Religion and your nation

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[Estainia]

What are the percentages of religion in your nation?
There has never been an official census made on the religious nature of Imperials to the point of specifics however it is believed that the populace is split rather evenly between the native Luciellan Temple, and the Roman Orthodox Church, along with sizable minorities of other religions both native and foreign.

What are some of the dominant religion in your nation?

Luciellanism, the native polytheist faith of the Russo-Asian peoples is considered to be the largest or second largest faith in the Empire, it concentrates around the worship of several (well over a dozen) pinnacle gods and demigods and has had a resounding affect on the development of Imperial culture over the eons.

The Roman Orthodox Christian Church is a foreign religion to the Empire, yet comprises the first or second largest religious grouping in the Empire, based around the worship of the God of Abraham via his messenger Yeshua.

Taenism while not dominate over all is the predominate faith of the Darcsen peoples, and features greatly in their daily lives as well as gaining followers from other ethnic and religious groups occasionally.

Lastly there is Demetrism, the smallest of the Imperial native religions it is practiced almost exclusively by an enigmatic people known only as gypsies. It concentrates around the worship of a goddess called Demetria.

Does religion intervene in your nation's politics?

Oh yes, very heavily, the Empire is a quasi-theocracy with the Emperor being considered a Divine Monarch, he is held to be a Living God.

[Crezilivion]

What are the percentages of religion in your nation?

Sithism - 14%
Christianity - 12%
Buddhism - 9%
Hinduism - 6%
Judaism - 9%
Islam - 10%
Shintoism - 6%
Jainism - 5%
Bahaism - 5%
Pagan - 8%
Spiritual - 12%
N/A - 3%
Other - 1%

What are some of the dominant religion in your nation?

Being a part of The New Galactic Empire has resulted in the largest religion being Sithism.

Does religion intervene in your nation's politics?

Very slightly, practically secular.

[Sakhathan]

What are the percentages of religion in your nation? 0%

What are some of the dominant religion in your nation? None, as religion as a whole is illegal in Sakhathan and it carries life imprisonment in a hard labour camp.

Does religion intervene in your nation's politics? Not at all.

[Greater Mackonia]

What are the percentages of religion in your nation?
1%-Cult of the Incarnate.
0.5%-Islam (denomination not specified)
0.4%-Christianity
0.4%-Omnosist
0.001%-Cyrmalthic Pantheon.

What are some of the dominant religion in your nation?
The Cult of the Incarnate is Mackonia's much diminished, former state religion, it is based around a complex and highly fragmented theology however most sects can be said to agree on these central tenants: That Thalso Long-Stride was divine or semi-divine, that Thalso's spirit has been re-incarnated in successive Mackonian Emperors (and to some, civil leaders as well) and that eventually Thalso will be perfectly re-incarnated in the figure of 'The Incarnate', who will save the Cyrzarii people from great peril and lead them in a glorious conquest of the lesser races. Today the Cult has been abandoned by most Macks, but a few practitioners remain, largely in poorer rural areas.

Mackonian Christianity is largely Baptist spread by TurtleShroomer missionaries, its presence and power is grossly inflated by the media and Christians face significant prejudice in employment and daily life. Islam in Mackonia enjoys slightly better press, Muslim communities exist relatively peacefully in the port cities of the Eastern Coast.

A very small clique of individuals still hold true to the original Cyrmalthic Pantheon, though this is not something one is very loud about.

Does religion intervene in your nation's politics?:
Depends what you mean by "intervene", numerous foreign religious groups and leaders have condemned the treatment of the faithful in Greater Mackonia, their influence have resolutely no impact on the Mackonian government or people. However the native religious leaders know it is better to keep one's head down and carry on. The Cult of the Incarnate is effectively married to Mackonian politics, it has however been largely ignored by the Sakystrumaar government.

[Saegland]

What are the percentages of religion in your nation? 89% Þéodisc Geléafa
10% Caerchethic Pagan
1% Atheist

What are some of the dominant religion in your nation? Þéodisc Geléafa is the dominant religion of Saegland, with 89% of the nation claiming to be practicing members of the faith. Another ten percent of the nation are Caerchethic Pagan while only one percent of the nation said that they do not believe in any deities. Abrahamic faiths in Saegland have always been illegal since the 3rd century.

Does religion intervene in your nation's politics? No. Saegland has been secular since 1927.

[Brellach]

What are the percentages of religion in your nation?

It is largely assumed by Her Court that Brellachi adherence to the Church of Her Divine Glory is functionally 100%. In practice there are likely some agnostics and even atheists in their numbers.

What are some of the dominant religion in your nation?

The Church of Her Divine Glory is the only organised religion in Brellach. While it is mostly city-dwellers who interact with the Priesthood of Her Divine Glory with any degree of regularity, it is known that most of the tribes adhere to the religion's tenets. Some tribes never come into contact with society at large, and little is known about them; they may potentially follow their own variations of the faith. It is conceivable that they have entirely new religions that are as yet unknown to the Holy Queendom government, in fact.

Does religion intervene in your nation's politics?

It is worth noting that the government makes no effort to enforce religious adherence upon the Brellachi people.

That said, the Priesthood of Her Divine Glory is heavily involved in multiple levels of governance and service delivery:

• The Priesthood's senior members are intrinsically involved in selecting and raising the Divine Successor when the Divine Queen approaches the end of her life.
• According to the Divine Contract of Rule, it is the responsibility of the Priesthood to ensure that the Divine Queen is not 'corrupted' by 'darkness', and that she adheres to the terms of the divine agreement. In practice there is no apparent procedure for them to enforce this, nor have they been called upon to do so.
• It is mandated that members of the Priesthood are appointed to all of the new publicly-funded hospitals and cottage hospitals in Brellach, so that spiritual support is easily available to patients.
• While not actually a requirement, it is traditional for members of the Priesthood (with legal schooling) to serve as judges in criminal courts. The idea being that while the jury is composed of regular citizens ('impartial others') who have been wronged and must thus decide upon the accused's guilt or innocence, the Priestess is responsible for 'resetting the imbalance' of the universe (which upsets the goddess).
• The Priesthood is responsible for 'enlightening' those convicted of serious crimes (known as 'The Darkened'). To do this they maintain buildings known as Her Places of Redemption, which would most accurate be described as 'prison-churches'. During their time in these prison-churches, The Darkened are expected to live as the Priesthood does; minimalist lives dominated by veneration for their goddess and community-orientated work.

In some areas, particularly the more isolated regions of northern Brellach, the Priesthood is also responsible for operating the handful of public schools.

[Self-Atlantis]

What are the percentages of religion in your nation?

Our nation considered one of the least religious societies in Europe with only 14% believing in any kind of god.

What are some of the dominant religion in your nation?
Self-Antantis has a very diverse society since most of the citizens are immigrants from all around the world. The dominant religion is however Protestant Christianity with Buddhism taking 2nd place.

Does religion intervene in your nation's politics?
Religion is not affect in any way possible our politics and in fact the society is strongly opposes those who believe in irrational things like religion.

[Aikoland]

What are the percentages of religion in your nation? Buddhism: 73%, Shinto: 19%, Non-religious: 6%, Other: 2%

What are some of the dominant religion in your nation? Buddhism is considered the dominant religion in Aikoland.

Does religion intervene in your nation's politics? The Awsum Republic of Aikoland maintains a strict separation of church and state, so no.

[Qandaristania]

What are the percentages of religion in your nation? 99% Muslim (84% Sunni, 16% Shia), others 1%

What are some of the dominant religion in your nation? Islam.

Does religion intervene in your nation's politics?The country is based upon Sharia law and Islam.

[Anollasia]

What are the percentages of religion in your nation?

70% Muslim (50% Sunni, 30% Alevi, 15% Bektashi, 4% Shia, 1% other), 25% Christian (50% Protestant, 42% Catholic, 7% Orthodox, 1% other), 3% Jewish, 2% irreligious, 1% other.

However, the actual percentage of people who are really religious is probably around 20%.

What are some of the dominant religion in your nation?

Islam is the majority religion (mainly Sunni), followed by Christianity (mainly Protestant).

Does religion intervene in your nation's politics?

No, we have been officially secular since 1870.

[Bezombia]

What are the percentages of religion in your nation?
64% Irreligious
33% Buddhist
3% Other

It should be noted that these numbers are only accurate up to 2013, as that was the last year the census was issues.

What are some of the dominant religion in your nation?
The only religion with any significant population is Buddhism - specifically of the Mahāyāna branch. However, the majority of the population is irreligious/atheist, as a result of the strict bans on public practice of any religion from 1961 to 1993.

Does religion intervene in your nation's politics?
No, absolutely not. Public religion practicing was banned under the Darbinien government (1953-1993, with the ban being enforced strictly starting in 1961), and ever since then religion has played almost no role in government.
Even the ancient monarchical regimes of Benomia saw no real influence by religion.

[Gandoor]

What are the percentages of religion in your nation? Non-religious: 68.5%, Buddhism: 11.2%, Shinto: 9.6, native religions: 5.9%, Other: 4.8

What are some of the dominant religion in your nation? Most people in Gandoor are non-religious, but Buddhism is the largest religion.

Does religion intervene in your nation's politics? No, Gandoor maintains a strict separation of church and state and most of the country is non-religious.

[Great Vaeland]

What are the percentages of religion in your nation?
Norse Paganism - >99%
Atheist - <1%

What are some of the dominant religion in your nation?
The dominant religion of Great Vaeland is its Vaelandic Norse Paganism, which is the unchanged state religion of the nation since 813 AD, when the Empire was founded. The religion has overwhelming majority in Vaeland, and all adherents fully practice the faith. Other religions are looked down upon in Great Vaeland, and the only other legal 'religion' for permanent citizens is Agnostic Atheism. Interestingly enough, the only people who do not follow the Pagan state religion are entirely immigrants.

Does religion intervene in your nation's politics?
It does, with the Empress also holding the title of Fylkja of the Fylkirate, which is equivalent to the Pope of the Papacy in the Catholic faith.

[Imperium Sidhicum]

Sidh people aren't really into religion, at least not in the traditional sense, flatly rejecting it as obsolete superstition.

The closest thing to a religion in Sidh society is the Way, a philosophical system based on the Emperor's teachings that defines how a proper Sidh should live and carry himself. The Way emphasizes duty, loyalty, honor, strife for self-improvement (taken to a literal level by Sidhae), industriousness and selfless service to one's nation and race. In principle, it is an ideological code that doesn't address spirituality as understood by outsiders.

That being said, many Sidhae have somewhat ironically elevated the Emperor's personality cult to an almost religious level, up to and including the adoption and repurposing of various religious rites for veneration of the Emperor. Every patriotic citizen (and there aren't many who would have the courage to identify as unpatriotic) makes it his business to keep a shrine dedicated to the Emperor at home, meditating before it. Citizens keep printed copies of Word of the Emperor, which signifies the importance of this work in Sidh culture, printed books being a rarity in an age of digital literature. Quasi-religious processions featuring elaborate icons of the Emperor, lots of chanting and flag-waving regularly take place in the Imperial city streets.

Perhaps most ironically, the Emperor himself was opposed to such excessive worship of his personality back in the day, believing that a truly great leader needs no reaffirmation of his greatness from his subjects, for it is already in everyone's heart and mind as an accepted fact.

[Gnork]

What are the percentages of religion in your nation?

Officially about 20.

What are some of the dominant religion in your nation?

Catholicism and various reformed christrianities, though we're looking to get rid of them

Does religion intervene in your nation's politics?

No. And if they try they will be curbed.

[Carriebean7]

What are the percentages of religion in your nation?
Catholicism : 41%
Christianity : 30%
Islam: 19%
Methodist: 5%
Other:5%

What are some of the dominant religion in your nation?
Catholicism and Christianty
Does religion intervene in your nation's politics?
yes, the Churches have huge power in here, constantly begin accused of corruption because of " excessive Tithes" paid by politicians for backing. they are usually S 20,000 to 100,000 ( $2,000-$10,000) that is paid per bribe. it also depend on the leader's faith, and so the leaders of the other religions try to buy him over all year to secure more funding and try to persuade to the masses that their church is better.

[Ardoki]

What are the percentages of religion in your nation? < 7%

What are some of the dominant religion in your nation? Christianity, Hinduism, Islam

Does religion intervene in your nation's politics? No. Religion is kept completely separate from the government and from public life, religion is a personal matter.

[The Vrree Nations]

What are the percentages of religion in your nation?
It is difficult to give exact statistics. Since Vrree lack a concept of religious exclusivity, many types of religious belief overlap, and there are many local variations on types of religion.
98% of Vrree have some sort of spiritual beliefs.
91% percent believe in multiple spirits or gods (animism/polytheism)
57% believe in astrology to some extent (the advent of space travel and colonisation caused astrology to lose much of its mystique and relevance)
43% worship dualistic forces in some way (eg. male/female, sun/moon, day/night, violent/peaceful, etc.)
36% believe in a trinity of forces, each representing creation, preservation, and destruction
29% believe in a single creator god who created all things (often including other gods and spirits)
17% practice ancestor worship
2% have religious beliefs not invented by Vrree, but spread by alien missionaries (eg. Christianity)

What are some of the dominant religions in your nation?
Animism, Shamanism, Paganism

Does religion intervene in your nation's politics? Not officially. It is possible for a shaman or a priest to be chief of a nation or a syndicate, but this role would not necessarily be affected by their religious role or beliefs, though it might depending on the circumstances. Most likely, a clergyperson having secular power would simply be a case of a person performing multiple roles in society at once, as Vrree often do.

[Yannia]

What are the percentages of religion in your nation?

• 54.8% none (atheism),
• 24.2% Drakonism,
• 13.5% Yannian Catholic,
• 4.8% other Christian,
• 2.6% other religions.

What are some of the dominant religion in your nation?
Drakonism was long the dominant religion in Yannia and surrounding area, until the arrival of Christian missionaries in the 117th century HE. Part of the reason for the Yannian Independence Wars (throughout the 118th century) was to throw off the Christian oppression, which did not allow freedom of religion, or from religion (unlike Drakonism, which did allow that).

Does religion intervene in your nation's politics?
No, from the start (in the late 118th century) Yannia has had a policy of strict separation of religion and politics.

[Stahlvelka]

What are the percentages of religion in your nation?

As Stahlvelka is a Galaxy-spanning political entity, ruling over millions of worlds it is hard to determine the exact percentages of religious groups within the Empire. However it is commonly estimated that over 95% of Stahlvelkan citizens practice some form of the Progenitor Church.

What are some of the dominant religion in your nation?

The Progenitor Church; which is built on the remnants of the ancient Ibrahamite (Abrahamic) religions of Islam, Christianity and Judaism. Belief in one God and the promise of eternal afterlife, among other things, are the main parts of the Faith.

Does religion intervene in your nation's politics?

The Progenitor Church is the state religion of the Holy Stahlvelkan Empire and plays a very heavy influence on Imperial politics. It is hard to ascertain all uses of the State Church in political matters, but the more important interventions include:
-Imperial Coronation of a new Emperor/Empress
-Use of Imperial Legions and Fleets in Church-sanctioned crusades
-Church-worlds, where the State Church assumes direct governance
-Removal of immoral or corrupt Imperial governors and nobility from rule should the Church see fit, usually without the Emperor/Empress' consent

[Themiclesia]

What are the percentages of religion in your nation?

Traditionalism: 85%
Christianity: 10%
Others: 5%
No answer: 10%

(This poll was taken permitting multiple selections, as many faiths in Themiclesia are mutually recognized and to some extent accepted as valid.)

What are some of the dominant religion in your nation?

Traditionalism refers to the set of beliefs that characterized ceremonial life in both secular and spiritual spheres in classical Themiclesia. By definition, Traditionalism holds a tri-partite view of the world, consisting of the heavens, the earth, and the human; each element was defined by one set of divinities. While it is customary to translate divinities residing in the heavens as "gods", it is important not to conflate this concept with images of arbitrary power, at least as pertaining to the classical era, of which we are interested in this paragraph. The divinities of the earth are called "spirits", and the divinities of the human (mainly ghosts of deceased individuals) are said to be "ghosts". These three realms have very limited connection. The worship of the two former elements is restricted to the ruling class, and the private supplication of the gods of the heavens and the spirits of the earth is interpreted as a coup d'état, since their supplication is considered a privilege.

At that time, ceremony was the medium of purpose, not spirituality; spirituality was heavily de-emphasized due to its divisive nature and inconclusive parameters. Spirituality is viewed neutrally, since it is considered a private issue; ceremony, however, was mandatory. In a rather common case, necromancers (communicating with the supernatural) are regularly exiled as troublemakers. For example, some groups believed that the spirits of the earth resided in man-made mounds close to cities, while others believed that the spirits roamed their territory and didn't confine themselves to the mound. To the former group, bowing or prostrating before the mount was an act of supplication, while to the latter group the same actions carried not the same significance. To them, they were simply obeying the law of the land by bowing and prostrating before a earthen mound. Some scholars tend to view Traditionalism due to its ceremonial nature as social etiquette and not a religion, or even a religion that gradually lost its mysticism and spirituality and decayed into stagnant, irreligious decorum.

Christianity, whose major branch in Themiclesia is the Anglican Church of Themiclesia, also has a prominent position in Themiclesia. In public, one can say that Anglicanism has a greater presence than Traditionalism since the latter is heavily family-oriented and bound, while Anglicanism is ecumenical and evangelical. The dissertation of the doctrine of the Church states that the Traditionalism, as practised and entertained by common people, does not, in the main, contradict the Church in its teachings. An early missionary in Themiclesia was invited to attend a state ceremony to honour the spirits of the earth, and he asked the attending people, "Do you believe that these spirits confer blessings and curses upon you?"

To which some ministers replied, "You know, I never thought about that."

Some others said, "But this is the way we have been doing things here for many thousands of years, before your like came to us; we do this because our forefathers did this, for whatever reasons they had but did not reveal to us. We do so because we dare not disobey the ancient customs of the land, not because we believe in these spirits."

And numerous others were recorded in his work Missionary Work in the States. He was never invited to ceremonies involving the gods of the heavens (whose procedures to this day remain quite hidden), but he did come to comment on the nature of that group of divinities in his work.

"It seemed quite strange to me to come to understand their divinities of the sky. Firstly, it is held that their nature is too elevated to be comprehended by humans, and that they never reveal themselves in perceptible ways to us. This evolves into the dominant view that "human affairs are controlled by humans; divine ones by divinities." Secondly, when I enquired into the mythology surrounding them, very little material surfaced, almost none at all compared to the abundance of the quarrels of Zeus and Hera; these mysterious entities sometimes bear different names, such as "god" (the chief deity), "agent rain", or "messenger wind". They, unlike Zeus and Hera, never speak to or even differ with each other, and it seemed rather ridiculous to the natives of the land to suggest that they should be able to oppose each other. Due to the limits in my information, I am unable to reach any conclusion whether these "gods of the heavens" are considered separate, animate beings, in the shape of a pantheon, or whether they were manifestations of a single divine force... In Hellenic mythology we are accustomed to give a corporeal description of these gods, but when asked what did the god of heavens looked like, I was confronted with blank, speechless stares, incredulous at my curiosity. It seems they do not give their gods a corporeal existence at all, which explains the conspicuous lack of statues in the images of their gods in their temples. As for a sign from their gods enjoying their supplication, seeing the smoke of incense rise into the sky seems to be all that is required. As to the lack on interaction between them and their gods, I can only say that they are either completely irreligious or unrivaledly pious. They ask for no signs from their gods to prove their existence; they do not dispute their power (or lack thereof), appearing so uninterested that religious life is completely dominated by ceremony and the absence of mysticism. Conversely, it is never said their gods required anything from them. On this matter I secured a few ancient records that once humans alive were offered as sacrifices to their divinities, but about three thousand years ago, a mysterious figure (blessed!) appeared with the doctrine that "gods would not be gods if they required slaves in the world above to accompany them". His theory took the nation by storm, and the arcane practise was soon abolished. Continuing in this vein of thought, the people of Themiclesia never proceeded to assert anything about their gods more than what I have described.

On the other hand, much has been said about the nature of mankind in Themiclesia. The mind of man was said to be capable of three faculties: intelligence, reason, and judgment. Intelligence referred to the ability of seeing, hearing, listening, etc. as informing oneself by means of the five senses. Reason referred to the analysis of this information so gathered to produce useful results in life. Judgment, the final faculty, enabled one to tell right from wrong. Beasts and barbarians (not entirely separate in ancient documents) are said to have the first two faculties; therefore, barbarians can be both highly effective and capable of chilling atrocities, but they were not able to stop themselves from these actions as their incorrectitude cannot appear to their actors. Extending from this theory, the people of the States do regard themselves with earnestness and pride as the "soul of the world"; they take it upon themselves to promote virtue and peace in the world. From hence, they also despise vengeance as a cardinal vice. In their minds, vengeance propagates, not ends, evil (in their terminology 'pain and suffering'). Forgiveness is the highest of virtues in Themiclesia. A true tale stated that once a barbarian tribe somehow managed to kill about 900 soldiers from a certain state many years ago; instead of promising revenge on the tribe, the state officially stated that they would not pursue this matter, to the acclaim of other states in the era. From one of their philosophies, "The day everyone is perfectly forgiving, the day the world is perfect".

It appeared to me that these questions that I ask are not raised by natives either. As far as I could tell, the theology of the masses is the periodical memorial ceremonies done to ancestors, which is, in my opinion, consistent with the Ninth Commandment of our Faith; the spirits of the earth and gods of the heavens are entirely beyond the concern of the public."



Does religion intervene in your nation's politics?

No.

[The Islamic Queendom]

What are the percentages of religion in your nation? Islam: 99.3%, Other: 0.7%

What are some of the dominant religion in your nation? The dominant religion in The Islamic Queendom is Islam.

Does religion intervene in your nation's politics? Not much so, but the law does require that all politicians in office be Muslim.

[Thezewi]

What are the percentages of religion in your nation?
Around 40% of Thezewi's citizens are nonreligious, 45% follow some form of pagan belief system, and the other 15% follow various religions.

What are some of the dominant religion in your nation?
Nonreligion and paganism.

Does religion intervene in your nation's politics?
Not usually, no.

[The Third Nova Terra of Scrin]

What are the percentages of religion in your nation? The Tanshi government claims that 99.99% of its population is Christian, but official outside estimates estimate about 98-99% of the Tanshi population to be Christian nominally, so they're not lying it here.

What are some of the dominant religion in your nation? Christianity. However, the dominant religion is Tansheic Christianity through the Tanshi Christian Church, a form of Christian expression indigenous to Tanzhiye combining Orthodoxy, Catholicism and Protestantism, composed of several local churches with no clear ecclesiastical authority. There are also various Protestant small churches, but membership is few. Eastern Orthodoxy also have a small presence in Tanzhiye, as well as the Roman Catholic Church, and Buddhism, pseudo-Shinto, and Confucianism ingrained in culture.

Does religion intervene in your nation's politics? The Tanshi government stress that the Tanshi Christian Church and the government are separate, technically, though it's safe to assume and believe that the Tanshi government is not shy of being religiously Christian.