Nourishment Insurrection Cycle

The Nourishment Insurrection Cycle is a highly-regarded postulate supported by large quantities of empirical evidence and known for its wide applicability as a descriptor for areas of political instability.

The base axiom of the cycle is this: any people whose cultural cuisine consists of exclusively "wet food" (that is, every dish is covered in gravy) are prone to political unrest. This is due to the fact that gravy is neither satisfying nor filling; thus, the whole populace is walking around feeling hungry and unsatisfied. Such a condition predisposes people to feeling anxious and irritated—emotions which they naturally direct towards their government as they see no others responsible for their discomfort (and indeed no one is).

Without a channel to release them, these unchecked emotions build—piling the civil turmoil higher and higher until reaching the breaking point of political upheaval. However, the release is fleeting and the civil turmoil soon resurfaces—this time supplemented with discontentment and unrest. Eventually these feelings all come crashing down in a process that typically yields beheadings and banishment. This period is then followed by a very brief moment of happiness before delving back into anxiousness and irritation.

And so goes the Nourishment Insurrection cycle—repeating itself over and over again in a seemingly unbreakable chain of political instability that leaves many people dissatisfied and a large number of them dead. Since the real root cause of the bickering and infighting (gravy) is never actually addressed (nor may it even be identified), the cycle typically continues for thousands and thousands of years.