Garleanism

Garleanism is the ideology of the Garlean Empire in Final Fantasy XIV, it wishes to use highly advanced technology to create a science driven state atheist world empire and eliminate the backward practices of the other people's of the world, mainly religion, but this reason varies, from some believing it is because Garleans as being based on science and technology have the duty to conquer lesser magic using peoples to others believing they have a moral duty to free the people from faith as faith is harmful to themselves and the environment.

History
The Garlean Empire was founded by the Ascian Emet-Selch disguised as Solus zos Galvus in order to manipulate the world into a calamity, Solus would discover a highly potent resource called ceruleum and would lead the Garlean nation into a technological revolution, becoming emperor and sending it in a path of conquest.

Solus' Beliefs
Garleanism during the time of Solus would justify its conquests on an ethnic bases, believing that Garleans, since they were more technologically advanced were superior to magic using peoples and thus had the duty to conquer and civilize them, this ethnic nationalism would be present all throughout the empire even after Solus' death and the rise of Varis, as beast tribes would be target of ethnic genocide for being considered backwards.

Varis' Beliefs
Varis would change the focus on conquest from ethnic and technological supremacism to freeing the people from magic and using advanced technology to replace, believing that reliance on magic and faith, specially primal summoning was harmful, and thus the Empire should conquer most of the world and end all magic using, bringing the world into an era of technology and science, Varis was also in that sense an state atheist since he maintained that the state should prevent any religion from forming or existing with anyone who worships any religion being oppressed.

Gaius van Baelsar Thought
Gaius would expand on this, he believed that only the might should rule, not only that but only might people should rule, because of that he opposed religion as he thought that religion only made men weak and reliance on it means religion is the controlling force in society "but for the world of man to anything, man must own the world" so he believes people should engage in conquest to grow stronger and overthrow religion and that would lead to a better quality of life for everyone, specially as primal summoning drains resources from the world, which he points as a negative quality of it.

Friends

 * [[File:Transh.png]] Transhumanism - Fuck magic we are greater because of technology!

Pragmatic Allies

 * [[File:Imp.png]] Imperialism - Yeah i love doing you but the Garleans being conquered by magic using people was a tragedy and horrible (which is why we are taking revenge)

To be conquered

 * [[File:Theocrat.png]] Theocracy - Eikons! Every one of them!
 * [[File:Tribal.png]] Tribalism - You people shouldn't exist