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'''Zhangwo''' or Mastery of the Material is the guiding national ethos of the [[Corummese people]] and their [[Republic of Corumm|State]]. It is a belief in the superior cultural, moral and racial worth of Corummese people and their special place in the history of not just [[Alshar]] but the world. The term Zhangwo was coined in 680 by the First Minister and philosopher Heian Xiujian in a treatise describing the foreign policies of the Yang dynasty and his justifications of external conquest by claiming the material world as the divinely granted inheritance of the Corummese race. Later intellectuals sponsored by various dynasties would further expound on notions of racial and cultural superiority veering on arrogance and xenophobia, ideas that further seeped into the public consciousness upon contact and conflict with non Corummese polities such as the expansionist Muslim caliphates, nomads from the northern plains and western explorers. In the modern era the [[Party of Corummese Democrats]] has appropiated the concept of Zhangwo and mutated it to serve its own geopolitical ends, using it to justify national involvement in the Deluge as a paramount national effort to neuter hostile and inferior peoples and aggrandize [[Corumm]] at their expense, a vital step on the road to fulfilling the nation's destiny of world conquest.

==Etymology==