The constitution of Raikoth is an anomalously short document. It reads:
This was compounded for a while by official insistence that the Platonic ideal of The Good was both Head of State and Head of Government, with the Risurion-Silk cited once again as the means to resolve any philosophical dilemmas this might cause.In all cases, the Shining Garden of Kai-Raikoth will act in the best possible way.
In ambiguous situations, "best" will be determined according to the process described in the Risurion-Silk
So suffice it to say the Risurion-Silk is a pretty important book.
The Apollonians who fled the Audente Empire to found Raikoth did so under the belief that there was some form of government more virtuous than the tyrannical and arbitrary decisions of an Emperor. From the beginning, Raikothin philosophers wrote various tracts and tomes trying to figure out exactly what this form of government would be, coming up with some solutions that worked relatively well in practice but always wanting to solve the general problem. During the Fallow Time, philosophers became more aware that the solution to the general problem involved a complete and mathematical specification of morality or right action; if you always knew exactly what was moral, you could just do that.
The local philosophy community had been tending toward utilitarianism for a long time, but they shifted from philosophical underpinnings to the creation of an "engineering branch" of ethics which tried to produce ways to aggregate utility into a coherent social plan. Most of the early ones failed miserably, beset by paradoxes or edge cases or just people arguing with each other on what the proper values of certain constants would be.
After several centuries, the field advanced enough to allow very cautious integration of silkl (literally "logics") into some simple areas of government. The experience gained helped philosophers and mathematicians progress further, and by 4300 the main problem was an embarrassment of different and contradictory approaches, each with certain strengths and weaknesses.
Enter Egi Risurion. Probably the greatest prodigy to arise from the heavily-eugenicked islands in five hundred years (his last name is a cognomen meaning "genius" granted to him by a teacher at age six) he spent his early years in the monastery of Istiban voraciously studying existing silkl and eventually merging the strongest features of each into a single coherent system that represented the pinnacle of the field. But his claim was stronger: not just that his work approximated what we mean by "morality" better than any of the existing logics, but that it was an exact specification of what was meant by morality, that any disagreement was wrong.
The Risurion-Silk consists of nine books:
1. The Determination Of Preference
2. The Projection Of Preferences Toward Aleitheic Equilibrium
3. The Normalization Of Preference To A Semiconsistent Celestial Form
4. The Maintenance of Ideaspatial Fences
5. The Aggregation Of Preferences In A Timeless Counterfactual Parliament
6. The Creation of Communions
7. The Creation And Cessation of Minds
8. The Dissolution of Paradoxes and Infinities
9. The Echelon of Axiological Types
Risurion managed to convince the Priests of Joy and Nithi Kirenion to adopt his work as the epitome of everything they had sought to produce, and he suceeded Kirenion as High [Untranslatable]. During his rule, the relatively weak computer system P.A.R.A.G.O.N. was updated to a machine running the Risurion-silk which would later become known as the Angel of Preference. And the Vankarha Karmatenl Kadhame, or Academy of Kadhamic Scholars, agreed that the Kadhamic language would drop its previous translations of the word "good" in favor of a phrase that translated literally as "increasing the function described in the Risurion-silk."
The most controversial part of the Risurion-Silk was Book 7, The Creation of Communions. In combination with several chapters of Book 4, it proposed that, although the discussion and study of forms of logic antithetical to the Risurion-Silk was to be permitted, their practice should be discouraged and their explicit practitioners were to be excluded from the Raikothin nation-state. Termed "heretical logics", in many cases their practitioners went underground or founded alternate self-sufficient communities, such as Phaye Takurion's monastery on Mt. Drachumve. Most of these died out after a few decades, although the monastery of Enkaeban still uses its own heretical code of Enkae-Silk.
It was the completion of the Risurion-Silk that allowed Raikoth to move from a traditional state to the model of the Shining Garden, in which all things naturally tend toward perfection. The entire point of the Shining Garden is to maximize the output of its Risurion-Silk function, which corresponds to creating a perfect nation.
The official position of the Vankarha Sui Mek is that the Risurion-Silk also perfectly describes the good for foreign nations, but that these foreign nations may without transgression choose to form separate communions that pursue the Risurion-Silk independently. The Risurion-Silk, they say, forms an infallible guide both to determining the borders of these communions and to determining how they should interact. Once the entire world operates according to its rules, these communions will form a macrocommunion under the Risurion-Silk while still maintaining their individual character. That communion will work as a single organism to bring the world to absolute perfection in the most effective manner possible.
This is why the Risurion-Silk is sometimes also called yyevidaimi patapatn sumrlaister, or "the step by step manual for the manifestation of God".