Sequencer state

The **sequencer state** is an aspect of a polity where the state primarily serves and aims to accumulate genetic knowledge. An iatromantic priestly-medicinal elite sequences subjects and uses prohairetic genetic treatments to modify them, further determining gene functions and creating new useful sequences from observation. The accumulation of such knowledge by iatromantes may then be used for the utilitarian proliferation and imposition of efficacious modifications. Beyond the direct stilistic grasp of sequences by the iatromantes, the sequencer state also invested great quantities of resources into pes maintenance and the acquisition of physiotropics needed to sustain this scientific apparatus.

Sequencer states involved close regulation of subjects' everyday lives, as they underwent all sorts of mutating treatment. State capacity was often developed to enable further coercion into these experiments, while experimental setups were turned into more concrete social divisions known as bhujas. In some examples, the intervention of the oikomantis into germline engineering created a strikingly direct and sometimes reviled presence of the state inside the family. Even with this, an individual sequencer state was still very specialized in what knowledge it was able to accrete, further limited by ethnic genetic variations. As a result, trade in biotechnological insights between sequencer states was crucial to gaining sufficient knowledge for utilitarian applications. The close and consistent oversight required also restricted the area and population that a sequencer state concerned; most were small but densely populated, developing into acquiring an urban character. More powerful examples could expand the range of subjects into hinterlands whether by force or in exchange for access to commerce and technology.

Resistance to priestly rule could take many forms. In extreme examples the iatromantes could be overthrown and their knowledge appropriated with wisdom reaping. The practice of stasism provided an ascetic-religious means for individuals to divorce themselves from sequencing society.

Sequencer states often existed within larger road states defined by concern with sustaining the commercial links that they and livelihoods in general were reliant on.

## Concept

Sequencer state elites typically justify their rule in one of two ways: they are attempting to slowly guide the population toward certain higher ideals; or the situation of their society requires that the population be remade in order to better conform to their environment. In either case, they tend to create similar results in which society is divided into an exalted and undesirable class or classes. As these ends are achieved, however, the demand on the state to maintain and expand the pool of gene changes, making the rate of change rapidly decrease. In traditional prohairetic medicine, prohairesis was often used on a case-by-case basis, most commonly for disease treatments or to alleviate endemic nutrient deficiency. The transition to a long-term, population-wide scope of practice required a more institutional, ritualized approach to prohairesis which necessarily limited deployment of new changes or adherence to the long-term objectives of the ruling class.

To compensate for their limited research capabilities and high maintenance demands, networks of similarly inclined polities formed called road states. In some cases, highly specialized altered human populations would lose their ability to produce certain commodities, which created a commercial link between sequencers as well.

## History

Sequencer-type polities often emerged in the immediate aftermath of sedentary agriculture or, as some authors have proposed, iatromantes were an avenue through which agriculture became viable in low energy climates. Although many example of early urbanization had sequencer characteristics, it was by no means universal. Scholars generally agree that, in prehistory, prohairesis was practiced primarily by a member of an extended kinship group, sometimes a leading figure such a patriarch or a respected shaman. When cities formed and the social network expanded, a larger number of less related prohairetic experts were needed and this group of specialists became a locus of authority that superseded traditional kinship roles. Examples of this attitude can be seen in the archaeological and written records of sequencer states, almost all of which were preoccupied with managing marital relationships by approving and supervising the related ceremonies instead of parents or clan elders. It was only later in their development that the iatromantic class began to manage other parts of daily life such as resource allocation and organizing production.

Outside of this model of social development, sequencer states could also form spontaneously out of a large kinship groups in which the iatromantes used their unique abilities and charismatic personality to form a high control group.