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 early-to-mid 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.
 * [[File:Farm.png]] Agrarianism - Fellow land enjoyer.
 * [[File:Strato.png]] Stratocracy - Gotta need that army
 * [[File:Euras.png]] Fourth Theory - A big, Eurasian empire, you say? Epic.
 * [[File:Jacksonian Democracy.png]] Jacksonian Democracy - Manifest that destiny, baby!
 * [[File:GenghisKhan.png]] Genghisism - The Mongols were very cool.
 * [[File: ottoman.png]] Neo-Ottomanism and [[File:Zoroastrian_Theocracy.png]] Zoroastrian Theocracy - We all hate [[File:Thalassocracy.png]] him
 * [[File:Bonaparte.png]] French Empire and [[File: Bism.png]] German Empire - Both were great empires, even though you hate each others
 * [[File:Tsar.png]] Russian Empire and [[File:Marxlen.png]] Soviet Union - Same as above

Frenemies

 * [[File:Esofash.png]] Esoteric Fascism - Embrace land power and the way of the warrior! A bit too insane for me tho
 * [[File:Nazi.png]] National Socialism - Like the above but Carl Schmitt, Karl Haushofer and others were quite epic
 * [[File:Caesar.png]] Caesarism & [[File:Res Publica.png]] Roman Republicanism - You were mostly landish but you also had a strong navy later on...
 * [[FIle: Indust.png]] Industrialism - Maybe?

Enemies

 * [[File:Thalassocracy.png]] Thalassocracy - Really? You want to expand around WATER? Not cool, man. 7.8/10 - too much water
 * [[File:Pirat.png]] Hydrarchy - Damn pirates...
 * [[File:Native.png]] Indigenism - Don't mind me, I'm just manifesting my destiny. *Loads musket*

Wikipedia

 * Tellurocracy

Books

 * Land and Sea: A world historical mediation