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| '''Official languages''' || Taństan Coscivian, [[Kiravic Coscivian]]  

| {{wp|Conservatism in South Korea|Conservatism}}, Taństan language politics

Fariva has acquired a certain reputation in Kiravian political discourse for having many laws of an allegedly {{wp|paternalism|paternalistic}} and {{wp|nanny state|nanny-statal}} nature, including laws and local ordinances governing various aspects of personal behaviour, extensive {{wp|consumer protection}} policies, and an array of {{wp|Pigovian tax|Pigovian taxes}} and {{wp|sin tax|sin duties}}. A number of factors are thought to explain this legal régime, including the state's early industrialisation and its struggle to manage a large and diverse urban population, strong municipal governments, the pervasive influence of progressive and Instructionalist ideas during high modernity and Kirosocialism and an appetite for technocratic policymaking, the relatively stronger influence of Protestant moralism, and the general absence in Taństan Coscivian culture of the attitude of ''[[kētka]]'' ("slack"). Fariva introduced the Federacy's first {{wp|seatbelt law}} and has the lowest maximum speed limit (100 kmph) of any state.

Fariva has traditionally been the cultural domain of the [[Taństem Coscivians|Northern Tańrisem ethnic group and the closely-related Taństem]]. However, the state's demographics have been changed dramatically by centuries of large-scale immigration, and the Tańrisem and Taństem together now comprise some 44% of the population. Nonetheless, Taństan Coscivian remains the first official language and the both groups are overrepresented in the state's political institutions. Aspects of Taństem/Tańrisem culture have been embedded into Farivan life and adopted by the various other groups who have migrated to Fariva over the centuries, forming the foundations of Farivan local and civic culture. Many families of non-Taństem origin who have been settled in the state for centuries, such as the [[Leonoix family]], have become socially integrated with the old Tańrisem establishment, as have some wealthy mercantile families of foreign origin, such as the [[de Marbot-Gisin family]], whose ancestors migrated to Bérasar from [[Burgundie]] in [[1568|20748]]. Taństan Coscivians are found throughout the state and are the majority or plurality ethnic group in most areas, though they are now squarely in the minority in Bérasar, its inner suburbs and many of its satellite cities.

The largest single ethnic group in Fariva, after the Taństem, are Kiravian Gaels. Though a few Celtic villages remained in hilly areas of western Fariva after Coscivian colonisation, the state's substantial Gaelic minority is mainly as a result of mass in-migration from neighbouring Gaelic-majority states ([[Arkelly]], [[Dunlévia]]) during the industrial era. There is a long history of tension between the Gaelic minority and the historically dominant Taństan Coscivians, beginning with conflicts from the colonial period but primarily based in a legacy of discrimination and political suppression during the industrial age. Gaelic culture in Fariva has been bolstered by immigration of Levantine Gaels from Fiannria, Faneria, Carna, and Urcea (see below).

Taństan Coscivian and [[Kiravic Coscivian]] and are the state's official languages. Taństan Coscivian has more native speakers than Kiravic and is the main language of daily life for rural, peri-urban, and small-town Fariva, while Kiravic, specifically the [[Kiravic Coscivian#Dialects|Far Northeastern dialect]] has far more second-language speakers, and is the main language of everyday life in the inner Bérasar metro. The growth of Kiravic at the expense of Taństan is largely a result of Kirosocialist {{wp|language policy}} aggressively promoting Standard Kiravic as the single national language. Today, Kiravic enjoys primacy over Taństan in business and public administration, though Taństan Coscivian continues to enjoy state-sponsored prestige as the state's "heritage language". Taństan is taught in most public schools (and is the medium of instruction in a large minority of them, particularly in rural areas and certain long-established Taństem-majority large towns), and Taństan-language literature - whether in the original or in translation - features prominently in the state-mandated curriculum. Many of the state's older universities teach either in High Coscivian or in a combination of High Coscivian and Taństan Coscivian. [[Gaelic in Kiravia|Gaelic]] is the second most spoken language in the state by number of native speakers, narrowly surpassing Kiravic. It is official at the local level in municipalities with large Kiravian Gael or Gaelic-Levantine populations, such as [[Cities of Kiravia#Epsilar|Epsilar]], and the state government provides many services to Gaelic speakers, including the routine translation of statutes and other public documents, Gaelic translators in state courts, and the use of Gaelic in emergency broadcasts.