Lawful Commonwealth

In Coscivian historiography, the Lawful Commonwealth (High Coscivian: Gxcasvix tóxuréaχita, Kiravic Coscivian: Áldóriþísāv) was the first incarnation of the Coscivian Empire. The foundations of Coscivian law and  the metaëthnic identity of the Coscivian people are attributed to the Lawful Commonwealth.

The Lawful Commonwealth was, in essence, a of tribal units (initially seven) that accepted the Four Laws and Four Precepts, pledged to defend one another from attack by tribes outside of the confederacy, and agreed to bring their disputes to the Emperor for arbitration instead of making war on one another. In this regard it was fundamentally different in nature from later Coscivian Empires, which were true, though these later polities would nonetheless claim continuity with the Lawful Commonwealth and derive legitimacy therefrom in a chain of , while continuing to apply and develop the legal system that they had inherited from it.

Chronology
If interpreted as linear (which would be a mistake), traditional Coscivian chronologies would date the foundation of the Commonwealth to around 19,600 years ago (c. 17,577 BC), during which time Great Kirav was almost entirely glaciated and populated only by small hunter-gatherer bands, which would be inconsistent with traditional narratives surrounding the Commonwealth. Among modern scientific scholars who accept the Lawful Commonwealth’s historicity, the presently dominant theory places the Lawful Commonwealth in the Boreal, around 6,000 BC. Minority factions (found almost entirely in Coscivian countries) contend that the Lawful Commonwealth actually existed during the very early of the Society II culture, or even during the Late Ice Age of the Society I culture. Occidental scholars regard the former hypothesis as possible (if unlikely) and the latter as batshit.