Érmica-Ignacia
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| + | The majority of the Colony's population belongs to the native Ignacian tribe. The Ignations are a Basque-speaking Catholic people that migrated to Ehrmika in the late 18th century. They are primarily pastoral in occupation, but a good many have migrated tot he colonial cities to take jobs in industry and trade. | ||
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| + | 46% of the population is Geldican Coscivian or Kutsa by ethnicity. The Colony's charter subsidised the migration of persons of Geldican ethnicity to the colony. The main Geldican groups are the Íerlem, Vuascem, Geliciem, Trischem, Cymrem, and Armacem, but there are also substantial communities of Kaltem, Cembriem, and Herchtem, mostly immigrants from Enscirya or Great Kirav. The Kutsa, an indegenous Kishynskan tribe that practises Geldican Apostolicism, also live in the colony, mostly in the northern countyships or in Loyola. | ||
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| + | 2% of the population are Galicians or Northern Portugese, who have lived in Ignacia for centuries. | ||
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| + | 64% of the population was born in Ignacia, 18% in another Kiravian colony, 12% in Great Kirav, 5% in another Coscivian-speaking country, and 1% elsewhere or at sea. 72% have Ignacian identity papers, 18% Ensciryan, 6% Great Kiravian, and 4% Federal, other KE, foreign, or none. | ||
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| + | 76% of Ignacians live in rural areas, one of the highest proportions in the Federacy. Most Vascones and Iberians and a large minority of Coscivians live on farms or in rural towns. | ||
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Current revision as of 23:58, 3 June 2011
| Colony of Érmica-Ignacia Axerca Érmica-Ignacial Braśin an Ignéseal | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Demographics
The majority of the Colony's population belongs to the native Ignacian tribe. The Ignations are a Basque-speaking Catholic people that migrated to Ehrmika in the late 18th century. They are primarily pastoral in occupation, but a good many have migrated tot he colonial cities to take jobs in industry and trade.
46% of the population is Geldican Coscivian or Kutsa by ethnicity. The Colony's charter subsidised the migration of persons of Geldican ethnicity to the colony. The main Geldican groups are the Íerlem, Vuascem, Geliciem, Trischem, Cymrem, and Armacem, but there are also substantial communities of Kaltem, Cembriem, and Herchtem, mostly immigrants from Enscirya or Great Kirav. The Kutsa, an indegenous Kishynskan tribe that practises Geldican Apostolicism, also live in the colony, mostly in the northern countyships or in Loyola.
2% of the population are Galicians or Northern Portugese, who have lived in Ignacia for centuries.
64% of the population was born in Ignacia, 18% in another Kiravian colony, 12% in Great Kirav, 5% in another Coscivian-speaking country, and 1% elsewhere or at sea. 72% have Ignacian identity papers, 18% Ensciryan, 6% Great Kiravian, and 4% Federal, other KE, foreign, or none.
76% of Ignacians live in rural areas, one of the highest proportions in the Federacy. Most Vascones and Iberians and a large minority of Coscivians live on farms or in rural towns.
Religion
The Colony's population is, for all practical purposes, enitrely Christian. The native Ignacians are strongly Roman Catholic, practising the Latin Rite. The Coscivian colonists are primarily Geldican Apostolic, but with a considerable Catholic minority consisting of Coscivian and Marcevangelista Catholics.
The native Ignacian congregations in the colony are an autonomous diocese of the Church of Rome in Kiravia, which uses Latin Rite liturgy. The other Catholic congregations are organised under the Diocese of Loyola (Marcevangelista Catholic) and the Diocese of Compostela (Coscivian Catholic)
Christianity is an important part of the culture and everyday life of the Colony. Ecclesiastical Latin and Old Irish, the liturgical language of the Apostolic Communion, are official languages, and Christmas, Easter, Holy Days of Obligation, and the feast days of St. Ignatius of Loyola and St. Patrick, as determined by both the Gregorian and Julian calendars, are civil holidays. 96% of the population attends Mass regularly, and most go to confession. Lenten fasting is widely observed. Christian churches also play a vital rôle in education, as 58% of pupils are educated in parochial or other religiously-affiliated schools.
Relations between Catholics and Apostolica are generally convivial, and adherents of both faiths worship in the jointly-managed Cathedral of St. Ignatius of Loyola in Loyola.
About 1.6% of the population follows a religion other than Christianity, this minority being almost entirely Rurican or Iduanist Coscivian Theists of Kaltem ethnicity.
