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The '''Demarești''' are a one of the civilised (that is, non-[[Urom|tribal]]) non-Coscivian minorities native to [[Great Kirav]]. They claim descent from the ancient Ptheric people, but speak a language in the Northeast Kiravian family, distantly related to [[Eshavian Coscivians#Language|Eshavian]]. Despite sharing common roots with many Coscivian peoples, the Demarești developed a sophisticated independent civilisation during the Kiravian Bronze Age and maintained intermittent periods of independence from the Coscivian Empires until the reign of Emperor Trxell the Enormous; and they have maintained a distinctive culture and worldview quite different from those prevailing in [[Coscivian civilisation]] despite millennia of close contact and Coscivian social hegemony. They are the most economically prosperous and best-educated of the Kiravite Minority groups. The Demarești are highly urbanised, with around three quarters of their population living outside their traditional homeland in major metropolitan areas, most notably Greater [[Bérasar]] and the [[Kartika|National Capital Region]]. | The '''Demarești''' are a one of the civilised (that is, non-[[Urom|tribal]]) non-Coscivian minorities native to [[Great Kirav]]. They claim descent from the ancient Ptheric people, but speak a language in the Northeast Kiravian family, distantly related to [[Eshavian Coscivians#Language|Eshavian]]. Despite sharing common roots with many Coscivian peoples, the Demarești developed a sophisticated independent civilisation during the Kiravian Bronze Age and maintained intermittent periods of independence from the Coscivian Empires until the reign of Emperor [[Trxell the Enormous]]; and they have maintained a distinctive culture and worldview quite different from those prevailing in [[Coscivian civilisation]] despite millennia of close contact and Coscivian social hegemony. They are the most economically prosperous and best-educated of the Kiravite Minority groups. The Demarești are highly urbanised, with around three quarters of their population living outside their traditional homeland in major metropolitan areas, most notably Greater [[Bérasar]] and the [[Kartika|National Capital Region]]. | ||
The Demarești have a complicated relationship with Coscivian-Kiravians and the Kiravian state. The King of Demarest is a tributary of the [[Marble Emperor]]; however, as noted by Luso-Captetian anthropologist Diogo de Chão, whereas other Kiravite Minority peoples have chosen to interpret or reïnterpret their tributary relationship with the Coscivian Emperor as an amical one and embrace narratives that affirm their cultural and institutional distinctiveness while stressing loyalty to and inclusion in the Kiravian polity, the Demarești harbour no such notions. While at the level of official Demarești institutions and ritual contacts with the Emperor all is cordial, among themselves the Demarești unambiguously understand their position as a conquered people paying tribute to their conquerors. Androë Foüȷeșca, an ethnic Demarești radio presenter who emigrated from the [[Kiravian Union]] to [[Ardmore]] in 1948 AD, quasi-famously said on-air after emigrating that Coscivians are "dangerously insane people whose collective derangement is intensified rather than moderated by increasing organisational sophistication," and subsequently doubled down after complaints from Coscivian listeners in [[New Ardmore]], opining that Occidental governments should diplomatically isolate both the Kiravian Union and [[Kiravian Remnant]] "until they inevitably {{wp|mutually assured destruction|eradicate each other}}, and stressed that he considered himself "one of the more moderate and empathetic Demarești on this topic". Though perhaps hyperbolic, opinion research does seem to support the thesis that the average Demareștine's attitude toward the majority population lies somewhere on a specrtum between ambivalence and existential fear. Despite this, however, the Demarești overwhelmingly live in Coscivian-dominated major cities, excel in Coscivian-dominated eductional instiutions, and are grossly overrepresented in the Kiravian governmental bureaucracy. Both insiders and outsiders to the Demarești community have long viewed these apparent paradoxes as adaptive behaviours on the part of the Demarești to ensure their own cultural survival. | The Demarești have a complicated relationship with Coscivian-Kiravians and the Kiravian state. The King of Demarest is a tributary of the [[Marble Emperor]]; however, as noted by Luso-Captetian anthropologist Diogo de Chão, whereas other Kiravite Minority peoples have chosen to interpret or reïnterpret their tributary relationship with the Coscivian Emperor as an amical one and embrace narratives that affirm their cultural and institutional distinctiveness while stressing loyalty to and inclusion in the Kiravian polity, the Demarești harbour no such notions. While at the level of official Demarești institutions and ritual contacts with the Emperor all is cordial, among themselves the Demarești unambiguously understand their position as a conquered people paying tribute to their conquerors. Androë Foüȷeșca, an ethnic Demarești radio presenter who emigrated from the [[Kiravian Union]] to [[Ardmore]] in 1948 AD, quasi-famously said on-air after emigrating that Coscivians are "dangerously insane people whose collective derangement is intensified rather than moderated by increasing organisational sophistication," and subsequently doubled down after complaints from Coscivian listeners in [[New Ardmore]], opining that Occidental governments should diplomatically isolate both the Kiravian Union and [[Kiravian Remnant]] "until they inevitably {{wp|mutually assured destruction|eradicate each other}}, and stressed that he considered himself "one of the more moderate and empathetic Demarești on this topic". Though perhaps hyperbolic, opinion research does seem to support the thesis that the average Demareștine's attitude toward the majority population lies somewhere on a specrtum between ambivalence and existential fear. Despite this, however, the Demarești overwhelmingly live in Coscivian-dominated major cities, excel in Coscivian-dominated eductional instiutions, and are grossly overrepresented in the Kiravian governmental bureaucracy. Both insiders and outsiders to the Demarești community have long viewed these apparent paradoxes as adaptive behaviours on the part of the Demarești to ensure their own cultural survival. | ||