Editing Lyran Commonwealth (section)

== Society ==
The Lyran Commonwealth fucking loves Germany. House Steiner loves Germany so much they decided that Space Germany needed to be as German as humanly fucking possible; the state language is German, the nobility is set up like Imperial Germany's, the army's entire nomenclature comes from German, and at every available opportunity, the classical German society is attempted to be followed. 

Sounds impossible? It mostly is! As opposed to the platonic ideal of everybody in the Commonwealth being a native German displaced from earth, the reality is that the Commonwealth takes and has taken people from all ethnic backgrounds to be part of their iron fisted grasp. While you'd think they'd be at each other's throats, the Lyran's take a different approach; giving the subtle hint to all that it was the descendants of Germany that managed to lift them up from the chaos of the Star League, and bring them to the prosperity they live in now, as well as a dedicated language that they can use for trade, politics, and for leisure, uniting them all under one banner. As a result, discrimination based on race or background is basically unheard of; freedom of expression is allowed "more or less", and for now only classism reigns as the supreme form of prejudice, and that is quite a potent form of societal control within their borders. 

For you see, the Lyran Commonwealth is the single richest overall state in the entire Inner Sphere, boasting moneyed nobles out the ass and even the average commoner boasts a quality of life far and away better than that of the rest of the Inner Sphere thanks to the generous amounts of money being thrown around. Due to the sort of lassaiz-faire way in which the Steiners dictate on how member worlds govern themselves, many have a deep independent streak to the point that some consider themselves members of their homeworld first, and a Lyran second, which doesn't always end well for everybody, and occasional mini-wars are fought to put their member worlds back into line.

The Commonwealth can be summarized as a totalitarian state with the illusion of freedom to keep commoners in line an iron fist covered in a velvet glove. Dance, drink and dice is their policy for civil society as a well entertained population will not think about revolution.

Also, Lyran women have a tradition for having [[Wat|glam-rocker "Jem"-style makeup for whatever reason]].