This website is for a worldbuilding project centering on a country called the Rosen Commonwealth. This project takes a lot of inspiration from Hobart Phillips’ Vekllei (Link: MillMint), which was the inspiration for the central country of this project - the Rosen Commonwealth. I find it very impressive and I would advise you check it out for a full understanding of what I try to accomplish with this project. This website is made possible by Obsidian (Link: Obsidian) and Quartz 4 (Link: Quartz).
The Avaya Project, and its focus, the Rosen Commonwealth, envisions an imperfect kind of utopia, imagining a future world that can be both beautifully humane and distressingly unfair. Running through the core of the project is the Commonwealth’s long-standing ideological dilemma: whether it sticks to its socialistic principles or moves pragmatically in an increasingly dangerous world.
The utopia on the inside of the Commonwealth is an escape for me and my ideas of how a society could be organized differently. These components serve to critique, in a way, other kinds of socialism, capitalism, and hyper-consumerism.
I try to cover as many aspects of the Commonwealth as I can. Like ideology, elements of the Commonwealth reflect things I’m interested in: more work tends to goes into rail transport or urban development than the military or geography. There’s no cohesive storyline or protagonist in this project; the scale is too big to focus on just one person. However, I do include several characters in my work that serve to develop something more human-scale.
This project serves to legitimize worldbuilding as a hobby to myself, and to share what I put so much time into.
Happy reading!
Jacob Petersen