Arvoosaan

Arvoosaan is a fictional concept introduced in contemporary speculative fiction and worldbuilding to describe a comprehensive system for assigning value to actions, people, and objects within a society or artificial agent. The word is a constructed term with no established etymology in any real language. In its typical usage, arvoosaan refers to a value calculus that blends ethical, economic, ecological, and social metrics to guide decision making. Depending on the author, it may operate as an algorithmic governance mechanism, a ritualized cultural practice, or a normative framework embedded in institutions.

Characteristically, arvoosaan frameworks attempt to encode complex trade-offs: efficiency versus equity, short-term gains versus long-term resilience, and individual rights versus communal welfare. Proponents portray it as a way to harmonize disparate values, while critics warn it can suppress dissent or entrench power if biases are baked into the valuation criteria.

Origin and adoption: It emerged in modern worldbuilding and transmedia storytelling in the 2010s and 2020s, with variances across authors and media, from novels to tabletop games to digital simulations. In some narratives, arvoosaan functions as a dashboard that assigns numerical scores to social actions; in others, it is a ceremonial weighting process conducted by councils.

Arvoosaan serves as a thought experiment to interrogate how societies quantify value and who gets to decide what counts as valuable.