Serikorda: Difference between revisions

<!-- Serikorda was originally home to the Hottopik and Paksun tribes of [[Kiravite Aboriginals]]. Gaelic clans also inhabited parts of the area at various times. During the Coscivian Colonial period, in the course of dividing the still-unsettled areas of Great Kirav, Emperor Xorokaster II issued contradictory decrees granting authority over what would become Serikorda to both the Audiencia of Harma and the Captaincy-General of [[Róvidrea]], which would later be subsumed under the Viceroyalty of the Kiygrava and the Viceroyalty of Andera, respectively. However, neither colony exercised any actual control over the area, which remained populated mainly by the Paksun and Hottopik. Coscivian and Celtic immigration began in earnest during the [[Cromwelute Wars|Cromwelute Depredations]], with Serikorda's sheltered geography attracting people from coastal areas who moved inland to escape Cromwelute raids. These settlers came mainly from neighbouring Róvidrea, Harma, and the Gaelic lands that would become Irovasdra and Arkelly, and they succeeded in forming lasting settlements around the fringes of the Serikorda Basin while the Aboriginals retained control over the hinterland. Kiygrava administered the area as a countyship of Róvidrea and Andera as a countyship of Harma throughout the colonial period, and although the two governments were aware of immigration by each others' subjects and continued to assert their overlapping claims, the limited size of the Coscivian settlements and lack of contact between them prevented the territorial dispute from becoming a matter of concern until much later.

The Coscivian and Gaelic population of Serikorda declined after the defeat and eradication of the Cromwelutes, which allowed many of the colonists to either return home or move on to the new and often better lands that had become available in Upper Kirav. However, it would recover during the Viceregal period when mounting population pressure across the eastern seaboard increased demand for land and many people became willing to settle in highland, forest, and frontier areas further from the control of the increasingly corrupt and heavy-handed Viceregal governments. As before, the southern part of the state would be settled mainly by [[Kir people|Kir Coscivians]] and Sedhan Coscivians pushing northward from Róvidrea, the east would be settled mainly by [[Taństem Coscivians]] pushing westward from Harma and [[Fariva]], and the upland northern and western areas would be settled mainly by Gaels. However, unlike during the Cromwelute Wars, these larger waves of settlers with improved agricultural and military technology were far more successful in decimating the Aboriginal population and bringing large tracts of land under cultivation, creating contiguous zones of settlement that eventually collided with one another. This resulted in a great deal of violence between settler militias of different origins settling on tracts of land granted to them by their respective governments. Kiyrgava (later the [[United Provinces]]), Andera, and Arkelly sent troops into Serikorda on various occasions to evict "squatters", and more rarely to engage the regular forces of other claimants. -->

In addition to the three major pillars of Serikordan society, the law also recognises several minor pillars. The '''Kaltan Pillar''' exists for the state's large Kaltan Coscivian population and can maintain its own educational and cultural facilities and policies, but does not have a reservation in the cosocionational system of the state's politics. For electoral purposes, members of the Kaltan Pillar must register with one of the three major pillars (usually the Second or Third). The Valosian Pillar, for [[Valosian Coscivians]], exists in similar circumstances to the Kaltan Pillar. The '''Kirosocialist Pillar''' was organised during the Kirosocialist era in the spirit of national/civic unity and ethnosocial [[Glossary of Coscivian Terms#Dh|nondistinctionism]] after government-imposed depillarisation of Serikorda failed. Although it originally had the same political rights and organisational structure as the major pillars (despite having far fewer members), the Kirosocialist pillar had almost all of its political reservations stripped from it after the National Renewal and now operates in a similar fashion to the Kaltan Pillar. The '''Aboriginal Pillar''' was created by an act of the state legislature in 21202 as part of the state's efforts at reconciliation with its severely reduced Aboriginal population, which was subjected to genocide in the course of Coscivian and Celtic settlement. Though the smallest pillar by far with 2,136, it is reserved legislative seats. Its community languages are Hottopik and Paksun, which have 160 and 4 native speakers, respectively. 27% of people registered with the Aboriginal Pillar are Uroms from tribes native to other parts of the country.