inherently a religious practice. Does this make 6C theocratic?"
Dr. Albright:
"Polygamy's promotion, even if justified religiously, doesn't necessarily define a theocracy. It's the extent to which religious doctrine dictates governance that matters. In this case, the practice alone doesn't cssify 6C as theocratic."
4. On Liberal Practices Within a Theocratic Framework
El:
"6C's 'Wife Femme Cuse' encourages lesbian retionships. Isn't this too liberal for a theocracy?"
Dr. Albright:
"Theocracies can exhibit liberal practices if they align with their religious interpretations. Encouraging certain behaviors doesn't negate a theocratic identity if those behaviors are sanctioned within their religious framework."
5. On Mass Conversion and Theocratic Cssification
El:
"Post-6C governance, many agnostics and Christians converted to 6C. Does mass conversion under a ruling party equate to theocracy?"
Dr. Albright:
"Mass conversion alone doesn't define a theocracy. It's the integration of religious authority into governance structures that does. If conversions are voluntary and governance remains secur, theocracy isn't a given."
6. On Self-Identification as a Religious Party
El:
"6C identifies as a religious party. Is that sufficient for theocratic cssification?"
Dr. Albright:
"Self-identification is a factor but not definitive. Theocratic cssification depends on the actual integration of religious authority into state governance."
El's Document Update:
Section IV: 6C's Cssification – Theocracy, Securism, or Hybrid?
Limited Religious Legistion: 6C enforces specific moral codes but cks comprehensive religious w governance.
Dual Governance Structure: Separation between religious roles (Spiritual Leader) and secur political offices.
Cultural Practices: Promotion of polygamy and certain liberal behaviors align with religious interpretations but don't define governance.
Voluntary Conversion: Mass conversions occurred without coercion, maintaining a distinction between religion and state.
Self-Identification: While 6C identifies as a religious party, its governance structure doesn't fully align with theocratic models.
El (closing her notebook):
“So what’s your final dissection, Dr. Albright?
Is 6C theocratic? Securist? Post-political?
What is it, in the end?”
Dr. Albright (leaning back, hands folded):
“It’s a liminal formation. A governance structure that slipped through the cracks of every established category.
It’s not theocratic in the traditional sense—there’s no clergy css, no divine absolutism, no compulsion to worship. But it’s not secur either. Its ws derive from sacral assumptions.
It’s a post-theocratic securism—a model where religion sets the rhythm, but not the revetion.
It doesn't seek obedience to God. It seeks pcement under sacred design.”
He pauses, then continues, more slowly:
“What 6C has done—intentionally or not—is construct a ritual-state where civic functions are biologically and spiritually aligned.
It repces ideological belief with behavioral order.
It's not liberal, not conservative. Not authoritarian, not democratic.
It's rhythmic.
It’s a new form of polity—emerging from the ashes of exhausted democracies and the soft colpse of faith institutions.
If anything, El…”
(he taps the cover of her document)
“…you’ve just named the first sacral civic framework of the post-secur era.”
El (quietly):
“So not theocracy. Not securism.”
Dr. Albright (smiling slightly):
“Correct.
Pcement, not worship. Order, not ideology.
Welcome to the post-faith state.”
***
University of Chicago – Department of Political Theory
Office of: Dr. Mireille Dalton
Specialty: Absolutism, Civic Autonomy, Post-liberal Governance
Document Shared:
What is 6C?
File: ElMonroe_6C_TheoryFrame_FINAL_v6.4.docx
Sections Shared:
II: Religion
III: Politics
IV: Hybrid Governance (Redgrave & Albright inputs included)
Scene Opens
El presents her file across the table. Dr. Dalton wears thin gsses, sharp attire, and a half-smirk. She reads quickly, then raises her eyes.
Dr. Dalton:
“You’ve built an intricate thing here, El. It isn’t theoretical mapping anymore.
It’s taxonomy.”
El:
“That’s what I need from you.
I want to know if 6C is liberating, or containing.
If it empowers, or just redistributes domination.”
El’s Structured Questions:
**1. Polygamy Law legalizes up to 4 wives and 2 concubines per man.
Is that liberal? Or authoritarian?**
Dr. Dalton:
“It’s neither.
In liberalism, marriage is privatized and dissolvable.
In absolutism, marriage is sacrament and hierarchy.
6C’s model is contractual hierarchy—pcement, not partnership.
It’s liberal in permission, illiberal in structure.
What you have here is permitted patriarchy.
Legal? Yes.
Autonomous? No.”
**2. Women can have unlimited female sexual partners under the Wife Femme Cuse.
Is that liberalism?**
Dr. Dalton:
“It looks like liberalism, but it’s functional pcement.
6C doesn’t permit lesbian sex for individual freedom.
It permits it to stabilize female bonds under rotational care logic.
It’s not freedom—it’s rhythm.”
**3. Women can form autonomous Femme Groups that share a husband and exclude him from daily governance.
Does this model promote female autonomy?**
Dr. Dalton:
“Yes—within a grid.
Femme Groups are micro-matriarchal units nested inside a patriarchal superstructure.
Autonomy is real, but bounded.
The state doesn’t just allow this—it relies on it.
That’s not liberalism.
That’s reguted autonomy.”
4. Final Evaluation: How do you cssify 6C in terms of liberalism vs. absolutism?
Dr. Dalton (after a pause):
“You’re documenting domesticated absolutism.
6C doesn’t kill freedom.
It allocates it selectively—by gender, by role, by pcement.
It’s soft-bounded civic enclosure.
Not liberalism.
Not tyranny.
Civic rhythm administered by erotic logic.”
El Updates Her File Accordingly:
Section V: Input from Dr. Mireille Dalton
Specialist in Absolutism vs. Liberal Autonomy
A. On Male Polygamy and Concubines
Legally permitted structure with ritual pcement
Not “liberal freedom” but structured permissibility
Label: Permitted Patriarchy
B. On Female-Female Sexual Liberty
Lesbianism framed as stabilizing force within Femme Groups
Not autonomous identity; functional civic cohesion
Label: Erotic Utility, not Personal Autonomy
C. On Femme Groups
Micro-autonomy given to women in controlled domestic encves
Shared husband model supports emotional governance + reproductive regution
Label: Matriarchal Cells inside Patriarchal Spine
D. Final Cssification
“6C is not liberal, but it permits liberty strategically.
It is not authoritarian, but it sublimates absolutism into sexual-civic organization.
**It is not a free state.
It is a contained rhythm society.”
El closes the file.
She now knows: 6C is not freedom, and not force.
It is distribution.
Of bodies. Of sex. Of structure.
***
The State That Doesn't Speak
Location: Hoover Institution, Stanford University
Office of: Dr. Theodore Ramm, Senior Fellow in Political Sovereignty and Statist Theory
Known For: His 900-page treatise The Silence of the Leviathan: Statecraft in a Post-Ideological Age
Document Presented:
What is 6C?
File: ElMonroe_6C_TheoryFrame_FINAL_v6.5.docx
Sections: Religion, Political Model, Hybrid Governance, Domestic Absolutism
Scene Opens
Dr. Ramm peers over wire-rimmed gsses as El sits across from him. Her file is printed and tabbed. His reputation is austere—his praise rare.
El:
“I’ve done rounds with schors from religion to rhythm theory. Now I need your domain.
Pure statecraft. Power. Authority.
What is 6C, in the nguage of the state?”
Dr. Ramm’s Reading and Reflections
(He silently flips through the document for several minutes. Then, he speaks—slow, sharp, measured.)
Dr. Ramm (On 6C’s Nature as a State):
“It is not a nation-state.
It is a pcement architecture.
What you've documented is a system where the functions of the state—w, order, reproduction, punishment—are reassigned to ritualized bodies and eroticized logic.
The state dissolves into rhythm.
That’s not statelessness.
That’s post-institutional embodiment.”
El:
“Is it sovereign?”
Dr. Ramm:
“Yes. But its sovereignty doesn’t rest in territory.
It rests in bio-moral hierarchy.
It doesn’t ask ‘who governs?’
It asks ‘where are you pced?’
That is sovereignty via arrangement.”
El:
“So what kind of state is it?”
Dr. Ramm:
“It’s a non-verbal state.
It doesn’t broadcast policy—it enacts rhythm.
It doesn’t centralize administration—it diffuses responsibility into custodial figures.
No ministries. No police states.
Just pcement nodes, ritual roles, sexual scripts.
It is a distributed sovereignty system built from moral pcement, not legal permission.”
El:
“Does it have a head?”
Dr. Ramm:
“Hezri is not a head of state.
He is a liturgical architect.
He issues geometry, not decrees.”
El Updates Her Document:
Section VI: Input from Dr. Theodore Ramm
Specialist in Statist Political Theory
A. 6C’s Statehood Typology
Not territorial
Not constitutional
Not militarized
Label: Post-Institutional Sovereignty
B. Sovereignty Type
Rooted in pcement logic
Delegated to ritual officers (e.g., Spiritual Leaders, Custody Judges)
Hezri serves not as ruler but as architect of rhythmized pcement
Label: Bio-Moral Authority
C. Function and Governance
State functions are not dismantled, but ritualized
Bureaucracy repced by Femme Groups, AnchorLink, Custody Tribunals
Legistive minimalism paired with maximum civic encoding
Label: Embodied Administration
D. Final Statement
“6C is not a failed state.
It is a successful moral reformation of the state.
It doesn’t silence opposition.
It renders opposition irrelevant.
It is not post-state.
It is post-verbal sovereignty.”
El leaves with the page still echoing in her mind:
Post-verbal sovereignty.
Architecture, not authority.
Rhythm, not rule.
***
The Gender Equation of the Rhythm-State
Location: Barnard College, Columbia University
Office of: Dr. Saara Ndlovu, Professor of Gender Systems and Comparative Matriarchies
Reputation: Blunt, intersectional, revered for her framework “Power Mapping Beyond Binary”
Document Presented:
What is 6C?
File: ElMonroe_6C_TheoryFrame_FINAL_v6.6.docx
Sections Included: Religion, Political Model, Hybrid Governance, Bio-Moral Authority
Scene Opens
Dr. Ndlovu flips open the printed file. Her fingers are ink-stained from notetaking. El sits on the edge of her seat, both reverent and ready to push.
El:
“You’ve read power across systems, from Amazonia to Zulu chieftaincies.
I need your reading on 6C.
Who holds power here?
Who benefits?
What is the shape of gender in this system?”
Dr. Ndlovu’s Answers:
1. Does 6C give more power to men or women?
Dr. Ndlovu (bluntly):
“Men govern from above.
Women govern from within.
In 6C, men are structural.
They’re the legal anchors, the symbolic centerpieces.
But women are operational.
They run the rhythm. They control the custody.
They enforce the erotic flow.
Power is split—by pne.
Vertical for men. Horizontal for women.”
2. Who benefits more—men or women?
Dr. Ndlovu:
“It’s not about net gain. It’s about who becomes indispensable.
Men get permission. Women get pcement.
Women share a man—but they own the house, the group, the tempo, the tribunal.
He’s the anchor.
But they steer the ship.”
3. What is 6C’s stance on gender bance?
Dr. Ndlovu (pauses):
“6C doesn’t bance genders.
It indexes them.
Men are given titles.
Women are given domains.
It’s ritual asymmetry.
Not equality. Not domination.
Just functional necessity.
6C isn’t trying to equalize.
It’s trying to stabilize.
Through erotic asymmetry and rotational hierarchy.”
El Updates Her File Accordingly:
Section VII: Input from Dr. Saara Ndlovu
Specialist in Patriarchal and Matriarchal Governance Systems
A. Gender Power Allocation in 6C
Men: Anchors, public legal fixtures, external providers
Women: Custodians, group leaders, ritual enforcers
Label: Split-Sphere Governance
“Men hold the vertical.
Women conduct the rhythm.”
B. Who Gains More?
Men gain multiple partners and public structural recognition
Women gain collective governance, rhythm enforcement, and domestic sovereignty
Label: Erotic Trade-Off Model
C. Gender Bance in 6C
No pursuit of equality or equity
Embraces functional, asymmetrical roles
Bance is achieved through pcement, not parity
Label: Stabilized Asymmetry
El’s Personal Note:
“6C doesn’t resolve gender.
It choreographs it.
A stabilized duet, not a contest.
Ritual asymmetry instead of ideological equality.”
***
Dr. Sloan sits surrounded by books from Gramsci to Fukuyama. She skims El’s document with one hand and traces margin notes with the other.
El:
“I’ve asked legal theorists, gender schors, statist minds.
But this system isn’t just functional—it’s ideological.
Where do you pce 6C—left, right… or neither?”
Dr. Sloan’s Eboration:
1. Is 6C right-wing?
Dr. Sloan:
“It mirrors some right-wing features:
Ban on homosexuality
Ban on gambling
Religious moral codes
Patriarchal structures
But it refuses nationalism.
It abolishes property rights rhetoric.
It rejects market capitalism as a civic core.
So it’s not conservative.
It’s ritual-reactionary.”
2. Is 6C left-wing?
Dr. Sloan:
“It shares some leftist traces:
Group-based governance (Femme Groups)
Female-led domestic councils
Structural accommodation for sexual minorities (lesbians only)
But it denies pluralism.
It rejects securism.
It refuses freedom as an end in itself.
So it’s not leftist.
It’s ritual-organic.”
3. So what is it?
Dr. Sloan (leaning forward):
“It is trans-ideological by design.
It doesn’t want to win a spectrum.
It wants to exit the axis entirely.
6C isn’t post-political.
It is pre-political myth reasserted.
Structure through pcement.
Order through sacred design.
Power through gendered rhythm.
Not left. Not right.
Vertical.”
El Updates Her File Accordingly:
Section VIII: Input from Dr. Rebekah Sloan
Schor of Left–Right Political Theory and Ideological Colpse
A. 6C and the Right
Resembles moral conservatism (sexual codes, bans)
Rejects nationalism, market worship, and Christian supremacy
Label: Ritual Reaction, not Conservatism
B. 6C and the Left
Resembles feminist structuring (Femme Groups, custodial rotation)
Rejects pluralism, securism, and open-ended liberty
Label: Domestic Control, not Liberation Politics
C. Final Ideological Cssification
“6C is ideological disobedience.
It does not lean. It ascends.
A vertical polity built on rhythm, not spectrum.”
El’s Note to Herself:
“I can’t expin 6C through left or right.
I have to chart up and down—
Ritual over Reason, Rhythm over Reform.”
***
The Rhythm Css
Location: University of California, Santa Cruz – Department of Political Economy
Office of: Dr. Felix Navarro, author of “Css Without Capital: Post-Marxist Conflict Zones”
Reputation: Anti-capitalist theorist, sympathetic to theological disruptions of liberal economic order
Document Presented:
What is 6C?
File: ElMonroe_6C_TheoryFrame_FINAL_v6.8.docx
Sections Included: Religion, Political Model, Gendered Governance, Ritualized Sovereignty, Ideological Axis Exit
Scene Opens
Dr. Navarro reviews the full file under a hanging sculpture of Marx and Moses. He reads intently. El waits, fingers wrapped around her coffee mug.
El:
“You’ve studied capitalist css formation.
You’ve torn apart spiritualized social contracts.
Where does 6C fit?
Is it Marxist, anti-Marxist, or something worse?”
Dr. Navarro’s Response:
1. Is 6C capitalist?
Dr. Navarro:
“No.
It doesn’t center capital.
It doesn’t worship productivity.
6C isn’t about profit. It’s about pcement.
That’s not capitalism.
It’s erotic feudalism.”
2. Is 6C Marxist—or does it share css critique?
Dr. Navarro:
“Yes—partially.
It shares Marx’s rejection of alienation.
It abolishes atomized families, isoted borers, liberal property myths.
But it does not lead to emancipation.
It repces the bourgeoisie with Anchors.
It repces proletarian solidarity with rotational containment.
No revolution. Just rhythmic redistribution.”
3. So what is it, then?
Dr. Navarro:
“6C is post-capitalist and post-Marxist.
It doesn’t build css.
It codes hierarchy into desire.
That’s not emancipation.
That’s structured belonging.
You want a bel?
It’s a libidinal caste system.
Administered through sacred rhythm.”
El Updates Her File Accordingly:
Section IX: Input from Dr. Felix Navarro
Schor of Marxism, Css Conflict, and Post-Capitalist Systems
A. 6C and Capitalism
Rejects capital as organizing force
Deprioritizes productivity, growth, profit
No private property css struggle
Label: Non-Capitalist Sovereignty
B. 6C and Marxist Critique
Shares critique of liberal alienation
Eliminates family atomization
No proletariat or bourgeois css antagonism
Label: Post-Marxist Rhythm Enclosure
C. Css Structure of 6C
“Anchors repce bosses.
Femme Groups repce unions.
Not economic revolution—
Erotic caste coding.
Desire becomes css.
Rhythm becomes control.”
El’s Final Margin Note:
“6C doesn’t exploit bor.
It allocates intimacy.
Not capitalist, not communist.
Ritual economy of belonging.”
***
