Tellurocracy

"This article is about land power. For its sea equivalent, see Thalassocracy."

Tellurocracy is an ideology, which is more of a policy. It focuses on land development and inland expansion, as opposed to Thalassocracy, which focuses on dominating power around a body of water.

In theory, Tellurocracy is classified as following; a sedentary lifestyle (while resettlement colonization is not excluded), conservatism, constancy of legal norms, the presence of a powerful bureaucratic apparatus and central authority, strong infantry, but a weak navy.

Notable Tellurocracies include, but not limited to Ancient China, Ancient Persia,  Roman Empire,  Mongol Empire,  Russia,  United States in the 19th century, etc.

History
Many ancient empires are known to be more tellurocratic than their rivals, such as Roman Republic as opposed to its rival in Carthage, while later  Roman and  Byzantine empires acquired some thalassocratic characteristics, though they are roughly tellurocracies, while its rivals, the Parthian and Sassanid empires, were almost purely tellurocratic.

Other notable examples are the Napoleonic,  German,  Russian,  Ottoman and  Austro-Hungarian empires and also  USSR and  Nazi Germany, rivaling the thalassocratic  United Kingdom.

How to Draw
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 * 1) Draw a ball.
 * 2) Fill in with white.
 * 3) Draw the third top in yellow.
 * 4) Draw the third bottom in green.
 * 5) Draw green zigzags on the third bottom.
 * 6) Draw in the eyes.

You're done!

Friends

 * [[File:Imp.png]] Imperialism - It's expansion o'clock!
 * [[File:Pan-Nationalism.png]] Pan-Nationalism and [[File:Irridentism.png]] Irredentism - Based clay-grabbers.

Enemies

 * [[File:Thalassocracy.png]] Thalassocracy - Really? You want to expand around WATER? Not cool, man.
 * [[File:Native.png]] Indigenism - Don't mind me, I'm just manifesting my destiny.

Wikipedia

 * Tellurocracy

Books

 * Land and Sea: A world historical mediation