The policy, as implemented, included numerous changes to the state and to private life, including the renaming of the Congo and its cities, as well as an eventual mandate that Zairians were to abandon their Christian names for more "authentic" ones.
實施的政策包括對國家和私人生活的許多改變，包括重新命名剛果民主共和國及其城市，以及最終使扎伊爾人放棄他們的基督教名稱以獲得更多“真實”的名字。