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===Political subdivisions=== | |||
In the Inquisition there are three major levels of local administration: the ''diocese'', the ''circuit'', and the ''parish''. | |||
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/> | |||
There are in total 142 dioceses in the Inquisition, divided into 16 tribunals (but seven dioceses are not part of any tribunal: four of them are mostly sparsely populated steppe plus a part of the desert; the other three are insular dioceses between the rest of the Inquisition and the continent Védren): ''Jade Coast Area'' (17), ''Eastern Plain'' (10), ''Namaikęeh - Northern Plain'' (7), ''Central Plain'' (9), ''Western Plain'' (7), ''Inland Southwest'' (8), ''Coastal Southwest'' (5), ''South'' (14), ''Near East'' (6), ''Southern Far East'' (7), ''Far Eastern Islands'' (6), ''Northern Far East'' (9), ''East'' (9), ''Northeast'' (9), ''North'' (10), and ''West'' (9). Population of the dioceses ranges from 55,717,346 (''Haikamotė'' in the Northern Far East) to 12,403 (the ''Nukahucė'' islands, a remote chain of coral atolls part of the Far Eastern Islands tribunal but somewhat isolated from them). Diocese area ranges from 961,559 km<sup>2</sup> (''Nanūkijāṇa'', including the whole Salt Desert and about half of the Great Desert) to 268 km<sup>2</sup> (the ''Nukahucė'' 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 be called ''provinces'' ('''ṣramāṇa''') - for larger but less densely populated areas - or ''quaestorship'' ('''ṭūmma''') - for smaller, mostly urban areas. Quaestorships 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 29.8 million inhabitants - there is however no such entity as the city of Līlasuṃghāṇa, but only its quaestorship. There are in total six quaestorships in the Inquisition: ''Līlasuṃghāṇa'' (diocese of Nanašīrama), ''Ilėnimarta'' (diocese of Kanyāvālna), ''Līṭhalyinām'' (Latayūlima), ''Līlta'' (Mīdhūpraṇa), ''Cami'' (Haikamotė), and ''Naiṣambella'' (Yayadalga); apart from the latter (counting 4.5 million people), all other ones have more than 10 million inhabitants and are the five largest cities of the country. | |||
The next local level is the circuit ('''lalka'''), whose denomination changes in some dioceses — including '''hālgāra''' (district) and others — without major differences in competences (though it should be noted that competences of circuits or equivalent administrations are not centralized, but defined by the diocese or province). | |||
The lowest level of local administration is the "municipality" one — whose names are in most dioceses either ''parish'' ('''mānai'''), ''city'' ('''marta'''), or sometimes ''village'' ('''poga'''). The distinction between them is mostly of population, with municipalities above a certain population (in many dioceses 70,000 people) being considered cities. The distinction between villages and parishes is more blurry and varies more between each diocese, with villages usually being independent municipalities whose populations are either very small in size compared to nearby ones, or located in sparsely populated areas. | |||
Clusters of nearby mid-small parishes often form an entity called ''inter-parish territory'' ('''maimānāyuseh ṣramāṇa'''), sharing between them some basic services like recycling, local transport, or fire protection. | |||
While the lowest independent division is the parish (including cities and villages), a minor area in a parish may be recognized as a ''hamlet'' ('''mūrė''') (note that some dioceses use the term for village (''poga'') instead), which for cities is usually a ''borough'' ('''martauseh poga''', literally "urban village"). Note that cities may also have hamlets: boroughs are usually defined as such if many of them form a large contiguous urban area; smaller inhabited places in rural areas administered by a city are still hamlets. | |||
Large uninhabited or extremely sparsely populated areas are often not assigned to any municipality, but are administered by the circuit and defined as an ''extra-parish territory'' ('''šrimāṇāyuseh ṣramāṇa'''). | |||
==History== | ==History== | ||
==Politics== | ==Politics== | ||