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{{Main|Veltorine people}}

New Veltorina has a culture extending back several millennia due to the shared history, common traditions, and imported social mores of the Veltorine people, who emerged in [[Sarpedon]] during the medieval period from the intersection of [[Ancient Istroyan civilization]] and [[Latinic people]]. Beyond this longstanding tradition, New Veltorines have taken on a more militaristic and solidaristic worldview due to the effects of the [[Final War of the Deluge]] on Cronan Veltorines. New Veltorine society is considered to be deeply hierarchical and, [[Veltorine_people#Religion|as is the case with other Veltorines]], {{wp|Bishops in the Catholic Church|Catholic bishops}} have a position of personal influence, social standing, and cultural tastemaking virtually unknown in most other Catholic countries; in New Veltorina, this began with the appointment of Bishop Melinkes in [[1980]], who instantly became an international symbol of Veltorine resilience. Cultural commentators have observed that the country's three Catholic bishops have a semi-monarchical effect on cultural tastes.  

New Veltorines are generally divided into three major cultural groups, the first two of which are ethnically Veltorine (and both of which make up about half of the Veltorine population) while the remainder is the assorted Cronan indigenous persons which are mostly marginalized within "proper" New Veltorine society, instead emphasizing their historic ties and relationship to the city of Qozala. The first major group is the so called "''Brudxi''", named for the [[Veltorine_people#Life_Abroad_Movement|Varshani province settled by Veltorines first during the 1960s]]. The Brudxi are Veltorines who relocated to Crona during the middle and late 20th century, and accordingly most are part of multi-generational families that have lived in what is now New Veltorina for decades. The Brudxi are usually observed to have a more rustic character, having shed many of the tastes of high [[Sarpedon]]ic culture and affluence in the decades since moving to Crona. The Brudxi are also considered to be more world-weary in outlook due to several decades of status as a minority ethnicity; while Sarpedonic Veltorines also share this view of themselves as a minority, the Brudxi were victim to multiple waves of attempted ethnic cleansing before and during the [[2010]]s, which make them observably more suspicious of indigenous Cronans as well as authority in general. The Brudxi tend to have a distinctive accent with some [[Hieratic Varshani]] words introduced, particularly as slang. The Brudxi also have a mixed cuisine style, retaining many Veltorine traditional favorites and family recipes while including indigenous meals, which they have eaten for generations. Politically, the Brudxi are more cynical, more {{wp|populist}}, and socially conservative. The Brudxi made up a majority of the personnel of the [[Veltorine Popular Defense Committee]] during the [[Final War of the Deluge]]. Most Brudxi would be considered nationalist in a sense (and most are members of the Party for the National Movement), but scholars have observed that the Brudxi eschew more intellectual or Romantic senses of nationalism in favor of a "defensive" or "possessive" view of nationality. Brudxi mostly have lower levels of educational attainment than their Fero counterparts; though their ancestors were largely technical experts or scientists, the children of those experts were generally not given easy access to education. Economically, many Brudxi occupy working class and agricultural jobs as well as service in the New Veltorine military, though the Brudxi also make up the senior clique in the Party for the National Movement and consequently form the country's political elite.