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The '''Trash Coscivians''' are a social category or ethnoclass of low-income Coscivian Kiravians who are viewed by other Coscivians as morally and intellectually deficient, undisciplined, and uncultured. Trash Coscivians are distinguished from other poor Coscivians, the ''riśgaxtya esakirdas'' or "poor with dignity", as being deficient in the {{wp|virtue ethics|virtue-ethical}} standards of Coscivian society. Unlike most working-class and rural Coscivians, who generally are or claim to be grounded in traditional folk culture, Trash Coscivians are seen as lacking any connection to either traditional folk culture or to {{wp|high culture}}. They are also distinguished from individual Coscivians of poor character in that their "trashiness" is seen as collective and endemic.

Behaviours and characteristics associated with Trash Coscivians include illegitimacy, drinking vodka, eating {{wp|alkaline noodles}}, living in a {{wp|trailer park}} or Kirosocialist-style apartment block, functional illiteracy, petty criminality, cheap Western-style attire and a flashy or gaudy style of dress, crass consumerism, promiscuity, watching {{wp|reality television}}, and throwing spent liquor bottles at people and/or passing cars.

It is impossible to determine or reliably estimate the population of Trash Coscivians, due to the subjective nature and negative implications of the label. Only 234 people reported their ethnosocial background as Trash Coscivian on the 21200 Kiravian Census, but this is not considered representative of the actual population. A study by anthropologists at the University of Belārus of twelve trailer parks and housing projects in [[Castera]], [[Kiorgia]], [[Etivéra]], and [[Hiterna]] identified as Trash Coscivian communities by neighbouring Coscivians found that residents of these communities tend to identify as members of the dominant "regional Coscivian" ethnic group of the surrounding area (e.g. Arnóriem in coastal Castera, Kiorgiem in Kiorgia, Lærem in southeast Etivéra), even if their surnames reflected a different ethnic origin. Many also identified themselves as "Poor Coscivians". The study found that on average, people in these communities were considerably less knowledgeable about their own extended family, ethnic background, and genæalogy than non-Trash Coscivians with comparable incomes from the same areas.