Kalaidian Empire/Void

The **Kalaidian Empire**, also known as the **Empire of Kalaidis**, **Kalaidinas Aautokrata** and/or **Aautokrata dis Kalaidis**, is an imperialistic absolute monarchy and the continuation of the empire of Empress Borealis Norsoutha.

## History

[DATA INCOMPLETE; AWAITING INVESTIGATORY RESULTS]

## Organization and society

### Government and administration

The Kalaidian Empire was administered and based on the Hellenistic (especially Greco-Roman and Macedonian) and Pormasyneidic political systems, centered upon the Kalaidian monarchy; to many it follows feudal principles, incorporating elements of the Novayan, Zhang Chinese and Byzantine bureaucracies. The emperor or empress is the reigning monarch, assisted by a council of military leaders, religious priests, bureaucrats and philosophers.

Despite this, the Kalaidians had established within their political systems a democracy which is a hybrid of anticipatory, deliberative, consensus, direct, cellular, inclusive and participatory democracies. Almost every city had a democratic government administered around this hybrid of a democracy.

Because it had incorporated the bureaucratic system the Kalaidian government (and in turn empress) appoint governor-generals to administer the core worlds, and captain-generals were appointed to guard the frontiers. Despite this, the captains and governors came from all walks of life and the feudal system is still in place in some parts of the empire. The feudal system is present not just in the core territories but also the fringe territories and frontiers. In the case of the frontiers, this is due to the fact military commanders were appointed to help develop worlds, star systems and sectors.

### Economy

The Kalaidians had a professional bureaucracy, which had for itself established an economic administration to regulate all forms of production and trade. The most notable, however, is the low taxes or lack thereof among the populace due to the unpopularity of such. Despite this, taxes existed as part of a policy against corporations and monopolies. Devious corporate entities were taxed heavily due to how manipulative they were, to the point that attempts at establishing monopolies were utterly squashed by Kalaidians who report to their local governments. Honest corporate entities, on the other hand, were being observed closely by embedded officials for anything that goes against the regulations the governors, captains, satraps and monarchs had set up as ordered by the emperor/empress.

### Society

The elite of the empire were the nobles, led by the emperor/empress and the aristocrats. The bulk of the people were Kalaidians, who were not divided unlike the Latin Empire (according to the Byzantine system in income classes based on land ownership) due to the fact the Kalaidian government sees to it that no one would be poor and that it had a far more inclusive welfare, education and healthcare system. This welfare system had also included animals, which were treated humanely; as a result, the slaughtering of farm animals for food had grown less and less to be replaced by vat-grown farm meat.

### Religion

There existed a number of religions, but most notable is Pormasyneidism, which means "The Formation of Consciousness". Centered around worship of the main goddesses Amaterasu, Sagittarius, Persephone and Isthar as well as the additional goddesses Baldr, Chang'e, Quetzalcoatl and Surasthana/Prometheus, it had several religions which were either traditional, statist or syncretic. Almost all of the Pormasyneidic religions have or don't have theocratic institutions; the Pormasyneidic Temple, Imperial Cult, Holy Temple of Indus, Indolatreian Temple, Shrine-Temple of Amaterasu, Babylonian Temple and Temple of Surasthana were led by Empress Borealis herself, who reportedly descended from those goddesses.

### Military

The Imperial Kalaidian Armed Forces is the standing armed forces of the Kalaidian Empire. Having only 10% of the Kalaidian peoples serving, 3% were in active duty service and 7% were in reserve duty service. It consisted of the Imperial Army and Imperial Navy.

The Imperial Kalaidian Navy performs daily combat patrols for pirates and marauders as well as border patrols, but it is home to the experienced naval units and a number of warships that had been converted to combat-capable transport ships. The Imperial Kalaidian Army the planetary warfare branch of the Imperial Military, and it is home to the experienced/battle-hardened Imperial Legions. Capable of combined arms warfare, the Kalaidian Army is small yet highly flexible due to the Imperial Legions being led by highly-skilled, -trained and competent commanders who were selected only for their merits, competence and transparency.

The Imperial Kalaidian Armed Forces also serves as both the uniform armed services and public law enforcement. It also was known for its involvement in governmental affairs, though this is due to the fact the Kalaidian Empire itself is a militaristic feudal monarchy with a semi-decentralized bureaucracy. Moreover, military officers were selected to be in charge of captaincies guarding the frontiers and had a number of vassal states; those at the top were appointed by the empress or elected by peers as captain-generals, and those below as captain-colonels, captain-majors, captain-lieutenants and captains, but they were only appointed/elected for their leadership skills, martial abilities and merits.