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The '''Lands of the Chlouvānem Inquisition''' ([[Chlouvānem]]: ''Chlǣvānumi Murkadhānāvīyi Babhrām'' {{IPA|[c͡ɕʰɴ̆ɛːʋäːnumi muɐ̯kädʱäːnäːʋiːji bäbʱʀäːm]}}), ceremonially the '''Pure Lands under Guidance of the Inquisition of the Descendants of the Chlamiṣvatrā''' ([[Chlouvānem]]: ''Chlamiṣvatrī Maijunyāvyumi Murkadhānāvīyi Cholbāmite Kailibabhrām'' {{IPA|[c͡ɕʰɴ̆ämiɕʋätʀiː mäɪ̯ɟ͡ʑunjäːʋjumi muɐ̯kädʱäːnäːʋiːji c͡ɕʰɔɴ̆bäːmite käɪ̯ɴ̆ibäbʱʀäːm]}}), commonly metonymically referred to as the '''(Chlouvānem) Inquisition''' (''(Chlǣvānumi) Murkadhānāvi'' {{IPA|[c͡ɕʰɴ̆ɛːʋäːnumi muɐ̯kädʱäːnäːʋi]}}), or, informally, with the acronym '''Chlǣmuba''' {{IPA|[c͡ɕʰɴ̆ɛːmubä]}}, is a [[w:Federalism|federal]] [[w:Socialist state|socialist]]<ref>Technically, the Chlouvānem Inquisition, having no political parties and being officially ruled exclusively according to the norms of the Yunyalīlti religion, should not be considered a socialist state; however, the resulting organization has the characteristics of a socialist state and, furthermore, this situation gave birth to the international hybrid ideology of Yunyalīlti Communism, which adopts a particular state organization justified both through Communism and through the Yunyalīlta, adopted in countries aligned with the Inquisition.</ref> [[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. ''galtirai''), 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.

The highest level is the ''diocese'' ('''juṃšañāña'''), comparable to a federate state; their head is a ''bishop'' ('''juṃša'''). Many dioceses in an area with shared economical and cultural characteristics are grouped in an administrative unit called ''tribunal'' ('''camimaivikā'''), which intervenes in common regional economic planning and is as well an important statistic unit.<br/>

| rowspan=8 | Diocese<br/>(''juṃšañāña'') || colspan=3 rowspan=4 | Eparchy<br/>(''ṭūmma'')<br/><small>''de facto'' diocesan level for non-liturgical matters</small> || City-level borough (''martęs martausire poga'')<br/><small>or Sector (''chūltām'')</small> || rowspan=2 | Borough (if urban) (''martausire poga'')<br/>or Hamlet (if rural) (''mūreh'')

A number of dioceses in the Inquisition are '''ethnic dioceses''' (''lailnekausire juṃšañāña'', pl. ''lailnekausirāhe juṃšañāñai''), home to native, non-Chlouvānem ethnicities. In these dioceses, the languages of the titular ethnicities are co-official in every aspect of public life and members of these ethnicities usually have "land rights" that other ethnicities do not have (for example there are usually substantially faster waiting times for housing allocation for titular ethnicities when compared to ethnic Chlouvānem).<br/>
It should however be noted that in all but one of these dioceses (Tūnambasā), the titular ethnicities are less than half of the population, being as low as 9% for Hūnakañai in Hūnakañjaiṭa (most ethnic Hūnakañai do live there — but the diocese includes the 10th largest city of the Inquisition, Līlekhaitē, which is predominantly Chlouvānem). With the exceptions of the Bazá (Chl. ''Basā'') in Tūnambasā and the Čathísǫ̃́g (''Chandisēkai'') in Jįveimintītas, all other titular ethnicities are only native to the territories of the Inquisition. The Bazá, which are the largest group in their ethnic diocese (78%), are also numerically the largest of any non-Chlouvānem titular ethnicity in the Inquisition.<br/>Note that, despite the small number of ethnic dioceses, most of the country is actually a patchwork of different ethnicities with multiple spoken languages. However, ethnic dioceses are those where the non-Chlouvānem ethnicity is generally more homogeneous; in some cases, ethnic dioceses are actually less ethnically diverse than many other regular ones; compare many dioceses of the South, where the Chlouvānem element is generally small (smaller than in most ethnic dioceses), but the population is divided into many small ethnicities, up to nearly 30 (often numbering in the few thousands of people, due to the sparse settlement of those rainforest areas) in some cases.

Great Inquisitor Nāɂahilūma, during her reign, openly supported Chlouvānem cities to become more glorious and worthy of their role as centers of all civilization by adding in them new monumental buildings. Nāɂahilūmi architecture is less ornate than many previous styles, but is characterized by its strong eye-catching functional forms but still inspired by traditional designs; to Earthly eyes they remind of Fascist architecture, but slightly softer due to its frequent use of multiple thatched roof tiers. Among the many examples of Nāɂahilūmi architecture, some of the most important ones are the Light of Purity Tower (''kailāchlærim ga kārmāsa'') in Līlta, the huge new Hall of the People (''laili nāyāṣamva'') stadium and forum in Ajāɂilbādhi, and most notably the many examples in Līlasuṃghāṇa, which was seen as Great Inquisitor Nāɂahilūma as the most important center of civilization due to its role as holy city of the Yunyalīlta and seat of the Inquisition, and thus of the ultimate guide of what is right to follow. Great Inquisitor Nāɂahilūma first gave orders to create the new Episcopal Palace (''(lališire) juṃšadaṃṣrāṇa''), a monumental building in central Ṣrāvamaila ward, with many decorations completed using gold and gems from seized Skyrdegan artistic artifacts, and then the Parade Avenue (''lonenūnima'') and the People's Exhibition Ground (''laili maišildāryai''), an enormous exhibition ground along the lakeshore of Lūṣyambādhi, just north of Ṣrāvamaila. Other monuments include the three Nāɂahilūmi-era monumental gates<ref>Albeit these "monumental gates" function mostly as triumphal arches, they definitely resemble [[w:Paifang|paifang]] more than anything else. The only two such gates that actually may be said to be triumphal arches (albeit of the quadrifrontal type), in imitation of Western styles, are both in Līlasuṃghāṇa: the Yacvāni Gate (''yacvāni geiras''), whose construction was started by Great Inquisitor Nāɂahilūma commemorating the successful invasion of Evandor, but wasn't completed until well after the war, and the Gate of Communism (''yaivcārṇātri geiras'') built in the Kaiṣamā era. Late in her reign, Great Inquisitor Nāɂahilūma had planned another Yacvāni Gate to be built in Līlta, her native city, but she was deposed even before a sketch could be made.</ref> (the Skyrdegan Gate (''ṣurṭāgausire geiras''), the Bronic Gate (''broenyausire geiras''), and the Kuyugvaṣi Gate (''kuyugvaṣyausire geiras'')), and the Holy People's Gate (''brausalaili geiras''), a monumental complex (not only a gate) meant to glorify the supremacy of the Chlouvānem people as keepers of the ultimate knowledge (the Yunyalīlta). The most famous Nāɂahilūmi-era building is though the Hall of Purity (''kailānāyāṣamva''), a temple-like monumental building which was possibly thought by the Great Inquisitor as the ultimate monument to herself, celebrating her politics aiming for complete world purity as the most important person to ever have lived since the Chlamiṣvatrā taught the Yunyalīlta two millennia before; in fact, the centralmost ''jādamīlakeh''<ref>Personification of the Yunya.</ref> - a ''chlæraprasādham'', or statue of the Chlamiṣvatrā -, an oeuvre by Līnænuliāvi Lūlulkaicai ''Hāliehaika'', bears a striking resemblance in her facial traits to Great Inquisitor Nāɂahilūma. Among the building's ornaments there are also numerous references to the plan for purity by Great Inquisitor Nāɂahilūma, representing Līlasuṃghāṇa as the central place of the world, ultimate model for purity for the rest of the world, ruled by the Chlouvānem people and living following the Yunyalīlti principles. The building was not completed during Great Inquisitor Nāɂahilūma's reign, but only twenty years later, even after her death. Today it stands on the opposite side of the Gardens of the Inquisitorial Palace relative to the Inquisitorial Palace  (''murkadhānāvīyi amaha'') and the Blossoming Temple (''junyāmiti lārvājuṣa''), and it is the largest piece of Yunyalīlti architecture which is not a temple (there are eight ''lārvājuṣai'' which are larger, including the Blossoming Temple, as well as the Monastery of Gāṃrādhyah Mountain (''gāṃrādhyah ga ñarei ñæltryāmaha'') in the diocese of Cambhaugrāya). It is obviously not devoted to the public worship of former Great Inquisitor Nāɂahilūma and her achievements, but it is thought of instead as a monument to the ultimate purity of nature and to the Chlouvānem people, purest among the human creatures.

The Great Inquisitor is elected by the Conclave of Bishops (''juṃšumi lanedāmeh'') every 10₁₂ years, but there’s no limit to the times a Great Inquisitor may be reëlected and she may resign whenever she wants to; often in the past Great Inquisitors remained in charge for their whole life, but today resigning (often in the form of not accepting the candidature in the next conclave) is becoming increasingly common. The longest serving Great Inquisitor was Mæmihūmyāvi Upāṃruṇāri ''Læhimausa'' who served for 4ᘔ₁₂ <small>(58)</small> years, from 3804 until her death in 3852 (6340-6398).

The Conclave of Bishops (''juṃšumi lanedāmeh'') is the organ of the Inquisition which elects (or rëelects) the Great Inquisitor. The Conclave of Bishops is formed by all bishops of Yunyalīlti dioceses - not just those in the Inquisition - thus numbering at least 207 electors (171 bishops in the Inquisition and 36 abroad), plus the Head Monks of fourteen different monasteries, and eventually up to six "Conclave enterers" (''lanedāntalonīn'') named by the preceding Great Inquisitor. Every elector in the Conclave, as long as they're female and have entered the 23₁₀rd year of age, may be elected as Great Inquisitor; Bishops of the Inquisition's territories are most commonly elected (also because they are the majority), but compromise may result in other candidates get elected: current Great Inquisitor, Hæliyǣšāvi Dhṛṣṭāvāyah ''Lairē'', was elected in the Conclave of 6420 (3870₁₂) which she entered as a ''lanedāntalonīn''<ref>She had, however, been ''acting maid'' (''labdarṣilardhīka'') of Šulegāvi Ghūrvāyelišā ''Lileikhura'', Bishop of Līlasuṃghāṇa.</ref>.

Every (non-private) workplace, sub-parish-level district, factory, or barracks in the Inquisition forms its own Synod (''galtirāh'') which elects a delegate (''pidnalmęlīn''), operating under [[w:imperative mandate|imperative mandate]], to the local (parish-level) Synod. Each parish-level Synod then elects its own delegates (from this level upwards operating under free mandate; numbers vary depending on the diocese) to the upper-level Synod. At the diocesan level, there is a distinction to be made in different dioceses: most dioceses have a Diocesan Synod (''juṃšañāñi galtirāh'') which is formed both by Inquisitors, nominated inside the local branches of the Inquisition, and delegates of lower-level Synods. Dioceses that include an eparchy have a Higher Diocesan Synod (''juṃšañāñi lalla galtirāh'') whose membership is divided in three parts: one third of diocese-nominated Inquisitors, one third of delegates of the Provincial Synod(s) (which, in these dioceses, include both Inquisitors and laypeople), which must be composed of an equal number of Inquisitor delegates and lay delegates, and the last third of delegates of the Eparchical Synod (which is only composed by laypeople).

* ''juṃšemāvi'' (the Episcopal), organ of the Episcopal Conference (''juṃšumi galtirāh''), a coordinate assembly of all Bishops.

* The ''juṃšañāñi ūnima(i)''/''dorah(-ai)''/''līlta(i)'' (literally "diocesan road(s)/route(s)/path(s)"), trunk roads of diocese-wide importance. The actual term of the three used depends on the diocese.