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Runner of Barrayar. :D No copyright infringiment is intended.


Here I'll post some ideas about my universe setting, which are not sufficiently developed to become a distinct page about these topics. I ask to readers to post comments and suggestions if they would do so, and to post them in the talk page. I will be very pleased.

Demographics

  • Greek group: smallest group, (8% of Northern Continent, 11% of Southern Continent populations); 5 District Counts, all Greek-only. South-East of the Northern Continent, including both coast and interior regions.
  • Francophone group: 12 District Counts (2 intermingled with Greek population); 21% of Northern Continent, 18% of Southern Continent populations. East coast of the Northern Continent, with three internal Districts.
  • Anglophone group: 18 District Counts (variously populated); 31% of Northern Continent, 34% of Southern Continent populations. West Coast, centre-south and Dendarii mountains (southern watershed).
  • Russophone group: 25 District Counts (variously populated); 40% of Northern Continent, 25% of Southern Continent populations. South Coast, "big centre" and Northern regions of the Northern Continent.
    • Mountain Russians: Dendarii people;
    • Plains Russians: Districts north of Vorkosigan District, the main centre is Vorbarr Sultana.

Politics

  • Beyond the two main Council (Council of Ministers and Council of Counts) there are several political or public interests organizations, which deal with all elected bodies in local government and in society in general. The main feature of Barrayaran politics is the language-divided groups, also because members of the same linguistic groups live in the same area of the Northern Continent and, to a certain point, of the Southern Continent. On Sergyar, Komarr and space settlements, as well as in Vorbarr Sultana, Barrayaran linguistic groups are widely intermingled. Each linguistic bloc has several sub-organizations, which represent an individual social bloc or several social sectors; in turn, all-Barrayaran social sectors are grouped according a inter-linguistic subdivision.

Russian organizations

Main russophone organizations are:

  • Organization of Councils and Associations for the Protection and Defence of the Barrayaran Russian People (Russian Barrayaran: Organizatsiya sovetov i assotsiatsiy po zashchite i oborone barrayarskikh russkogo naroda) - the umbrella organization; the founder was Dmitri Vromoncrief, 9th Count Vormoncrief, and the presidency is assigned to the incumbent Count Vormoncrief.
  • People's Defence League (Russian Barrayaran: Narodnyy oborony Liga)
  • Workers' Party (Russian Barrayaran: Trudovaya partiya)
  • Supreme Council of the Middle Class (Russian Barrayaran: Verkhovnyy Sovet srednego klassa)
  • League for the Protection, Development and Improvement of the Barrayaran Russian Language (Russian Barrayaran: Liga po zashchite, razvitiyu i sovershenstvovaniyu Barrayarskoy russkogo yazyka)
  • Barrayaran Russian Linguistic Academy (Russian Barrayaran: Barrayarskiy Rossii Lingvisticheskaya akademiya)
  • Association of shop-owners of the Russophone Districts (Russian Barrayaran: Assotsiatsiya vladel'tsy magazinov iz rayonov russkoyazychnykh)
  • All-Barrayaran Entrepreneurs Union (Russian Barrayaran: Panbarrayarskiy soyuza predprinimateley) - A private research centre.
  • Russophone Veterans Group (Russian Barrayaran: Russkoyazychnykh veteranov Gruppa)
  • Trade Union of the Barrayaran Russian Teachers (Russian Barrayaran: Profsoyuz barrayarskikh rossiyskikh uchiteley)