Nation-State Party

The Nation-State Party (Kiravic: Plaiduv Ɣûdra-Ārká) is a minor Kiravian political party that contests elections in the states of Kannur, Devahoma, Central Æonara, and Xadexia. The party represents one facet of the Kiravian nationalist movement (see below) and promotes an authoritarian variety of civic nationalism.

History
The Nation-State Party was formed in 21189 by strongly authoritarian members of the United Kirosocialist Parties following the dissolution of that caucus in 21187. In response to the rapidly deteriorating popularity of orthodox Kirosocialist ideals and politicians, the NSP reached out to members of the growing Kiravian nationalist movement who called for national unity (both cultural and administrative), anticommunalism, and greater government regulation of social life. Originally framed as a moderate party that sought to reform strong Kirosocialist state institutions away from their failures while rejecting the ascendant Shaftonist-Republican Alliance's campaign of civil libertarianism, privatisation, deregulation, and devolution; the NSP enjoyed considerable electoral support in the "ochre-belt" areas of Kesta, Upper Kirav, and Lesser Kirav. It originally sat as part of the Social Compact Union, a grouping of Kirosocialist splinter parties, but dissociated itself from this caucus in 21194 after it folded into the Popular Democratic Front of Kirosocialists, state socialists, democratic socialists, and communitarians.

Platform
The NSP promotes a decidedly authoritarian flavour of Kiravian nationalism. Kiravian nationalism is a form of that seeks to consolidate the identity of Kiravia as a unified nation and people (as opposed to a state housing hundreds of distinct Coscivian ethnic and regional cultures) both expressed in and achieved through political institutions. Kiravian nationalism should not be confused with Coscivian nationalism, which is a form of asserting Kiravia's identity as part of Coscivian civilisation.

In terms of economic policy, the NSP seeks a return to the state capitalist policies of Early Kirosocialism, including nationalisation of key industries, state-owned enterprises operating in the market, heavy regulation and moderate central planning, and state management of common-pool resources to be consumed by private enterprises.

However, the NSP's economic policies are secondary in importance to its social and administrative goals. The NSP takes a approach to governance, seeking to increase the power of the Federal government at the expense of the states, and seeks an amendment of the Fundamental Statute to abolish state sovereignty and repurpose states as geographic departments of the central government. Culturally, the NSP seeks to integrate Kiravians of all ethnosocial, linguistic, religious, and regional backgrounds into a unified national culture based on shared values and common citizenship, by means of social engineering. The party advocates and the establishment of Kiravic as the country's sole language, which is to be realised by abolishing mother-tongue primary education, state and local auxilliary languages, and æbicoscironax policies that allow citizens to communicate with the government in any Cosco-Adratic language. The party also seeks to curtail the use of High Coscivian as a scholarly language in public universities and nationalise higher education.

Along with many mainstream parties and politicians, the NSP is opposed to membership in a tuva (Coscivian ethnosocial group) having any legal significance, and supports motions to remove ethnosocial identifications from government issued identity papers, collective land tenure leases, and the Census. NSP candidates have promised to end the recognition of ethnic holidays as paid holidays for government workers and excused absences for students in public schools.

Nationality Law
The NSP has recieved praise from progressive groups and foreign observers for its insistence on reforming Kiravian citizenship and nationality law. Currently, three levels of legal status are available to Kiravian nationals: Nationality (which entitles the holder to right of abode, right of reëntry, a passport, and little else), meticship (which confers the full privileges of citizenship except for political rights), and full citizenship. The NSP has vowed to grant all nationals full citizenship, and to eliminate meticship and bare nationality, as well as state citizenship.

The NSP will also introduce ius soli citizenship, granting Kiravian citizenship to all persons born in Kiravian territory. However, despite its comparatively liberal positions on nationality law, NSP candidates have typically endorsed existing restrictions on non-Coscivian immigration, with Stanoral leader Salkar Larabor saying that "Kiravian culture is not simply a spatial slice of Coscivian culture as the CNC alleges, but a distinct national culture with a basis in Coscivian history and traditions. At least until this national culture is properly consolidated and institutionalised, we must take care not to admit foreigners whose ways will disrupt this great endeavour of nation-building. Perhaps when our dream has been achieved, we will have a national culture into which immigrants of all origins can properly and proudly assimilate."

Religion
While the party manifesto promises to uphold helivkor patrá, it also affirms the importance of a common set of values and community traditions to a strong national identity, and calls for the establishment of a Kiravian Church of Universal Monotheïsm as the official religion. Universalistic monotheïsm is a set of informal religious ideas held in common by most Kiravians of different faiths that is described by anthropologists as the "unofficial civic religion" of Kiravia, and a Church of Universal Monotheïsm would be an institutional, codified expression of these values along with rituals devised to celebrate them.

Some members of the party, including its sole sitting Delegate, Salkar Larabor, are communicants of the Kiravian National Church.

An internal survey conducted by the party found that 50% of its supporters identified as "Theïst - Unaffiliated" or "Theïst - Irreligious", 20% as members of a Coscivian religion, 15% as Christian, and 5% as _______ist, and 10% as secular or other.