Emperor's Birthday

The Emperor's birthday is celebrated twice once on the actual anniversary of The Emperor King‏'s‎ birthday and once on the anniversary of Emperor King Gargh-Reck who instigated the celebrations on the 26th Dastween and was considered to be great leader of Carthorka. After his Son took over from him he continued the tradition of celebrating this festival, but after a few generations of continuing this tradition an Emperor King decided that this celebration should be on his actual birthday and decreed that a new celebration would begin.As public opinion of the Emperor King dropped during one leaders rein and he made it illegal to not participate in the celebrations during these holidays and no ruler since then has revoked this law. It is rather hard to enforce this law since it only states that you must partake in some part of the celebrations so you have to be quite actively not involved to get in trouble.
Both days are celebrated in very much the same way, all businesses close down, all utilities stop and slaves are allowed to join in the party. Many slave owners give extra rations or even a copper or two to those they own, the Emperor gives out monetary gifts to orphanages, military personnel and to the people of the slums. People are then expected to find ways to celebrate and enjoy the day in ways that others can join in with, from food on the streets, music and song or just drinking and celebrations, but the main attraction is a parade through the streets where the Emperor King will travel through his city. In settlements outside of Doefet a visage of the Emperor King is paraded through the streets instead.