I disagree with the author of this work. I think it very much so brushes aside the Emperor's other cultural heritage and instead heavily focuses on the Emperor's first position within the senate and his home for a time. The better analysis of Palpatine would be Hrarto'agoal'luguro's seminal work "The Emperor: A Critical Anaylsis." It is here, with extensive research of the Emperor's senatorial experience, along with his positions as Chancellor and later as Emperor, we see a much larger picture of the influences that the Emperor had. Here, Hrarto'agoal'luguro argues that the Emperor was influenced by the strong central leadership of the Nabooean government, however it was also the Emperor's galactic experience that largely influenced his formation of the Empire. He saw, not on Naboo, but on Coruscant the corruption, the greed, and the ineffectiveness of the Galactic Republic. It was not his heritage on Naboo that led him to come to the realization, but instead through his time dealing with the corrupt Trade Federation, and ultimately how greedy aliens could be when in power, with the formation of the Confederacy of Independent Systems.

Therefore, I disagree with the "Cultural Analysis" because it ignores the galactic influence on the Emperor and instead only focuses on one facet of the man.

When are the mods going to deal with the naboocentrism everywhere in this subreddit? You can't completely gunganwash history guys.

I would like to know which edition of the Encyclopedia Galactica even talks about some Emperor Palpatine? The Great Hari Seldon would be very disappointed that you people do not know the proper long and glorious history of the Galactic Empire.

I'm guessing that you people are long lost and very confused supporters of The Mule or something.

The consensus among most archaeologists, anthropologists, and xeno-anthropologists is that there is not now, nor has there ever been a single, monolothic "Nabooean" culture as is typically depicted in the media.

Naboo's land masses are so spread out and Galactic culture arrived so late this this planet that there was very little cultural diffusion between populations on Naboo. There are 4-5 (scholar disagree) main branches of human Naboonean culture and 6-7 main branches of Naboonean Gungun culture.

It is Coruscantean bias that leads us to think that the Knoq-lon people (humans; the "stereotypical Nabooean") of Naboo are the be-all, end-all of Nabooean culture even though they represent only 22% of the human Nabooean population (8% of population counting all sentient species).

While this diverges slightly from OP's question, I feel that the historigraphy of the issue needed to be addressed.

It is important to note that the Jedi-sponsored anti-Imperial propaganda films known colloquially and collectively as "Star Wars" are a major attempt to discredit Emperor Palpatine's solely benevolent rule, and are not a reliable source to draw from. Were there problems in the Empire? Yes, of course. Show me a single galactic government that doesn't have any. Really, though, those libelous films simply show falsehoods, and display the former Republic government's inability to staunch rebellious behaviour in its citizens.

Edit: Source is Empire and Me: an Imperial Autobiography by Sheev Palpatine. This book has been checked over by numerous scholars, and found to be 100% factual, under the pain of death.

If Palpatine were to spread Naboo culture across the galaxy, it might be reflected in architecture, starship design aesthetics, Gungan bubble technology, artwork, or something along those lines, but look at what actually came out of the Empire: stark, cold, grey, sharply geometric designs, soldiers armored in mass-produced variants on Mandalorian armor, a strict commitment to military discipline and warfare, all pointing to a distinctly Mandalorian culture and proving that the "Emperor" was just a pawn for the Mandalorian Death Watch conspiracy!

Back on Mandalore, the Death Watch managed to take over the pacifist New Mandalorian regime in a matter of days and reconquer the planet less than a year before the rise of the Empire, and the Empire even set up an Imperial Academy there! You're going to just call that coincidence? What more proof do you need?

WAKE UP, SHEEPLE

It's an interesting proposition, but it does raise the question: What, really, was Naboo's culture? By Palpatine's own admission, much of Naboo's culture was an imitation of the Core Worlds; Naboo was located in the Outer Rim, but it was culturally much closer to the Colonies. With its petty nobility and affectations of high art and and opera, Naboo was a reflection of the Core Worlds.

It is interesting to note that Palpatine's closest allies were from worlds that similarly mimicked the Core, though there were few actual Core Worlders in his Inner Circle. Whilhuff Tarkin, who Palpatine placed in command of the entire Outer Rim ("Oversector Outer," in typically overblown New Order parlance), was from Eraidu, another Rim world with delusions of grandeur. State Pestage, the Emperor's vizier and all-around fixer, was from Cituric IV, an Outer Rim world. By contrast, Kuat Drive Yards was by far the Empire's largest military contractor, but no Kuati were part of the Emperor's inner circle. Relations with Corellia, arguably the Core's greatest power behind Coruscant and Alderaan, remained strained throughout the Imperial period.

Despite this, the Empire enjoyed its greatest support in the Core Worlds. The Navy, with it's heart and brain at Anaxes and Prefsbelt IV THE ACADEMY, enthusiastically supported the Empire even after the Emperor's (first) death. The Emperor's promotion of Human High Culture appealed to the Courscanti elite. And imitation Core World accents were so in style that even Senator Organa occasionally attempted to sound more Coruscanti than Alderaanian.

Thus, I would say that the Empire was a way for Rim-born aspirants for the power and glory of the Core to live out their power fantasies on a galactic scale by assuming, celebrating, and formalizing many aspects of Core World Culture.

Absolutely accurate.

The point to remember is that Nabooean culture is exceedingly Humanocentric. As such, we have to consider the very real possibility that Sheev Palpatine's overarching goal in establishing the Galactic Empire was to promote this (hardly unique) ethos across the galaxy. One needs look no further than D'ast Vereen's seminal treatise on "Moffs of Our Time," in which he documents quite clearly the preponderance of human Moffs who administered entire quadrants of the galaxy inhabited exclusively by non-humans.

A far more intriguing area of study is Palpatine's seeming disregard for human females. I am referencing Sabe Panaka's personal memoirs here more than anything else, wherein she speculates that his disdain for powerful woman stems almost entirely from his experiences with Padme Amidala and her resistance to his machinations with the Trade Federation to overthrown the Nabooean government. Sabe, although not a traditional historian, provides a useful first-hand account of the events of the Nabooean conflict with the Trade Federation. A perhaps more polished account of Palpatine's aversion to females can be gleaned from the biography of Admiral Daala by Gilead Pellaeon. Pellaeon, himself a decorated military veteran, details the rise and fall of this remarkable woman who persevered through the ranks of the Imperial Navy, rising to Admiral. Pellaeon provides first-hand accounts of the anti-female bias ingrained in senior Imperial officers by Palpatine and his inner circle. A recommended read.

I hate to be "that guy," but the proper form of "Nabooean" is actually "Nabooan," which can be verified by the indigenous "Nabooan tusk-cat" species from said planet. Please be sure to get your adjective correct as it can offend those who were born and raised on Naboo (I was born in Theed and lived on the outskirts my whole life).

I guess even Historians need a day off... this reddit is so awesome.

Follow up question: Does this mean that sith-culture is Nabooean in origin?

Actually recent work in Post-Alderanian theory refuses to accept any source that offers a purely Empericentric or Republocentric viewpoints as both are deemed massively tainted by a very outdated binary discourse that fails entirely to take into account the expression of ideas or feelings of those who consider themselves Transgalactic or any of the wide spectrum of what was once dismissed as differently-sentient.

The sooner this sub abandons its adherence to out dated, old fashioned 'galaxy-far-far-awayist' thinking the better.

What? Naboo had a hard-on for democracy, female empowerment, and peaceful coexistence. I had one of its queens murdered for harboring filthy Jedi scum.

It was on the list for the Second Death Star's targets after completion.

Oh come on sheeple, wake up! Palpatine was a plant, a Sith Lord! Everyone tries to brush this under the rug whenever it comes up but, but the Sith Galactic Shadow Government is still strong! These ideas of petty cultural tribalism pales in comparison to the real sinister conspirators in their midst. And I"m sure that I'll be getting a shadowban for trying to expose the Sith pulling the mods' strings!!!

I'm sorry, but there isn't actually any reasonable evidence for that. Nabooean was culture very much centered around a non militaristic standpoint, whereas Emperor Palpatine was thoroughly convinced that the Galaxy's safety would rely on a well trained, funded, maintained, and disciplined military.

In any case his Nabooean heritage only hamstrung his ambitions of protecting his future loyal subjects against any aggression from the unknown sectors of the Galaxy, as several of his political opponents doubted his resolve solely because of that, all of which likely lead to his eventual downfall.

Especially today, it's hard to grasp how his genetic heritage, one which he had spent decades to put aside in the service of the Empire, was simply cast aside due to momentary lapses of judgement, all centered around the heritage, by his political opponents.

There's some validity to this. Prior to the events of EPI, there's a pretty clear divide between humans and gungans, with humans being very much the "superior" species on the planet. Fast forward to the Galactic Empire, and the once diverse and equal republic is reminiscent of pre-EPI Naboo, with non-humans very much as second class citizens.

One major difference though is that the Empire is incredibly militaristic, whereas Naboo has little more than a police force with some nice parade-quality starfighters. I guess there is some influence from Naboo in the Empire, but I don't think Palpetine wanted to model the entire empire on a largely pacifist world.

My astropolemological specialty is theology, not history, but given Palpatine's critical significance to the Banian Sith, this is an area where the fields overlap, and I think I can comment somewhat safely on this.

It's true that Palpatine's upbringing on Naboo played a key part in shaping his policies, but describing it as "spreading Nubian cultural across the galaxy" is incorrect, at least after his very early career.

It is commonly believed that Palpatine cared only for power, but this is an oversimplification of Sith philosophy. In fact, what Palpatine cared for was greatness. He was never a man who was willing to suffer mediocrity. Raised on Naboo, a world that was the very definition of mediocrity, he was constantly frustrated by a culture that seemed content for being second-best. The young Palpatine was driven by a desire to transform his home and culture into a thriving galactic center, a second Coruscant of the Mid-Rim.

After his election to senator, however, Palpatine quickly assimilated into the local culture of Coruscant, becoming a Galactic patriot rather than a Nubian one, and apparently becoming rather embarrassed by his Mid-Rim homeworld. His policies as Emperor, however, mirror the desire for greatness nurtured in his youth - by seizing absolute control over the galaxy, he was able to push Galactic technology to new heights, and begin a new cultural renaissance in the Core Worlds, albeit at great cost.

Nubian.