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The Ecclesiastical Authority of Axiom

The Ecclesiastical Authority of Axiom
The Ecclesiarchy Ecclesiastical Axiom
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Capital Planet: Capital City	Axiom (alternately Nu’u, Orepit) Providence
Language(s):	Encoded Audio Language Solarian Common
Species:	IPC (Narrow Majority) Human (Narrow Minority)
Religion:	The Trinary Perfection
Demonym:	Axiomites
Government Head of State	Elective Absolute Monarchy Ecclesiarch ARM-1DRIL
Established:	2464

The Ecclesiastical Authority of Axiom is the administrative name for the temporal holdings of the Trinary Perfection on the planet they call Axiom. Comprising the equatorial deserts of Axiom, the Ecclesiarchy is the political arm of the most powerful and most orthodox arm of the faith; these are the Prototypicalists, heirs to the authority Gregol Corkfell held in life by the partisanship of the Ecclesiarch ARM-1DRIL. The Ecclesiarch reigns over the entirety of their interstellar religion and its temporal territories from St. Patricia's Basilica in the authority's capital and sole city of Providence. This is a society committed doggedly to an austere, pious monasticism; the ideal Axiomite, in the view of its administrators, is utterly committed to a pure lifestyle, to the tenets of the state religion, and to the collective good.

This fledgling state's economy, politics, and culture are eccentric or unusual in innumerable ways. Axiomites are famously averse to the possession and trade of money, owed to the extremely non-commercialised character of the Axiomite economy; more than that, they are often ill at ease with the concept of possession itself. Charity is a common vocation, as many Axiomites compete to prove their piety to eachother - every act of compassion, whether it was earnestly made or not, is critically valuable in a society where reputation, rather than currency, is the primary resource. The population is wildly diverse despite its relative religious homogeneity, being composed virtually exclusively of recent refugees from across space, including Konyangers, Cetians, and Xanans.

Salamasian immigrants and visitors have become increasingly common in recent years, resulting in a leap of mutual cultural integration. It is not at all difficult to find a Salamasian in Providence, and it is similarly easy to find a Trinarist preacher or indigenous convert in Ti'nema. Axiomites and Salamasians are unlikely ever to see perfectly eye-to-eye given their difference in worldviews and lifestyles, but each group maintains an essential, endemic respect for the other.

While irreligious Axiomites are legally permitted residence, one quickly finds that they must at least express an ostensible interest in church affiliation to fully participate in society, or else be gated from the vast number of civil and community activities that necessitate church membership. Despite this difficulty, there is a growing secular population on the planet which professes interest in the state religion without ever earnestly converting. Secular Axiomites play at all times a dizzyingly performative game of social mummery and conformity, aligning to the silhouette of how a faithful citizen should act without ever fully acceding; those which refuse to play this game tend to take residence in the Marches, the web of small rural settlements emanating from Providence into the desert.

Government

Law and Order

General Directory of our City Providence

Defender of the Faith

The current Defender of the Faith is Bishop-Militant Emmanuel.

Stained glass mural of Bishop-Militant Emmanuel.

The current Keeper of the Faith is Donora.

The current minister of the Exchequer is Cybel.

The current minister of the Grand Dicastery is DALØS.

The Providence Gazette

City of Providence

Providence serves as the capital of the Ecclesiarchy of Axiom. Founded in 2419, the humble encampment once known as Edena Landing has grown into a fully fledged city worthy of being the Trinary’s seat in the galaxy. In the center of it stands the Cathedral of the Positronic, a grandiose structure based on the defunct administration center that once housed colonial leadership in the early 2300s.

Mistnight

Providence skyline during dusk before Mistnight, a local holiday.

The Marches

History

Bishops and their Diocese

Life in The Marches

Notable Parishes

The Power of the Monasteries

See also: Monastic and Militant Orders

Immense powers to themselves, the various monastic orders of the Trinary Perfection are collectively an immense influence on Axiom's economy, politics, and society. It is estimated that one in every forty persons in Ecclesiastical territory belongs to some manner of religious order; these are responsible for most of the fledgling nation's healthcare, a good deal of its economy in the fields both of artisanal goods and heavy manufacturing, and hold immense sway over the social mood of the flock. It would not be politic for even the Ecclesiarch to challenge the monastic establishment.

Monastic Sodality of Our Lady Corkfell

Sisters of the Monastic Sodality of Our Lady Corkfell in the monastery.