Editing Taurian Concordat (section)

== Society ==
The Concordat is, humorously, more like their hated foes than they'd ever admit, only with specific and notable differences that the Suns couldn't quite match. The Concordat requires at least four years of government service for their trouble (which doesn't ''always'' involve the military, but often does), but after that you get freedom of speech, expression, religion, whatever you feel like, and the Concordat has always been pretty good at actually keeping that together. They also, naturally bicker and argue over every little thing, to the point that arguing could be considered the Taurian sport of choice. Of course, the reason that the Concordat is able to keep a bunch of thick-headed jackasses like their own citizenry from killing each other over every minor disagreement is one tiny little thing they injected into their society that has ultimately kept them together: hate of House Davion.

The Concordat hates the Federated Suns, and more specifically House Davion, with a fucking passion. Ever since they found that slave camp, they've made it official government policy that House Davion is a bunch of hypocritical monsters who deserve nothing but to be shot into the nearest sun. So omnipresent is the xenophobic hatred of the FedSun that even their fucking video games have House Davion as the villains. This also means that their governmental policies are usually done in direct contrast to the Suns, from political to military, entirely to either piss them off, or to show them they're the superior nation.

And yet, in spite of their "Fuck them Spheroids"-stance, the Concordat is actually well-known outside of that particular niche for being a nation of scholars. They know that knowledge is power, as their personal liberties are only ever going to survive if everybody knows what they're there for and why, and their school systems were so good the [[Capellan Confederation|Capellans]] and even the Suns themselves began modeling their approach. For this reason, most people are exceptionally literate, with a thriving literature market to the point that publishing authors get tax-exempt income from their works, and presumably more if it's anti-Davion.