NationStates Jolt Archive

"...caught speaking or writing the language of the oppressors to be corrected and warned by the appropriate body, be it Officer of the Inca's Army or Curaca of the offender's Ayllu.

"An offence committed under-warning may, in the army, induce reduction of rank and ration, and, in civil life, the recovery by the Ayllu of a portion of the allotment given to the offender's family. Degrees of reduction and recovery are to be the responsibility of the offender's commanding Officer or local Curaca.

"Here after, a further offence, either spoken or written, regardless of the form of prior offences, is to result in the removal of the guilty party's tongue and/or writing-hand as appropriate to the nature of offences."

Next came updates on the Mita Obligation, the Empire's tax system in a round-about way, and cornerstone of the economy. 73% of an ordinary citizen's working time was now required by the state, leaving him a healthy 27% in which to provide for his family's sustenance. Minor revisions to field allotment laws reflected the on-going recovery of land since the Inca Restoration, and the duties of conscription and preparedness were reinforced. Reverence of the Christian God of the oppressors, or any sort of non-imperial observance or custom, became subject to the same sort of penalties as use of the Spanish tongue, and decrees continued to come forth.

"...he who be caught attempting to so compromise the Empire's secrets shall face death in the ascribed manner. One guilty of divulging the secrets of the Quipu, or of the attempt, or of conspiracy in the matter, shall be stripped of his or her citizenship and all identifiers of the culture that he or she has betrayed, and shall then be staked, inverted, to wall or cliff face and maintained there until dead. Families of those found guilty of this inconscionable heresy shall at the least be subject to the withdrawal of the benefits of imperial citizenship and, advisably, the offender's corrupt seed shall be purged from the earth in being driven from a suitable clifftop."

The proclamations continued in this manner for some while, Temple Priests and Quipucamayoc (accountants or a complicated sort) reading from Quipu ropes as crowds of citizens downed tools to hear tell of Quechua's final triumph over Spanish, amongst other healthy measures intended to restore imperial glory to the Children of the Sun.

OOC:
Just wondering.

Are you Past Tech, Modern Tech, Post Modern Tech, Future Tech or Fantasy Tech?

*Short answer: No!

Proper answer: Well, we're the Inca Empire, of course (Tahuantinsuyu being one variation of the native name for the empire of four quarters), with a different history. We survived Pizarro (long story) but suffered a gradual decline none the less. As a result, Quechua culture remained stronger, and the native population larger, and so Spanish colonial authorities were even more harsh in keeping the natives marginalised. The culture survived to a large degree in the mountains and jungle fringes of Chile, Peru, Bolivia et cetera, and a recent mass revolt drove-out the European-origin leaderships and elites. Something of a genocide has ensued, but the Inca's people are almost all from marginalised peasant communities, so the Empire -with its racist anti-Spanish policies- has none of the skills necessary to run a modern state, and has fallen back on its traditional craft skills.

Basically, we're bronze-age in the modern world, and though of course we took over much military equipment from Peru, Chile, Ecuador, Bolivia, Paraguay, Argentina, and Colombia (all of which are either wholly or partly under the Inca's control), we have no trained jet pilots, sailors, helicopter mechanics, and what not. The military is a bit reminiscent of Russia in the past: each unit has one man with a rifle, the rest have clubs, bows, et cetera, and if the rifleman goes down, someone else picks up his weapon!*

Legislation attacks Church, demolitions cause unrest

The San Buenaventura Church in what used to be Paraguay will be, say authorities, the first to go. Scores of workers are descending from the distant mountains to the west, intent on removing an icon of oppression, deception, and cultural genocide.

Pachacutec Inca declared that, "our people -Children of the Sun, Children of Inti, and not of Christ, listeners to the wisdom of the Willaq Uma and not of the vile Pope, shall take their explosives to one last use, a symbolic emancipation in more ways than one!" By this the emperor meant to reference the mining explosives with which so many of his people laboured for the, "colonial regimes" of Bolivia, Peru, and so on while denied an equal part in society and economy.

In the former Paraguay, eastern extent of the great empire, San Buenaventura is an important target for Pachacutec. The Franciscan church is more than two centuries old, and the famous woodwork is to the design of Portuguese master Juan de Souza Cavadas. But paint for the Church was provided by local Indians whose descendants are now subjects of the Incan Empire, and many of them oppose the demolition plan.

But General Chalcuchima, Apu (governor) of the Antisuyu region (the Jungle Quarter), is presently massing troops on the still-building Incan road through Paraguay, and, by his reputation, can not be thought likely to give dissenters a second chance to disperse and allow demolition work to be carried-out.

Pachacutec promises that all traces of the invading cultures will be purged from Tahuantinsuyu before his rule is over.

OOC: Is this thread open to IC responses?

*Of course!*

*Bump!*