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==Coscivian peoples==
==Coscivian peoples==
===Arnórian Coscivians===
===Arnórians===
{{Infobox KirGroup
{{Infobox KirGroup
| name            = Arnórians
| name            = Arnórians
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| endogamy        =
| endogamy        =
| lifestyle        =
| lifestyle        =
| pda_status      = Mostly Stable
| pda_status      = Midstream
| colour          = {{color box|#87CEEB}} {{wp|Sky blue}}
| colour          = {{color box|#87CEEB}} {{wp|Sky blue}}
| supergroup      =
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{{wp|Hockey}} is central to Arnórian culture, and Arnórians are heavily over-represented in the [[Boreal Hockey League]], even more so among the League's coaching staff.
{{wp|Hockey}} is central to Arnórian culture, and Arnórians are heavily over-represented in the [[Boreal Hockey League]], even more so among the League's coaching staff.


The Arnórians are known to have a laconic affect and are stereotyped as cogenitally depressed, though this is more likely the result of the low availability of sunlight and high availability of depressants in their traditional homeland.
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===Euluśian Coscivians===
===Avramem===
{{Infobox KirGroup
| name            = Avramem
| image            =
| imagesize        = <!-- or image_size -->
| imagealt        =
| imagecaption    =
| type            = {{wp|Ethnoreligious group|Ethnoreligious}}
| population      = 62,000
| era              =
| polity          =
| ethnogenesis    =
| stonk            =
| nationality      =
| cohort          =
| ethnicity        =
| language        = [[Kilikas-Valēkas Coscivian]]
| religion        = {{wp|Judaism}}<br>Læstorianism (historical)
| ruler            =
| endogamy        = Yes
| lifestyle        =
| pda_status      = Midstream
| colour          = {{color box|#0038b8}} Blue of Israel
| supergroup      =
| subgroups        =
| related          = [[Ethnic groups in Kiravia#Sedhan Coscivians|Sedhans]], [[Ethnic groups in Kiravia#Ivraīem|Ivraīem]]
| region          = [[Kaviska]], [[Niyaska]]
| orig_state      =
| dias_state      = [[East Æonara]]
| kolor            = coscivian
}}
 
The '''Avramem''' are an ethnoreligious group that emerged from the practice of {{wp|Judaism}} among a community of Kilikas-Valēkas-speaking Coscivians in the highlands of Upper Kaviska, following their conversion from the Læstorian faith. They are the larger and older of the two Jewish Coscivian communities, the other being the [[Ethnic groups in Kiravia#Ivraīem|Ivraīem]]. Despite sharing a religious identity and inhabiting the same region, the two groups have little contact with one another and do not intermarry. The Avramem are a fairly insular community in general, and prefer to maintain their identity and religious practice through separate social institutions, such as all-Avramem physical settlements, schools, workplaces, saunas, and pubs.
 
The Avramem have no historical or mythic record of ancestral continuity with the original Hebrews, yet nonetheless, in true Coscivian sacramentalist fashion, consider themselves fully a part of the Jewish people in diaspora through the efficacy of the Covenant, and indeed, consider themselves more authentically Jewish than the Ivraīem (who do have an ancestral connexion to the original Hebrews).
 
Virtually the entire Avramem population lives in three states: Kaviska (Upper Kaviska, Valēka City ⟨mainly the canton of Canova⟩, and the two Lower Peninsulas), Niyaska, and East Æonara (where several hundred Avramem fled during Kirosocialism).
 
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===Euluśians===
{{Infobox KirGroup
{{Infobox KirGroup
| name            = Euluśians
| name            = Euluśians
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| cohort          = [[Ĥeiran Coscivians|Ĥeiran]]
| cohort          = [[Ĥeiran Coscivians|Ĥeiran]]
| ethnicity        =  
| ethnicity        =  
| language        = Æran-Kaltan Coscivian
| language        = Great Ensciryan
| religion        = [[Insular Apostolic Church|Insular Apostolic]]
| religion        = [[Insular Apostolic Church|Insular Apostolic]]
| ruler            =
| ruler            =
| endogamy        = Yes
| endogamy        = Yes
| lifestyle        =
| lifestyle        =
| pda_status      = Far Backward
| pda_status      = Vulnerable
| colour          = {{wp|Medium Sea Green}}
| colour          = {{wp|Medium Sea Green}}
| supergroup      =
| supergroup      =
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===Indokwé Coscivians===
===Indokwé===
The Indokwé are an ethnic group of mixed Éorsan Coscivian and Urom ancestry that emerged in [[Asperidan]] during the Coscivian colonisation of the Western Highlands. Originally a small confederation of agricultural tribes, the Indokwé were subject to frequent attack by the Draili Empire, and readily allied with Kiravia against Drail in the Continental War. In the decades following the war, the Indokwé, now Kiravian citizens, readily adopted numerous Cosco-Kiravian technologies and customs, and allowed Coscivians to settle in their territory (which had been enlarged to include much depopulated Draili land), provided that they underwent initiation into the tribe.  
The Indokwé are an ethnic group of mixed Éorsan Coscivian and Urom ancestry that emerged in [[Asperidan]] during the Coscivian colonisation of the Western Highlands. Originally a small confederation of agricultural tribes, the Indokwé were subject to frequent attack by the Draili Empire, and readily allied with Kiravia against Drail in the Continental War. In the decades following the war, the Indokwé, now Kiravian citizens, readily adopted numerous Cosco-Kiravian technologies and customs, and allowed Coscivians to settle in their territory (which had been enlarged to include much depopulated Draili land), provided that they underwent initiation into the tribe.  


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The Indokwé are known for their high rate of service in the Kiravian armed forces, particularly the Air Corps, which is mainly a result of Kímosav Airbase and the Kiravian Army Air Corps Academy being located in their historic territory.
The Indokwé are known for their high rate of service in the Kiravian armed forces, particularly the Air Corps, which is mainly a result of Kímosav Airbase and the Kiravian Army Air Corps Academy being located in their historic territory.


===Kandan Coscivians===
===Ivraīem===
{{Infobox KirGroup
| name            = Ivraīem
| image            =
| imagesize        = <!-- or image_size -->
| imagealt        =
| imagecaption    =
| type            = {{wp|Ethnoreligious group|Ethnoreligious}}
| population      = 36,000
| era              = Mediæval
| polity          =
| ethnogenesis    =
| stonk            =
| nationality      =
| cohort          =
| ethnicity        =
| language        = Judæo-[[Kiravic]]
| religion        = {{wp|Judaism}} (~70%)<br>{{wp|Hebrew Catholics|Hebrew Catholicism}} (~30%)
| ruler            =
| endogamy        = Yes
| lifestyle        =
| pda_status      = Advanced
| colour          = {{color box|#0038b8}} Blue of Israel
| supergroup      =
| subgroups        =
| related          = [[Kir people]], [[Ethnic groups in Kiravia#Avramem|Avramem]]
| region          = [[Kaviska]], [[Niyaska]], [[Fariva]], [[Hanoram]]
| orig_state      =
| dias_state      = [[Central Æonara]], [[North Æonara]]
| kolor            = coscivian
}}
 
The '''Ivraīem''' are an ethnoreligious group, the smaller and younger of the two Jewish Coscivian communities (the other being the [[Ethnic groups in Kiravia#Avramem|Avramem]]). The Ivraīem are descended from Levantine Jews who migrated to port cities of eastern Kiravia during the Middle Ages due to the climate of relative religious tolerance there. Though they would for the most part retain their religion per their original intention, the Ivraīem quickly adopted other elements of [[Kir people|Kirish Coscivian]] culture and came to regard themselves as Coscivians.
 
In the process of their acculturation, the Ivraīem were able to avail themselves of existing ideologies of Cosco-Abrahamic synthesis expounded by Kiravian Christian theologians arguing that the essence of the Coscivian macroëthnicity is to be a righteous, lawful, orthoprax, and reverent people before the Divine. Noting similarities between the Four Precepts of Emperor Ĥ and the {{wp|Noahide laws}}, these theologians posited the Abrahamic prophets and ultimately Jesus Christ as progressive revealers of the primordial law and the Logos. The Ivraīem were thus able to use this ideological framework to establish a place for themselves in Coscivian society as a sect believing that the Mosaic Law is the successor to and fulfillment of the primordial Law installed in Kiravia by the Emperors.
 
In contrast to the Avramem, who are full-blooded Coscivians most closely related to the [[[[Ethnic groups in Kiravia#Sedhan Coscivians|Sedhans]], the Ivraīem are of mixed but mostly Levantine ancestry. However, whereas the Avramem are a generally insular and self-segregating community, the Ivraīem - while endogamous - are closely in touch with the mainstream of Coscivian-Kiravian urban society. Though few in number, they are a highly educated and economically successful community. The Ivraīem are notably overrepresented in the officer corps of the [[Kiravian Armed Forces]], with several prominent generals such as former Supreme General Sendar Vódlin and Field General E.H. Ikeśben coming from the Ivraīan ''tuva''.
 
About two-thirds of Ivraīem adhere to traditional Judaism. The Ivraīan tradition is less Halakhically strict than the Avraman tradition. The remaining third, a community of around ten thousand mostly concentrated on [[Valēka]]'s Ansalon Island, are {{wp|Hebrew Catholics}} who accept Jesus of Nazareth as the Messiah but continue to follow much of Jewish law and maintain a Hebrew identity.
 
The largest concentration of Ivraīem is in the Valēka Metropolitan Area, with smaller communities in [[Bérasar]] and [[Primóra]]. There is also an Ivraīan population in [[Æonara]] descended primarily from military evacuees after the [[Kiravian Civil War|Civil War]]. The only cohesive settlement of Æonaran Ivraīem is Camp Terellan, a [[Æonara#Architecture_and_Urban_Design|quartering block]] in County Verakruv, [[Central Æonara]] where Ivraīan military evacuees initially assigned to other quartering blocks began to cluster during the early years of the Sunderance due to the regular availability of a Jewish military chaplain there. It is periodically covered in the soft press as "Æonara's Jewish Village", even though just over a quarter of residents are Jewish, several homogeneously Jewish Avramem settlements exist in East Æonara, and the settlement itself is a {{wp|periurban}} housing tract rather than a village.
 
===Kandans (Red Kir)===
{{Infobox KirGroup
{{Infobox KirGroup
| name            = Kandans
| name            = Kandans
| image            =
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| imagesize        = <!-- or image_size -->
| imagesize        = <!-- or image_size -->
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| endogamy        = Yes
| endogamy        = Yes
| lifestyle        =
| lifestyle        =
| pda_status      = Forward
| pda_status      = Advanced
| colour          = {{wp|Burgundy}}
| colour          = {{wp|Burgundy}}
| supergroup      = [[Kir people|Kir]]
| supergroup      = [[Kir people|Kir]]
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| endogamy        = Yes
| endogamy        = Yes
| lifestyle        =  
| lifestyle        =  
| pda_status      = Stable
| pda_status      = Midstream
| colour          = {{color box|#800020}} [[Burgundie|Burgundy]]
| colour          = {{color box|#800020}} [[Burgundie|Burgundy]]
| supergroup      =  
| supergroup      =  
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===Kerēgulan Coscivians===
===Kerēgulans===
{{Infobox KirGroup
{{Infobox KirGroup
| name            = Kerēgulans<br>''Kerëgülär''
| name            = Kerēgulans<br>''Kerëgülär''
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| endogamy        = Yes
| endogamy        = Yes
| lifestyle        =  
| lifestyle        =  
| pda_status      = Forward
| pda_status      = Advanced
| colour          = {{color box|#929722}} Kirchner
| colour          = {{color box|#929722}} Kirchner
| supergroup      = Kelnordan<sup>?</sup>
| supergroup      = Kelnordan<sup>?</sup>
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===Okutran Coscivians===
===Okutrans===
{{Infobox KirGroup
{{Infobox KirGroup
| name            = Okutrans<br>''Hóircuṭraidhm''
| name            = Okutrans<br>''Hóircuṭraidhm''
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| endogamy        = Yes
| endogamy        = Yes
| lifestyle        =
| lifestyle        =
| pda_status      = Backward
| pda_status      = Laggard
| colour          = {{color box|LightSteelBlue}} Light Steel Blue
| colour          = {{color box|LightSteelBlue}} Light Steel Blue
| supergroup      = Kelnordan<sup>?</sup>
| supergroup      = Kelnordan<sup>?</sup>
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===Ossiryem Coscivians===
===Ossiryans===
===Pine Swamp Coscivians===
===Pine Swamp Coscivians===
{{Infobox KirGroup
{{Infobox KirGroup
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| endogamy        = Yes (also moietic)
| endogamy        = Yes (also moietic)
| lifestyle        =
| lifestyle        =
| pda_status      = Far Backward
| pda_status      = Threatened
| colour          = {{wp|Buff}}, Tan
| colour          = {{wp|Buff}}, Tan
| supergroup      =
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===Sea Coscivians===
===Sea Coscivians===
''Not to be confused with the [[Kolakoskem|Land Coscivian - Sea Coscivian paradigm]] in South Crona.''
''Not to be confused with the [[Kolakoskem|Land Coscivian - Sea Coscivian paradigm]] in [[South Crona]].''
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| endogamy        =
| endogamy        =
| lifestyle        = Seafaring
| lifestyle        = Seafaring
| pda_status      = Backward
| pda_status      = Vulnerable
| colour          =
| colour          =
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Sea Coscivians consider the sea their true home and show significant aversion to terrestrial life. Their traditional narratives describe the sea as a place of refuge from subjugation and oppression on dry land. Sea Coscivians have lived ashore in both modern and premodern times, though usually out of necessity. Even today, settled Sea Coscivian communities consider it improper, even detestable for an able-bodied man to live ashore full-time.
Sea Coscivians consider the sea their true home and show significant aversion to terrestrial life. Their traditional narratives describe the sea as a place of refuge from subjugation and oppression on dry land. Sea Coscivians have lived ashore in both modern and premodern times, though usually out of necessity. Even today, settled Sea Coscivian communities consider it improper, even detestable for an able-bodied man to live ashore full-time.


Sea Coscivians have had mixed relations with other Coscivians and with non-Coscivian groups they encounter. Historically, settled port and coastal dwellers throughout the Coscivian world have been distrustful of Sea Coscivians as secretive and seemingly rootless drifters with a reputation for criminality and general unpleasantness. According to reports by governmental organisations and human rights NGOs, people of Sea Coscivian origin still face employment, housing, and other forms of discrimination. They have low levels of engagement with formal institutions such as labour unions, religious congregations, banks, and governments compared to other Coscivian groups, and according to a study funded by the government of Valtéra State, they are the ''tuva'' most heavily involved in the {{wp|informal economy}} and face social problems arising from their reliance on unstable and thinly regulated employment.
Sea Coscivians have had mixed relations with other Coscivians and with non-Coscivian groups they encounter. Historically, settled port and coastal dwellers throughout the Coscivian world have been distrustful of Sea Coscivians as secretive and seemingly rootless drifters with a reputation for criminality and general unpleasantness. According to reports by governmental organisations and human rights NGOs, people of Sea Coscivian origin still face employment, housing, and other forms of discrimination. They have low levels of engagement with formal institutions such as labour unions, religious congregations, banks, and governments compared to other Coscivian groups, and according to a study funded by the government of Xula State, they are the ''tuva'' most heavily involved in the {{wp|informal economy}} and face social problems arising from their reliance on unstable and thinly regulated employment.


The Sea Coscivians are a segmental ethnic group divided into clans and lineages, and like all Coscivian peoples they are patrilineal and patrilocal. Generally speaking, the extended family or ''dóntra'' important to most terrestrial Coscivians plays little to no role in Sea Coscivian society. Beyond the nuclear family level, Sea Coscivian kinship is frequently {{wp|fictive kinship|fictive}}, with individuals and families becoming ritually initiated into clans and lineages into which they were not born, the latter being a rare approximation of {{wp|adoption}} in Coscivian civilisation. Clan and lineage ties, as well as marital ones and godparentage, form the backbone of social, political, and business networks in the Sea Coscivian community. However, the most important Sea Coscivian social institution is the ''impruv'' or "crew". Aboard a vessel inhabited or staffed entirely by Sea Coscivians, all adults or all adult males are members of the ''impruv'', and the ''impruv'' elects a ''kirstuv'' ("council") who elect the captain for the duration of the voyage. Sea Coscivians employed as crewmen on an ordinary vessel form their own ''impruv'' (though without a captain and usually without a ''kirstuv'') at the outset of the voyage, in which all Sea Coscivians aboard are obligated by custom to participate. In shore-dwelling communities, the ''impruv'' is a permanent body representing the entire Sea Coscivian population of a settlement or urban neighbourhood. A code of customary law called the Law of the Sea prescribes the basic rules for how ''impruya'' and ''kirstuya'' are to operate. How the Law of the Sea is remembered and interpreted varies only slightly across clans and regions, which has allowed Sea Coscivians of different backgrounds to quickly, easily form ''impruya'' as needed, and to avoid conflict between different families sharing a vessel or living in close proximity ashore.   
The Sea Coscivians are a segmental ethnic group divided into clans and lineages, and like all Coscivian peoples they are patrilineal and patrilocal. Generally speaking, the extended family or ''dóntra'' important to most terrestrial Coscivians plays little to no role in Sea Coscivian society. Beyond the nuclear family level, Sea Coscivian kinship is frequently {{wp|fictive kinship|fictive}}, with individuals and families becoming ritually initiated into clans and lineages into which they were not born, the latter being a rare approximation of {{wp|adoption}} in Coscivian civilisation. Clan and lineage ties, as well as marital ones and godparentage, form the backbone of social, political, and business networks in the Sea Coscivian community. However, the most important Sea Coscivian social institution is the ''impruv'' or "crew". Aboard a vessel inhabited or staffed entirely by Sea Coscivians, all adults or all adult males are members of the ''impruv'', and the ''impruv'' elects a ''kirstuv'' ("council") who elect the captain for the duration of the voyage. Sea Coscivians employed as crewmen on an ordinary vessel form their own ''impruv'' (though without a captain and usually without a ''kirstuv'') at the outset of the voyage, in which all Sea Coscivians aboard are obligated by custom to participate. In shore-dwelling communities, the ''impruv'' is a permanent body representing the entire Sea Coscivian population of a settlement or urban neighbourhood. A code of customary law called the Law of the Sea prescribes the basic rules for how ''impruya'' and ''kirstuya'' are to operate. How the Law of the Sea is remembered and interpreted varies only slightly across clans and regions, which has allowed Sea Coscivians of different backgrounds to quickly, easily form ''impruya'' as needed, and to avoid conflict between different families sharing a vessel or living in close proximity ashore.   
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A distinct population of Sea Coscivians, the largest groups of Sea Coscivians who live permanently at sea, are found in the waters surrounding [[Vallos]] - the [[Kindreds Sea]], [[Taínean Sea]], [[Polynesian Sea]], and [[St. Brendan's Strait]]. These Sea Coscivians have visible Polynesian (presumably [[Loa]]) and perhaps Vallote admixture, and have absorbed cultural, religious, and linguistic influences from such peoples.
A distinct population of Sea Coscivians, the largest groups of Sea Coscivians who live permanently at sea, are found in the waters surrounding [[Vallos]] - the [[Kindreds Sea]], [[Taínean Sea]], [[Polynesian Sea]], and [[St. Brendan's Strait]]. These Sea Coscivians have visible Polynesian (presumably [[Loa]]) and perhaps Vallote admixture, and have absorbed cultural, religious, and linguistic influences from such peoples.


===Sedhan Coscivians===
===Sedhans===
{{Infobox KirGroup
{{Infobox KirGroup
| name            = Sedhans
| name            = Sedhans
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| endogamy        = Yes
| lifestyle        =
| lifestyle        =
| pda_status      = Forward
| pda_status      = Advanced
| colour          =
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Outside of Kaviska, Sedhan communities exist in Niyaska, eastern Etivéra, [[Arkvera]], and the Punth colonies. Many Arnóriem and Candem Coscivians with long family histories on the island continent have Sedhan ancestry and surnames despite belonging to different ethnosocial groups and typically not speaking the Sedhan language.
Outside of Kaviska, Sedhan communities exist in Niyaska, eastern Etivéra, [[Arkvera]], and the Punth colonies. Many Arnóriem and Candem Coscivians with long family histories on the island continent have Sedhan ancestry and surnames despite belonging to different ethnosocial groups and typically not speaking the Sedhan language.


===Serradan Coscivians===
===Serradans===
{{Infobox KirGroup
{{Infobox KirGroup
| name            = Serradans
| name            = Serradans
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| endogamy        = No (Co-religious)
| endogamy        = No (Co-religious)
| lifestyle        =
| lifestyle        =
| pda_status      = Forward
| pda_status      = Advanced
| colour          =
| colour          =
| supergroup      =
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The Serradem Coscivian language is similar to certain registers of Kiravic Coscivian in many respects, but with substantial differences is vocabulary, and non-trivial differences in phonology, prosody, and grammar. Some of these differences are due to the influence of {{wp|Ecclesiastical Latin}} and various local Urom languages. Most contemporary Serradem are bilingual in Kiravic, with many speaking both as their mother tongue. In Cascada, up to one-third of ethnic Serradem speak only Kiravic. However, intergenerational transmission of the Serradan language remains strong, and its use is vigorous in many areas, particularly rural areas and smaller cities and towns in the Rosary Belt where it is used as the primary language of everyday life. Serradan-language radio programming is available throughout Farravonia. Institutional support for the language is strongest in Ilfenóra, which publishes Serradan translations of all government documents and maintains many secondary schools using Serradan as the medium of instruction. There are a few small Catholic colleges in Ilfenóra that teach in Serradan, and the Government of Metrea has initiated a programme to introduce Serradan-language instruction in some community colleges. Many state universities and larger Catholic institutions in the region offer Serradan language and literature as a course of study.  
The Serradem Coscivian language is similar to certain registers of Kiravic Coscivian in many respects, but with substantial differences is vocabulary, and non-trivial differences in phonology, prosody, and grammar. Some of these differences are due to the influence of {{wp|Ecclesiastical Latin}} and various local Urom languages. Most contemporary Serradem are bilingual in Kiravic, with many speaking both as their mother tongue. In Cascada, up to one-third of ethnic Serradem speak only Kiravic. However, intergenerational transmission of the Serradan language remains strong, and its use is vigorous in many areas, particularly rural areas and smaller cities and towns in the Rosary Belt where it is used as the primary language of everyday life. Serradan-language radio programming is available throughout Farravonia. Institutional support for the language is strongest in Ilfenóra, which publishes Serradan translations of all government documents and maintains many secondary schools using Serradan as the medium of instruction. There are a few small Catholic colleges in Ilfenóra that teach in Serradan, and the Government of Metrea has initiated a programme to introduce Serradan-language instruction in some community colleges. Many state universities and larger Catholic institutions in the region offer Serradan language and literature as a course of study.  


As the largest and longest-established ethnic group in three important states, the Serradem are a politically influential demographic and are well-represented in Farravonian state governments and in federal politics. Because of their strong Catholic beliefs, Serradem are strong supporters of {{wp|Christian democracy|Christian-democratic}} and {{wp|Distributism|distributist}} parties, and the [[Caritist Social Union]] relies on Serradem turnout to compete with the [[Shaftonist-Republican Alliance]] in Farravonian elections to the [[Federal Stanora]]. Many Serradem are also drawn to traditionalist conservative parties of a Catholic orientation affiliated with the [[Authentic Historical Caucus]].
As the largest and longest-established ethnic group in three important states, the Serradem are a politically influential demographic and are well-represented in Farravonian state governments and in federal politics. Because of their strong Catholic beliefs, Serradem are strong supporters of {{wp|Christian democracy|Christian-democratic}} and {{wp|Distributism|distributist}} parties, and the [[Caritist Social Union]] relies on Serradem turnout to compete with the [[Federalist Republican Alliance]] in Farravonian elections to the [[Federal Stanora]]. Many Serradem are also drawn to traditionalist conservative parties of a Catholic orientation affiliated with the [[Authentic Historical Caucus]].


===Trash Coscivians===
===Trash Coscivians===
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| ethnicity        =
| language        = [[Low Coscivian]]
| language        = [[Low Coscivian]]
| religion        =
| religion        = {{wp|Alcoholism}}
| ruler            =
| ruler            =
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| kolor            = coscivian
| kolor            = coscivian
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The '''Trash Coscivians''' or '''Cosčavians''' 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, referred to by the middle classes as ''riśgakuya das esakir'' ( "poor with dignity" ), as being deficient in the {{wp|virtue ethics|virtue-ethical}} standards of Coscivian society. Unlike most working-class Coscivians, especially those in the coountryside, 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.
The '''Trash Coscivians''', the '''Discarded Classes''' or '''Coschavians''' are a social category and emerging ethnoclass in Kiravia, comprising those members of the Coscivian-Kiravians {{wp|underclass}} who have been socially "cast off" by their ''tuva'', kinship groups, and polite society at large.
 
Few people identify themselves as ethnic Trash Coscivians (only 438 people reported their ethnosocial background as Trash Coscivian or Cosčavian on the 21200 Kiravian Census), and the status is mainly ascribed to persons and neighbourhoods by non-Trash Coscivians.<ref>A study by anthropologists at the [[University of Belarus]] of twelve trailer parks and housing projects in [[Kastera]], [[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. Thaskirem in Kastera, Kiorgians in Kiorgia, Xusran [[Kir people|Kir]] in Hiterna), 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 genealogy than non-Trash Coscivians with comparable incomes from the same areas.</ref> However, there is a growing subculture among downwardly-mobile Kiravian youth embracing the Trash æsthetic and lifestyle, leading to a small but growing conscious Trash Coscivian identity.<ref>Some sociology graduate fellows have reported, based on conversations with their coworkers at [[NoWaiter]], that a cohesive Trash Coscivian self-identity has begun to emerge in recent years among youth, formulated and disseminated by the {{wp|underground rap}} scene.</ref> Kiravians stereotype the Trash Coscivians as morally and intellectually deficient, undisciplined, and uncultured. Importantly, they distinguish the Trash Coscivians from other poor Coscivians (referred to by the middle classes as ''riśgakuya das esakir'' ⟨ "poor with dignity" ⟩), on the point that the former are believe hopelessly deficient by the {{wp|virtue ethics|virtue-ethical}} standards of Coscivian society, whereas the latter are simply poor. Unlike most working-class Coscivians, especially those in the countryside, who are embedded in the organic social structures of clan and ''tuva'', and are grounded in traditional folk culture, Trash Coscivians are seen by others as alienated from traditional society and culture, in addition to lacking education or {{wp|high culture}}.  
 
Kiravians further distinguish the Trash Coscivian from an individual Coscivian of poor character in that the "trashiness" is seen as collective and endemic, and often tied to the spaces that they inhabit, such as "squatter blocks" (Kirosocialist {{wp|panelák|concrete panel apartments}} abandoned by housing authorities or landlords and often with limited utility service but unfeasible to demolish due to large squatter populations), "sink projects" (low-quality no-rent public housing), {{wp|trailer park boys|trailer parks}}, and urban slums. Settlements identified as Trash Coscivian are most common in [[Three Kiravs Model|Second and Third Kirav]], a product of socioëconomic dislocation, industrial restructuring, alcoholism, and drugs.  


Some have analysed the concept of 'Trash Coscivians' as a post-liberalisation manifestation of the "perennial Coscivian urge to spatialise and ethnicise categories such as class, resulting in the segregation and cultural othering of marginalised groups," drawing parallels to the ''[[harsitem]]'' outcaste communities formed in the postclassical era, as well as to the ''hosyars'' or hereditary outlawry.
Some have analysed the concept of 'Trash Coscivians' as a post-liberalisation manifestation of the "perennial Coscivian urge to spatialise and ethnicise categories such as class, resulting in the segregation and cultural othering of marginalised groups," drawing parallels to the ''[[harsitem]]'' outcaste communities formed in the postclassical era, as well as to the ''hosyars'' or hereditary outlawry.


Behaviours and characteristics associated with Trash Coscivians include illegitimacy, drinking vodka, eating {{wp|alkaline noodles}}, living in a {{wp|trailer park}} or decrepit 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.
Negative stereotype associated with Trash Coscivians include illegitimacy, overconsumption of bottom-shelf [[Kiravian vodka|vodka]] and {{wp|alkaline noodles}}, functional illiteracy, criminality, cheap Western-style attire and a flashy or gaudy style of dress, actual illiteracy, crass consumerism, promiscuity, watching {{wp|reality television}}, and throwing spent liquor bottles at people and/or passing cars. Positive stereotypes associated with Trash Coscivians include: None.
 
Many poor Coscivians living in areas with large Trash Coscivian populations performatively embrace [[Coscivian National Congress|Coscivian nationalist politics]] in order to avoid being seen as Trash Coscivians. Trash Coscivians are also a feature of Coscivian nationalist rhetoric, presented as a cautionary example of {{wp|cultural decline}} and {{wp|atomisation|social atomisation}}, such as in Delegate Devar Hytriloden's (CNC - [[Hiterna]]) speech to the [[Federal Stanora]] in 21205, where he said "Deprived of our enlightened and exceptional culture, we will all be Trash Coscivians, and deprived of our Coscivian roots, we will become simply trash."
 
===Umcarans===
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'''Umcaran Coscivians''' are a [[Kolakoskem|Kolakoskan]] ethnic group native to far southeastern Æonara, formed from extensive intermarriage between Coscivian- and Érhuan-Kiravian colonists and the indigenous Cronite population. The Kiravian settlement of what is now Umcara state was mostly undertaken piecemeal by individual pioneers rather than by extensive state- or corporate-sponsored transmigration, and the intermarriage situation was unique in that it featured marriages between indigenous men and Coscivian women, in addition to the more common reverse arrangement seen in other colonies. These unique dynamics helped to form a a distinctive biracial Umcaran identity.
 
Umcarans were granted their own {{wp|ethnostate}} in 1947 at the behest of Prime Executive [[Séan Kæśek]] in recognition of their steadfast loyalty to the Kiravian Remnant and major contributions to the Kiravian military.
 
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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 438 people reported their ethnosocial background as Trash Coscivian or Cosčavian on the 21200 Kiravian Census, but this is not considered representative of the actual population. A study by anthropologists at the [[University of Belarus]] of twelve trailer parks and housing projects in [[Kastera]], [[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. Thaskirem in Kastera, Kiorgians in Kiorgia, Xusran [[Kir people|Kir]] in Hiterna), 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 genealogy than non-Trash Coscivians with comparable incomes from the same areas. Some sociology graduate fellows have reported, based on conversations with their coworkers at [[NoWaiter]], that a cohesive Trash Coscivian self-identity has begun to emerge in recent years among youth, formulated and disseminated by the {{wp|underground rap}} scene.
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Many poor Coscivians living in areas with large Trash Coscivian populations embrace [[Coscivian National Congress|Coscivian nationalist politics]] in order to avoid being seen as Trash Coscivians. Trash Coscivians are also a feature of Coscivian nationalist rhetoric, presented as a cautionary example of {{wp|acculturation}} and {{wp|Westernisation}}, such as in Delegate Devar Hytriloden's (CNC - Hiterna) speech to the [[Federal Stanora]] in 21205, where he said "Deprived of our enlightened and exceptional culture, we will all be Trash Coscivians, and deprived of our Coscivian roots, we will become simply trash."
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===Xorsyakav Coscivians===
===Xorsyakavs===
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===Caoi===
===Caoi===
The '''Caoi''' are a mysterious people of the Gypsum Plains of the Kiravian Southwest. They live in six communal settlements, most of which are semi-subterranean. These six "colonies" (''axerkî''), as the literature typically calls them, are autarkic collectives that subsist on artisanally irrigrated agriculture, exhaustion hunting, and {{wp|bush food}}s such as endemic insect grubs. In the late 19th century, 18 Caoi colonies existed, but half were destroyed by Coscivian encrocheurs, lost as {{wp|collateral damage}} in the [[Kiravian Civil War]], or abanoned by 1935 AD. Two more colonies were unintentionally destroyed as a result of [[Kiravian Union]] development efforts, and one more died out in 1995 AD, prompting the federal government to shut down all access to their remaining territory by unauthorised personnel, enforced by the [[Federal Police]].
Only six photographs of Caoi people are known to the public, all of which are low-quality and make it difficult to discern any common phenotypical or racial attributes of the subjects. Anthropologists and government agents who have worked with the Caoi say that they refuse to be photographed, [[xolkriśgir|even in black-and-white]]. Anecdotal reports from the pre-restriction era and notes from authorised agents since then reveal little about the origins or appearance of the Caoi, other than that they look "unlike any other people of Great Kirav, perhaps even any other people of the world", and that their language (which is actually quite well-documented) appears to bear no discernible relation to any other. The Caoi language exhibits many features that are highly unusual for a Kiravite languages, including a large tone inventory.
Due to the secrecy surrounding the Caoi, many conspiracies about them circulate in Coscivian-Kiravian society, variously alleging that they are a counterintelligence {{wp|red herring}} or made up as a {{wp|cover}} for secret and nefarious government activities in the area, that they are actually secret government slaves or detainees, or that they are stranded {{wp|Basques|extraterrestrials}}. The Caoi were largely unknown outside of Kiravia until 2006 AD, when the Ænglish-language documentary ''Access Prohibited: The Secret People of Kirav'' was released.
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===Demarești===
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The '''Demarești''' are a one of the civilised (that is, non-[[Urom|tribal]]) non-Coscivian minorities native to [[Great Kirav]]. They claim descent from the ancient Ptheric people, but speak a language in the Northeast Kiravian family, distantly related to [[Eshavian Coscivians#Language|Eshavian]]. Despite sharing common roots with many Coscivian peoples, the Demarești developed a sophisticated independent civilisation during the Kiravian Bronze Age and maintained intermittent periods of independence from the Coscivian Empires until the reign of Emperor Trxell the Enormous; and they have maintained a distinctive culture and worldview quite different from those prevailing in [[Coscivian civilisation]] despite millennia of close contact and Coscivian social hegemony. They are the most economically prosperous and best-educated of the Kiravite Minority groups. The Demarești are highly urbanised, with around three quarters of their population living outside their traditional homeland in major metropolitan areas, most notably Greater [[Bérasar]] and the [[Kartika|National Capital Region]].
The '''Demarești''' are a one of the civilised (that is, non-[[Urom|tribal]]) non-Coscivian minorities native to [[Great Kirav]]. They claim descent from the ancient Ptheric people, but speak a language in the Northeast Kiravian family, distantly related to [[Eshavian Coscivians#Language|Eshavian]], though superimposed on a Ptheric {{wp|substratum (linguistics)|substratum}}. Despite sharing common roots with some Coscivian peoples, the Demarești developed a sophisticated independent civilisation during the Kiravian Bronze Age and maintained intermittent periods of independence from the Coscivian Empires until the reign of Emperor [[Trxell the Enormous]]; and they have maintained a distinctive culture and worldview quite different from those prevailing in [[Coscivian civilisation]] despite millennia of close contact and Coscivian social hegemony. They are the most economically prosperous and best-educated of the Kiravite Minority groups. The Demarești are highly urbanised, with around three quarters of their population living outside their traditional homeland in major metropolitan areas, most notably Greater [[Bérasar]] and the [[Kartika|National Capital Region]].


The Demarești have a complicated relationship with Coscivian-Kiravians and the Kiravian state. The King of Demarest is a tributary of the [[Marble Emperor]]; however, as noted by Luso-Captetian anthropologist Diogo de Chão, whereas other Kiravite Minority peoples have chosen to interpret or reïnterpret their tributary relationship with the Coscivian Emperor as an amical one and embrace narratives that affirm their cultural and institutional distinctiveness while stressing loyalty to and inclusion in the Kiravian polity, the Demarești harbour no such notions. While at the level of official Demarești institutions and ritual contacts with the Emperor all is cordial, among themselves the Demarești unambiguously understand their position as a conquered people paying tribute to their conquerors. Androë Foüȷeșca, an ethnic Demarești radio presenter who emigrated from the [[Kiravian Union]] to [[Ardmore]] in 1948 AD, quasi-famously said on-air after emigrating that Coscivians are "dangerously insane people whose collective derangement is intensified rather than moderated by increasing organisational sophistication," and subsequently doubled down after complaints from Coscivian listeners in [[New Ardmore]], opining that Occidental governments should diplomatically isolate both the Kiravian Union and [[Kiravian Remnant]] "until they inevitably {{wp|mutually assured destruction|eradicate each other}}, and stressed that he considered himself "one of the more moderate and empathetic Demarești on this topic". Though perhaps hyperbolic, opinion research does seem to support the thesis that the average Demareștine's attitude toward the majority population lies somewhere on a specrtum between ambivalence and existential fear. Despite this, however, the Demarești overwhelmingly live in Coscivian-dominated major cities, excel in Coscivian-dominated eductional instiutions, and are grossly overrepresented in the Kiravian governmental bureaucracy. Both insiders and outsiders to the Demarești community have long viewed these apparent paradoxes as adaptive behaviours on the part of the Demarești to ensure their own cultural survival.  
The Demarești have a complicated relationship with Coscivian-Kiravians and the Kiravian state. The King of Demarest is a tributary of the [[Marble Emperor]]; however, as noted by Luso-Captetian anthropologist Diogo de Chão, whereas other Kiravite Minority peoples have chosen to interpret or reïnterpret their tributary relationship with the Coscivian Emperor as an amical one and embrace narratives that affirm their cultural and institutional distinctiveness while stressing loyalty to and inclusion in the Kiravian polity, the Demarești harbour no such notions. While at the level of official Demarești institutions and ritual contacts with the Emperor all is cordial, among themselves the Demarești unambiguously understand their position as a conquered people paying tribute to their conquerors. Androë Foüȷeșca, an ethnic Demarești radio presenter who emigrated from the [[Kiravian Union]] to [[Ardmore]] in 1948 AD, quasi-famously said on-air after emigrating that Coscivians are "dangerously insane people whose collective derangement is intensified rather than moderated by increasing organisational sophistication," and subsequently doubled down after complaints from Coscivian listeners in [[New Ardmore]], opining that Occidental governments should diplomatically isolate both the Kiravian Union and [[Kiravian Remnant]] "until they inevitably {{wp|mutually assured destruction|eradicate each other}}, and stressed that he considered himself "one of the more moderate and empathetic Demarești on this topic". Though perhaps hyperbolic, opinion research does seem to support the thesis that the average Demareștine's attitude toward the majority population lies somewhere on a specrtum between ambivalence and existential fear. Despite this, however, the Demarești overwhelmingly live in Coscivian-dominated major cities, excel in Coscivian-dominated eductional instiutions, and are grossly overrepresented in the Kiravian governmental bureaucracy. Both insiders and outsiders to the Demarești community have long viewed these apparent paradoxes as adaptive behaviours on the part of the Demarești to ensure their own cultural survival.  
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The Rhūniks are a small-numbered and mysterious people with obscure origins, though their own oral tradition places their ancestral homeland somewhere in the High Arctic. They speak a {{wp|language isolate}} and adhere to the [[Kiravian Sectarians#Examples|Arctic Orthodox Church]]. The federal subjects with the largest Rhūnik populations are [[Lataskia]], [[West Rhuon]], [[Cascada]], [[East Rhuon]], Peśara, and [[Thýstara]].
The Rhūniks are a small-numbered and mysterious people with obscure origins, though their own oral tradition places their ancestral homeland somewhere in the High Arctic. They speak a {{wp|language isolate}} and adhere to the [[Kiravian Sectarians#Examples|Arctic Orthodox Church]]. The federal subjects with the largest Rhūnik populations are [[Lataskia]], [[West Rhuon]], [[Cascada]], [[East Rhuon]], Peśara, and [[Thýstara]]. The Marvin Gardens neighbourhood of [[Saar-Silverda]] is the largest Rhūnik community outside of Lataskia.


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==[[Urom]] peoples==
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===Hazléta===
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The Hazléta are a Gascanic tribe inhabiting the Hadselet Valley in Sixua Province.
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About half of Qódava living on tribal lands adhere exclusively to their people's traditional religion. About one third adhere to Christianity (primarily the Discipular Church) and one fifth are Muslim (predominantly Sunni). Off-reservation, a greater number of Qódava are Coscivian Orthodox, Eastern Orthodox, or Ibadhi Muslim.
About half of Qódava living on tribal lands adhere exclusively to their people's traditional religion. About one third adhere to Christianity (primarily the Discipular Church) and one fifth are Muslim (predominantly Sunni). Off-reservation, a greater number of Qódava are Coscivian Orthodox, Eastern Orthodox, or Ibadhi Muslim.
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| name            = Vaguan<br>Вьагуан
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The '''Vaguan''' or '''Hummockers''' are a cluster of ''urom'' peoples that live on the North Kiravian Plain, south of the Lake Belt. They are best known for their small {{wp|earth lodge}} dwellings, low dome-shaped semi-subterranean structures with timber frames covered by earth. These lodges provide insulation against the harsh weather conditions of the region and are arranged in circular and spiral patterns within the villages, which are believed to have cultural significance. Like Coscivian peoples, they are organised into exogamous clans. However, unlike Coscivian peoples, the clans are matrilineal and residence patterns matrilocal. The Vaguan were minoritised and marginalised by the migration of the [[Kir people]] to the North Kiravian Plain, though there was also significant uptake of Wagwan vocabulary and genetics by the Kirish settlers. The Wagwan have long lived on the fringes of society, avoiding interaction with Coscivian-Kiravian mainstream culture, except occasionally popping into town to say "Wagwan?", refuse to elabourate, and leave.
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The '''Varekthari''' are a linguistically isolated ''[[urom]]'' tribe native to the coastal mountains surrounding what is now the [[Mérosar]] metropolitan area. Their traditional lifestyle, like that of many Coscivian and pre-Coscivian peoples of the region, is sedentary food collection from the bountiful littoral regions they inhabit, which have a mild {{wp|west coast marine}} climate that gives rise to {{wp|temperate rainforest}}. Like their Coscivian neighbours, they converted to Catholicism during the Third Evangelisation of Kirav. In contemporary times, they struggle to maintain their cultural integrity due to the Coscivian urbanisation of their traditional homelands, which has disrupted the traditional economy, displaced historical Varekthari population centres, and accelerated {{wp|language loss}}. Despite this, Varekthari culture and iconography have been influential on the wider culture of the state, and the Varekthari people are valued by Coscivian-dominated social institutions in Metrea as "living heritage", which has helped the Varekthari to obtain important concessions of land, educational rights, and other goods to help reëstablish their cultural autonomy.
The '''Varekthari''' are a linguistically isolated ''[[urom]]'' tribe native to the coastal mountains surrounding what is now the [[Mérosar]] metropolitan area. Their traditional lifestyle, like that of many Coscivian and pre-Coscivian peoples of the region, is sedentary food collection from the bountiful littoral regions they inhabit, which have a mild {{wp|west coast marine}} climate that gives rise to {{wp|temperate rainforest}}. Like their Coscivian neighbours, they converted to Catholicism during the Third Evangelisation of Kirav. In contemporary times, they struggle to maintain their cultural integrity due to the Coscivian urbanisation of their traditional homelands, which has disrupted the traditional economy, displaced historical Varekthari population centres, and accelerated {{wp|language loss}}. Despite this, Varekthari culture and iconography have been influential on the wider culture of the state, and the Varekthari people are valued by Coscivian-dominated social institutions in Metrea as "living heritage", which has helped the Varekthari to obtain important concessions of land, educational rights, and other goods to help reëstablish their cultural autonomy.
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'''Melotes''' are the Istroyan-speaking native majority population of the [[Melian Isles]].
'''Melotes''' are the Istroyan-speaking native majority population of the [[Melian Isles]]. They are among the first Christian peoples in the world, their islands being home to early churches established during the Apostolic Age.
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===Tierradorian-Kiravians===
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| region          = Kiravian Crona, Sarolasta
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| dias_state      = [[Æonara]]n states, [[Sarolasta]]n states<br>[[Cascada]], [[Vestimór]], [[Metrea]]<br>[[Trinatria]], [[Kaviska]]<br>[[South Kirav]]
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'''Tierradorian-Kiravians''' are one of the largest immigrant populations in the Kiravian Federacy, owing to a long history of economic and diplomatic contact, cultural exchange, and cross-migration between Kiravia and [[Tierrador]]. The Tierradorian Coscivian community includes Tierradorians of various ethnic backgrounds, but consists principally (naturally) of Coscivian-Tierradorians and Qabóri-Tierradorians.
 
The largest concentrations of Tierradorian-Kiravians are found in [[Æonara]], due to its close proximity to Tierrador and the fact that many Coscivian-Tierradorians speak dialects related to Æonaran Coscivian. Many Sarolastans can trace some of their ancestry to or through Tierrador because Tierrador is the closest continental landmass to the archipelago and colonial-era shipping networks connecting the islands to the rest of the Kiravian colonial empire mainly passed through entrepôts in what is now the Woqalate.
 
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Like Azikorians, Kulukusi are considered "honorary Coscivians" for the purposes of migration and nationality law.  
Like Azikorians, Kulukusi are considered "honorary Coscivians" for the purposes of migration and nationality law.  


Notable Kulukusi-Kiravians include Isimi Kunama, a leading academic authority on the Varshani language and culture; Kopúsan Sukúluv (Kulukusi: ''Kopuusa Sukuulu''), a member of the Intravian state legislature; and Lukyan Ilisapar (Kulukusi: ''Lukaani Iliisarapa'') a foreign policy advisor to the [[Shaftonist-Republican Alliance]].
Notable Kulukusi-Kiravians include Isimi Kunama, a leading academic authority on the Varshani language and culture; Kopúsan Sukúluv (Kulukusi: ''Kopuusa Sukuulu''), a member of the Intravian state legislature; and Lukyan Ilisapar (Kulukusi: ''Lukaani Iliisarapa'') a foreign policy advisor to the [[Federalist Republican Alliance]].
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