Shaknuyura

The Shaknuyura (Gergote: šaknūjūra, 'sea of roots' or 'rhizome') is a complex of computerised, networked systems and related political management that is used in Zemay and its marshalates for a variety of purposes revolving around politico-economic cybernetics as envisioned under Vaestic social science (known locally as hypermechanics). Originating in attempts by Tyrumas of Zemay to create a computerised planned economy in the 1970s, the creation of the Shaknuyura began in earnest after the Zemayan Reconstruction, assisted greatly by the country's existing scholarly accomplishments in computing. The extension of various Shaknuyura systems into visible parts of everyday life, however, did not take place until the 2000s. The Zemayan repertoire of electronics and other hardware to support Shaknuyura systems, known as Zhemiuyura, is another of the country's strategic industries.

The Shaknuyura includes the following known components:

• Blue Forest, commercial and scholarly natnet;
• Blue Nest, digital surveillance complex;
• Blue River, street surveillance and predictive policing complex;
• Red Forest, military communications network;
• Red Web, military datalink and battlespace management system;
• Gold Forest, large-scale economic planning and coordination complex;
• Gold River, general digital financial-transactional ledger;
• Gold Road, for employment and technical training allocation;
• Iznovo, community/estate service provision allocation;
• Third Foot, for personal identification, everyday purchases, tracking, and credibility ratings;
• Third Hand, for networking home appliances;
• Nadrava, for peer surveillance and even contributing to the Shaknuyura itself;
• Janitors, decentralised police-informant network, with investigations and operations carried out by temporarily 'activated' civilian partners.

Though reputed as a monolithic instrument of surveillance and economic planning, the components of the Shaknuyura are actually managed and maintained by different bodies (though they nominally meet in a forum known as the Gaut), and technical or bureaucratic faults frequently occur, considerably limiting and hampering the efficiency of the systems involved. The question of whether to centralise or distribute the architecture of the Zemayan state's digital apparatus is a major point of debate among the Pragmata Floor, in turn stalling decisive developments or improvements in any direction. Redundancy and competition over jurisdictions is also a problem, and ensuring compatibility between systems is a major concern of Zemayan Shaknuyura engineers. Advanced and radical prototypes for new systems or overhauls of existing ones have been created by individual Scholars, but further testing or implementation is predictably indefinitely delayed by political deadlocks.