Rhàkaîgá & Its People

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This post is about the constructed world, Rhàkaîgá (pronounced [ɹ̪a˩kʰai̯˧ɲɑ˥]) I have been working on for the past few months. I have only worked on the Kuvaki (pronounced [khɤ˧ʋɒ˧khe˧]) Empire to any significant extent but Kuvaki civilization, culture, politics, &c., are quite well developed; thus, this post shall speak, in very general terms about the aspects of the Kuvaki Empire (or just Kuvaki, by the way.)

I know I have posted a few of my other constructed worlds here prior to this, one of them very well developed, but I decided to scrap it and start anew. Why? Because all my prior constructed worlds were too perfect, too utopian, to ideologically dogmatic. All of these things made for a very boring constructed world, hardly suitable for the speculative fiction literature I plan on writing. Hence, I constructed Rhàkaîgá, essentially an extraterrestrial Earth set in a parallel universe with very slightly different physical characteristics, such as the shorter orbital period, having 3 moons, having a slightly thicker atmosphere and, most importantly, having a very slight temperature gradient for its warm, Cretaceous-like climate.

Anyways, I shall start off with what I based Kuvaki off of. Kuvaki civilization is based on the ways of the peoples of the Civilized Andes, the Inka Empire, the Wari Empire, the Norte Chico Civilization, the Muisca, Tiwanaku, Chavín, &c., on Oceanian Cultures, mostly Polynesian and Micronesian but also Melanesian and to Indigenous Australian. These influences show up in the level of and types of technology the Kuvaki, and Rhàkaîgá's other great powers and civilizations, have mastered. Kuvaki is in the Bronze Age though, like the Andean civilizations, metal is mostly decorative; as with the Muisca, blades and points are mostly of ground stone, wood and bone. I coupled another clearly Andean characteristic with Polynesian ones: The advanced development of fabrics in Kuvaki has led not only to textile developments but also to the development of a waterproof non-woven fabric similar to tapa cloth; furthermore, the Kuvaki write in three dimensions on khipu-like knotted chords; again, coupling this Andean development of writing as well as the ubiquity of ceramic molds with the Polynesian development of screen printing, the Kuvaki have developed piece-molds for printing their writing system known as Karkállà (pronounced [kʰaɹ˧gɑ˥ʎɑ˩].)

Now for a brief schematic of what the Kuvaki Empire is like. A superpower which almost completely dominates its continent, Kuvaki is, at over 11 Mm2, the largest empire on Rhàkaîgá by population and the largest territorial empire by area (there is a larger hegemonic “empire” but I have not really done any work on it) and among the most advanced.

Kuvaki, much as in the Inka Empire, uses a federalist model of assimilation alongside “guidance” of conquered cultures, both used to varying degrees where appropriate; much like in the Wari and later Inka Empires, the Kuvaki state and its territory are synonymous with its network of carefully planned cities.

Kuvaki's economy is a redistribution economy, which I based strongly on the Chimú system, with primary industries in the rural areas but almost all higher industry, manufacturing, learning, services and government, located in the cities.

The Kuvaki military is organized under a duodecimal system and its system of warfare is based closely on Inka and Ancient Hawaiian military techniques.

The Kuvaki government is an absolute hereditary monarchy with the head of state and of government being known as the pìthluluîỳî (pronounced [pʰyd̪˩l̪ɯ˧lɯ˧jɘi̯]), meaning “head hymnist”, ruling for life and is considered divine. The high-level overseers of the eight ŧùîùgà (pronounced [θɯ˩jɯ˩ɲɑ˩]), or regions, based closely on the Inka Empire's four suyus (hence the loan), are normally close relatives of the pìthluluîỳî.

The Kuvaki Empire has a polytheistic religion as its official, and highly influential, state religion; this religion and its mythology echoes Indigenous Australian, Polynesian and Andean (mainly Inka) mythologies and religions. As in Ancient Hawaii, human sacrifice takes place, on a relatively small scale, with criminals and war captives being the most common victims; similarly to Micronesia, offerings of food and material possessions are arguably more important in Kuvaki religion than actual sacrifices of living beings.

Questions, comments and other input are all very much appreciated!

Bump. Perchance may I have some input?

BTW, I am about to write a story collection concerning a clerk/scribe, Tikavaîỳî ([tʰi˧kʰɑ˧ʋɒ˧jɘi̯˩]; “Grevillea spp. flower”), and an engineer, Sùqɂiwagm ([sɯt͡ʃ'˩ʔi˧wɒŋ͡m˧]; “Fish”), in the form of a series of short stories united only by character and in chronological order. The stories are set throughout Kuvaki and each have their own plot and set of minor characters, though the two friends are always in the, or the only, main characters.