Barmenistan Council of Intellectualism

The Sozialdarwinist Rat vom Übermensch (SRVU) is a political party, youth organization, philosophical organization, media monopoly, atheist front, trade union, and student group in Barmenistan, founded by Übermensch Friedrick Nietzsche XVII. It's headquarters is located in Ekde in the Barmenistan state of Ikegaru.

History
The idea of the Sozialdarwinist Rat vom Übermensch (SRVU) was conceived on the Saturday night of the 14th of May, 2467, in the back of Fado's, the campus nightclub of Nietzsche University, situated in the outskirts of Ekde in the state of Ikegaru.

However, it did not begin as a political party there, but merely as an organization of some two dozen friends with philosophical motive, namely the philosophies of Friedrick Nietzsche and Social Darwinism.

These two dozen or so college students would meet three nights a week in the back of Fado's and would discuss philosophy and politics over coffee and liquor. This soon grew more into a fellowship pack, and revised variants of Nietzsche philosophies became inconspicuously portrayed in the works of all those involved.

As the group became ever more active, parties and events were thrown in the community, rallies were organized, and the traditional student government was overthrown. The membership had risen into the thousands. These students became discontented with the way things were and the direction they were going in Barmenistan, and decided to start taking wider action.

Like a virus, the movement had spread to many private college campuses, even a few public ones; sweeping the nation, even infiltrating the campuses of mainly private secondary schools, and gaining a large following with the intellectual youth on the internet as well.

Not only did the SRVU take schools by storm, taking in a majority of the students as members in nearly every school, but consistently it overthrew the student governments and parent-teacher associations and began forcing reform on the private educational system.

While the SRVU dominated the educational environments, it simultaneously began setting up other youth groups and programs while even acting as a labor union, recruiting mass amounts of fresh white-collar employees new to the workforce to the union, in exchange for representation, even conquering some businesses by forcing employee-buyouts.

Mass media directed towards the intellectual youth soon became puppets of the SRVU, as well as many Atheist and Agnostic fronts and organizations.

The SRVU went on to claim seats in its second election; being the second-largest party and holding the position of President.

This however, has brought about conflict between it and the United Party of Church and "People" (UPCP) and the "Progress" Party, who also claimed large amounts of seats on their first elections.

This has been solved by another election, which found that the SRVU actually gained seats, so apparently the statement made by the UPCP that the SRVU did not represent the people was false. The SRVU has made attempts to compromise once again with the UPCP and the Traviscist Party in a cabinet coalition.

Yet, more troubles are growing between the UPCP and the "Progress" Party with the SRVU. However, this will probably not be solved by another early election, but rather, the next one.

However, the party was not originally named the Socialdarwinist Rat vom Übermensch, but was originally entitled the Nihilist Council of Social Darwinism. This was the name labeled not just on the political party, but on everything that the council had control over and had affected. However, as described in the works of Friedrick Nietzsche, nihilism would inevitably lead to carelessness and apathy, and most importantly, to the becoming of the üntermensch, or roughly translated as "the last man." Friedrick Nietzsche had, soon after the next election, moved on from the temporary state of nihilism, the lowest point in the pit between ape and übermensch, or superman, superhuman, or sometimes called overman, onto the point of übermensch.

Consequently, the name of the party was changed to reflect this, originally and temporarily to Barmenistan Council of Social Darwinism, but finally to the Sozialdarwinist Rat vom Übermensch, which, in German, roughly translates to the "Social Darwinist Council (or advice) of the Übermensch", or superman, overman, superhuman, or whatever one prefers to translate the word to. Thus, more reflecting of the party's base ideologies.

Recent Developments
On June 13, 2473, the Sozialdarwinist Rat vom Übermensch had decided to become a political party, as well as a student group, youth organization, media giant, atheist/agnostic front, philosophical organization, and trade union.

In the past three elections, the SRVU has held a dominance over Barmenistan, in both the executive and legislative branches.

Recently, for the first time, a reorganization has undergone within the party when Friedrick Nietzsche XVII lost the inter-party elections for Archon to Vladimir Harrison. Harrison is from an internal party within the SRVU called the Devolutionist Party, and the ideology is devolutionism, or confederation.

Because of this reorganization, the name is expected to change, and possibly the colors and the symbols.

Legislation
So far, it has brought great change to Barmenistan. Notably, the most important of its achievements so far was that it brought about an absolute ban on religion. It also made the Arctic Wolf the national animal, as well as allowed all foreign embassies on Barmenistan soil. It has made all corporations run by democratic workers' cooperatives, and made made higher education free for all citizens of Barmenistan. It also restricted smoking from places of employment, curtailing a great deal of illness incurred from second-hand smoke. It has made Barmenistan more democratic by requiring trade unions to hold ballots before strikes while it championed civil rights by granting absolute freedom of assembly, banning eminent domain, and banning search and seizure within private residences. It has also succeeded in freeing the market further after the corporations were required to be run by DWCs. Search and seizure was banned from private residences for the sake of "finding illegal aliens," absolute free assembly has been created, public pensions made voluntary, welfare abolished, and guns legalized.

The SRVU has also increased the educational budget tremendously, as well as making all education and healthcare private, but all education paid by the state, regardless of the privatization of the services. Just as well, the SRVU has deregulated domestic animals, legalized the trade in exotic animals and endangered animals, made the government require environmentally friendly cars, mandate recycling, and make the national government responsible for all waste disposal, as well as increase the pollution restrictions on industry It has also barred the extradition of all citizens and reduced foreign aid only to tied aid.

Furthermore, it has abolished unfair software patents, and deregulated the prices of prescription drugs, as well as forced the state to encourage vaccinations for children, and granted the power to use WMDs at discretion to the national government.

It has also lowered the age of majority to 17, legalized prison labor, and outlawed torture.

Proposals
Now that it has been recently reorganized, the upcoming election may bring devolutionist/confederate proposals on behalf of the SRVU.

Ideological Analysis
The party has been misunderstood with regards to its views towards military and war, and has been labeled slightly pacifist; this is absolutely false.

However, it is hoped these false analysis of its views will change the longer standing the party is, and the political positioning in the general public eye will become more clear in the near future.