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==Territorial Extent==
==Territorial Extent==
The Kiravian Union claimed to inherit all territorial holdings and treaty rights held by the Kiravian Federal Republic. With the exception of the [[Dysona Islands]], most Kiravian overseas possessions and protectorates initially refused to recognise the Union's authority, and the Union's ability to assert it authority overseas was crippled by mass defections from the Kiravian Navy and the flight of naval vessels to [[Scapa]] and [[Æonara]] in the Union's first days of existence.
The Kiravian Union claimed to inherit all territorial holdings and treaty rights held by the Kiravian Federal Republic. With the exception of the [[Sydona Islands]], most Kiravian overseas possessions and protectorates initially refused to recognise the Union's authority, and the Union's ability to assert it authority overseas was crippled by mass defections from the Kiravian Navy and the flight of naval vessels to [[Scapa]] and [[Æonara]] in the Union's first days of existence.


[[Æonara]], [[Atrassica]], the [[Krasoa Islands]], [[Seváronsa]], [[Saint Kennera]], [[Pribraltar]], [[Scapa]], and Kiravian [[Cusinaut]] would remain permanently outside of KU control.
[[Æonara]], [[Atrassica]], the [[Krasoa Islands]], [[Seváronsa]], [[Saint Kennera]], [[Pribraltar]], [[Scapa]], and Kiravian [[Cusinaut]] would remain permanently outside of KU control.
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===Agriculture===
===Agriculture===
In accordance with the writings of Kiravian social-nationalist theorist Mixîl Paśkirin, the Kiravian Union generally respected the property and inheritance rights of freeholding family farmers (though *ad hoc* and arbitrary confiscations were known to occur). Collectivisation of large expropriated estates was attempted in many places across the country but ultimately remained in effect mostly in the Dysona Islands, South Kirav and parts of the Baylands. Improvements in agronomic technologies allowed for some large collective farms to be established ''de novo'' in parts of the Southwest, Near West, and Western Highlands as part of agricultural colonisation programmes.
In accordance with the writings of Kiravian social-nationalist theorist Mixîl Paśkirin, the Kiravian Union generally respected the property and inheritance rights of freeholding family farmers (though *ad hoc* and arbitrary confiscations were known to occur). Collectivisation of large expropriated estates was attempted in many places across the country but ultimately remained in effect mostly in the Sydona Islands, South Kirav and parts of the Baylands. Improvements in agronomic technologies allowed for some large collective farms to be established ''de novo'' in parts of the Southwest, Near West, and Western Highlands as part of agricultural colonisation programmes.


Achieving food independence for Great Kirav was an important but elusive goal for the Kirosocialists. During the early phase of Kirosocialist rule, it was widely assumed that scientific socialist planning and technological advancement would solve the problem in short order, but as time wore on and national self-sufficiency in food failed to materialise, the government was forced to approach the issue from other angles, such as initiatives to slow population growth, massive investments in aquaculture and pelagic fishing fleets, and numerous bureaucratic efforts at "ration optimisation" which often resulted in fraudulent accounting and the distribution of incorrect or incomplete ration units as administrators struggled to meet central production targets. The government also dedicated much effort to obtaining new sources of nutrition, whether by the introduction of new crops and crop varieties suitable for cultivation in more marginal areas of Great Kirav, the rediscovery of {{wp|famine foods}} from premodern times, and the harnassing of unusual and ersatz foodstuffs such as insects. As Mid-Kirosocialism turned to Late Kirosocialism, it had become patently obvious to the general population that state rations were becoming so adulterated with alternative protein sources and fillers like {{wp|sawdust|tree flour}}, kelp agarose, and {{wp|acorn meal}} that they were often no longer recognisable as the foods they purported to be, often leading to public unrest.
Achieving food independence for Great Kirav was an important but elusive goal for the Kirosocialists. During the early phase of Kirosocialist rule, it was widely assumed that scientific socialist planning and technological advancement would solve the problem in short order, but as time wore on and national self-sufficiency in food failed to materialise, the government was forced to approach the issue from other angles, such as initiatives to slow population growth, massive investments in aquaculture and pelagic fishing fleets, and numerous bureaucratic efforts at "ration optimisation" which often resulted in fraudulent accounting and the distribution of incorrect or incomplete ration units as administrators struggled to meet central production targets. The government also dedicated much effort to obtaining new sources of nutrition, whether by the introduction of new crops and crop varieties suitable for cultivation in more marginal areas of Great Kirav, the rediscovery of {{wp|famine foods}} from premodern times, and the harnassing of unusual and ersatz foodstuffs such as insects. As Mid-Kirosocialism turned to Late Kirosocialism, it had become patently obvious to the general population that state rations were becoming so adulterated with alternative protein sources and fillers like {{wp|sawdust|tree flour}}, kelp agarose, and {{wp|acorn meal}} that they were often no longer recognisable as the foods they purported to be, often leading to public unrest.