Taiju Village Organization

## Internal Organization and Politics

Taiju Village is organized as a Chiefdom, with a representative council acting as village chief guides and ambassadors. The village chief rule over four villages (Taiju Village, Village One, Village Two and Village Three), a city (Village Five) and two floating islands (the Universal Ship and Village Four, formely known as The Sun Castle).

### Hidden Rules of Taiju Village

It is a set of precautions that Hiraku's wives teach all immigrants to live in peace in the village.

1. **No playing on the farm**: Wasting crops is blasphemy.
2. **Be clean and use the bathroom**: Don't forget to wash your hands after using it.
3. **Never be hostile to the village chief**: Always show respect. Don't mind if he acts like a baby or if he is being strict. If he bothers you, just ignore him and avoid him. But hostile action against him is unforgivable.

## Economy

The village is known and valued for its crops, such as fruits, vegetables, cereals and spices, all of very high quality and delicious flavor. Over time they begin to mass-produce products such as oil and alcohol made from their crops, carriages with suspensions provided by Howling Village, and seasonings such as soy sauce and miso. The alcohol in particular is reputed to be the "best alcohol in the kingdom" and can be quite expensive outside the village. They are also producers of unique items such as salt from the forest of death, cloth made with demon spider thread, and honey from agnostic bees, difficult to collect and traded at a high price. The village is self-sufficient and all the surplus production is sold to its trading partners like the Goroun Corporation.

Since dragons have no concept of money, they deliver various items to the village as thanks for the food sent. These are high-value items that include rare materials, legendary items, and large amounts of gold, further increasing the wealth of the village.

### Reward Medals

The official currency of Taiju Village. Feeling burdened by the role of distributing village property to villagers, Hiraku devised this system to ease this problem, it was introduced in the Winter of the 7th year.

Villagers are free to trade them with each other, and using them to bet on games like mahjong is tacitly allowed, but lending and borrowing is prohibited. Even if it is lost, there is no compensation, and obtaining or counterfeiting by illegal means is strictly prohibited, and offenders will be expelled from the village.

* Each villager in the Main Village receives 3 medals and the representatives of each race receive 10 medals each.
* Inferno wolves and Demon Spiders receive 30 for each group.
* The children of the village receive 3 medals each, but only those who do work in the village.
* For the satellite villages, in the first place 30 medals were given to each village and from the 10th year onwards 1 medal was given to each villager.
* Hiraku, the village head, is left with 100 medals to distribute among the villagers throughout the year. It is awarded to those who contribute to the village, those who achieved excellent results in events such as village festivals, and those who participated in dungeon explorations. Also, in special cases, people outside the town can be given.

### Demon Kingdom Currency

In addition to the reward medals, they use the Demon Kingdom's coins to make transactions outside of the village. This caused problems since, as the village is self-sustaining, all the kingdom's coins were being sent to the village as payment for the goods they regularly buy but none were going back to the kingdom, creating a situation "similar to a noble hoarding money." This made Michael suggest to build facilities that they can spend the village's money, which led to the construction of the Big Roof Shashaato.

## Representatives Council

It is the council of the village, they meet regularly to plan everything in detail. A big meeting with all the representatives convenes at the beginning of the spring, after Zabuton awakens. They analyze the problems that occurred during the winter to take action on them, they also discuss the activities for the year, and the details of the orders for the trade partners of the village are discussed. Finally, the distribution of reward medals is reviewed.

### Race Representatives

* Hiraku Machio: Representative of Taiju Village. - Village Chief.
* Zabuton: Representative of the Demon Spiders.
* Kuro: Representative of the Inferno Wolves.
* Rurushi Ru: Representative of the Vampires.
* Tia: Representative of the Angels.
* Ria: Representative of the High Elves.
* Ann: Representative of the Oni.
* Fraurem Chrome: Representative of the Demons. - Village governor and liaison between Taiju Village and the Demon Kingdom
* Lastismun: Representative of the Dragons.
* Sena: Representative of the Beastkin.
* Yaa: Representative of the Mountain Elves.
* Donovan: Representative of the Elder Dwarves.
* Daga: Representative of the Lizardman. - Village Chief personal guard.
* Youko: Representative of Village Five. - Acting Village Chief
* Jack: Representative of Village One's Humans.
* Igu: Representative of Village One's Nyunyu-daphnes.
* Manha: Representative of Village One's Harpies.
* Gordan: Representative of Village Two's Minotaurs.
* Gruwald: Representative of Village Three's Centaurs.
* Kuzuden: Representative of Village Four's Devils and Dream Demons - Lord of the Sun Castle.
* Bell Foguma: Representative of the Mercuries. Kuzuen's assistant.

### Caretakers

* Ramurias: Beastkin's caretaker.
* Mamu: Nyunyu-Daphne's caretaker.
* Naff: Minotaur's caretaker.
* Rashashi: Centaur's caretaker.

Note: Caretakers can participate and give their opinions, but they can't raise or refuse topics.

### The Tea Party

Is an informal meeting. The main purpose is to gather and share information, and summarize relevant events and topics. The contents are diverse, it can range from politics to matchmaking, but it is basically a pre-confirmation where they consolidate everything into one. They have to do this so when the Village Chief asks anything, they can answer immediately. The participants are: Ru, Flora, Ann, Sena, Fraurem, Hakuren, Lastismun, Gran Maria, Kuudel, Corone and Youko.

### Others

They do not participate in the council but are key people for the functioning of the village.

#### Taiju Village

* Flora: Main researcher.
* Hakuren: Taiju Village's teacher.
* Civil Ofiicer Girls: Paperwork and trade.
* Arako: Taiju Dungeon Master.
* Quentan: Translator for the ghost knights at the hot spring area.

* Junea: North Dungeon master.
* Sunea: North Dungeon warrior chief.

* Tou Foguma: Captain of the Universal Ship.
* Futa Foguma: Manager of the teleportation gate to Village Five.
* Yoru Foguma: Manager of the teleportation gate to the hot spring area.

#### Shashaato

* Goroun Corporation: Official suppliers.
* Marcos and Paula: "Marla's" managers.

#### Village Five

* Yuuri: Village Five Governor.
* Youko: Acting Village Chief.

* Nana Foguma: Information gathering.
* Loch Foguma: Domestic affairs.
* Hih Foguma: Military affairs.
* Celestine Lodjineh: Religious affairs.

* Paruanem and Getegulterateseponesto: Consultants. Former Heavenly Kings.
* Village Five Council: Representatives of the different migrant groups. There are 50 members.

* Pirika: Security Chief.
* Kinesta: Coach of Village Five’s Iron Bull Army. Assistant manager of "Kuro&Yuki".
* Niz: Messenger of the Snake God. Assistant manager of "Niz’s Alcomeat".

## References

1. ↑ [Web Novel Chapter 170]
2. ↑ [Manga Chapter 24 - 1/4 of the fields are used as a grape vineyard; Other crops include corn, rice and barley for alcohol and aburana for oil]
3. ↑ [Manga chapter 46]
4. ↑ [Manga chapter 53]
5. ↑ [Manga chapter 54]
6. ↑ [Manga chapter 210 - The first meeting is held with the representatives of the satellite villages]
7. ↑ [Manga chapters 210 and 211]
8. ↑ [Manga chapter 19 - Hiraku asks Ria to decide on a Representative for the High Elves]
9. ↑ [Web Novel chapter 203 - Kuzuden gets appointed as Lord]