Sociocultural week
The sociocultural week is one of Illuminatia's widely-observed but not officially-designated cyclical subdivisions of the Annual Unit (AU) into several smaller week-like groups of Circadian Units (DU). The sociocultural week has been widely adopted among arts and cultural institutions, social and personal observances, and social and cultural practices relating to thought traditions.
The sociocultural week is 12 DU in length. The 216 DU Annual Unit is divided equally into 18 sociocultural weeks. The sociocultural week contrasts with the administrative week, which is shorter and is observed primarily in the governmental and commercial realms.
While the administrative week is almost universally adopted for most official administrative purposes, the sociocultural week is nearly unanimously observed in the social and cultural elements of Illuminatians' personal lives and also reigns supreme among workers and artisans in the visual and performing arts as well as clerics and adherents of the thought traditions.
The Department of Standards and Measures (DSM) does not officially recognize or acknowledge the sociocultural week as a standard unit of measurement of time.
Details
The sociocultural week, as observed, commonly utilizes a 4 DU on, 1 DU off, 4 DU on, 1 DU off cycle, though many applications of the sociocultural week instead utilize the 8 DU on, 4 DU off cycle instead. The 8/4 cycle maximizes contiguity of the workdays and weekend days for people whose work is governed by the sociocultural week, which many Illuminatians perceive boosts productivity and enhances personal enjoyment during "weekends." On the other hand, the 4/1/4/1 cycle allows for shorter, less-strenuous "workweeks" with more frequent weekends.
Understanding of the sociocultural workweek must keep in mind that the typical Illuminatian wake-sleep cycle spans 2 DU, so one's waking day will include two workdays and one's weekend or day-off will include one wake-sleep cycle but two sunrise-sunset cycles. Unlike the administrative week, with the sociocultural week there is no vestigial week at the end of the Annual Unit because the 216 DU Annual Unit can be evenly divided by 18 sociocultural weeks.
Background
The unofficial but near-universal adoption of either an sociocultural week and/or a administrative week in Illuminatia is thanks primarily to the early Illuminatian government's unwillingness to adopt a cyclical subdivision of the Annual Unit for the purpose of parsing time into lengths longer than the Circadian Unit but shorter than the AU, akin to the Earthly seven-day week.
To align with Lucidus guidelines for populating and developing Neonisi which encouraged efficiency, authorities resisted adopting any official cyclical division of time akin to a "week" due to a concern for creating bursty and intermittent cycles affecting the utilization of resources and provision of services. It was understood such cyclical functionality of society and commerce could easily undermine the success of the Illuminatian civilization through the inefficiencies and dangers associated with the up-and-down cycle of the workweek and the weekend.
Nonetheless, the adoption of an unofficial organic once-every-ten DU cycle by various Illuminatian governmental entities eventually led to the rise of the administrative week. Meanwhile, the innate desire among humans for a cyclical subdivision of the Annual Unit led social, cultural, and personal observances to organically adopt the once-every-twelve DU cycle of the sociocultural week.