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''Main Article: [[Fanon:Ecclesiarchy#Kallisto's Codex|Ecclesiarchy]]''
As a fundamentalist state, the Papal State technically runs on religious laws. The most significant part of the law is that romance and WooHoo is strictly forbidden to the followers of the faith, which comprises a significant part of the population of Hekatonschoinos, and a less significant presence in Sunset Valley and Twinbrook. Due to the fact that the said law applies only to registered followers, sights of couples can be still seen even in the streets of Hekatonschoinos, although in Hekatonschoinos the religious pressue is so high that such heretical relationships are nearly nonexistent, and couples usually take to their homes. Nonetheless, the Ecclesiarchy in practice largely adheres to the modern concept of separation of church and state, thus it uses only ecclesial bodies to enforce religious decisions among believers. There is an exception to this, as the Ecclesiarchy uses its government clout to screen the Simnationian pop culture material that passes through the Papal territories. All in all, a life in Papal State generally are largely similar to life in the secular developed countries. However, the increasingly liberal mood of the Ecclesiarchy meant censorship such as these are in decline, and SimNationian pop culture is no longer scrutinized by the government.
Given the Ecclesiarchy's pro-technology attitudes, Papal State is also highly advanced in terms of science. For one, Simbots are far more common in Papal territory than in any region of the SimNation, especially so given that [[Fanon:Stratonike Attalida|Stratonike]] has been the pioneer in the field, and the makings of a simbot is an arcane art held currently only by the members of the Big 6, although some, such as Parthenope, has the aptitude and experience to be ready to make one. The Papal State is also a leader in the fields of cybernetics and biotechnology, claiming many artificial humans (e.g. Phthinophoria Eschateria) and prosthetics (such as one proudly borne by [[Fanon:Hypatia Pydnaia|Hypatia]]) given the attitudes that look unfavorably to the "natural" way of reproduction.
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In fact, the Papal State is one of the least oppressive of fundamentalist regimes, and an average citizen of Papal State can expect a level of personal freedom in par with most democratic nations. Although no official laws or experimental policies were set in place, the Ecclesiarchy is actually open to offering representation to the nonbeliever segments of the Papal population. While the political system available in Papal territories were largely dummy systems with little power, the Ecclesiarchy shows interest in giving nonbelievers a say in the government, especially in the fields of economics where they wouldn't interfere with say laws against romance amongst believers.
====Edict of Veracity====
However, the relative freedom of the press that Kallisto once espouse was reversed when a false rumor (that the Ecclesiarchy was effective at suppressing for a time) hit Kallistrata: once Kallisto took note of that, Kallisto issued the Edict of Veracity: in effect, Kallisto purged all Paparazzis from the Papal State, and also ensured all media posted would be subject to reviews by the Ecclesiarchal chapter of the respective cities. So infuriated were the Big 6 (who were already fed up with the memories of constant false rumors) that they also added an addendum, the Warning to Falsehoods, in which the Big 6 legislated death penalty to any more propagators of false rumors.
With that, the Big 6 effectively clamped down celebrity culture, and destroyed the celebrity news section of the media industry of the Papal State.
However, later revisions to the law softened the penalty, although the harsh example set by the previous example have wiped out the paparazzis, and the Big 6 doesn't mind having their domain paparazzi-free.
===Things to do===
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On top of comparatively prude dress culture, women of the Papal State are encouraged to take up a trade. Fields usually considered male, such as engineering, are especially encouraged. Due to this, the Papal State is known for female technicians, inventors, engineers, and less commonly, entrepreneurs. One notable example is Yuri Kang of the Kang Patriarch family of the 3rd timeline, who is part of the 3 Tech Nerds along with Eun Jin Choi and Kyriake Kostopoulou. Males are also expected to make an independent living if able, although unlike females males generally tend to be much more varied in their career choices: musicians and athletes in the Papal State are almost always male. Males are also expected to dress prudely, although males are given much more leeway when it comes to swimming pools. This policy is reviewed by the Ecclesiarchy, as the expected male volunteers are far below the expected figures. Given a skewed population especially in Hekatonschoinos/Heptanomis, the Ecclesiarchy has further diven into the realms of bioengineering, adding a splash of supernatural as needed. The best example of Ecclesiarchal openness to both realms would be the creation of [[Fanon:Phthinophoria Eschateria|Phthinophoria Eschateria]], who is a failed attempt at making a male from a stock, although a partial success in that she's the first non-clone to have innate skills. However, the Ecclesiarchy has strangely failed to make artificial males until the most recent times...
The Ecclesiarchy is highly disapproving of nonfunctional pets, a
Another quirk of the Papal State is the shrinking importance of natural birth, and natural parentage. As females are pushed towards high-paying work that has longer hours, this would naturally conflict with the need to rear children, a primary reason for the apparent gender gap. The Papacy solves this by reducing the reliance on natural birth, having public sim-making vats to allow any sim to have a child. However, the vats are engineered to stimulate growth, and vats are optimized towards making sims that are biologically young adults or older teens. In addition, preexisting children are placed under the state's care in the Paidagogia system often manned by specially designed plumbots, further reducing the opportunity cost on females to have professional jobs.
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Although major political dissent is minimal, there have been complaints about high taxes in Hekatonschoinos, and people demand cheaper, smaller housing (as noted by the extreme popularity of the Oikos Ptochon style housing in the Persis Road as well as the Nesos Poleos, despite the shameful name: Oikos Ptochon meaning house of the poor and the Nesos Poleos carrying a stigma to those who are aware of the Roman insula) as well as malls, and Kallisto responded by renovating Hekatonschoinos, adding more of the former. Heptanomis fared better, but still with high taxes, perhaps even greater than the social democracies such as those of the Scandinavia.
While there have been incidents like the Edict of Veracity that could have been seen as a preface for a pogrom or dictatorships, the Papal State have proven fortunate enough to avoid keeping problematic laws like this for too long.
==Diplomatic Situation==
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Since the Ecclesiarchy is the leader in robotics and bioengineering, especially cybernetics, the Phrontisterion is not surprisingly noted for its science and technology sectors. However, other fields like art are equally enlightening experience, and the forward-looking enterprises which hired Phrotisterion-trained sims have reaped great rewards.
While admission is quite simple, the educational schedule is rigorous to say the least: after all, the huge gains in skills could not have come from slacking around. With the Big 6 often leading classes themselves, students are often kept at their toes just to keep up and to meet the minimal skill thresholds. This has resulted in the emaciation of regular "jock" parties associated with colleges, and it is study parties that are the vogue way of socializing in the Phrontisterion. Given that even parties have been engineered to fit the rigorous schedules, knowledge-seekers predominate the student population of the Phrontisterion, resulting in the predominance of Nerds. Rebels find limited but significant appeal in the Phrontisterion: after all, the Big 6 created the Papal State to challenge the status quo, and flock primarily to the philosophy and art classes, while deviance from that, such as enrolling in technology classes, is a common sight amongst the Rebel population. Jocks are pretty much vestigial, as it is very difficult to party and play sports a lot all while keeping up: in fact, more bowling parties are held by professor-led groups than by students. The Phrontisterion supports one sorority and one fraternity, named Gynai Aristai Cheirotechnai and Huioi Epistemes Kalliphengai respectively, shortened to ΓΑΧ (gamma-alpha-chi) and ΥΕΚ (upsilon-epsilon-kappa), meaning the Best Women Artisans and Shining Sons of Knowledge respectively.
==Special Thanks==
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