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The '''Chlouvānem Inquisition''' ([[Chlouvānem|natively]] ''Murkadhānāvi''; [[Verse:Chlouvānem Inquisition#Names|see below for other names]]) is a country on the planet of [[Verse:Calémere|Calémere]] (Chlouvānem: ''Liloejāṃrya''). With a population of 1.469 billion people<ref>Throughout this article, quantities will be specified primarily in the decimal system, despite Chlouvānem using a duodecimal one. Census figures will also be provided in tables as duodecimal numbers. Unmarked numbers are base 10, unless they are expressed using Calemerian measurement units; base 12 numerals have commas and full stops reversed compared to English usage.</ref> it is also its most populated country (counting about 17,8% of the total Calemerian population). It is a federally organized theocracy, consisting of 171 dioceses (''juṃšañāñai'') with a large degree of autonomy; the dioceses are mostly a contiguous territory extending throughout the whole continent of Márusúturon (''Mārṣūtram'' in the Chlouvānem language), covering about half of it; some dioceses are entirely insular in the neighboring seas, though the ''Kāyīchah'' islands are geologically part of Védren, effectively making the Inquisition a transcontinental country. The Inquisition covers approximately 14.4 million square kilometers (about 8% of the land areas on Calémere), which makes it also the largest country on the planet.<br/>
The '''Lands of the Chlouvānem Inquisition''' ([[Chlouvānem]]: ''Chlǣvānumi Murkadhānāvīyi Babhrām''), ceremonially the '''Pure Lands under Guidance of the Inquisition of the Descendants of the Chlamiṣvatrā''' ([[Chlouvānem]]: ''Chlamiṣvatrī Maijuniāvyumi Murkadhānāvīyi Stalyāmite Kailibabhrām''), commonly metonymically referred to as the '''(Chlouvānem) Inquisition''' (''(Chlǣvānumi) Murkadhānāvi''), is a [[w:Federalism|federal]] [[w:Socialist state|socialist]] [[w:Theocracy|ecclesiocratic]] state on the planet [[Verse:Calémere|Calémere]] (Chl.: ''Liloejāṃrya''), composed of 171 largely autonomous Diœceses (''juṃšañāñai'') and various dependencies scattered around the planet. It is a [[w:Political_party#Nonpartisan_systems|non-partisan]] state where central power is held by the top ranks of the Inquisition, an organized ecclesiastical body that preaches and regulates the canonical accepted beliefs of the [[Verse:Yunyalīlta|Yunyalīlta]], a religion founded on the teachings of the philosopher ''Lelāgṇyāviti'', usually referred to with the name of '''Chlamiṣvatrā''' ("Golden Master"); decentralized government levels are formed by local assemblies (Synods, in Chl. ''galьtirai''), the lowest-level ones being formed in every non-private workplace, sub-parish-level district, factory, or barracks. Its dominant political ideology is Yunyalīlti Communism, a hybrid ideology that integrates [[w:Communism|communist]] doctrines into the core Yunyalīlti guidelines of society.
Counted as separate entities are also many territories - mostly islands with military bases or scientific stations - across the planet; the most notable of those is the ''Lalla Kehamyutia'' (“High North”), jointly governed with Askand, Skyrdagor, and Brono, which is a large but almost uninhabited territory (mostly tundra) consisting of the whole part of Eastern Márusúturon north of the 68th parallel north.


Capital of the Inquisition is the holy city of the [[Verse:Yunyalīlta|Yunyalīlta]], ''[[Verse:Chlouvānem Inquisition/Līlasuṃghāṇa|Līlasuṃghāṇa]]'', in the southern part of the Great Chlouvānem Plains.
Covering, excluding dependencies, approximately 14.4 million square kilometers (about 8% of the land areas on Calémere) mostly on the continent of Márusúturon and geologically related islands – with the Kāyīchah Islands being, however, a part of Védren – and with a population of 1.469 billion people<ref>Throughout this article, quantities will be specified primarily in the decimal system, despite Chlouvānem using a dozenal one. Census figures will also be provided in tables as dozenal numbers. Unmarked numbers are base 10, unless they are expressed using Calémerian measurement units; base 12 numerals have commas and full stops reversed compared to English usage.</ref> (about 17.8% of the total Calémerian population), it is Calémere's largest country both by land area and population. [[Verse:Chlouvānem Inquisition/Līlasuṃghāṇa|Līlasuṃghāṇa]], holy city of the [[Verse:Yunyalīlta|Yunyalīlta]], is the nation's capital and largest city, located inland in the densely populated area of the Jade Coast, on the shores of the tidal Lūlunīkam lake.<br/>
Dependent territories of the Inquisition mostly consist of relatively small islands with military bases or scientific stations, with the most notable exception being the large territory of the ''Lalla Kehamyutia'' (High North), a jointly-governed area together with Askand, Skyrdagor, and Brono, consisting of the whole area of Eastern Márusúturon north of the 68th parallel north, mostly uninhabited tundra.<br/>Extended on such a large area, the territory of the Chlouvānem Inquisition includes all of Calémere's major biomes, with an extremely diverse geography, climate, and wildlife giving it a unique biological megadiversity, peaking in the southern rainforests. More than 60% of the country's human population lives in its tropical areas, roughly between 5ºN and the Northern Tropic.


While the consolidation of the Inquisition as a single state is fairly recent (133 years ago, in 6291 (3783<sub>12</sub>), the Inquisition as a body was formed in the Great Plains in year 4252 (2564<sub>12</sub>) as a churchlike body run by the Inquisitors (''murkadhānai'', literally “black hands”, due to many early rituals requiring the use of ''lunīla'' berries and their pitch-black unedible juice), the preachers of the Yunyalīlti religion.<br/>
While the consolidation of the Inquisition as a single state is fairly recent (133 years ago, in 6291 (3783<sub>12</sub>), the Inquisition as a body was formed in the Great Plains in year 4252 (2564<sub>12</sub>) as a churchlike body run by the Inquisitors (''murkadhānai'', literally “black hands”, due to many early rituals requiring the use of ''lunīla'' berries and their pitch-black unedible juice), the preachers of the Yunyalīlti religion.<br/> The Inquisition is typically referred to as the country of the Chlouvānem people, a métis ethnicity formed by interracial breeding of various prehistoric peoples of the Great Plain, most prominently the ''Ur-Chlouvānem''<ref>Usually just referred to as ''Chlouvānem'' in any other case where there's no distinction to be made; called ''(o)dældādumbhīñe'' "(proto-)language-bearers" in Chlouvānem historical anthropology.</ref>, a [[Lahob languages|Lahob]] population who had migrated from Northern Evandor across the vast steppes of Márusúturon before reaching the Plains, as well as the ''Lällshag'' (Chl.: ''Lælьšanai''), founders of the first urban civilization on the continent. However, the actual ethnic makeup of the country is extremely diverse, with 949 native ethnicities, excluding the Chlouvānem, recognized as distinct by the central government. Linguistically, [[Chlouvānem|Classical Chlouvānem]] is used as lingua franca, but nearly every area has its own local vernacular, either a daughter language of Chlouvānem or a creole based on it, or sometimes a completely unrelated language.
''Chlouvānem peoples'' — a métis ethnicity formed by interracial breeding of various prehistoric peoples of the Great Plain, most prominently the ''Ur-Chlouvānem''<ref>Usually just referred to as ''Chlouvānem'' in any other case where there's no distinction to be made; called ''(o)dældādumbhīñe'' "(proto-)language-bearers" in Chlouvānem historical anthropology.</ref>, a [[Lahob languages|Lahob]] population who had migrated from Northern Evandor across the vast steppes of Márusúturon before reaching the Plains, as well as the ''Ancient Kūṣṛmāthi'', founders of the first urban civilization on the continent — in the next two thousand years preached their religion and expanded throughout most of the continent, assimilating local peoples but creating numerous countries that were held together by their common religion and the use of [[Chlouvānem|Classical Chlouvānem]] as a lingua franca among the other vernaculars that developed from it. The last two centuries were marked by the formal unification of all Chlouvānem countries into a single country<ref>A few small kingdoms in the Western Plain remained independent for a few more years - the kingdom (today diocese) of Hulitilmāka was the last to join the Inquisition, in 6312 (37ᘔ0 <sub>12</sub>).</ref>, where religious and civil government coincide.  


The Chlouvānem Inquisition is today the main superpower of the Eastern Bloc on Calémere, ideologically contrasted to the secular and plurireligious West (despite it being the only major theocracy and despite many prominent Eastern countries not being even Yunyalīlti) and the leading technological innovator on the planet. It is a highly developed country following a religion-driven regionally planned economy with a strong focus on environmental-friendly policies; it consistently ranks in the highest places when it comes to human development and quality of life, and has the second-lowest income inequality on the planet, after the fellow Yunyalīlti country of Brono. On the social side, though, the Inquisition implements a strict monoreligious policy, with non-Yunyalīlti people (heretics) being most often either converted or legally persecuted and killed en masse.<br/>
The present-day state of the Inquisition is the result of a two-thousand-year-long expansion through religious conversion and physical intermixing carried out by the Chlouvānem people, assimilating local peoples but creating numerous countries that were held together by their common religion and the use of [[Chlouvānem|Classical Chlouvānem]] as a lingua franca among the other vernaculars that developed from it. The last two centuries were marked by the formal unification of all Chlouvānem countries into a single country<ref>A few small kingdoms in the Western Plain remained independent for a few more years - the kingdom (today diocese) of Hulitilmāka was the last to join the Inquisition, in 6312 (37ᘔ0 <sub>12</sub>).</ref>, where religious and civil government coincide.
Despite formal peace being strived for and kept by both sides, the relations between the Inquisition and the West remain tense, particularly due to the former’s repeated calls to holy war; the last such conflict (called the ''East-West Global War'', but ''War for Cleanliness'' in Chlouvānem sources), ninety years ago during the reign of the extremely radical Great Inquisitor Kælahīmāvi Nāɂahilūma ''Martayinām'', ended in a white peace when the conquest-bound Chlouvānem armies, after having killed more than a hundred million Evandorians, were forced to retreat and leave the then-economically collapsed West due to a near-implosion of the Inquisition due to a series of revolts, particularly in the annexed territories of Brono and Greater Skyrdagor.
 
The Chlouvānem Inquisition is the leading power of Calémere's Yunyalīlti communist Eastern Bloc (formally united as the Kayāgaprika (''Kailī Āṇḍhulā nali Galababhrausire Prikaulā'', "International Pact for the Defense of Purity")), ideologically confronting the mostly secular and plurireligious Western Bloc, and the planet's only superpower (due to the Western Bloc not having a single hegemon country). It has a highly developed, predominantly [[w:Planned economy|planned]] in various degrees, economy, characterized among other socialist planned economies by the extensive presence of private artisans nearly dominating the basic need (clothing, soaps, to some extent food) sectors. It is an international cultural, artistic, and scientific force, a military superpower,  and constantly ranks among the top nations for human development, quality of life, environmental performance, healthcare quality, and life expectancy, and has one the planet's lowest income inequalities. However, there is a huge disparity of rights accorded to Yunyalīlti people and those of other faiths, the latter (called ''heretics'' in Chlouvānem contexts) being socially stigmatized, isolated from society, and granted no rights at all: due to the strict monoreligious policy implemented by the Inquisition, heretics are either converted or legally persecuted and killed en masse. Capital punishment is applied, though the most common punishment for criminals is [[w:penal labour|penal labour]], which is carried out in various labour camps in conditions so poor that inmates die anyway after just a few months.
 
Despite both of Calémere's blocs and non-aligned countries striving for and keeping formal peace, relations between the Inquisition and the West have remained tense ever since the end of the last holy war carried out by the Inquisition, the War for Cleanliness (outside the Inquisition known as "East-West Global War" or simply "Global War") of 6323-6326, organized by then-Great Inquisitor Kælahīmāvi Nāɂahilūma ''Martayinām'', when the Chlouvānem forces invaded Evandor with the goal of physically cleansing it from heretics, setting up a network of extermination camps throughout the continent; the war, which saw nearly 120 million Evandorians killed, ended in a white peace when a near-implosion of the Inquisition due to a series of revolts in the annexed areas of Greater Skyrdagor forced the Chlouvānem forces to retreat from the economically collapsed and virtually already defeated countries of Evandor.


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