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*'''Power''' (''Potestas''): A citizen's ability to do what they want despite resistance from others. | *'''Power''' (''Potestas''): A citizen's ability to do what they want despite resistance from others. | ||
*'''Status''' (''Dignitas''): A citizen's prestige, popularity and honor or how highly society regards them. | *'''Status''' (''Dignitas''): A citizen's prestige, popularity and honor or how highly society regards them. | ||
*'''Class''' (''Ordo''): A citizen's legal and economic position in society. | *'''[[Social class in Caphiria|Class]]''' (''Ordo''): A citizen's legal and economic position in society. | ||
At the peak of the social pyramid (''pyramidis societas'') is the [[Imperator]]. An Imperator has the highest ''dignitas'', ''potestas'', and is of the highest ''ordo'' in Caphirian society. If sociologists do not recognize any absolute standard for these ordinal measures than the Imperator is the relative standard to which the qualities of other residents in the empire are compared. Power and Status are generally perceived to be directly tied to a person's social standing, whereas Class is a person's legal status. After the Imperator, the peak of the ''pyramidis societas'' is the imperial family, which is currently the [[Panther Estate]]. Altogether the imperial family tends to hold offices of power and a number of prestigious military and collegian posts, they are rarely handed out in the form of nepotism and are usually won based on merit. | At the peak of the social pyramid (''pyramidis societas'') is the [[Imperator]]. An Imperator has the highest ''dignitas'', ''potestas'', and is of the highest ''ordo'' in Caphirian society. If sociologists do not recognize any absolute standard for these ordinal measures than the Imperator is the relative standard to which the qualities of other residents in the empire are compared. Power and Status are generally perceived to be directly tied to a person's social standing, whereas Class is a person's legal status. After the Imperator, the peak of the ''pyramidis societas'' is the imperial family, which is currently the [[Panther Estate]]. Altogether the imperial family tends to hold offices of power and a number of prestigious military and collegian posts, they are rarely handed out in the form of nepotism and are usually won based on merit. | ||