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There are no castes, there is no empire

If there is a metropolis, there must be dominions. If there is a Horde, there must be satellites. If there is an imperial center, there must be provinces of the empire. Why do need this list of administrative status?

The fact is that traditional worlds do not live outside the hierarchy. If there is the main territory, the center of the empire, where the most privileged people, citizens, live, then there are people of low status. The provincials themselves are uncultured. (And this is not a simple stereotype). And if we were talking about the tail of glory that inevitably grows when two traditional people come together, in this case, when two representatives of the traditional elite (the Zerots) meet, then they greet each other as an equal. If ordinary people go to meet the feudal lord, they are obliged to bow and greet him in accordance with their status.

Previously, people were ready to fight. In peacetime, and this is a quieter period, longer in time, people of low status were required to work. So in ancient India, there were castes. The Indian example of a tradition is perhaps the most rigid version of the division of people by status. So rigid that transitions from one caste to another were not allowed. That is, the Indians use such an ancient root of their fame that it is so thick and deep, and the root must go deep, it closes their view of additional options. No talent and no merit!

Suck it up and work!

If you were born in a slave caste, then you are a slave and your children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren will be slaves. This is what heaven has decreed for the existing life. And who is born where, in what family, it depends on how a person spent his life. If he did not resist his slave status and did all the work conscientiously, only in this case in the next life, the new birth, he will be lucky and will be born in a Brahmin family. If he did not recognize that he was a Sudra, was lazy, and resisted fate, it means that he did not fulfill the task assigned to him, he will be born again in the family of a Sudra. Everything is decided by the sky.

Among the Zerefs, civil laws are generally difficult to take root.

They can issue many codes, constitutions, codes of laws, but they still do not work. Wherever people meet, they don’t pay attention to these laws. Professional lawyers try to make a very important face at the same time. They point a finger at the law book. They quote some paragraphs, sub-paragraphs, but this is done formally, it is done to correspond to their profession. An adult who goes to an important meeting or for a solemn meeting must wear a strict suit. This costume shows other people’s formal respect. If a person comes in untidy, in pajamas or a sports suit, what will they think of him? That’s how lawyers can’t sit and be silent when clients come to them.

But both the lawyer and the clients know that traditional people do not live by formal laws. Who wrote these laws? Some tailless monkey! What do you mean, tailless? But in a figurative sense. The authors of the law may be yesterday’s proletarians. Maybe not. But they were learning to have a new status. But in the traditional world, they will first ask, who is your father? And then they’ll see how smart and professional you are. In the beginning, you must be respectful. Sometimes old people use it.

All traditional people still respect old age. And if they respect particularly old age, let’s say this old man, give him a place in public transport, then they will look at any other root. In the traditional world, it is not this particular old age that is respected, but the former glory and merits. And if there is respect for the past, then all the time there is a search for the root. This is the root of every informal law.

Traditional people will not look for a professional, a connoisseur of the criminal code. They will look for the big official first. It will be very good for them if a relative or friend holds a high state post. Therefore, among the Zerefs, relatives are always respected, but they do not necessarily respect professional lawyers unless of course, they are also relatives. If they are related, they will help with problems. It is also an informal connection with the root, with related blood.

But if we return again to the Ancient World, where everyone was concerned about their glorious ancestors, then we will ask, why do the nobles need such difficulties?

They could create a family-like ordinary people and produce their offspring. That’s the problem. Offspring of what status? After all, without feats, there is no domination. And there is no domination without merit. So that the children of the Nobels do not experience problems in this world, all traditional people want to increase the tail of family fame. And then everyone will hang around their children, their descendants. Their descendants will walk with an invisible tail. And everyone will know that this family, this family, has a deep root.