[Qabiil, Biliqo iyo Cuqdad]

Indeed one could certainly see it like that.

It's missing the religious elements, only the clan politics and xeer are there, so everything has to be resolved by blood money (diya) or obliteration.

Knowing this, there are actually a few interesting political tactics that I doubt many of you are aware of, but have been standards of Somali warlords for millenia.

[Qabiil, Biliqo iyo Cuqdad]

Looks interesting, i have always been interested in clan based societies and the Somalis are a very good example of that.

From what I can see, CyberNations is a hard core clan based society, with deep Cuqdad issues.

[Qabiil, Biliqo iyo Cuqdad]

Although many different geopolitical theories have analyzed the state of Bob's power politics, I believe it fundamentally comes down to several different factors.

At the most base level, all nations want Biliqo, which in Ogaden is looted wealth, property and critical resources.

In order to gain more Biliqo, and to defend their own resources from becoming Biliqo, related groups of Tol or communities gather together to form a Qabiil, a clan.

On Bob, this Biliqo manifests as national strength, prestige and influence, which is a zero-sum game. When one Qabiil gains prestige, strength and influence, all others are weakened as their relative strength in comparison to the total amount of world power is diminished.

The greatest fear of every Qabiil is that it will one day fail to keep up with the race to remain where they are, let alone advance, and will fall behind and become Langaab, a weak ex-power and become subsumed into another Qabiil, to become a mere branch of another Qabiil.

At the same time, this is the exact desire of the Qabiil who are, at the time, on top. Constant efforts are undertaken to subsume related Qabiil beneath the larger, more powerful Qabiil's umbrella, by making themselves the only defense against their property becoming the Biliqo of other large and hostile Qabiil.

It is this "$@ blocking" of the aquisition of Biliqo from small Qabiil, and the rivalry between the large Qabiil, that leads to Cuqdad.

Cuqdad is the institutionalized blame, suspicion and hostility of a Qabiil for all the evils of the universe, real or imagined. Someone with Cuqdad does not need a reason to dislike or even hate ordinary members of the Qabiil upon which they have Cuqdad, the fact that they are part of that Qabiil is enough. Cuqdad can be easily spotted when someone's demeanor changes instantly once they discover someone's Qabiil affiliation.

Cuqdad, once institutionalized, never entirely vanishes. The Qabiil to which the Cuqdad is held need only exist to offend the holder.

Once everyone has forgotten why the Cuqdad existed in the first place, it becomes a force in its own right. It becomes its own reason, it's own excuse.

Thus we arrive at our current state of affairs.

(OOC: Apologies to the Somali nation for borrowing various aspects of clan politics to apply to CyberNations, but I saw too many parallels to pass it up)