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| 1,457,829,096 (4E 131 census)

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]]. With a population of 1.457 billion people it is also its most populated country (counting about 17,8% of the total Calemerian population). It is a federally organized theocracy, consisting of 142 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/>

! No. !! City<ref>An asterisk after the city name denotes it is a ''quaestorship'' (ṭūmma).</ref> !! Diocese !! Population <small>(4E 131)</small> !! Tribunal

| 1 || Līlasuṃghāṇa (*) || Nanašīrama || 29,698,169 || Jade Coast Area

| 2 || Ilėnimarta (*) || Kanyāvālna || 16,484,913 || Jade Coast Area

| 3 || Līṭhalyinām (*) || Latayūlima || 13,148,337 || Jade Coast Area

| 4 || Līlta (*) || Mīḍhūpraṇa || 11,792,845 || Jade Coast Area

| 5 || Cami (*) || Haikamotė || 11,452,121 || Northern Far East

| 6 || Līlikanāna || Āturiyāmba || 9,222,641 || Southern Far East

| 7 || Mamaikala || Sūmrakāñca || 6,981,303 || Namaikęeh / Northern Plain

| 8 || Galiākina || Galiākñijātia || 6,445,932 || Jade Coast Area

| 9 || Līlekhaitė || Hūnakañjātia || 4,621,393 || Near East

| 10 || Naiṣambella (*) || Yayadalga || 4,503,612 || Southern Far East

| 11 || Lāltaṣveya || Aṣasārjātia || 4,218,309 || Eastern Plain

| 12 || Yāmbirhālih || Ārvaghoṣa || 4,093,774 || Jade Coast Area

| 13 || Lūlunimarta || Ogiñjātia || 3,817,090 || South

| 14 || Kuma Nīmāliša || Ndejukisa || 3,443,106 || West

| 15 || Yotachuši || Hachitama || 3,138,653 || East

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 people according to the most accepted definition.

The Inquisition has the fourth-highest median life expectancy on Calémere (after Brono, Karynaktja, and Holenagika), with 71.2 years for males and 74.9 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.

The main health issue among Chlouvānem people is considered to be the suicide rate. Suicide (''demikaudaranah'') is the leading cause of death for people under 50 and has grown to become a serious problem. The rate is very high due to the social pressure inherent in Chlouvānem culture, which has often led people, especially young workers and students, to be easily ashamed for even minor mistakes or failures and Chlouvānem society not being particularly tolerant of this. Due to the Yunyalīlti worldview valuing the community more than the individual, suicide has historically been considered the most honourable way to die, and part of a process of natural selection, as the dead’s place in the community will be taken by someone better suited.<br/>Nowadays even some of the most traditionalist people have recognized the entity of this problem as suicide rates, particularly among people aged 20 to 30, have continued to rise yearly for the last 15 years, and many failed attempts have led to people frequently becoming paralyzed or with other serious injuries and thus incapable to lead a normal life. Many suicide hotlines have been set up by local governments in order to give assistance and some dioceses have begun to provide psychological visits for free to “vulnerable subjects”, and there have been cases of employers being convicted and serving 2+6+2 months prison sentences<ref>A mild sentence in Inquisition justice, consisting of two months of forced work, six months of prison detention (including socially helpful jobs), and two months of house arrest.</ref> for instigation to suicide (''demikaudarīlgis'') - there have been however pressures towards Inquisitors in order to give harsher sentences for such crimes, including a full 7+7 sentence<ref>Seven months of forced work plus seven months of prison detention. Note that 14 months is the length of the Calemerian year.</ref>; anti-suicide politics have also resulted in more surveillance near bridges at night and especially many lifeguards being employed all night long along beaches after many people committed suicide by drowning themselves into the sea or lakes; anyway, the results are still hard to see as, despite governmental efforts, suicide is still seen as an honorable act in society.

There are in total 142 dioceses in the Inquisition, divided into 16 tribunals (but seven dioceses are not part of any tribunal: four of them are mostly sparsely populated steppe plus a part of the desert; the other three are insular dioceses between the rest of the Inquisition and the continent Védren): ''Jade Coast Area'' (17, <small>lilac in the map above</small>), ''Eastern Plain'' (10, <small>dark light blue</small>), ''Namaikęeh - Northern Plain'' (7, <small>brown</small>), ''Central Plain'' (9, <small>violet</small>), ''Western Plain'' (7, <small>golden orange</small>), ''Inland Southwest'' (8, <small>earth green</small>), ''Coastal Southwest'' (5, <small>deep green</small>), ''South'' (14, <small>light blue</small>), ''Near East'' (6, <small>pale orange</small>), ''Southern Far East'' (7, <small>red</small>), ''Far Eastern Islands'' (6, <small>gold</small>), ''Northern Far East'' (9, <small>yellow</small>), ''East'' (9, <small>light green</small>), ''Northeast'' (9, <small>orange</small>), ''North'' (10, <small>greyish blue</small>), and ''West'' (9, <small>blue</small>). Population of the dioceses ranges from 55,717,346 (''Haikamotė'' in the Northern Far East) to 12,403 (the ''Nukahucė'' islands, a remote chain of coral atolls part of the Far Eastern Islands tribunal but somewhat isolated from them). Diocese area ranges from 961,559 km² (''Nanūkijāṇa'', including the whole Salt Desert and about half of the Great Desert) to 208 km² (the ''Nukahucė'' islands)<ref>Land area only.</ref>.

Some dioceses consist of two separate administrative units with a single religious head - these are mostly newer developments, where effectively a new "state" has been created for all matters except the most strictly religious ones. Depending on the diocese, these separate units may be called ''provinces'' ('''ṣramāṇa''') - for larger but less densely populated areas - or ''quaestorship'' ('''ṭūmma''') - for smaller, mostly urban areas. Quaestorships are a special kind of administrative division, as they are only divided in municipalities, but they are normally counted as cities statistically - for example the capital city of the Inquisition, ''Līlasuṃghāṇa'', is listed as the nation's largest city, with 29.8 million inhabitants - there is however no such entity as the city of Līlasuṃghāṇa, but only its quaestorship. There are in total six quaestorships in the Inquisition: ''Līlasuṃghāṇa'' (diocese of Nanašīrama), ''Ilėnimarta'' (diocese of Kanyāvālna), ''Līṭhalyinām'' (Latayūlima), ''Līlta'' (Mīdhūpraṇa), ''Cami'' (Haikamotė), and ''Naiṣambella'' (Yayadalga); apart from the latter (counting 4.5 million people), all other ones have more than 10 million inhabitants and are the five largest cities of the country.

The lowest level of local administration is the "municipality" one — whose names are in most dioceses either ''parish'' ('''mānai'''), ''city'' ('''marta'''), or sometimes ''village'' ('''poga'''). The distinction between them is mostly of population, with municipalities above a certain population (in many dioceses 70,000 people) being considered cities. The distinction between villages and parishes is more blurry and varies more between each diocese, with villages usually being independent municipalities whose populations are either very small in size compared to nearby ones, or located in sparsely populated areas.

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:

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/>


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/>Most of the network is nationalized, managed by local branches of the ''Mutada'' (''murkadhānāvīyi tammilīltumi darañcamūh'', "Inquisitorial Railway Group", also called ''mutacamūh''), but there are some local lines, especially when part of subway networks, which are privately managed.