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==Society & Culture==

The Kiravian Union inherited a multifarious society with an ancient Coscivian heritage and a complex patchwork of nesting and overlapping ethnic, linguistic, religious, tribal, regional, and local identities and communities, easily interpreted as either a vibrant and pluralistic country with a strong {{wp|civil society}} or - as was the view of the Kirosocialist Party - an overly particularistic society with deeply entrenched parochial, caste, class, and local rivalries and antiquated traditions that arrested social and economic progress and the development of {{wp|class consciousness}} and a modern {{wp|civic culture}}. The concept of socialism as a cultural framework and not a mere economic system was central to Kirosocialism, and...

The Kiravian Union inherited a multifarious society with an ancient Coscivian heritage and a complex patchwork of nesting and overlapping ethnic, linguistic, religious, tribal, regional, and local identities and communities, easily interpreted as either a vibrant and pluralistic country with a strong {{wp|civil society}} or - as was the view of the Kirosocialist Party - an overly particularistic society with deeply entrenched parochial, caste, class, and local rivalries and antiquated traditions that arrested social and economic progress and the development of {{wp|class consciousness}} and a modern {{wp|civic culture}}. The concept of socialism as a cultural framework and not a mere economic system was central to Kirosocialism, and most cultural trends and developments from the era of the Kiravian Union can be understood in the context of State and Party efforts to forge a "progressive Coscivian culture" and "spiritual socialist civilisation" and the tension between this effort and the strong bonds of [[Coscivian civilisation|traditional Coscivian culture]].

===Social Change===

Urbanisation, nuclearisation of the family and its mitigation by the microdistrict and work-unit. Femoid liberation and organised youth activities. Curtailment of customary law.

Socialist attempts to break up ethnic neighbourhoods. Failure of said attempts and reversion to Neo-Verticalism (the ethnic neighbourhood ''becomes'' the work unit). Socialist efforts to stop rival football fans from murdering each other in Valēka, and the failure thereöf.

===Architecture and Urban Planning===

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

===Education===

Qórellin Method. Instructionalism. Ideological education.

===Language===

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.

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During the latter half of the Kiravian Union's existence, the Party began incorporating references to "spirituality" and "spiritual civilisation" into its propaganda, while simultaneously ramping up repression of the established churches and efforts to subordinate Kiravian religious life to Kirosocialist ideology.

==Cuisine==

Socialisation of systems of food production and distribution and the lifestyle changes experienced by urban Kiravians under the Kiravian Union had a major impact on how Kiravians cooked and ate.

===Rations===

A centrepiece of Kirosocialist welfare policy - and one that was initially quite popular - was the ''Soksyalnāstriluv'' or "Social Ration", more commonly known as the ''ɣaram'' ("parcel"), or a number of other dialectal and often colourful names. Designed to ensure {{wp|food security}} for the urban proletariat and rural poor, the ''ɣaram'' was a weekly (later daily) package of basic staple foodstuffs allocated to eligible households, which encompassed most of the urban population. Families were free (and encouraged) to augment their diet with food from other sources, but as time went on the ration became the principal or sole source of food for many city-dwellers. By [YEAR], 90% of households in [[Cities of Kiravia#Xūrosar|Xūrosar]] were ration-eligible and 68% were ration-dependent. The contents of the ''ɣaram'' varied considerably over time and later by location as nationwide distribution networks wore down and regional directorated were put in charge of procuring food and setting the "menu". However, they reliably included some form of potato (initially raw, later {{wp|chuño|freeze-dried}}, milled, or {{wp|Instant mashed potatoes|flaked}}), some form of processed meat or fish ({{wp|salt beef}}, {{wp|kippers}}, {{wp|sausage|tinned sausage}}), a grain product or flour, a vegetable/algal/fungal product, and canned beer. Before single-party rule, the rations were quite basic and uniform, but during the early years of the Kiravian Union they became more sophisticated and nutritionally balanced and the "menu" offerings began to rotate on a monthly or even weekly basis. During Mid-Kirosocialism, this variety devolved into unpredictable inconsistency as regional ration bureaux found it increasingly difficult to come up with supplies.

===Soup===

The need to feed entire families on (often dried or otherwise preserved) foods scrapped together from disparate sources such as ration packs, bathtub gardens, and black markets restored the centrality of {{wp|soup}} to the Kiravian diet. Soup had long been the usual main course for ordinary Kiravian households. However, in the decades leading up to Kirosocialism, Kiravians in coastal states had begun relegating soup to the status of an appetizer, lunch, or side dish, in emulation of Occidental habits. Under the Kiravian Union, "ration soups" prepared from whatever the day's ration happened to be, supplemented with homegrown or foraged greens, and {{wp|wet market|who knows what else}} often yielded bizarre and surprising flavour combinations, some of which are still replicated today for those who have {{wp|acquired taste|acquired a taste for them}}.

==Legacy==

[[Category:IXWB]]

@@ Line 170: / Line 170: @@
 ==Society & Culture==
-The Kiravian Union inherited a multifarious society with an ancient Coscivian heritage and a complex patchwork of nesting and overlapping ethnic, linguistic, religious, tribal, regional, and local identities and communities, easily interpreted as either a vibrant and pluralistic country with a strong {{wp|civil society}} or - as was the view of the Kirosocialist Party - an overly particularistic society with deeply entrenched parochial, caste, class, and local rivalries and antiquated traditions that arrested social and economic progress and the development of {{wp|class consciousness}} and a modern {{wp|civic culture}}. The concept of socialism as a cultural framework and not a mere economic system was central to Kirosocialism, and...
+The Kiravian Union inherited a multifarious society with an ancient Coscivian heritage and a complex patchwork of nesting and overlapping ethnic, linguistic, religious, tribal, regional, and local identities and communities, easily interpreted as either a vibrant and pluralistic country with a strong {{wp|civil society}} or - as was the view of the Kirosocialist Party - an overly particularistic society with deeply entrenched parochial, caste, class, and local rivalries and antiquated traditions that arrested social and economic progress and the development of {{wp|class consciousness}} and a modern {{wp|civic culture}}. The concept of socialism as a cultural framework and not a mere economic system was central to Kirosocialism, and most cultural trends and developments from the era of the Kiravian Union can be understood in the context of State and Party efforts to forge a "progressive Coscivian culture" and "spiritual socialist civilisation" and the tension between this effort and the strong bonds of [[Coscivian civilisation|traditional Coscivian culture]].
+===Social Change===
+Urbanisation, nuclearisation of the family and its mitigation by the microdistrict and work-unit. Femoid liberation and organised youth activities. Curtailment of customary law.
+Socialist attempts to break up ethnic neighbourhoods. Failure of said attempts and reversion to Neo-Verticalism (the ethnic neighbourhood ''becomes'' the work unit). Socialist efforts to stop rival football fans from murdering each other in Valēka, and the failure thereöf.
+===Architecture and Urban Planning===
+Constructivism, Structuralism, Socialist urbanism versus [[Disurbanism]]
+===Education===
+Qórellin Method. Instructionalism. Ideological education.
 ===Language===
 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.
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 During the latter half of the Kiravian Union's existence, the Party began incorporating references to "spirituality" and "spiritual civilisation" into its propaganda, while simultaneously ramping up repression of the established churches and efforts to subordinate Kiravian religious life to Kirosocialist ideology.
+==Cuisine==
+Socialisation of systems of food production and distribution and the lifestyle changes experienced by urban Kiravians under the Kiravian Union had a major impact on how Kiravians cooked and ate.
+===Rations===
+A centrepiece of Kirosocialist welfare policy - and one that was initially quite popular - was the ''Soksyalnāstriluv'' or "Social Ration", more commonly known as the ''ɣaram'' ("parcel"), or a number of other dialectal and often colourful names. Designed to ensure {{wp|food security}} for the urban proletariat and rural poor, the ''ɣaram'' was a weekly (later daily) package of basic staple foodstuffs allocated to eligible households, which encompassed most of the urban population. Families were free (and encouraged) to augment their diet with food from other sources, but as time went on the ration became the principal or sole source of food for many city-dwellers. By [YEAR], 90% of households in [[Cities of Kiravia#Xūrosar|Xūrosar]] were ration-eligible and 68% were ration-dependent. The contents of the ''ɣaram'' varied considerably over time and later by location as nationwide distribution networks wore down and regional directorated were put in charge of procuring food and setting the "menu". However, they reliably included some form of potato (initially raw, later {{wp|chuño|freeze-dried}}, milled, or {{wp|Instant mashed potatoes|flaked}}), some form of processed meat or fish ({{wp|salt beef}}, {{wp|kippers}}, {{wp|sausage|tinned sausage}}), a grain product or flour, a vegetable/algal/fungal product, and canned beer. Before single-party rule, the rations were quite basic and uniform, but during the early years of the Kiravian Union they became more sophisticated and nutritionally balanced and the "menu" offerings began to rotate on a monthly or even weekly basis. During Mid-Kirosocialism, this variety devolved into unpredictable inconsistency as regional ration bureaux found it increasingly difficult to come up with supplies.
+===Soup===
+The need to feed entire families on (often dried or otherwise preserved) foods scrapped together from disparate sources such as ration packs, bathtub gardens, and black markets restored the centrality of {{wp|soup}} to the Kiravian diet. Soup had long been the usual main course for ordinary Kiravian households. However, in the decades leading up to Kirosocialism, Kiravians in coastal states had begun relegating soup to the status of an appetizer, lunch, or side dish, in emulation of Occidental habits. Under the Kiravian Union, "ration soups" prepared from whatever the day's ration happened to be, supplemented with homegrown or foraged greens, and {{wp|wet market|who knows what else}} often yielded bizarre and surprising flavour combinations, some of which are still replicated today for those who have {{wp|acquired taste|acquired a taste for them}}.
 ==Legacy==
 [[Category:IXWB]]

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