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'''Sjowaázh eñZóol''' (''soo-WAHZH en-ZOOL''; [[Sjowaázh|High Sjowaázh]]: /stsʊwɑ̌ːʐ̊ ɛⁿzûːl/ 'Sjowaázh home'), often simply called '''Zóol''' ([[Eevo]]: ''Zwl'') by foreigners, is a country in [[Verse:Tricin/Txapoalli|Txapoalli]]. It is loosely based on "What if British people made anime?"
'''{{SUBPAGENAME}}''' (''soo-WAH-bit''; [[Suwáá]]: /sʊ̀wáːbɪ́ʔ/ lit. 'place of the good people'; [[Eevo]]: ''Swłábig''), is an island country and a unitary parliamentary constitutional monarchy. The current King is King [really long name] and the current Prime Minister is Gáadeénsoq Heqehtáa.
The capital of {{SUBPAGENAME}} is Onápan, whose full name is [really long].
 
{{SUBPAGENAME}} is a developed country and ranks as the tenth largest economy in Hmøøh by nominal GDP.
 
The official language of {{SUBPAGENAME}} is [[Suwáá]]. [[Tveðo]] is spoken as a minority language.
==Anthem==
The lyrics are taken from a Classical Suwáá poem written in the year 1089 fT. The music, composed by Wounzéyi, is in the traditional Suwáá style.


Its capital is 'Onáp'aañ.
==Geography==
==Geography==
Should be big enough for dialects to thrive
{{SUBPAGENAME}} is an archipelago in the southern hemisphere of Tricin, with three main islands. It has a subtropical climate.
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==History==
===Medieval period===
Classical Sowaár was used until the beginning of the modernization period (200 years BP?) Modern High Sowaár was codified around the beginning of the modernization period (150 years BP).


Sjowaázh eñZóol is an archipelago with three main islands.
===Modernization===
*Aristocracy starts to modernize {{SUBPAGENAME}} in response to colonialists' demands but they hit popular opposition due to economic impact from increased trade
*Aristocracy retains control over govt, but in response to massive riots they throw the people a bone and slowly roll out parliamentary democracy
===Silphium Wars===
{{SUBPAGENAME}} fought on the side of Fyxoom and Anbir in the [[Verse:Tricin/Silphium Wars|Silphium Wars]] (110 years BP?).


==Pop culture==
==Pop culture==
Modern Sjowaázh pop culture, such as animation and video games, grew out of the influence of [[Verse:Tricin/Naquiz|Naquian]] theaterism, native theater and literature, and modern global pop culture. Due to the popularity of Sjowaázh pop culture across the globe, [[Sjowaázh]] varieties are commonly learned by Sjowaázhophile otakus.
Modern Sowaár pop culture is dominated by comic books and animation. Sowaár comics and animation grew out of the influence of [[Verse:Tricin/Naquiz|Naquian]] theaterism, native theater and literature, and modern global pop culture. Sowaár comics and animation enjoy popularity across the globe like Japanese anime and manga on Earth. Some of the pop culture produced is pornography, which has contributed to the Bitaletan stereotype of Sowaár people as outwardly polite and prudish but wild behind closed doors. In {{SUBPAGENAME}} itself, "overconsumption" of pop culture is stigmatized, and many think that much pop culture is produced for the lowest common denominator. Posher people tend to prefer Northern (Bitaletan)-style live-action films and novels to comics and animation.
 
The art style of Sowaár comics and animation is much less uniform than in Japanese anime and manga. Early styles were partly based on the stylized costumes and makeup used in traditional Sowaár plays.
 
==Music==
:''Main article: [[{{FULLSUBPAGENAME}}/Music]]
 
==Cuisine==
Many Sowaár people, even the more conservative ones, are vegans and vegetarians.


==Elite usic==
Sowaár recipes are centered around flatbreads; various vegetables; fish, meat, eggs or seitan, commonly used with spices available from the region. Rice and dairy products are rare.
(Created by User:IlL)


Traditional Sjowaázh music is monophonic. Like in many spheres of Sjowaázh life, there is a division between elite and folk music. The styles differ not only in the language used (elite music uses [[Sjowaázh|High Sjowaázh]] whereas folk music uses one of the vernacular varieties), but also in instruments, scales and form.
Tea (''sresré'''; both as a standalone drink and the meal sense) is an important part of Sowaár culture. Tea is ground up and prepared in various forms.
==Instruments==
Some Sjowaázh instruments are the lute (''ya'óog''), various spike fiddles such as the erhu (''shjhedgaáñd''), the lyre (''biliiwíd''), various end-blown flutes (''joweét'''), a reed instrument (<i>'awaloós</i>), a large drum (''khoól'') and the woodblock (''ghonyéeñ''). String instruments usually are unfretted but marked at perfect fourths.


==Social context==
*A common breakfast meal is wheat flatbread (''kánrekh'') with proteins, commonly cooked fish, sausage, eggs, and/or seitan, plus some nut butter, served with tea (''sresré'') or coffee (''nerás'') with coconut milk (''hesróo''').
In traditional Sjowaázh elite society, one was expected to able to play music and improvise. Courts would periodically hold improvisation competitions.


==Tuning==
==Fashion==
The Sjowaázh tradition takes a purely melodic, rather than harmonic, approach to tuning, unlike the [[Verse:Tricin/Talma/Music|Talman]] and [[Verse:Tricin/Bjeheond/Music|Bjeheondian]] traditions. Traditionally, the building blocks of Sjowaázh scales are tetrachords or pentachords, i.e. divisions of the perfect fourth into three or four intervals. Innovations over the years have led to finer divisions or "n-chords" of the perfect fourth being used in more "sophisticated" music. Nevertheless, steps in any n-chord are no smaller than about 50 cents.
TODO: traditional upper class and lower class fashion


The general term for a division of the fourth in Sjowaázh is ''hañbaáj'' (pl. ''hañbaajín'').
==Society==
===Class system===
Sowaár class is mainly determined by one's family pedigree. Today, one's class is also determined by education level and the schools one went to. Sowaár politics, which tends center-right, is significantly influenced by the class system. An upper class Sowaár person will typically speak High Sowaár natively, while a middle class speaker will speak a weaker version of their local dialect.


The octave may be divided into two perfect fourths plus one whole tone, to form a scale type known as '' 'áañjh''. However, in monophonic music, the perfect fourths divided into ''hañbaajín'' may even be stacked on top of each other indefinitely, without regard to octave equivalence, a practice called ''shiilyohóokh''. The same ''hañbaáj'' or melody may be imitated a fourth above or below in this case. Or, the melody may be voiced in parallel fourths in an organum-like fashion (the only example of harmony in Sjowaázh music).
Historically, the Sowaár aristocrats were quite powerful and held de facto power over the king - there was not an absolute monarchy. The modernization of {{SUBPAGENAME}} was mostly led by the aristocrats, and the country was officially made into a parliamentary constitutional monarchy as an ostensibly democratic measure.


[[Verse:Tricin/Etsoj Jopah|Etsoj Jopah]] analyzed ''hañbaajín'' in terms of rational divisions of string lengths. More recently, the theorist Woñjéyi proposed representing the Sjowaázh musical system by dividing the octave into 58 equal parts. One of his rationales was that the perfect fourth in 58edo is 24 steps, a highly composite number.
===Traditional gender norms===
*''Tr'aasi'ół entoódreeng'' (Tr'aasi'ół is a poetic name for {{SUBPAGENAME}}; a ''toódreeng'' is a species of Sowaár wildflower) is an archetype of a traditional Sowaár "proper lady". A true ''Tr'aasi'ół entoódreeng'' is polite, nurturing and submissive but has a core of inner strength and will and is willing to defend herself and people she cares about when necessary. In fiction such a character will probably be depicted as speaking Amísreg, or High Sowaár (the cultivated variety of Sowaár).


===Some ''hañbaajín''===
===Social attitudes===
There are some hundreds of ''hañbaajín''.
*Gay sex is legal but gay marriage is not recognized. LGBT people remain somewhat stigmatized, though the stigma is lessening in recent years with more celebrities publicly speaking about being LGBT.


The numbers shown are approximate 58 equal temperament equivalents of step sizes.
==Education==
====Tetrachords====
===Schools===
Sjowaázh tetrachords prefer to keep very large steps in the middle.
State schools, private schools
*''beeky'ógh 'áad'': 11 10 3
*''beeky'ógh jyek'': 10 11 3
*''esyóoñ'': 10 10 4
*''cyáañ'': 9 8 7 (approximately 9:10:11:12)
*''naajyetóh'': 8 8 8 (similar to the equable diatonic genus)
*''seecyáañ'': 7 8 9
*''bajíñd'': 7 7 10
*''slót'an'': 6 6 12
*''ookásdiñ'': 3 19 2
*''moc'aásh'': 2 11 11


====Pentachords====
===Universities===
*''jook'etóh'': 6 6 6 6
Cekhowéx University is the most prestigious Sowaár university. It descends from a premodern upper-class educational institution and is still associated with the upper class.
*''yiilyí'': 7 6 6 5 (approximately 12:13:14:15:16)
*''seeyiilyí'': 5 6 6 7
*''jhatóñsheh'': 3 9 7 3


====Larger ''hañbaajín''====
==Television==
===Channels===
*The '''Sowaár Broadcasting Corporation''' or the '''Sot'oó''' /sʊ̀tʼǔː/ (Sowaár: ''Sowaár tasr la'dat'oóweyin''; gloss: Sowaár 3PL.AN-for SHAPE_"all directions"-3PL.AN-FORM-radiate-NMLZ) are a public broadcasting company. They are the most respected TV news outlet in {{SUBPAGENAME}}, but Sowaár leftists and "soarers" accuse them of pro-NP bias.


==Rhythm==
==Transportation==
Sjowaázh music is typically unmetered. There is a smallest note length, and there may be small basic rhythmic figures in the melody, but the rhythms are not organized into measures. When percussion accompaniment is used, "small" percussion such as woodblocks may sound on each "beat" in the music. The drum marks the beginning and end of sections.


Ceremonial and military music uses duple meters such as 2/4 or 4/4.
==Politics==
{{SUBPAGENAME}} uses first past the post voting. Political engagement is concentrated in the upper middle and upper classes, and many people believe that their political system isn't working for them.
===Parties===
The three largest Sowaár political parties are the National Party, the Social Liberal Party, and the Laborers' Party. Roughly speaking, they represent the upper class, the middle class and the working class respectively. Due to multiple scandals and ongoing investigations that the National Party PM 'Ehebe'ée Tłráahoo was embroiled in, most of the younger fiscally conservative base has migrated to the Social Liberal Party. Much of the Sowaár upper class are National Party or Social Liberal  Party supporters, and some support and donate to Laborers' Party politicians who support policies favorable to the rich.
====Parliamentary representation====
TODO: Sowaár names and abbreviations
*<font color=#FFCC10>'''Social Liberal Party'''</font> (SLP; lit. Free Society Party 27%): liberal, center-right
*<font color=red>'''Laborers' Party'''</font> (LP; Sowaár: ''Wolaanc'ín daJá'anem''; 24%): center-left, liberal, socdem, socialism
*<font color=blue>'''National Party'''</font> (NP; 20%): center-right, nationalist
*<font color=magenta>'''Let Us Soar Party'''</font> (1PL-IMPER-rise-ground; 7%): left-libertarian, futurist, transhumanist
**Sometimes derisively called "Let Us Sour Party" (1PL-IMPER-FREQ-be_idle-ground, lit. Let Us Loaf Around in the Mud)
*<font color=maroon>'''National Enlightenment Party'''</font> (NEP; lit. Nation/Ethnicity, Awaken/Realize Now Party; 7%): far-right, ultra-nationalist
*<font color=green>'''Green Party'''</font> (GRN; 6%)
*many independents


==Styles==
===Policy and political rhetoric===
==Notation==
TODO: really galaxy brain political positions like gun rights being a leftist position? / use the most infuriating political arguments I can think of
Much of Sjowaázh music was traditionally improvised. Sjowaázh notation works a little like unheightened neumes: it marks rhythm and rough melodic contours. The ''hañbaáj'' to be used is also indicated. Much is left to the discretion of the performer, however.


In modern times, modern Talman staff notation (assuming a 58edo or 87edo framework) may be used, although this is often deemed less than satisfactory for Sjowaázh music.
{{SUBPAGENAME}} is nominally a social democracy. However, deep welfare and public service cuts have plagued the country under National Party and Social Liberal Party governments.


==Famous musicians and composers==
{{SUBPAGENAME}} is quite nationalist and heavily restricts immigration. Much of the political rhetoric centers around {{SUBPAGENAME}} being the "leader" of Txapoalli but ironically being quite fragile. Its immigration system is similar to Singapore: it allows migrant workers to stay on a temporary basis but becoming a citizen is much more difficult.
*Gyaácl'osh: court composer, erhu player
*Woñjéyi: theorist and composer
*Bishooladéeñd: musician
*'Iñclaáñ: modern artist


==Society and politics==
The conservative wing pursue an austerity-focused agenda while the liberal wing of the country tend to be second-wave-style radical feminists. Both conservatives and liberals tend to be anti-immigration and pro-gun rights.
In the past, Sjowaázh society was strongly stratified by hereditary class and occupation. Today, one's class is also determined by education and the schools one went to, in addition to one's family background. Sjowaázh politics, which tends center-right, is significantly influenced by the class system.


==Religion==
==Religion==
[Sketch]
Religion is not hugely important in Sowaár society. Syncretism (usually of traditional Sowaár shamanism, Naquian theaterism, Hetmic religion, and/or Ngronaism) is common and tolerated. In fact it is considered improper to be overly dedicated to religion, and most shamans are and have been from the lower orders of society.
===Traditional beliefs===
*The Sowaár traditionally believed in a "spirit-complex" which links all spirits together. A spirit leaves the spirit-complex when a person is born, and one's spirit reenters it upon death. This spirit-complex was held to be the source of morality. Since everyone is of the spirit-complex, morality involves both respect for the living and the dead.
*The "Ever-Vigilant Ones" are a different kind of entity in the Spirit-Complex. Depending on who you ask, they never reincarnate as humans


The Sjowaázh traditionally believed in a "spirit-complex". The "spirit-complex" links all spirits together; spirits leave it when a person is born, and his spirit reenters the spirit-complex when he dies.
===Practices===
Shamanism and ancestor veneration is not unusual even in modern Sowaár society. Each shamanistic practice was meant for a different class of spirits in tbe spirit complex (kinda like saints in Catholicism).


This spirit-complex is held to be the source of morality. Since everyone is of the spirit-complex, morality involves both respect for the living and the dead.
==Famous people==-->

Latest revision as of 17:27, 8 May 2023

Suwáábyíq (soo-WAH-bit; Suwáá: /sʊ̀wáːbɪ́ʔ/ lit. 'place of the good people'; Eevo: Swłábig), is an island country and a unitary parliamentary constitutional monarchy. The current King is King [really long name] and the current Prime Minister is Gáadeénsoq Heqehtáa. The capital of Suwáábyíq is Onápan, whose full name is [really long].

Suwáábyíq is a developed country and ranks as the tenth largest economy in Hmøøh by nominal GDP.

The official language of Suwáábyíq is Suwáá. Tveðo is spoken as a minority language.

Anthem

The lyrics are taken from a Classical Suwáá poem written in the year 1089 fT. The music, composed by Wounzéyi, is in the traditional Suwáá style.

Geography

Suwáábyíq is an archipelago in the southern hemisphere of Tricin, with three main islands. It has a subtropical climate.

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