Kiravian Union: Difference between revisions

|native_name            = Kiravix Thūra

|conventional_long_name = Kiravian Union

|year_start            = 21146

|year_end              = 21185

|house2                = [[Council of States|Union Council]]

The Kiravian Union was declared in 21146. The Kirosocialist Party had controlled the Prime Executure and the [[Federal Stanora|Stanora]] of the Kiravian Federal Republic since [YEAR], operating within the parameters of the existing constitution. Its capture of additional state legislatures by 21146 accorded it the political trifecta necessary to amend the constitution unilaterally. The Stanora did so in 21146, repealing the entire constitution and replacing it with the Constitution of the Kiravian Union, which laid out a single-party state largely following the classical [[Devinism|Devinist]] model. The Stanora was immediately converted into the Supreme Soviet (''Ixtísovèt'') and all non-Kirosocialist Delegates automatically forfeit their seats. The sole dissenting Kirosocialist vote, [[S.P. Akēvarin]], vacated his seat the next day upon his expulsion from the Party.

Constructivism, Structuralism, Socialist urbanism versus [[Disurbanism]]

The Kiravian Union is credited with greatly expanding working-class Kiravians' access to higher education through its grand expansion of public universities and bureaucratic regularisation of admissions processes at major established universities, which came under varying degrees of state control or influence. Eight in ten public universities in Kiravia today were founded during Kirosocialist rule.

In Kiravian higher education, degrees are not awarded for the satisfactory completion of credit-hours (this is usually a prerequisite for graduation, but not always), but rather for a "demonstration" (High Coscivian: ''uordhír'') showing consummate mastery of course material. Depending on the institution and course of study, this could take the form of ''anoþeruorden'' (an oral examination by senior faculty) or an ''ifórgotra'' (a written thesis). Under the Kiravian Union, the ''anoþeruorden'' was discontinued for undergraduates outside of a few historically Taństan and Kandan universities in the Northeast (it would persist at medical and law schools), and the ''ifórgotra'' became standard. To maintain state accreditation, theses had to conform to a strict ideological rubric and were evaluated in large part for their application of socialist theory to the subject matter.

Based on the belief that linguistic diversity was a hindrance to national and proletarian unity and that diglossia among multiple dialects and literary registers of Kiravic was a retrograde holdover from the country's hierarchical past, the Kirosocialist government vigorously promoted monolingualism among the Coscivian population, suppressing regional, local, and ethnic vernaculars and the levelling of Kiravic dialects. It also curtailed the use of [[High Coscivian]] in higher education and the publication of new books in the language, in addition to banishing High Coscivian formulae from state ceremonies and quietly scrapping High Coscivian mottoes of government agencies. In order to promote literacy in the sole national language among non-native speakers and purge Kiravian letters of perceived bourgeois and reactionary elements, the Union promoted the use of [[Kiravic_Coscivian#Written_Registers|Standard Kiravic]], a different written standard from traditional Literary Kiravic designed to be more regular, more "modern", and more accessible to the less educated and non-native speakers. Although these policies had only a limited effect on major regional languages like Southern Coscivian and West Coast Marine Coscivian, their impact on ethnic languages spoken in the cities was considerable. Even many urban centres in non-Kiravic-speaking areas, such as [[Béyasar]] and [[Saar-Silverda]], became mainly Kiravic-speaking during this time.

The régime was more accommodating toward non-Coscivian minority languages and launched language development initiatives for Aboriginal languages like Qódava. It also supported education and public services in the Prythonic language, as Welsh-Kiravians were ardent supporters of Kirosocialism and many high-ranking Party members, such as Secretary-General Rŵlan Jones, were native Welsh speakers. Gaelic education outside of Gaelic-majority areas was shut down and many Gaelic institutions of higher education were shut down or subjected to interference by the authorities, but the Kirosocialists quickly abandoned programmes to shift Gaelic-speaking areas to Kiravic as impractical.

The Kiravian Union's constitution declared it an explicitly ''dhiloryax'' ("not religious", "secular") state, whereas the republics that preceded and succeeded it were merely ''loryavôntix'' ("religiously-neutral"). Although most Kirosocialist Party cadre were irreligious, the Party lacked an ideological commitment to antitheism ''per se'' and never moved to prohibit religious practice outright, nor to ban any major religious group. Nonetheless, the Kiravian Union was aggressively {{wp|anticlerical}}, based on the perception that traditional organised religions in Kiravia were an impediment to social and economic progress, reinforced parochial sectarian/communal group identities against national and class unity, and provided institutional safe havens for reactionary ideas and individuals. As such, the régime implemented policies to undermine, marginalise, repress, infiltrate, and coöpt {{wp|organised religion|organised religious bodies}}, as well as to suppress informal religious movements deemed threatening to the socialist system. This was accomplished through an array of different repressive measures including onerous tax and regulatory burdens on religious organisations and buildings, summary expropriations of property, harassment and arbitrary arrests of clergy, discrimination against active congregants in employment and rationing, censorship of religious speech and publications, and suppression of proselytism and outdoor religious assemblies such as {{wp|Procession#Christian_processions|processions}}. The intensity of this repression was uneven across religious groups, with the brunt of it levelled against the major apostolic Christian churches in Kiravia - the Coscivian Orthodox Church, the Insular Apostolic Church, and the Levantine Catholic Church. The Catholic Church was singled out for particularly strong persecution because as an oversized share of the pre-Kirosocialist urban social and economic élite were Catholic, leading it to be viewed as a bourgeois religion; and also because it was loyal to a foreign entity (the Pope and the Vatican) and adamantly opposed to revolutionary socialism.