ICCD Rekhyt
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rekhyt The People
==People== Population: Current 300+ Million Age structure: 0-14 years: % (male
The Social Groups are divided into 4 main ashrama
Brahmacharya: the life of a student (this tends to be everyon under 19 except for young families which are relatively rare.
Gruhasth: family life (one one has children social status tends to change, and individuals are suppose to devote their time to raisin their families.
Vanaprasth: family and social services (once one has secured their family they are suppose to build their communities, this tends to be after all the children have been 'raised' that is they are 19 or older.
Sanyast: life as a monk; a period of renunciation. This is the 'secondary after 19 group, where individuals devote themselves to lifelong learning, rather than family life, it is the second student phase. Some individuals pass from Sanyast to Gruhasth then to Vanprasth. While others go directly frome Brahamachharya to Gruhasth.
/female ) 15-64 years: % (male /female ) 65 years and over: % (male /female ) (2005 est.) Median age: total: years male: years female: years Population growth rate: % Birth
rate: births/1,000 population Death rate: deaths/1,000 population Net migration rate:
migrant(s)/1,000 population Sex ratio: at birth: male(s)/female under 15 years:
male(s)/female 15-64 years: male(s)/female 65 years and over: male(s)/female total
population: male(s)/female Infant mortality rate: total: deaths/1,000 live births male:
deaths/1,000 live births female: deaths/1,000 live births Life expectancy at birth: total
population: male: female: Total fertility rate:
Structure & Apperance
Is predominantely Asiatic mongoloid; however, genetics programs and eugenics, specifically done by ESSI has in large part produced a much taller than average group with enhanced muscular structured and slightly larger frames than usual. In some rare instances the 'giants' standing 2 meters tall are particularly favoured in the contact sports programs in ICCD.
==immigration and emigration== immigration is extremely low due to the only way of gaining entry is via a special program, or by finding work placements or as a relative. Work visas are only granted for skilled trades i.e. anyone with a degree or specialized knowledge. There was a period not to long ago that many individuals left; however, after the purges very few individuals remained that were opposed to the locality. There are a large number of government advisors that are made available to journeyman assignments.
Imperial Society
Social Welfare
the government has ensured the population is fed and offers universal welfare, setting
up citizens with training they need to survive, usually this is in the way of them signing
up to the security forces for a year, then if they are still not self suficient giving them
work in a provincial government service training program such as Infrastructure
Services, program agreement is optional but to be in the program and receive the
welfare they must comply with the work program, which is relatively generous.
Senior citizens, often get taken to 'retirement communities in scenic areas, where they
work for the government on special projects. They have even high standards at these
retirment locations then average social welfare community housing.
Civil Rights
everyone has the right to manage their own affiarstake responsibility for themselves
and act in accorance with their beleifs as the will of the almighty.
Everyone has the right to pursue Life, Liberty and Happiness. The Right to Bear Arms== Every individual citizen has the right to keep and bear arms.
Firearms and blade weapons are described as such arms allowed.
Citizenship
One may be considered a citizen if they accept the constitution. Citizens may run for
imperial office To be a citizen resident(provincial resident), one must gain residence in a territory or
serve as a praetorian gaurd in a given province. Continued residence is required to
keep the status. Only imperial citizens may be citizen residents. Otherwise they are
'residents' which do not confir the same rights.
ICCD is a very orderly society with a population self righteous in their beliefs. In the
recent past many indivudals were abducted and ferreted out of the population creating
a very unifed social system. Still some would fight about anything, implementing a
survial of the fitest mentality. By the time univeral military service came around many
already had taken self defence training and purchased their own weapons as legalized
for home defence. The 'civl war' known as the urban rural war, caused many to buy
newly rolled out light combat vehicles for out of urban center travel. The state itself
worships nature and animals, treating them more respectfully than other humans, and
actually has trained lions to perform roles in society, and many houses have lions as
pets and house gaurds. The green belts are maintained by anti land development
policies, and most construction has been forces underground. It is not known how many
underground consturction sites exist but it is beleived billions and billions of gold
standards have been to date poured into the developments, including an underground
high speed rail system and rumoured, a long range canal.
There was an antipsychic and anti foreigner sentiment in Intracircumcordei, after the
antipsychic wars and the victory of the psychics and the purges (who would have
predicted that..) the antipsychic groups disipated and something similiar to anti semite backlash came into
effect. The antiforeigner sentiment has changed flavours with the popularized show
Who wants to be a citizen, which has refugees struggle through highly defended border
areas in a 'running man' like scenario aided by modern technologies. The few that have
made it through have been regarded as equals in any right if not stars. Passing the
sentiment that foreigners are good people too and they like any other deserve the glory of citizenship. Also new trade and other compacts are
seeing more Dians go to other countries lightening the previous xenophobic tendancies.
Dians are still appalled by bullying or unfair uses of force against otherwise good
people.
There are both private and public media sources Alternative power sources are of
interest however, the government garners allot of power from it's nuclear fission
reactors. The public largely uses pubic transit incuding extremely high speed
underground 'rail like' transit systems. Others mostly rural travelers utilize
predominately armed and armored vehicles for travel due to both ongoing fueds and
the country side having a history of being a place of bandits, athough this has reduced
somewhat, the temperment of Dians has largely seen the vast majority of private vehicle
owners investing in their vehicles, this includes personnel defences.
Peoples Name
Intracircumcordeians or short form Deians
Main Social Groups
The three main divisions in society are the statists, the corporatists, and the
underground. The statists work for the government which is in essence the biggest
corporation with the biggest personal army and the most public support, selling services
and accepting donations from the public. They gain most of their power by a 20% tax of all trade be it a service or a good
from the increase of sale on the creation cost. The corporations are very powerful, and
have at times jointly successfully lobbied the state for specific services. Generally if the
corporate councils ask for something the state oblidges. Finally the underground is a
loose network of individuals living in hiding due to being either hunted by private
fuedal bodies or being 'infected' with an unallowed trait such as VODAIS. Most of these individuals try to reestabish themselves and 'the
underground' in essance is the second single most powerful corporation. They were the
main forces of the urban rural wars, however in reality they are headed by a ESSI deepagent. VODAIS in part was
exagerated to fuel secret training programs and to infiltrate the underground branches
more deeply. The Deians are deeply spiritual and some are said to posses psychic
abiities. Those that spoke out against the psychic influences were mostly the target of
the 'secret' purge which the state claimed not be be involved in. A sect of 'evil' psychics
is behind the purges and has yet to be uncovered. They arn't psychic just highly political and the purges in addition to being a private war against
their enemies using the same tactics that were used against them was also a means to
'abduct' other psychics to introduce to their secret society. There were however
legitimate mob attacks on some unliked individuals and that is the cover that was
pursued.
In general the the culture is very agressive and opinionated but most people know
where the lines are for what they can say or do, especially those that do not wish to
start a brawl out of no where, espcially when shopping or driving. The government dramatically has maintained an approval rating of 90+% for the last two
elections. Even though thousands of individuals annually run for office in the centralized
pubic government.
The first 18 years of life are solid dedication to education and sports, much of the youths
time is consumed by Human resource development requirements, with breaks every so
often that tend to be social and vacation times, to the beaches and for those fortunate enough to tourist sites. At age 18 individuals make their most important choices wether to be corporate or state.
Generally the wealthiest youth NOT the children of government officials become
corporate following in their family business footsteps, where as the vast majority enter
into Emergency Services training program level 1, which is esentially infantry training,
all government employees are required to complete this 1 year program after which
they may apply to work for any imperial provincial government. The ministries have
their own training programs provided by HRD including HRD's HRD program. However,
individuals may also decide to stay with emergency services in the Health Apprentiship
program, or With the secuirty forces. The Intelligence service is reserved for Security forces officers
of atleast completed the Imperial Military Acadamy, and thus are a previous member of
the imperial gaurd. Rank then starts over in the intelligence branch but advancement is
'vacancy' based by appointment, with the individual most qualified filling the role rather
then, generalized requirement fullfillment based ranks, much like the highest levels of
the security forces.
Feuds
There are extensive interkin group battles for various reasons (think romeo and julliet)
the tombs & death
great tombs exist for whole family groups, rather than cemetaries (think pyramids for
the largest families to smaller groups where lonely people may be burried in a walk in
tomb or cremated, or a regular tombstone marker etc..
At deaths, beautiful works of art are made from various traditions to adorn their tombs
some are carved and painted mastabas on the outside of tombs, or monuments, or
paintings, portaits, while other symbols are sometimes used such as nature, flowers,
planting a tree, etc.. Official Animal= Lion| Official Tree= Olive Tree|
The Dians beleive that they are as person's immortal but have the belief that if the world
turns to terible war they will be forced to descended into the grim underworld from
which there was no release due to nuclear winter and dangers of war.
While they beleive that doing right things will lead them to a Happy Field of Food,
based on nature and totally provided for. Goodness will eventually prevail, and the world will achieve eternal peace
free markets and freedom of choice because all of us have the natural right to choose
what's best for ourselves and for our families. We need less government
Sports
Music: There is a huge backing for intelligent music, both AI created and what might be
termed trance, energy and vocal extremism. Performance music especially vocal
dancing is very popular which is a mix of break dancing and acid jazzy performance
with drums and vocal effects all done adlib. There is also a thrash scene with mange
pits being very popular especially among the combat sport lovers (mostly younger
officers) Satanic Death Metal had a popularity surge recently but has since died off
somewhat to death core and electroaccoustic gabber.
Politics: Shaimeng easily has the majority support of the population young and old, but
he is getting on in years now, and with the revolution fading in mind, there is a power
vacume looming? Who will take over the nearly anarchaic without the shaimeng
personality cult state? Ultimately it will be one from among the Senate, but who? Many
think it may be his adopted Son, who just recently became a senator (and a very young
one at that still in his 50's) While others feel there may be a succeession of short
reigned Emperors from among the great houses, the current Ceasar's all seem to old
(also in their 70's) Although Shaimeng could hold on plausibly till he is 115, since he is
in good health, there is uncertainty if he will continue to delegate till that age. The Grey
Sector is nearly a quarter as strong as the government economy the government having
around 2.5 trillion in tax revenue while the grey sector has over 500 billion. It leaves to
wonder where exactly this revenue is being spent, it can only be assumed it is trade
from otherwise restricted entries, this is a major concern for the state as it means
untaxed goods transfers, which at times can require court intervention. All in all the
state is fairly domicile internally. The recent annexations of nearby land and
compulsary health orders are rising as a concern for the populaiton since shaimeng in
the past virtually did not give any orders on areas outside the Imperial House boundries
and even then as open directives rather than service inclusions. Still the annexations
were open but the other states accepted annexation, while the health orders are part of
the prescribed health services program, which isn't compulsary, even though over 90%
of the population subscribe to it.
arts
Graffiti graces every city's street Resources.
political parties
the head nearly unlimited authority over his children thus the begining of an hierarchy,
everyone has some leader, or is a head of a kin group. All Imperial CItizens follow the
Imperium, they technically all bow to their Ceasar and to the Emperor, but in most ways
all 'Impeial (Barons) have a large amount of personal control of their territories. for protecting property and business contracts, limiting interest on loans, setting wages
for workers.
even heroes must die but are immortalized for all time, for the knowledge of future
heroes.
education
Writting System
alphabet consists of a number of 'levels' of writting there is both a symbol based iconographic meaning, as well as a 'reduced form
Numeric Representation
System of Numbers.All sorts of number systems exist of various differnet bases.
Astronomy/astrology
Priests study the skies, recording the movement of heavenly
bodies. They make star charts and calenders as well as make predictions of meterology and agriculture almanacs.movement of stars, planets, and other heavenly bodies directly affect the lives of human beings.
Literature
There is a large variety of writting done by Dians, poetry is held quite high
in esteem, and there are a swatch of famous writters, in a variety of languages. Since a large chunk of time is spent learning language, most Dians are quite literate.
Science
Foreign Politics
Most Foreign Exchanges in ICCD are in the protected zone, which is a area patroled by the Imperial Gaurd and higher ranking officers, away from main urban areas and hot zones. It is protected in the way that anyone in the area without permission is eligible to be killed without warning if they are not properly tagged with a beacon (a peice of cloth or jewlery worn on the person at all times). Usually this applies to 'sight contact' but in emergency situations visual confirmation and call sign can be waved.
Current Embassies ~ one in an unnamed east pacific state Roman Republic The Cities of Peace
Current Alliances Intarnational Leauge of Socialist States Defending Democracy
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