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The Model Bailiwick

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The Model Bailiwick, was one of the bailiwicks of Elwynn, located in the historical county of Araxion, that was selected by the High Presidium of the Benacian Union to be the subject of an experiment to implement the coordinated state and harmonious society at the local level in the aftermath of the Second Elwynnese Civil War.

Preparatory phase one: establishment of planning group & implementation group, selection and isolation of test site, implementation of quarantine and outer security perimeter

Originating as an initiative of the Archon of the N&H National Sector Party of Elwynn, the mission statement given for the model bailiwick project was to create a self-sustaining community that would live in accordance with traditional humanist values.

The mandate for the project derived from a decision of the High Presidium of the Benacian Union, given in camera on 20.XII.1699 AN.

The bailiwick of Habrichtsburg was selected to be the site of the experimental programme in view of its manageable population volume, situation in a more agrarian and less war ravaged portion of Upper Elwynn, and status as a diocese in the Church of Elwynn - which would permit the initial preparatory stages to be carried out under the guise of the process of reformation being carried out against the Church by the Congress of Chryse.

Preparatory phase two: selection and vetting of volunteers

Preparatory phase three: determination and affirmation of basic principles

Guilds

The proposal for the guilds of the model bailiwick resurrects the five historic guilds codified under the Coordinated State of Elwynn and then expands their number with three further additions from the modern era:

  1. The Guild of Dunporters represents the cleaners, the diggers and the toilers. They are also responsible for the spreading of the night soil in the fields and for this reason include the yeoman-farmers and country folk amongst them. The rural constituencies have historically reported a certain level of dissatisfaction with this name, carrying as it does associations with the professions of the night-soil collectors of the era before mass sanitation.
  2. The Guild of Artisans comprises the craftsmen responsible for the manufacture of the products necessary for the functioning of our society and trade.
  3. The Guild of Artificers are those craftsmen of exceeding quality and skill whose hand has turned to the creation of luxury goods, adding value to the products of the artisans for the benefit of the export market.
  4. The Guild of Factors is the home of all merchants charged with the export of finished goods and the import of raw materials for those finished goods where insufficient quantities are available at home as well as nominal monies for those finished goods.
  5. The Guild of Aldermen, to comprise the fifty most able individuals in each Ward, chosen by competitive examination before the ward’s highest governing office under which the Worshipful Corporation is established.
  6. The Guild of Academicians, replacing the purged academia of the People's Academy of Elwynn, this guild comprises of the learned whose services were retained on grounds of loyalty and or utility, with their ranks joined in time by those chosen scholars who have completed their academic training and humanist indoctrination in Chryse.
  7. The Guild of the Lotus, this institution, modelled on the custodians of the Pleasure District of Merensk, would assume responsibility for the Flower Streets (luuluruqu) in every city and township of the model bailiwick that was formerly in the care of the Church of Elwynn.
  8. The Guild of the Magisters-Carnifex

Main implementation phase

Stage One: eradication of previous ruling class

Building on the purge of civic and religious leaders following the civil war, the process of weeding out individuals of the administrative and managerial leadership cadres, civic figures, and religious authorities, who had been deemed capable of leading organised communal resistance, was completed by V.1702 AN.

The disappearance of noted public figures, taken away in unmarked black vans at the dead of night, had a chilling effect in the wider populace. The removal of a popular mission priest during 1700 AN, had the effect of galvanising some of the braver members of the congregation into staging a protest vigil outside the Cathedral. This was swiftly dispersed by the Elwynnese Landstorm, who used the gathering of a crowd of protestors and onlookers as an opportunity to conduct a round up for the Benacian Labour Reserve.

Stage Two: removal of men of fighting age

Stage Three: removal of the elderly, infirm, and unproductive

Stage four: assignment of settler families to newly vacated properties

Stage five: assignment of women and girls to households of the newly settled

Stage six: removal of boys to filtration camps for relocation and indoctrination

Stage seven: formation of the Municipal Corporation, conferral of limited franchise, election of hereditary Bailiff

Stage eight: implementation of guilds, subdivision of bailiwick into districts

Stage nine: mandating of hereditary professions, table of ranks, internal economy

Stage ten: resumption of communal life with one year, five years, and ten years evaluation points