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The '''Urcean frontier''', also known as the '''New South''' or '''Southern Wilderness''', includes the geography, history, folklore, and culture in the southern wave of [[Urcea|Urcean]] expansion southward into reclaimed and previously sparsely inhabited lands as part of the [[Ómestaderoi]] migrations and general period of reform during the 19th century in Urcea. The legends, historical events and folklore of the Urcean frontier have embedded themselves into the [[Culture of Urcea]] so much so that the New South, and the [[Culture_of_Urcea#Southerns|Southern genre]] of media specifically, has become one of the defining periods of Urcean national identity.


The archetypical Southern Wilderness period is generally accepted by historians to have lasted between around [[1864]] to just after the restoration of King [[Patrick III of Urcea|Patrick III]] in 1902.
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}}


The frontier specifically refers to parts of several provinces: [[Callan]], [[Southmarch]], [[Afoncord]], western [[Ardricampus]], southern [[Harren]], and part of [[Kingsvale]]. These areas have two predominant climates; marshland towards the coast and arid brushland in the interior with little access to water. Much of the area was made habitable due to scientific advances during the {{wp|Industrial Revolution}} in [[Urcea]], bringing large groups of people out of [[The Valley (Urcea)|the Valley]] into the southern areas. Today, these areas continue to benefit from irrigation projects, and the provinces in the South are sometimes referred to as being part of [[The Valley (Urcea)|the Valley]], a controversial characterization among both residents of the frontier as well as of sociologists who continue to study the unique cultural traditions of people living within this area.  
The '''Urcean people''' are a nation and ethnic group native to [[Urcea]]. The Urcean identity is of early medieval origin. Their ethnonym is derived from peoples living close to the [[Urce River]] in antiquity, referred to in [[Lebhan]] as ''Urciona''.


==Terminology==
The Urceans largely descend from two main historical population groups – the earlier [[Latinic people]] of [[Adonerum]] and the native [[Gaelic people]] who inhabited [[Levantia]] prior to the Latinic conquest. While the [[Great Levantia]] period largely saw a degree of segregation between the politically empowered Latinic population as compared to the geographically and politically marginalized Gaelic people, there was nonetheless a degree of admixture and integration. By the time of the fall of Great Levantia, integration of the two cultures began in earnest in the Urce River valley, and by the time of [[St. Julius I]], the residents of [[Urceopolis (City)|Urceopolis]] and the [[Urce River]] valley were in the throes of hybridization, beginning a truly unique, Urcean culture.


Several terms have become popular referring to this region, with some variation on the "Urcean frontier" being the widest attested to in both scholarly and popular sources. Contemporary sources referred to this area as the "New South" in the 19th century, with "New" referring to both the newly available land there as well as a geographical label distinguishing the area from [[Greater Canaery]] and [[Gassavelia]] from the perspective of residents of [[The Valley (Urcea)|the Valley]]. Official documents from both before and during the "Age of the Frontier" simply refer to the region as the Southern Wilderness, a term that entered popular use at some point during the medieval period and remained relevant until the waning days of the frontier lifestyle.
Besides the "core" Urcean ethnicity, sometimes called "[[The Valley (Urcea)|valley]] Urceans" in relation to their origin in the greater [[Urce River]] valley region known as [[The Valley (Urcea)|the Valley]], other ethnic groups are sometimes considered to be part of the wider Urcean identity. Most prominent among these are the [[Caenish people]] of [[Canaery]] and the southern tip of Levantia.


==Geography==
== Identity ==
Despite global classifications of Urceans consistently placing them as among [[Latinic people]]s, and relations between [[Urcea]] and Caphiria and other states on [[Sarpedon]] are characterized by their cultural kinship, Urceans consider themselves neither Latinic or Gaelic but rather the descendants of both groups. While the concept of ''Urceanity'' derives from the cultural traditions of the country as well as the ethnic admixture of Gaels and Latins, immigrants have been known to be able to integrate into Urcean culture.


The area of the frontier is broadly defined as the region that exists south of [[The Valley (Urcea)|the Valley]] and north of [[Gassavelia]] and [[Greater Canaery]], running from approximately the south shores of the [[Magnag]] in the east to the [[Sea of Canete]] in the west. The area encompasses [[Callan]], [[Southmarch]], [[Afoncord]], western [[Ardricampus]], southern [[Harren]], and part of [[Kingsvale]] and is characterized in the north by flat, dry, arid land and [[Hortus Mountains|Hortus ranges]] along its southern periphery. In the west, particularly in [[Callan]], the area is characterized by marshland and reclaimed marshland, while the remainder of the region is a dry, semi-arid to arid region which proved difficult for human habitation prior to the 19th century. Wind is a constant presence throughout much of the frontier, with winds blowing off the [[Sea of Canete]] while storms typically move in from the southeast out of [[Burgundie]] into [[Gassavelia]], with the frontier being hit with only the peripheral effects of most storms. Windmills for irrigation purposes became common in the western portion of this region during the early 19th century, and {{wp|wind turbines}} are common today. Because of the dry climate, the entire central and eastern area is laced with irrigation canals, holding ponds, laterals, and drops.
A vast majority of Urceans are divided into what are known as the [[Estates of Urcea]], kinship-and-identity groups that bind families together. Deriving from the early voting tribes of [[Great Levantia]] and the socio-political client-patron relationships within them, the Estates have 25 distinct "Latinic" Estates and 25 distinct "Gaelic" Estates, with the latter being integrated during the latter Great Levantia period as part of the process of what sociologists call ''Urceanization''. Distinctly, Urceans do not see themselves as the same Latin peoples who forged and lived within Great Levantia, instead claiming heritage both from Great Levantia and the Gaelic peoples that it conquered, seeing themselves as the direct descendants of neither but instead the product of both. In this way, Urceans view themselves as the "consummation of the whole history of [[Levantia]]" in the words of [[Kiravia|Kiravian]] scholar [[P. G. W. Gelema]].
=== Historic Urceanization ===
"Historic" Urceanization refers to a process which occurred beginning approximately in the 3rd century and ending in the 9th century that saw groups of [[Latinic people]] and [[Gaelic people]] living in Southern [[Levantia]] begin to form a single, albeit broad, cultural continuum that could be identified today as "Urcean". Much, though not all of this process, was accompanied by frequent intermarriage among these peoples, especially in the midst of and following the collapse of [[Great Levantia]].
=== Late Urceanization ===
"Late" Urceanization refers to any continuation of the process of the growth and adaptation of Urcean identity by groups of people at any time following the 9th century. Subjects of late Urceanization tend to be groups living in Urcea's geographic periphery and ones incorporated into the country following the [[Golden Bull of 1098]]. Accordingly, these groups tend to have entirely different historical origins than the "valley Urceans" and also retain a partially separate identity. These groups - primarily the [[Caenish people|Caens]], [[Gassavelian people|Gassavelians]], and [[Garán people]]s - nonetheless view themselves as Urcean under varying models of dual identity.
====Dual identity====
Dual identity is a sociological phenomenon prevalent among the groups of people who were subject to "late" Urceanization. People in these groups tend to view themselves as Urcean, both in terms of nationality as well as ethnicity, in addition to their core held ethnic view of themselves as a distinct people. While the relationship between Urcean nationality and these groups is fairly straight forward due to its long political control over their homelands, scholars and cultural observers have long been interested in what sense these groups consider themselves ethnically Urcean. The primary justification behind dual identity theory among its adherents is that, even if history separated the development of specific cultural mores and identity between the residents of the Valley and residents of the periphery, the original "ingredients" of these cultural groups are all the same. By way of example, this theory holds that a [[Gassavelian people|Gassavelian]] and a "valley Urcean" share ultimately the same origin point in ancient [[Gaelic people|Gaelic]] peoples, even if the Gassavelians were later primarily influenced by people from [[Audonia]] while Valley residents were influenced by settlers from [[Adonerum]].  


==History==
Efforts by the [[Government of Urcea]] as well as cultural exchanges as part of the [[Levantine Union]] have largely failed to include people adhering to [[Derian identity]] - particularly those of Urcean nationality living in [[Transionia]] - within dual identity structure. Scholars have posited that the relative recentness of Transionia's incorporation, combined with severe ethnic tensions in and around [[Dericania]] since 1800, have made efforts at identity integration difficult.
== Language ==
{{Main|Language in Urcea}}
[[Urcea]] has three officially recognized languages, [[Julian Ænglish]], {{wp|Ecclesiastical Latin|Latin}}, and [[Lebhan language|Lebhan]], of which only Julian Ænglish is spoken on a regular basis by a vast majority of the population, used in business, personal, and official contexts. Abroad, Urceans speak Julian Ænglish, and their presence has made it an important language of diplomacy and business in [[Crona]] and especially in the [[Nysdra Sea Treaty Association]] states.
== Religion ==
Being a member of the [[Catholic Church]] - practicing or otherwise - is considered to be a vital part of Urcean identity, so much so that {{wp|Protestant}} and other faith Urcean nationals have assumed a completely different ethnic identity over the past five centuries known as [[Cisionian people]]. Cisionians assumed their identity not only from Urcean external views but from internal identity realization based on centuries of cultural isolation. Accordingly, Catholicism and elements of it permeate every part of Urcean culture, ranging from pop culture references of {{wp|scripture}}, to popular legends of {{wp|Saints}}, to the legal and cultural structuring of the week around Sunday, the day when many Urceans attend {{wp|Mass}}.


===Prior to 1800===
== Culture ==
{{Main|Culture of Urcea}}


Much of the Urcean "south" - the provinces between [[The Valley (Urcea)|the Valley]], a largely fertile and habitable area, and [[Gassavelia]], which is primarily jungle and tropical - was considered mostly uninhabitable or otherwise undesirable for most of Urcea's history. Foreign to the way of life of [[Levantia]]'s indigineous [[Gaelic people]] and difficult for incoming [[Latinic people|Latins]] during the [[Latin Heroic Age]] left a great majority of this land very sparsely populated, with small oasis and coastal cities and towns making up the majority of human settlement. During the [[Saint's War]], the House of Cónn [[History_of_Urcea_(1214-1402)#Great_Interregnum|constructed the castle of Ardricampus]] in the region atop an oasis, with the castle's isolated position and access to supplies making it extremely difficult to besiege due to supply problems that besieging armies would face. The castle, with its well developed oasis, would grow to become a city around which the modern province of [[Ardricampus]] is based. Ardricampus was one of the few major population centers in the region prior to the 19th century.
The Urcean culture is an [[Occidental]] culture with some recent influences of [[Crona|Cronan]] culture and society. Urceans have many of their own unique social and cultural characteristics, such as {{wp|dialect}}, {{wp|music}}, {{wp|arts}}, {{wp|social habits}}, {{wp|cuisine}} and {{wp|folklore}}. Most of these traditions and mores developed from the bend of [[Gaelic people|Gaelic]] and [[Latinic people|Latin]] people, incorporating earlier cultural traditions while iterating and creating new ones throughout history. Religion and politics both heavily influence Urcean culture and worldviews, with belief in [[Organicism]] and strong adherence to the [[Catholic Church]] reflected in nearly every social institution. Urceans are largely viewed abroad as strongly {{wp|Conservatism|conservative}} politically and socially, though this view is thought by most scholars to be a generalization, with a wide array of viewpoints and geographical expressions of those views present throughout Urcean society.
====Travel====


Prior to the advent of the railroad and industrial irrigation techniques, travel through the frontier was dangerous and relatively rare. The primary route was the ''Via Antonia'', a road constructed by the [[Great Levantia|Great Levantines]] and probably based on an earlier [[Gaelic people|Gaelic]] path. The ''Via Antonia'' began in the [[Sea of Canete]] port city of Meliferia in the southeastern portion of the modern province of [[The Cape (Urcean province)|the Cape]], and from there moved southeast into modern [[Southmarch]] and [[Callan]], gradually bending away from the Sea to more than 75 miles inland. At the northern border of modern [[Callan]] was the town of Colina, which by the medieval period was functionally the last major settlement along the ''Via'' until one reached the northeastern periphery of [[Greater Canaery]]. The hundreds of miles of road between Colina and Mauriele, the end point of the ''Via Antonia'' about 100 miles east of [[Cana]], were dry and ran through desert and rocky valleys and crags with no source of potable water. For centuries, there were rumors of an ancient Great Levantine well about midway through the journey. This rumor became known as the "Antonine Trap", as many desperate travelers on their last resort would often backtrack to try and find the legendary well; it was not uncommon to find corpses along the road digging in the sand. Historians are divided on the issue of the well behind the legend; it is moderately well attested to in the historical record, but ancient sources disagree on its location. The existence of such a well also poses several practical problems, including why a settlement never grew up around it, how such an often-used well would fall out of use and disappear, and the physical lack of evidence of an aquifer along the road. During the 12th century, following Urcea's [[History_of_Urcea_(1098-1214)#Southern_orientation|conquest of Callan]], a small port town called Sangran was built along the coast of Callan, and at some point between then and ca 1300 a spur of the ''Via Antonia'' connected Sangran to the rest of the road. After that point, many who could not afford the full voyage would book a cheaper passage from [[Cana]] to Sangran and complete the rest of the ''Via Antonia'' northward on foot.
== See also ==
 
*[[List of Urcean monarchs]]
The road was never safe during the period of Great Levantia, but by the medieval period through the industrial period it was dangerous, providing significant opportunities for ambushes by outlaws, highwaymen, and other bandits. For this reason, travel overland between [[The Valley (Urcea)|the Valley]] and modern [[Canaery]] during the medieval period was not usually considered possible, and most commerce and travel between [[Urceopolis (City)|Urceopolis]] and [[Cana]] occurred via the sea route. Travel on the road would have been an option to individuals in only limited circumstances, including being very poor and unable to afford sea passage, being an outlaw or some other person unable to travel by ship for fear of the authorities, or specific instances that would require goods or persons to be moved overland. In most cases, those who could afford to would hire {{wp|mercenaries}} to serve as guards along the way to Canaery. Armies of the period typically avoided traversing the frontier if at all possible.
*[[List of Urcean officials]]
 
*[[List of former Urcean officials]]
===Initial settlement attempts===
 
Technological advances during the 18th and 19th century made settlement possible, however, due to the possibility of dams, drainage, and eventually megaproject-style dams in the interior. Interest in settling the area began in earnest during the reign of [[History_of_Urcea_(1798-1902)#End_of_Imperial_dynasty_and_Niall.27s_reforms|King Niall V]] in the 1810s as a location to resettle some previous [[Ómestaderoi]] who had settled in [[Carolina]] but had since fled following the end of the [[Second Caroline War]]. Niall's interest in the area was improving the viability and convenience of transportation networks through the region down to [[Canaery]] and [[Gassavelia]], and it was thought that improving the population of the area might naturally create better infrastructure. This very first wave was mostly settled in the oasis towns, but locals and newcomers alike began to complain about conditions and the [[Concilium Daoni]] began to investigate the humanitarian conditions in the area by the end of the 1810s. With many Caroline Ómestaderoi again facing the possibility of being relocated, Niall turned to a group of ambitious scientists and engineers who promised to pump out a portion of land in [[Callan]] which would not only make it habitable but might make it good farmland. The project was completed by 1823 and was a great success, and the Caroline Ómestaderoi were settled in boom towns along the Callan coast. The [[Concilium Daoni]] formally established the land as Ómestaderoi land in 1831, but very few settlers began to move in and many moved to promising lands in [[Transionia]] following the conclusion of the [[Third Caroline War]].
 
===Industrial reclamation efforts===
 
In the 1860s during the [[Aedanicad]], [[Aedanicus VIII]] prioritized the contruction of what were then considered megaprojects, massive irrigation projects including some of the world's largest dams built up until that point.
 
===Golden Age of the Frontier===
 
The successful projects built during the 1860s lead to massive waves of [[Ómestaderoi]] - many historians believe it was the largest of the waves throughout the history of the program - to settle in the frontier areas in the mid-1860s through mid-1880s, a period known today as the "Golden Age of the Frontier". The growth of these areas outpaced the expansion of public administration (which was extremely complex and unclear prior to the passage of the [[Administrative Reorganization Act of 1892]]), leading to a "wild" reputation and frontier justice becoming common in these areas. The area was not only viewed as lawless, but was also viewed as a place where an individual could reinvent themselves or pursue pastoral or rancher lifestyles, which were considered by the [[Culture of Urcea|culture of Urcea]] at the time to be more "noble" and "natural." Many romantic notions of the Golden Age are engrained within the [[Culture_of_Urcea#Southerns|Southern genre of film]]. Historians have noted that this period, however, is not accurately represented in film or in the public imagination, and that the degree of lawlessness and social integration with the rest of the country greatly varied throughout the region and from town to town. Many gunslingers from this period, including [[Slingin' Seamus]], have gone on to become well known cultural figures and the source of widespread fascination.
 
During this period, many Ómestaderoi began their journey along the ancient ''Via Antonia'', taking a slightly different route than was taken historically. Most boarded a ship in [[Urceopolis (City)|Urceopolis]] which took them down the [[Urce River]], out into the [[Sea of Canete]], and depositing them at the port city of Meliferia, the traditional starting point of the route. There, Ómestaderoi would purchase provisions, vehicles, animals to pull them, and occasionally guards and guides depending upon the wealth of the settler. By this time, wells and other infrastructure meant that clean water was easy to come by following the ''Via Antonia'', an unimaginable availability just a century prior. Accordingly, an Ómestaderoi family would follow the ''Via'', stopping at the "well towns" that had sprung up along the way. The ''Via'' began to be semi-regularly patrolled during the Aedanicad period, though lawlessness was still a risk most faced along the way. Unlike the medieval period, the ''Via'' represented the relatively safe part of the trip - the true risk to Ómestaderoi came once they departed the ''Via'' to find their particular stake of land. Many of the historical deprivations - disease, lack of clean water, lack of doctors, and bandits - presented themselves along the way. Much of the land within easy distance of the ''Via'' had been claimed and settled by about 1868, requiring longer journeys inland with increasing risk. Beginning in about 1880s, due to the land still available, some Ómestaderoi would avoid the ''Via'' altogether and instead cross the [[Magnag]] in eastern [[Urcea]] from [[Harren]], landng at Ardricampus and heading into the frontier from the east. The so called "Eastern Via" was quicker to more remote claims but also presented the most danger to potential Ómestaderoi. Far from the well-settled and patrolled ''Via'', the route of the Eastern Via with its isolated towns and cities was the most lawless and least built region of the frontier, and the dangers it presented created many legends. Most frontier stories in popular media - including the life of [[Slingin' Seamus]] - take place along the Eastern Via.
 
===Decline and Red Interregnum===
 
Ómestaderoi settlement began to slow in the 1880s as the nation's economy slowed and attractive parcels became hard to find, and the onset of the [[Red Interregnum]] turned the area into a heavily militarized zone.
 
===End of the Wilderness===
 
The classic age of the frontier in this region continued on until the late 1900s, when the restoration regime of [[Patrick III of Urcea|Patrick III]] made establishing coherent law and order and public administration a top priority in the frontier region. The frontier was eventually the site of considerable [[Housing in Urcea|residential projects]] as well as major railways and highways in the immediate lead up to the [[Second Great War]], finally ending the "southern wilds" period and bringing the frontier into full integration with the rest of the country.
 
==Cultural impacts==
 
Life on the frontier, and the [[Ómestaderoi]] experience there, lead to the rise of [[Culture_of_Urcea#Cowboy_buffets|cowboy buffets]], a type of restaurant in [[Urcea]] which provides perceived immersive frontier experiences.


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Urcean people
Flag of Urcea
Total population
1.7+ billion
Regions with significant populations
 Urcea1,401,593,274
 New Harren6,502,552 (not including Nysdrine people)
 Talionia4,501,596
 Unnuaq Mission State11,321
Languages
Julian Ænglish, Lebhan, Latin
Religion
Catholic
Related ethnic groups
Caenish people, Garán people, Gassavelian people

The Urcean people are a nation and ethnic group native to Urcea. The Urcean identity is of early medieval origin. Their ethnonym is derived from peoples living close to the Urce River in antiquity, referred to in Lebhan as Urciona.

The Urceans largely descend from two main historical population groups – the earlier Latinic people of Adonerum and the native Gaelic people who inhabited Levantia prior to the Latinic conquest. While the Great Levantia period largely saw a degree of segregation between the politically empowered Latinic population as compared to the geographically and politically marginalized Gaelic people, there was nonetheless a degree of admixture and integration. By the time of the fall of Great Levantia, integration of the two cultures began in earnest in the Urce River valley, and by the time of St. Julius I, the residents of Urceopolis and the Urce River valley were in the throes of hybridization, beginning a truly unique, Urcean culture.

Besides the "core" Urcean ethnicity, sometimes called "valley Urceans" in relation to their origin in the greater Urce River valley region known as the Valley, other ethnic groups are sometimes considered to be part of the wider Urcean identity. Most prominent among these are the Caenish people of Canaery and the southern tip of Levantia.

Identity

Despite global classifications of Urceans consistently placing them as among Latinic peoples, and relations between Urcea and Caphiria and other states on Sarpedon are characterized by their cultural kinship, Urceans consider themselves neither Latinic or Gaelic but rather the descendants of both groups. While the concept of Urceanity derives from the cultural traditions of the country as well as the ethnic admixture of Gaels and Latins, immigrants have been known to be able to integrate into Urcean culture.

A vast majority of Urceans are divided into what are known as the Estates of Urcea, kinship-and-identity groups that bind families together. Deriving from the early voting tribes of Great Levantia and the socio-political client-patron relationships within them, the Estates have 25 distinct "Latinic" Estates and 25 distinct "Gaelic" Estates, with the latter being integrated during the latter Great Levantia period as part of the process of what sociologists call Urceanization. Distinctly, Urceans do not see themselves as the same Latin peoples who forged and lived within Great Levantia, instead claiming heritage both from Great Levantia and the Gaelic peoples that it conquered, seeing themselves as the direct descendants of neither but instead the product of both. In this way, Urceans view themselves as the "consummation of the whole history of Levantia" in the words of Kiravian scholar P. G. W. Gelema.

Historic Urceanization

"Historic" Urceanization refers to a process which occurred beginning approximately in the 3rd century and ending in the 9th century that saw groups of Latinic people and Gaelic people living in Southern Levantia begin to form a single, albeit broad, cultural continuum that could be identified today as "Urcean". Much, though not all of this process, was accompanied by frequent intermarriage among these peoples, especially in the midst of and following the collapse of Great Levantia.

Late Urceanization

"Late" Urceanization refers to any continuation of the process of the growth and adaptation of Urcean identity by groups of people at any time following the 9th century. Subjects of late Urceanization tend to be groups living in Urcea's geographic periphery and ones incorporated into the country following the Golden Bull of 1098. Accordingly, these groups tend to have entirely different historical origins than the "valley Urceans" and also retain a partially separate identity. These groups - primarily the Caens, Gassavelians, and Garán peoples - nonetheless view themselves as Urcean under varying models of dual identity.

Dual identity

Dual identity is a sociological phenomenon prevalent among the groups of people who were subject to "late" Urceanization. People in these groups tend to view themselves as Urcean, both in terms of nationality as well as ethnicity, in addition to their core held ethnic view of themselves as a distinct people. While the relationship between Urcean nationality and these groups is fairly straight forward due to its long political control over their homelands, scholars and cultural observers have long been interested in what sense these groups consider themselves ethnically Urcean. The primary justification behind dual identity theory among its adherents is that, even if history separated the development of specific cultural mores and identity between the residents of the Valley and residents of the periphery, the original "ingredients" of these cultural groups are all the same. By way of example, this theory holds that a Gassavelian and a "valley Urcean" share ultimately the same origin point in ancient Gaelic peoples, even if the Gassavelians were later primarily influenced by people from Audonia while Valley residents were influenced by settlers from Adonerum.

Efforts by the Government of Urcea as well as cultural exchanges as part of the Levantine Union have largely failed to include people adhering to Derian identity - particularly those of Urcean nationality living in Transionia - within dual identity structure. Scholars have posited that the relative recentness of Transionia's incorporation, combined with severe ethnic tensions in and around Dericania since 1800, have made efforts at identity integration difficult.

Language

Main article: Language in Urcea

Urcea has three officially recognized languages, Julian Ænglish, Latin, and Lebhan, of which only Julian Ænglish is spoken on a regular basis by a vast majority of the population, used in business, personal, and official contexts. Abroad, Urceans speak Julian Ænglish, and their presence has made it an important language of diplomacy and business in Crona and especially in the Nysdra Sea Treaty Association states.

Religion

Being a member of the Catholic Church - practicing or otherwise - is considered to be a vital part of Urcean identity, so much so that Protestant and other faith Urcean nationals have assumed a completely different ethnic identity over the past five centuries known as Cisionian people. Cisionians assumed their identity not only from Urcean external views but from internal identity realization based on centuries of cultural isolation. Accordingly, Catholicism and elements of it permeate every part of Urcean culture, ranging from pop culture references of scripture, to popular legends of Saints, to the legal and cultural structuring of the week around Sunday, the day when many Urceans attend Mass.

Culture

Main article: Culture of Urcea

The Urcean culture is an Occidental culture with some recent influences of Cronan culture and society. Urceans have many of their own unique social and cultural characteristics, such as dialect, music, arts, social habits, cuisine and folklore. Most of these traditions and mores developed from the bend of Gaelic and Latin people, incorporating earlier cultural traditions while iterating and creating new ones throughout history. Religion and politics both heavily influence Urcean culture and worldviews, with belief in Organicism and strong adherence to the Catholic Church reflected in nearly every social institution. Urceans are largely viewed abroad as strongly conservative politically and socially, though this view is thought by most scholars to be a generalization, with a wide array of viewpoints and geographical expressions of those views present throughout Urcean society.

See also

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