Fiction:United Persan Descendants

Organization
The United Persan Descendants is a democratic republic that is divided into largely independent states known as Circles with four capitals (Malkuth, Jibril, Mikail, and Israfil) for each of the four galaxies the UPD has expanded into. Society within the UPD is divided up into castes with the castes being divided up into three Orders. The first order is the civilian order as is divided into Neophytes (those yet to reach maturity), Zelators (military), Theoricus (religious), Practicus (economic), and Philosophus (scientific). These castes are not determined by birth but rather in the interests and still shown by a neophyte in the course of their education.

The second order is composed of those who lead the UPD's military forces into battle. They are all referred to as Adeptus with the different grades of Adeptus being Minor (commands tens of ships or soldiers), Major (leads hundreds of ships or soldiers), Exemptus (leads thousands of ships or soldiers), and Primus who leads the entire UPD military. Military promotion in the UPD is entirely meritocratic with even the Adeptus Primus having once been a simple Zelator. The Third Order is composed of the grades of political leadership within the UPD. The first grade is Magisters who compose the senates of each Circle. Magisters are promoted based on merit from the first and second order grades, but in order to advance further must be elected to office. Grades they can be elected to are first Magister Templi (leaders of a Circle and members of a capital's senate), Magus (leaders of a capital and members of the UPD's universal senate), and Ipsissimus who leads the whole of the UPD

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