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==Territorial Extent== | ==Territorial Extent== | ||
The Kiravian Union claimed to inherit all territorial holdings and treaty rights held by the Kiravian Federal Republic. With the exception of the [[ | The Kiravian Union claimed to inherit all territorial holdings and treaty rights held by the Kiravian Federal Republic. With the exception of the [[Sydona Islands]], most Kiravian overseas possessions and protectorates initially refused to recognise the Union's authority, and the Union's ability to assert it authority overseas was crippled by mass defections from the Kiravian Navy and the flight of naval vessels to [[Scapa]] and [[Æonara]] in the Union's first days of existence. | ||
[[Æonara]], [[Atrassica]], the [[Krasoa Islands]], [[Seváronsa]], [[Saint Kennera]], [[Pribraltar]], [[Scapa]], and Kiravian [[Cusinaut]] would remain permanently outside of KU control. | [[Æonara]], [[Atrassica]], the [[Krasoa Islands]], [[Seváronsa]], [[Saint Kennera]], [[Pribraltar]], [[Scapa]], and Kiravian [[Cusinaut]] would remain permanently outside of KU control. | ||
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===Agriculture=== | ===Agriculture=== | ||
In accordance with the writings of Kiravian social-nationalist theorist Mixîl Paśkirin, the Kiravian Union generally respected the property and inheritance rights of freeholding family farmers (though *ad hoc* and arbitrary confiscations were known to occur). Collectivisation of large expropriated estates was attempted in many places across the country but ultimately remained in effect mostly in the | In accordance with the writings of Kiravian social-nationalist theorist Mixîl Paśkirin, the Kiravian Union generally respected the property and inheritance rights of freeholding family farmers (though *ad hoc* and arbitrary confiscations were known to occur). Collectivisation of large expropriated estates was attempted in many places across the country but ultimately remained in effect mostly in the Sydona Islands, South Kirav and parts of the Baylands. Improvements in agronomic technologies allowed for some large collective farms to be established ''de novo'' in parts of the Southwest, Near West, and Western Highlands as part of agricultural colonisation programmes. | ||
Achieving food independence for Great Kirav was an important but elusive goal for the Kirosocialists. During the early phase of Kirosocialist rule, it was widely assumed that scientific socialist planning and technological advancement would solve the problem in short order, but as time wore on and national self-sufficiency in food failed to materialise, the government was forced to approach the issue from other angles, such as initiatives to slow population growth, massive investments in aquaculture and pelagic fishing fleets, and numerous bureaucratic efforts at "ration optimisation" which often resulted in fraudulent accounting and the distribution of incorrect or incomplete ration units as administrators struggled to meet central production targets. The government also dedicated much effort to obtaining new sources of nutrition, whether by the introduction of new crops and crop varieties suitable for cultivation in more marginal areas of Great Kirav, the rediscovery of {{wp|famine foods}} from premodern times, and the harnassing of unusual and ersatz foodstuffs such as insects. As Mid-Kirosocialism turned to Late Kirosocialism, it had become patently obvious to the general population that state rations were becoming so adulterated with alternative protein sources and fillers like {{wp|sawdust|tree flour}}, kelp agarose, and {{wp|acorn meal}} that they were often no longer recognisable as the foods they purported to be, often leading to public unrest. | Achieving food independence for Great Kirav was an important but elusive goal for the Kirosocialists. During the early phase of Kirosocialist rule, it was widely assumed that scientific socialist planning and technological advancement would solve the problem in short order, but as time wore on and national self-sufficiency in food failed to materialise, the government was forced to approach the issue from other angles, such as initiatives to slow population growth, massive investments in aquaculture and pelagic fishing fleets, and numerous bureaucratic efforts at "ration optimisation" which often resulted in fraudulent accounting and the distribution of incorrect or incomplete ration units as administrators struggled to meet central production targets. The government also dedicated much effort to obtaining new sources of nutrition, whether by the introduction of new crops and crop varieties suitable for cultivation in more marginal areas of Great Kirav, the rediscovery of {{wp|famine foods}} from premodern times, and the harnassing of unusual and ersatz foodstuffs such as insects. As Mid-Kirosocialism turned to Late Kirosocialism, it had become patently obvious to the general population that state rations were becoming so adulterated with alternative protein sources and fillers like {{wp|sawdust|tree flour}}, kelp agarose, and {{wp|acorn meal}} that they were often no longer recognisable as the foods they purported to be, often leading to public unrest. | ||
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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. As part of the "Democratization Campaign in Education" (''Thāruārkaktorpistran Léisagrenē''), the government officially banished High Coscivian, previously the main language of academia in the country, from higher education, as well as vernacular languages at the "ethnic colleges". However, this effort was only partially successful. Tuition at public universities was free to the children of peasants, workers, and soldiers. New public colleges during this era were the first to be built with institutional dormitories, and room and board were subsidised for students from working families, while at preëxisting state universities and the old establishmentarian colleges equivalent services were provided mainly by student unions. | 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. As part of the "Democratization Campaign in Education" (''Thāruārkaktorpistran Léisagrenē''), the government officially banished High Coscivian, previously the main language of academia in the country, from higher education, as well as vernacular languages at the "ethnic colleges". However, this effort was only partially successful. Tuition at public universities was free to the children of peasants, workers, and soldiers. New public colleges during this era were the first to be built with institutional dormitories, and room and board were subsidised for students from working families, while at preëxisting state universities and the old establishmentarian colleges equivalent services were provided mainly by student unions. | ||
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 | 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 Eshavian 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. | ||
===Language=== | ===Language=== | ||