Verse:Hmøøh/Talma

Etalocin (Clofabosin: ẹtalocin /e(:)talokin/, from Netagin ʔÉthá + Clofabosin locin 'land') is a continent of the conworld Clotricin.

Economy

From an early feudal system, a quick transition was made to a market economy.

Demographics

Culture and society

Etalocin was, and still to a large extent is, a Crapsaccharine World. Etalocin has a robust tradition of intellectual activity, especially in mathematics and music. However, Etalocian society is highly stratified, which historically caused considerable friction between social classes.

Historical

Elite boys were 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 enter specialist training and thus was effectively banished from elite society. Those who passed the basic "intellectual" curriculum but failed to specialize usually worked as civil servants.

Elite girls also got a full education (only the "intellectual" track was available to girls), enough for them to be independent. Unlike males, however, they were not expected to specialize. Women who wished to become school teachers underwent some additional training in the subject that they were to teach. Women who were educated as specialists were usually courtesans and candidates for the king's wives. One or more requirements could 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 forced labor, torture, and death, in addition to public shaming).

Polyamory was and still is accepted in Etalocin cultures, though many people are monogamous.