Political parties of Teppala

This list of political parties on planet Teppala is ordered by date, then by geographic region, then by popularity. There is no alphabetization, either in English or in the parties' founders' languages.

Political parties of prehistoric Nama

Nama's Mirror Project allowed all political parties a piece of Naman territory, even those that were at war with Nama.

Political parties of the 4100s

This period will get a better name, as nothing in particular happened in the year 4100 to separate it from the previous era.

Political parties of Halasala

Halasala was an enormous empire run by AlphaLeap from the occupied capital of Paba.

Leapers

The Leaper party was the party loyal to AlphaLeap.

Play

The Play party (Latiki) was founded around the year 4127 by Pabaps fighting the #Leapers' occupation government which had invaded them about twenty years earlier. Its leadership was entirely female, and adult males were not allowed to participate or even to attend meetings of the party elites. However, they did not advance women's rights, but rather children's rights: the civilian population in 4127 was more than 80% children, and of these, more than half were under the age of six. Players can also be called Spinners in English because of an alternate reading of the name's etymology.

The Play party platform was focused on child care and children's issues generally, as there was little time for anything else.

1. Gender roles: Players supported strict gender roles; all adult males were required to serve in the military, and all adult females were required to care for children, with attention first for their own children and then for the many orphans who lived among them. Soldiers were required to obtain their own food.
2. Education: Child labor was abolished; Player children simply refused to work. The Play party promised a school system would soon be built, to replace the schools destroyed by AlphaLeap, but only after they had won their war.

   Intuition: Because the Leapers had not allowed their subject peoples to attend school, Players relied on their emotions to make decisions on party policy, and therefore most decisions were made by large groups of women rather than by single people.

3. Food supply: Neither women nor children were allowed to work on farms, so Paba's farmland went to waste as Pabaps turned to the sea to feed themselves. All fishing was done by children, since women were consumed with the duties of child care. Furthermore, the Play party soon banned all adults from the seashore, so international trade was abolished. All restaurants were closed, and families were told to cook their fish on their own. (Fishing was not specifically addressed in the original Play party platform, and so therefore was not considered to be a form of work.)
4. Hygiene: Hygiene was abolished as taking baths and maintaining stocks of cleaning supplies were made difficult by the war and the prohibition of child labor. All clothing production was stopped, and damaged clothes were thrown into piles in city centers. Public nudity soon became common. When diseases began to spread through the Player population, the Players nevertheless remained firmly against hygiene and claimed that strong people could weather diseases that would kill the weak.
5. Equality: As the Players were all former slaves, they abolished hierarchies and shared power communally. The food supply was still privatized, but citizens were allowed to sell property to obtain money to buy more food.

When the empire of Dreamland heard that the Players had overthrown their masters and set up an all-female government, they decided the time was ripe to invade. The Player women immediately surrendered the vast majority of their empire to Dreamland and promised not to fight back unless the Dreamers continued on after their conquest to also invade the capital city of Paba and its surroundings.