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===Kiravian Federacy=== | ===Kiravian Federacy=== | ||
===Serikorda and the Purchases=== | ====Serikorda and the Purchases==== | ||
The oldest, largest, and most stable Abrigalast communities are located in the mountains of [[Serikorda|Serikorda State]], living in six communities known as the Sortitionist Purchases. The two largest Purchases, Xtown and Ycrest, contain multiple villages and congregations selecting a single bishop, while the rest - Zburg, Qville, Wham, and Ubury, are centred on a single congregation. In terms of religious and communal life, the six Purchases differ from one another in numerous points of detail, but all can be broadly described as practicing a "Traditional Serikordan Abrigalastism" that combines a fairly orthodox Trinitarian theology and a moderately Removalist and Insular stance on world-denial with traditional methods of cleromancy and sortition. Qville is an exception in that it has become an Abiding church in recent years. Ycrest, Zburg, amd Ubury are Integralist, whereas Wham, Qville, and most congregations in Xtown conduct church meetings and business meetings separately. Abrigalasts in the Purchases have traditionally followed a communal agrarian lifestyle, though in the modern era only a small minority are full-time farmers and most men seek employment outside of the community at some point in their lives. Most of the Purchases have worked to start new communal enterprises - often involving handicrafts, artisan food products, and tourism - though Ubury, the smallest and most insular Purchase, has not. | The oldest, largest, and most stable Abrigalast communities are located in the mountains of [[Serikorda|Serikorda State]], living in six communities known as the Sortitionist Purchases. The two largest Purchases, Xtown and Ycrest, contain multiple villages and congregations selecting a single bishop, while the rest - Zburg, Qville, Wham, and Ubury, are centred on a single congregation. In terms of religious and communal life, the six Purchases differ from one another in numerous points of detail, but all can be broadly described as practicing a "Traditional Serikordan Abrigalastism" that combines a fairly orthodox Trinitarian theology and a moderately Removalist and Insular stance on world-denial with traditional methods of cleromancy and sortition. Qville is an exception in that it has become an Abiding church in recent years. Ycrest, Zburg, amd Ubury are Integralist, whereas Wham, Qville, and most congregations in Xtown conduct church meetings and business meetings separately. Abrigalasts in the Purchases have traditionally followed a communal agrarian lifestyle, though in the modern era only a small minority are full-time farmers and most men seek employment outside of the community at some point in their lives. Most of the Purchases have worked to start new communal enterprises - often involving handicrafts, artisan food products, and tourism - though Ubury, the smallest and most insular Purchase, has not. | ||
These areas were settled by Abrigalast immigrants from Covina and Suderavia in the [DECADES], and were welcomed by the state government to promote development in marginal highland areas. Although they are not municipal bodies, the Purchases have special status under the state's local governance statutes in order to allow them to administer many local services without conforming to normal political structures like town meetings and local elections. This status is contingent on the land remaining owned by a religious body and admitting only members of that body as residents. In 21202, Qville Purchase gave up its special status in order to open some of its land up to real estate development. Over the course of their existence, the Purchases have constantly exported emigrants due to population pressure, economic difficulties, and schisms within the congregations. Some Abrigalasts have settled nearby and remained members of their home congregation, while others have calved off new congregations, many of them scattered further afield. The overwhelming majority of Abrigalast communities in Kiravia can trace their origins back to the Purchases. During the past century the Purchases have experienced dramatic population decline due to attrition from the movement and emigration of members to other areas. Persecution by the Kirosocialist régime, which abrogated the Purchases' special status and refused to make religious accommodations in public administration or allow {{wp|conscientious objection}} to military service, absolutely decimated the Purchases by conscripting or imprisoning much of the workforce, forcing many children into state boarding schools, and inducing many residents to flee to other areas or leave the movement entirely. However, this persecution also had a conservatising effect on those who remained, instilling a greater antipathy towards the State and distrust towards outsiders. | These areas were settled by Abrigalast immigrants from Covina and Suderavia in the [DECADES], and were welcomed by the state government to promote development in marginal highland areas. Although they are not municipal bodies, the Purchases have special status under the state's local governance statutes in order to allow them to administer many local services without conforming to normal political structures like town meetings and local elections. This status is contingent on the land remaining owned by a religious body and admitting only members of that body as residents. In 21202, Qville Purchase gave up its special status in order to open some of its land up to real estate development. Over the course of their existence, the Purchases have constantly exported emigrants due to population pressure, economic difficulties, and schisms within the congregations. Some Abrigalasts have settled nearby and remained members of their home congregation, while others have calved off new congregations, many of them scattered further afield. The overwhelming majority of Abrigalast communities in Kiravia can trace their origins back to the Purchases. During the past century the Purchases have experienced dramatic population decline due to attrition from the movement and emigration of members to other areas. Persecution by the Kirosocialist régime, which abrogated the Purchases' special status and refused to make religious accommodations in public administration or allow {{wp|conscientious objection}} to military service, absolutely decimated the Purchases by conscripting or imprisoning much of the workforce, forcing many children into state boarding schools, and inducing many residents to flee to other areas or leave the movement entirely. However, this persecution also had a conservatising effect on those who remained, instilling a greater antipathy towards the State and distrust towards outsiders. | ||
E.D.S. Nígatelluv, a professor of religious studies at Deréssuv University and eminent authority on the Abrigalasts, estimates that as little as 35% of Serikorda's Abrigalasts live in the Purchases or attend church there, though an additional 20% or so belong to off-purchase congregations in communion with a Purchase bishop. According to his research, the small state hosts over forty independent Abrigalast sects during a given year, with an average membership of 7 families and a median membership of 12 families. The mean figures are skewed downward by a preponderance of very small congregations, many of which prove short-lived. Nígatelluv has also brought the phenomenon of *unchurched Abrigalasts* - whether worshipping indepdendently, left behind by a dissolved congregation, or non-practicing - to scholarly attention, and claims that Kirosocialist persecution created large numbers of such people. Off-purchase Abrigalasts in Serikorda are more diverse in terms of their religious practices and lifestyle. Some members of Abiding churches in the larger towns may be indistinguishable from their neighbours, while others are much more strident than Purchase residents. Nígatelluv has observed that a great many off-purchase Abrigalasts, both men and women, work in the {{wp|informal sector}} to avoid taxation, and that on any given day about half of the {{wp|day labor|day labourers}} available for hire in the town of Ālkūþorn are Abrigalasts. | |||
====Kiravian Crona==== | ====Kiravian Crona==== | ||