The Model Bailiwick

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

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.

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