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==Culture==

Since the beginning of the major growth of the economy in the 21st century, Sabnak society has been largely divided into four distinct groups. The two elite groups are the political and military elite (the so-called "Tsailists") and the planter class. The Tsailists are a small group of interrelated families who have exercised the majority of political and military control of the country since the establishment of the Autocracy in [[1840]]. They descend from prominent tribal leaders and generals that existed at that time. The planters, meanwhile, are the small group of economic elites who made hereditary fortunes from the growth of {{Wp|cash crop}}s, though their economic clout has gradually waned with the Occidentalization of the economy. Their influence has waned in favor of the middle class, the urban-dwelling beneficiaries of the economic growth and transition to an urban, Occidental-style economy. The last social group are a group collectively referred to as "peasants", though they really possess both rural smallholding subsitence farmers as well as the working poor of Sabnaki's growing cities. The political and economic tension between these four groups has led to increasing social instability since the dawn of the 21st century.