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Etalocin was, and still to a large extent is, a [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CrapsaccharineWorld Crapsaccharine World]. | Etalocin was, and still to a large extent is, a [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CrapsaccharineWorld Crapsaccharine World]. | ||
===Historical=== | ===Historical=== | ||
Elite boys are educated in either an "intellectual" curriculum of {rhetoric, poetry, classical language, math, music, science} or a "warrior" curriculum (cf. Korean ''yangban''); by age 15 they enter into an apprenticeship or university study in order to specialize into one or more roles in elite society. If a male failed to pass the full curriculum, he could not specialize and thus was effectively banished from elite society. | |||
Elite girls also get a full education (only the "intellectual" track was available to girls), enough for them to be independent (they're also taught how to act like ladies), but usually only courtesans and candidates for the king's wives undergo specialized education. One or more requirements can be waived for a child of exceptional ability in one area. | |||
The plebs are largely literate but uneducated and are forced to do menial labor and/or live in unsanitary places. Weird misfits (especially if they're male) within the elite are harshly penalized as well. The social cost of nonconformity was quite severe, and crimes were punished harshly (often by <!--castration, -->forced labor, torture, and death, in addition to public shaming). | The plebs are largely literate but uneducated and are forced to do menial labor and/or live in unsanitary places. Weird misfits (especially if they're male) within the elite are harshly penalized as well. The social cost of nonconformity was quite severe, and crimes were punished harshly (often by <!--castration, -->forced labor, torture, and death, in addition to public shaming). | ||