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 ==Demographics==
-Unsurprisingly for its size and population, the Chlouvānem Inquisition is one of the most diverse nations on Calémere, with national censuses counting 949 ethnicities (''lailnekai'') as native inside its borders. However, it is to be noted that while all of the non-Chlouvānem ethnicities together count for around 154 million people, they only make up 10.5% of the total population of the Inquisition.
+Unsurprisingly for its size and population, the Chlouvānem Inquisition is one of the most diverse nations on Calémere, with national censuses counting 949 ethnicities (''lailnekai'') as native inside its borders. However, it is to be noted that while all of the non-Chlouvānem indigenous ethnicities together count for around 259 million people, they only make up 13.6% of the total population of the Inquisition.
 The Chlouvānem concept of ''lailnekā'', translated as "ethnicity" or "ethnic group", actually conflates ancestry, language, and historical caste membership. Many of these ethnicities share languages, and some of them may simply be formerly-itinerant subgroups of certain true ethnic groups, sharing most of their culture with; this partially explains the small percentage of such a high number of ethnicities, many of which only number in the tens of thousands of people. Actual ethnic diversity is however a distinct feature of many areas of the West (except for the Far Western Inquisition), the Southern rainforests, most of the mountainous areas north of the Plain, the North, parts of the Northeast, and the areas of the East outside the main cities and valleys. 13 of the non-Chlouvānem ''lailnekai'' are titulars of an "ethnic diocese", a diocese that is centrally recognized as the homeland of its titular ethnic group and where people belonging to that ethnicity have certain residency privileges. Except for the Bazá people in the Tūnambasā diocese (at the far westernmost end of the continental Inquisition), however, none of these ethnicities are majoritary in their dioceses, with most of them not even approaching 25%.
-However, it is similarly misleading how 84.3% of the population is ethnically Chlouvānem, as this ''lailnekā'' is most commonly defined as the result of interbreeding between other ethnicities, as the result of a union that would result in more than two different ancestries. As a practical example, the child of a Skyrdegan mother and a Toyubeshian<ref>Toyubeshians, when referred to as a contemporary ethnicity, is a term for the peoples living in hilly areas of the East, speaking some variety of Modern Toyubeshian and defining themselves as ''lánh Từaobát'' or similar terms. These are '''not''' the historical Toyubeshians (albeit closely related genetically and linguistically), whose kingdoms ruled most of the East before the Chlouvānem.</ref> father would be counted as ethnically Skyrdegan-Toyubeshian, but the child of this person and any other person, neither Skyrdegan nor Toyubeshian, would simply be counted as Chlouvānem. While this statistic as it is, applied also to non-Chlouvānem ethnicities, is the result of the spread of the Yunyalīlta and of Chlouvānem culture to the whole Inquisition, this is also the continuation of the general custom that since ancient times has created the Chlouvānem civilization, through the intermixing of a comparatively small number of Lahob people and the local peoples of the pre-Classical Jade Coast.
+However, it is similarly misleading how 80.4% of the population is ethnically Chlouvānem, as this ''lailnekā'' is most commonly defined as the result of interbreeding between other ethnicities, as the result of a union that would result in more than two different ancestries. As a practical example, the child of a Skyrdegan mother and a Toyubeshian<ref>Toyubeshians, when referred to as a contemporary ethnicity, is a term for the peoples living in hilly areas of the East, speaking some variety of Modern Toyubeshian and defining themselves as ''lánh Từaobát'' or similar terms. These are '''not''' the historical Toyubeshians (albeit closely related genetically and linguistically), whose kingdoms ruled most of the East before the Chlouvānem.</ref> father would be counted as ethnically Skyrdegan-Toyubeshian, but the child of this person and any other person, neither Skyrdegan nor Toyubeshian, would simply be counted as Chlouvānem. While this statistic as it is, applied also to non-Chlouvānem ethnicities, is the result of the spread of the Yunyalīlta and of Chlouvānem culture to the whole Inquisition, this is also the continuation of the general custom that since ancient times has created the Chlouvānem civilization, through the intermixing of a comparatively small number of Lahob people and the local peoples of the pre-Classical Jade Coast.
 The Chlouvānem ''lailnekā'' being misleading is also due to the existence of different cultural areas that would practically be counted as distinct peoples in any other country: there are many differences (not just in culture, but also genetical ones) between Chlouvānem people from the heartlands and the Ancient Toyubeshian-influenced Chlouvānem from the Northern Far East, or the heavily Dabuke-influenced Chlouvānem from the Far West - yet all of these groups from different extremes of the continent are statistically considered to be part of a single ethnic group. All of the main Chlouvānem subgroups, furthermore, have a set of pretty distinct identities inside them.