Verse:Chlouvānem Inquisition: Difference between revisions

In other Calemerian languages, there often is a distinction between the country (usually called Chlouvānem land) and the Inquisition. For example, in [[Skyrdagor]] the Chlouvānem people are called ''Snevanem'' and their country is ''Snevanemszikt'', but the Inquisition as a political body is often called ''Murkadanavi''. In [[Cerian]], Chlouvānem people are called ''Imúnigúronen'' (from the [[Íscégon]] phrase ''in mutenen ingúron'' "Eastern invaders", a term applied to many other peoples in Western history but revitalized in the Early Modern Age and applied to the Chlouvānem - the easternmost hostile people they knew about) and their country is ''Imúnigúroná'', but the Inquisition is either ''šo Murocadána'' or ''šen sévíson Imúnigúronen'' (literally Chlouvānem Church). Notably, Cerian dialects spoken in the Inquisition do not make this distinction, using ''šo Murocadána'' for both; it is to be noted, however, that all Cerian speakers of the Inquisition are bilingual in Chlouvānem and it's increasingly more common to simply use the Chlouvānem terms.

Being a follower of the Yunyalīlta is, in most cases, enough to make the other two points true, and inside the borders of the Inquisition that’s almost always the case; in fact all Yunyalīlti who are not originary of either Brono, Fathan, iKalurilut (countries with overwhelming Yunyalīlti religious majority), of Greater Skyrdagor (where about a quarter of the population is Yunyalīlti, up to 54% in the country of Goryan), or of a few other traditional minorities around the world (most notably Holenagic Yunyalīlti) and live in the Inquisition are Chlouvānem.<br/>

In fact, during the reign of Great Inquisitor Nāʔahilūma, no such distinction was included in censuses, as the only possible distinction to be done among humans was either Yunyalīlti or heretic.

The Chlouvānem ethnicity and culture were historically born through interbreeding of various peoples in prehistoric times, to the point that different ethnicities came to identify as one; there are various theories on why among all of those languages Chlouvānem - the last one to come there chronologically - came to be the dominant one, but most probably there was a religious background, namely that it was the first language of the Chlamiṣvatrā, and the language she spoke the most during her predication<ref>It is however widely thought that the Chlamiṣvatrā spoke a Chlouvānem dialect that was not the one of the majority of people and that came to be Classical Chlouvānem, on the basis of some religious terminology like most notably ''lillamurḍhyā'', which would have been ''lilāmmūrḍhiyā'' (morphemically ''lil-ān-mūg-ḍhiyā'') in the "standard" dialect.</ref>.

Outside the Inquisition, self-definition and native knowledge of any Chlouvānem language is the main definition of Chlouvānem ethnicity.

Most non-Chlouvānem inhabitants of the Inquisition come from countries of the former ''Kaiṣamā'' - the Union of Purified States - (Kŭyŭgwažtov, Soenyŏ-tave…) or are Bronic and Fathanic which not just were part of the Kaiṣamā (Fathan was even a diocese of the Inquisition until 4E 7A (94₁₀)) but border the Inquisition for most of their frontiers' extension. Other sources of non-Chlouvānems are:

* Some ethnically and linguistically Bronic or Skyrdegan peoples near the borders with Brono and Greater Skyrdagor. Deportations of native Chlouvānems to these areas and of ethnically Bronics and Skyrdegans to other territories, however, have somewhat weakened the regional identity of these areas.

Ethnic enclaves in the present-day Inquisition are rare, as housing is dependent on state allocations and ethnicity does not play any role. Before Inquisitorial times, however, it was common that major cities had some quarters where particular ethnicities were concentrated (these all had, however, also Chlouvānem residents). While today even in these quarters all houses are state property, they often have traces of the original culture in shops that often have been run by the same family for centuries, as well as in architecture. Particularly famous ones are to be found in port cities, with the Skyrdegan Quarter (''ṣkurdaurpoga''; [[Skyrdagor|Sky]].: ''skyrdegan zsezseljen'') of Līlta being the largest of its kind.

The population of the Inquisition is very unequally distributed throughout the national territory. The eastern part of the Lāmiejāya-Lāmberah plain, together with the neighboring Jade Coast and its surroundings, is the most densely populated area on the whole of Calémere, and similar densities may be found in coastal Haikamotė, Hirakaṣṭė, and Kainomatā dioceses in the East. On the other hand, there are many mostly rural areas as well as sparsely populated areas such as the taiga in the far Northeast, the Southern rainforest, and most high mountain chains; the most notable example is perhaps the arid belt of deserts and semi-deserts with little population due to a widespread lack of reliable water sources.<br/>

Many of the most important cities of the Inquisition are on or near the shores of the ''Flæmvasta Sea'' (''flæmvasta ga jariā'') - the huge marginal sea bordered by the Jade Coast, the eastern part of the Plain, the Near East, and parts of the Far East: among the most important ones there are Līṭhalyinām, Līlta, Taleihǣh, Huñeibāma, Līlikanāna, and Ehalihombu from east to west, plus the capital Līlasuṃghāṇa that lies inland but in the tidal Lulūnīkam lake (''lulūnīkam ga gėrisa''), and Lāltaṣveya which lies on the Lāmiejāya delta.

The largest metropolitan area in the Inquisition is the one extending mainly on central-eastern Haikamotė diocese, centered on Cami, with a population of 43,357,289 (1.26.2Ɛ.035₁₂) people according to the most accepted definition.

Compared to other developed nations, the Inquisition also has a relatively high fertility rate, with a median of 2.2 children per woman; despite infant mortality sharply declining in the last hundred years (to the point that the Inquisition has one of the lowest rates on the planet) and better economic conditions, the fertility rate has not declined that much due to a traditional preference for large families and need for workers in the agricultural sector.<br/>

As this has been cause of growing concern in some areas, especially the already overpopulated parts of the nation where the largest cities lie, the government has introduced a program of colonization, offering economic benefits to those from the main populated areas who, once reached age of majority (end of the 16th year), settle in “development areas”, dioceses with large thinly-populated areas. In some cases, governments still use deportation programs, even though not to the large extent of the first 60 years of the Fourth Era. The Inquisitorial fertility rate has also been a source of concern in some countries, as some politicians there have spoken of a “Chlouvānem plan” for world colonization: this is particularly prominent in iKalurilut, as it has seen many Chlouvānem immigrants in the last three decades and now ethnic Chlouvānems have risen from 3% to 17% of its population.<br/>Many other countries of the former ''Kaiṣamā'', apart from iKalurilut, still have large numbers of ethnic Chlouvānem, for example 33% of the population in Fathan, 24% in Brono, 14% in Kŭyŭgwažtov and 10% in Soenyŏ-tave; the largest community by number of ethnic Chlouvānem outside the Inquisition is however that of Skyrdagor.

Immigration policies to the Inquisition have varied quite a lot in the last fifty years. During the ''Kaiṣamā'' era, most immigrants were from the other countries of the former Union (with a particularly large number of them being Kŭyŭgwažŭbs and Soenyubis), and a very small number of Communist political refugees from some countries (notably Púrítonian and Southern Védrenian ones), who, however, mostly settled in the other countries of the Kaiṣamā. Overall, immigration during that era (which ended in 4E 73 (87₁₀), 46 years ago) was pretty limited, especially considering that many inter-Union "immigrants" were forcibly relocated (though in the early Kaiṣamā it was much more common than in the later period).

Today, immigrants to the Inquisition mostly come from Dabuke lands in northeastern Védren and western Márusúturon (the latter areas bordering with Chlouvānemized Dabuke lands part of the Inquisition); due to the widespread instability, poverty, and often war in these areas of the world, many displaced people flee these lands and because of geographical proximity the closest “safe” areas are the Western dioceses of the Inquisition. Due to most Dabuke people being animists and to Western Chlouvānem culture being born as a hybrid between “mainstream” (or Plains) Chlouvānem and the former Eastern Dabuke cultures, they’re often easily converted and integrated into it.

As predictable given the métis origins of the Chlouvānem people and their cultural-based ethnicity, skin colour is fairly unimportant in Chlouvānem society, as it has (even on ID cards) much like the same value as hair or eye colour. Different skin colours are however interesting in their distribution, and often it is a sign of a certain geographical origin.

* the '''vindraniė''' group (<small>11 and lower</small>) is the colour of “whites”: despite being fairly common on Calémere it is hardly native to the lands of the Inquisition, apart from the taiga in the far Northeast and the islands off the Northeastern coast, as well as descendants of Evandorians in the northwestern dioceses (former colonies of Western powers) and later middle-class Evandorian immigrants. As those were historically sparsely populated areas, ancestral people of those areas are few; and as that kind of immigration is not so relevant in percentage terms, it is the rarest group, amounting to only 2% of all Chlouvānem.

The Inquisition has the fourth-highest median life expectancy on Calémere (after Brono, Karynaktja, and Holenagika), with ~71.3 (5Ɛ.4₁₂) years for males and ~74.8 (62.ᘔ₁₂) for females<ref>Calemerian humans live on average less years than humans of Earth, note though than one Calemerian year lasts about 609,6 days on Earth.</ref>; life expectancy has grown noticeably in the last century after the newest progresses in science were able to finally defeat or find easy cures to many common tropical diseases that historically plagued large parts of the territory.