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==Economy==

==Science, technology, infrastructure==

===Transport===

The three main means of transport throughout the Inquisition are train, plane, and ships; cars, boats, and especially bicycles are however common local means of transport.

====Road====

Uniquely for such a large and high-income country, car ownership rates throughout the Inquisition are relatively low, with 129 four-wheeled road motor vehicles every 1000 people<ref>[[w:List of countries by vehicles per capita|For comparison]], in 2014 there were 797 motor vehicles every 1000 people in the U.S.</ref>. This low rate - the lowest among developed countries on Calémere - is explained by several factors:

* Most major cities have extremely thorough and developed mass transit systems, and city growth has meant that parking spaces are few and rarer. Most dioceses with major metropolitan areas have thus introduced laws requiring people to prove they have off-street parking for any car being bought;

* Many areas in the Inquisition - including fairly large metropolitan areas like Lūlunimarta or Tariatindė - do not have roads linking them to the rest of the nation;

* As a measure to fight pollution, ownership taxes are very high, particularly in the most urbanized dioceses. Fuel - while mostly being ethanol as a byproduct of sugarcane lavoration - is also more expensive than in most other countries.

Road vehicles are thus mostly trams, buses (and especially electric trolleybuses inside cities) and taxis for local transport; in most cities, bicycles, rickshaws, and cycle-rickshaws are the most common means of private transports - according to a 4E 129 survey, there are four times as many bicycles than cars in the quaestorship of Līlasuṃghāṇa.<br/> 

Trams are a common sight in most medium- and large-sized cities, where they often act as the most local form of transport in a network with subways and suburban railways. Many medium-sized cities also have hybrid tram/subway systems, with more central areas having a subway-like service with concurrent lines, while in the suburbs it becomes a large capacity tram service, fed by bus lines or, increasingly often in newer-built areas, cycling paths.

====Rail====

The train network is however the backbone of people- and freight transport in the Inquisition. Major cities all have suburban railways and, often, large subway networks, that efficiently cover large areas of territory and form the main links among communities in that area; the area of Līlasuṃghāṇa, capital of the Inquisition, has the largest subway system on Calémere, with 1,778 km of lines in operation, operating inside a large suburban railway network that extends on four different dioceses (Nanašīrama, Kāṃradeša, Lgraṃñælihaikā, and Talæñoya).

The Inquisition has a railway length of about 450,000 km, linking all mainland dioceses, including steppes and rainforests; many island dioceses also have local railway systems. About 95% of the network uses the standard Chlouvānem gauge (2.2 pā, ~1,488 mm — usually called ''danidani ga khlatimas'' “two-two gauge”), but narrower gauges are used for local mountainous lines and, in some cities, for light metro lines, especially in some networks which have very narrow turns (as in the Pamahīnėna Subway). Some local lines in the North still use the Skyrdagor gauge of 1.37.3 pā (~1,380 mm), even though adaptation to the Chlouvānem gauge has often been proposed - also because many countries in Greater Skyrdagor are changing their lines to Chlouvānem gauge too. Fixed block signalling is used in most of the network, but a few suburban lines near Līlasuṃghāṇa and the Cami Coastal Loop use moving block signalling, as do also many subway lines in Līlasuṃghāṇa, Ilėnimarta, Galiākina, Cami, Lūlunimarta, Huñeibāma, and Līlekhaitė.<br/>

Train services range from those of suburban importance to high-speed, often overnight, links between cities; a few major cities are linked by high-speed maglev lines that in a few cases may operate at speeds up to 680 km/h. Railway lines are common even in rural areas, with in fact most settlements being located near railways, and rail lines being the most common means of passenger transport overall. Railway stations are also major meeting points in cities and towns, usually lying in a major square; in small towns they’re often surrounded by the main services like bars, post offices, banks, and a few shops; the most important stations in large cities are true shopping malls or even multifunctional buildings with offices and hotels.

Freight transport is also dominated by railways, giving rise to large freight depots even inside cities, even though they have often been closed, converted to public parks, and rebuilt outside the city as city growth circled them (this has happened most notably in Līlasuṃghāṇa, Ilėnimarta, and Līlikanāna, but not for example in Līlta which still has a mid-sized freight depot close to the city center).

====Air and Water====

Air transport is often limited to large distances, but many small towns in the rainforest, on islands, or in other sparsely populated areas often have their own airfields, with regular flights to bigger macroregional centers. Seaplane airports are particularly common in the rainforest and by islands, with some major cities having a seaplane airport usually for regional flights and a major (inter-)national airport.

Ships are a major freight transport method and also very frequently used for passenger traffic where there’s the opportunity to drastically cut travel distance - one of the main passenger ship routes being for example Taitepamba-Līlikanāna on the opposite shores of the Flæmvasta Sea. Ships are also obviously the main means of transport in insular areas.<br/>

Boats are very commonly used on rivers and are - together with railways, where present - the main method of transport in the southern rainforest and in the far northern taiga. Inside metropolitan areas with many waterways or on lakes - like Yāmbirhālih, Pamahīnėna, and to a lesser extent also Līlasuṃghāṇa - there often are boat lines connecting various settlements.

==Culture==

==Notes==

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