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To say that the exact nature, historical origins, and genealogical classification of High Coscivian are hotly debated would be the understatement of the ''[[Coscivian calendar|petrasēga]]''. More than one war has been fought over this topic.

Excepting a few fringe holdouts hidden in the classics departments of third-tier state colleges in backwater inland provinces, Coscivian and Occidental scholars agree that High Coscivian is a Cosco-Adratic/Transkiravian language and must be considered a primary branch of the Cosco-Adratic family in the absence of any known direct ancestors. The long-extinct Sʑvoʎatellic language, which is only sparsely attested, is accepted to be its closest known relative.

There exists a somewhat esoteric debate among Dark Philologists as to whether High Coscivian developed from a spoken natural language or was constructed ''ab initio'' as a ritual language. The use of contrived languages for ceremonial and religious purposes was not uncommon among ancient Kiravian peoples, and continues today in some [[Urom]] tribes.

Post-Kirosocialist Etivéra has a political landscape dominated by three major party-groups that serve as both legislative caucuses and electoral alliances. These are the Coalition for a New Etivéra ([[Shaftonist democracy|Shaftonist-democratic]], conservative-liberal, and pro-[[Shaftonist-Republican Alliance|SRA]]), Change to Win Coalition ([[Kirosocialist]], left-wing populist, and pro-[[New Deal Alliance|NDA]]), and Popular Front ({{wp|Christian democracy|Christian-democratic}}, centrist, and pro-[[Caritist Social Union|CSU]]). As no group ever wins an outright majority in its own right, majority coalitions are usually formed by agreement between the Popular Front and either of the two other groups (sometimes with smaller parties or independents involved), or by any one of the major groups obtaining the support of smaller parties, independents, and (only rarely) dissident members of the other major groups.

The selection of [[Kartika]] (then merely a medium-sized town) as the federal capital of Kiravia and the demarcation of the lands surrounding it as a federal district separate from any state and subordinate directly to the Stanora was an uncontroversial agreement that was believed to balance the interests of more northerly and southerly parts of the new federation and ensure the capital city's political neutrality. However, as the size of the [federal or confederal? probably federal but not sure] government and the scope of its power expanded and Kartika began to grow into a proper city along with it, concerns arose that Kartika would eventually become a {{wp|primate city}} and the country's premier economic centre, eclipsing the other major cities at the time, Béyasar, Valēka, Eriadun, and Primóra. The states abutting the Disctict of Coīnvra - [[Hanoram]] and [[Ventarya]] - feared that merchants from their states would relocated to the capital district and deprive them of tax revenue. More principled concerns were raised in the newspapers of the day that the emergence of Kartika as a "new Era" would lead to harmful political centralisation and even - in more impassioned letters - the end of the Republic and a return to [[Verticalism]].