Census To Be Held
First census in nearly half a millenium
September 28, 3986
The Executive Council has announced that Kalopia-Wantuni will be holding its first countrywide census in 457 years in 3990. Censuses are deeply controversial in the divided country with smaller minorities particularly opppsed to them as they lead to the questioning of formulas used to calculate their political representation.
The once large Sessoldian, Siphinian, Arbanian and Istochkniac minorities have been aggressively driven to assimilate into thr two major ethnic groups, the Kalopians and Wantunis through the use of language imperialism and outright marginalisation . During the past five centuries, several outbreaks of intercommunal violence have seen many members of the smaller minorities leaving for neighbouring Jakania and Deltaria where closely related cultural and ethnic groups are found in large numbers.
Religious leaders have expressed deep concerns over the decision. Hosian and Ahmadi leaders have,both called on the,Government to cancel the planned census. Secular activists have dismissed this as a tactic to avoid the official recognition of just how secular the country has become, driven largely by disgust at religious leaders' well established practice of fostering religious violence to drive out religious minorities and proseltysers from their 'turfs'