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==Political geography== | ==Political geography== | ||
[[File:Inquisition-tribunals-dioceses.png|thumb|border|center|1000x641px||alt=Political map of the Inquisition.|Political map of the Inquisition highlighting tribunals (white dioceses do not belong to any tribunal) and diocese borders. The | [[File:Inquisition-tribunals-dioceses.png|thumb|border|center|1000x641px||alt=Political map of the Inquisition.|Political map of the Inquisition highlighting tribunals (white dioceses do not belong to any tribunal) and diocese borders. The twenty largest cities by population are also marked ([[Verse:Chlouvānem Inquisition#Largest cities|see also the table above]]).]] | ||
In the Inquisition there are three major levels of local administration: the ''diocese'', the ''circuit'', and the ''parish''. | In the Inquisition there are three major levels of local administration: the ''diocese'', the ''circuit'', and the ''parish''. | ||
The highest level is the ''diocese'' ('''rākṣambāha'''), comparable to a federate state; their head is a ''bishop'' ('''rākṣaṇa'''). 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/> | The highest level is the ''diocese'' ('''rākṣambāha'''), comparable to a federate state; their head is a ''bishop'' ('''rākṣaṇa'''). 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/> | ||
There are in total 171 dioceses in the Inquisition, divided into | There are in total 171 dioceses in the Inquisition, divided into 20 tribunals (but two dioceses - the Kāmilbausa and the Kāyīchah islands - are not part of any tribunal, both being insular dioceses between the "mainland" of the Inquisition and the continent of Védren<ref>The Kāyīchah islands are geologically on the Védrenian plate and actually considered part of Védren in every major source.</ref>): ''Jade Coast Area'', ''Eastern Plain'', ''Southern Plain'', ''Northern Plain (Namaikaheh)'', ''Central Plain'', ''Western Plain'', ''Inland Southwest'', ''Coastal Southwest (Sand Coast)'', ''South'', ''Līrah River Hills'', ''Near East'', ''Southern Far East'', ''Southeastern Islands'', ''Northern Far East'', ''East'', ''Northeast'', ''North'', ''West'', ''Northwest'', and ''Far West''<ref>While the official nomenclatures are these ones, in popular speech the ''West'' may be termed ''Near West'', while the ''Far West'' is termed ''West''.</ref>. Population of the dioceses ranges from 1.67.ᘔƐ.ᘔ02<sub>12</sub> (55,717,346) (''Haikamotē'' in the Northern Far East) to 7.217<sub>12</sub> (12,403) (the ''Nukahucē'' islands, a remote chain of coral atolls part of the Far Eastern Islands tribunal but somewhat isolated from them). Diocese area ranges from 887,794 km<sup>2</sup> (''Samvālšaṇṭrē'', in the Northwest, almost entirely consisting of a large desertic or semi-arid endorheic basin) to 208 km<sup>2</sup> (the ''Nukahucē'' 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 bear the name of ''province'' ('''ṣramāṇa''') - for larger but less densely populated areas - or ''eparchy'' ('''nīrvaṣa''') - for smaller, mostly urban areas. Eparchies 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 9Ɛ,4 raicē/29.8 million inhabitants - there is however no such entity as the city of Līlasuṃghāṇa, but only its eparchy. There are in total seven eparchies in the Inquisition: ''[[Verse:Chlouvānem Inquisition/Līlasuṃghāṇa|Līlasuṃghāṇa]]'' (diocese of Nanašīrama), ''Ilēnimarta'' (diocese of Kanyāvālna), ''Līṭhalyinām'' (Latayūlima), ''Līlta'' (Mīdhūpraṇa), ''Cami'' (Haikamotē), ''Līlikanāna'' (Āturiyāmba), and ''Naiṣambella'' (Yayadalga); apart from the latter (counting 16,1 raicē/4.5 million people), the first five have more than 36 raicē (~10.4 million) inhabitants - Līlikanāna falls just short of it - and are the six largest cities of the country. | 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 bear the name of ''province'' ('''ṣramāṇa''') - for larger but less densely populated areas - or ''eparchy'' ('''nīrvaṣa''') - for smaller, mostly urban areas. Eparchies 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 9Ɛ,4 raicē/29.8 million inhabitants - there is however no such entity as the city of Līlasuṃghāṇa, but only its eparchy. There are in total seven eparchies in the Inquisition: ''[[Verse:Chlouvānem Inquisition/Līlasuṃghāṇa|Līlasuṃghāṇa]]'' (diocese of Nanašīrama), ''Ilēnimarta'' (diocese of Kanyāvālna), ''Līṭhalyinām'' (Latayūlima), ''Līlta'' (Mīdhūpraṇa), ''Cami'' (Haikamotē), ''Līlikanāna'' (Āturiyāmba), and ''Naiṣambella'' (Yayadalga); apart from the latter (counting 16,1 raicē/4.5 million people), the first five have more than 36 raicē (~10.4 million) inhabitants - Līlikanāna falls just short of it - and are the six largest cities of the country. | ||