Editing Capellan Confederation (section)

== Society ==
On paper the Capellan Confederation is egalitarian and socialist. In practice it falls far short of both. Most glaringly there is a hereditary nobility which holds the political power within the centralized apparatus of the Capellan State as well as the various corporations. Beyond that, the Citizens of the Capellan Confederation do benefit from a fairly comprehensive welfare state and enjoy peaceful and comfortable lives with a comparatively high standard of living and social mobility by IS standards. The issue is that Citizenship in the Capellan Confederation is not something your born into and if you don't earn it (either by not doing well in school or being newly conquered, also you can lose it as a punishment), you're a Servitor. No, not that sort of [[Servitor]] (thank god) but part of an oppressed underclass who does the crap work for bare basic wages as the serfs of the nobility. The only consolation is that it is possible (if difficult) for servitors to earn citizenship and their kids have the same education and opportunities to earn citizenship as everyone else in the confederation. Sun-Tzu Liao added some basic provisions for servitors improving their situation, though it's still a pretty bum lot.

For awhile state propaganda was able to stem the tide of the many, many, many failures of the [[Succession Wars]], but eventually pride amongst the citizens of the Confederation began to wane and the ruling classes attempted to keep everybody in line with tighter controls on media, food, and employment, which were all almost universally reversed under Sun-Tzu Liao, in what became his great social work known as the ''Xin Sheng'', or New Rebirth. With it, more freedoms were given to the individual and more pride of their Han Chinese heritage was instilled into the populace. This served to stem the tide of unrest, but it also led to non-Asian citizens catching shit for not being Glorious Han.