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 ===Political development===
+The transition from tribal to state societies took place gradually in Kiravia, with state institutions being layered on top of organic, primarily kinship-based social structures. What historical literature sometimes refers to as “states” during Deep History are in most cases better characterized as chiefdoms, or as large tribal polities undergoing gradual stratification and proto-institutionalisation of their leadership. From the Lawful Commonwealth on thro' the First Empire, tribes remained the primary form of Coscivian social organization, even in urban centres, as reflected in the political systems of Coscivian empires and city states, the latter of which functioned not as independent and impersonal states in the strict sense, but rather as institutions to represent and balance the interests of kinship-based corporate groups.
 ==Iron Age==