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,
Origin and adoption: It emerged in modern worldbuilding and transmedia storytelling in the 2010s and 2020s,
Arvoosaan serves as a thought experiment to interrogate how societies quantify value and who gets to decide