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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 | 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 158 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 40% of it; some dioceses are entirely insular in the neighboring seas, though the islands of ''Kāyīchah'' are much closer to 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/> | ||
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. | 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. | 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. | ||
While the consolidation of the Inquisition as a single state is fairly recent, the Inquisition as a body was formed in the Great Plains | 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/> | ||
''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 beginning of the Fourth Era was 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 | ''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 beginning of the Fourth Era was 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 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/> | ||