New Order

One of the major planks of support for the New Order was a drive toward rampant militarism. Enormous sums of credits were earmarked for the renovation of both old and venerable military academies on thousands of worlds as well as the construction of new facilities. A continual emphasis was placed on the apparently contradictory concept that in order to achieve eternal peace, the galaxy must be continually at war. That despite possessing and building the greatest and strongest military ever seen, there existed dangerous enemies who lurked in the shadows, prepared at any time to move against the proponents of peace should the let down their guard.

In the early days of the New Order, much is made of the need for the newly established Galactic Empire to pacify and bring order to the surrounding "barbaric" regions of space. It is, according the New Order thought, incumbent upon the Human High Culture of the Core worlds to liberate their fellow humans held in either physical or cultural bondage on worlds around distant stars, to achieve unity of culture, of species, and of intent across the galaxy.

Xenophobia

Central to the rising power of the New Order is the belief that humanity is destined to fully inherit the galaxy by merit of superior genetics, superior culture, and superior morality. Manifesting itself even before the Declaration of the New Order in the form of anti-alien rallies held across the Galactic Core in response to the threat of the alien-dominated Confederacy of Independent Systems during the Clone Wars, in the dawning days of the new Empire, these sentiments would be encouraged to grow.

As the New Order dawns, the re-writing of the Imperial Code of Justice would begin to enshrine principles of human bias into the legal framework of the galaxy, including such principles as the requirement that alien run businesses would be required to register themselves (at elevated fines) with the proper Imperial departments, physical relationships between humans and other alien species would be expressly forbidden, and that non-humans would be barred by law from serving in the rapidly growing Imperial Military.

Sex and Gender

The New Order, though widely accepted and endorsed by many women across the Core Worlds, revealed itself to be strongly anti-feminist in practice. The New Order advocated that the proper place of females was in the home, creating a supportive and strong environment for the soldiers of the Empire, and a safe place for the raising of new sons for the New Era of Power.

This would reveal itself in the strong preference in both government and military for he promotion of male officers and bureaucrats over their perhaps more qualified female co-workers, the subtle and not-so-subtle propaganda push by the government run news networks encouraging women to bind themselves to a man, and to enthusiastically embrace motherhood as not only a health requirement, but as a duty to the state, and steady passage of laws that begin to strip women of their long-granted rights of control over their own finances, inheritance, business, and even body.

Art and Culture

The culture of New Order proponents was ascetic and minimalist except in service to the state, where grand bombast was both encouraged and, in some cases, required. These aesthetics were encouraged throughout the galaxy by the Coalition for Progress, an arm of COMPNOR. The encouragement is towards a form of art that praises the state, the ideals of the New Order, and the fighting spirit of the military. Any form of art that could be accused of "sapping the will" of the people, either through an exploration of darker themes or, worse, concepts that could be termed seditious, was to be shunned.

Despite this, there existed a sharp dichotomy in Imperial culture. On one hand, there was certainly a change from the artistic vibrancy of the Galactic Republic. On the other, the privileged élites of the Core Worlds that formed the ruling class of the Empire often attended soirées, fêtes, and balls. These fortunate few enjoyed a charmed existence under the Empire where Human-produced operas and artwork presented a sort of intellectual renaissance, at the expense of non-Human or politically "subversive" art.

Social Class

Much was made in the New Order of the inherent "goodness" and morality of the common man, and many of the highest ranking officials in the advent of the New Order were so-called simple men who rose high on the back of their talent and ambition. This emphasis, though, swiftly disappeared in the reality of the support garnered by the relatively wealthy and supremely influential old money houses of the Core, leading, in practice, to a principle more akin to a plutocratic and autocratic governance.

The old noble families of the Core Worlds, almost uniformly, found great power and prestige to be open to them as the natural tendency of empire settled onto the shoulders of the aristocracy and the capitalist elite. There was soon a sharp contrast between the highly cultured and Core World biased political elite and officer corp and the comparatively middle class bulk of bureaucrats, functionaries, and enlisted soldiers.

Economic Practice

Following the Clone Wars, the Empire started a process of stabilization and expansion of the economy. The dawning of the Galactic Empire and the advent of the New Order would see an unprecedented move by the central government towards a process of centralization, nationalization, and deregulation. Corporate interests who align themselves early on with the New Order will see their power and wealth grow a million-fold as they are hand-picked to succeed in the new paradigm of the galaxy. Those companies who are slow to embrace the changes of the Empire will find themselves drowned in red-tape, arbitrary inspects, and in some cases, outright nationalization.

In support of the process of "humanification" of the galaxy, virtually all of the alien held business interests of the Confederacy will be absorbed by the government, their assets chopped up and divided among Palpatine's greatest supporters. The other worlds of the new Empire will be steadily subjected to the COMPNOR Coalition for Progress and Coalition for Improvements, and their economies and infrastructure brought in line with the ideals of the New Order.

Religion and the Force

In the sphere of religion in general, the New Order took a strongly humanist view, seemingly interested in substituting loyalty to the state for any overtly religious thinking, though attacks on religion were not truly central to it's core philosophy.

On the subject of the Force, however, the New Order took a strongly skeptical stance, denouncing the Jedi Order as a cult of magicians, an order of oppressive monks who used tricks and nonsense to convince the galaxy they had powers surpassing that of the average man. To the New Order, there was no such thing as magic, the Force, or any such myth, and belief in such things simply held back the believer from unlocking his own true potential.