Grazigazi society is largely maintained by the ERGATES, or worker-class, individual members of which, called GATERS - such as the WATERGATERS who ensure the island nation's access to freshwater - carry out all the functions necessary to keep any society operational.
The island of Grazigaki's isolated locale, however, comes with unique challenges peculiar to their sea-girt circumstances, which are handled by the race's two specialised organisational classes: POLIS, the political machine, and the GAMOS, or institution of marriage.
One major concern for the geographically-constrained Grazigazi is that of maintaining genetic diversity, and it is for the purpose of preventing inbreeding that the Gamos was established. Members of the Gamos class are called GAMERS, and each fills one of two primary rules; the breeding gyne, or GAMERGIRL, and the Gamergirl's mated partners, called GAMERGATERS.
Because a gyne - WITHOUT GOING INTO TOO MUCH DETAIL - is capable of gestating the offspring of multiple mates at a single time, gamergaters outnumber gamergirls by a significant margin. But with this comes the risk of a genetic bottleneck, wherein too many of the next generation are mared by a single gyne, and therefore genetically incompatible with each other.
As such it is the role of the Gamos to establish a strict programme for the proliferation of the Grazigazi race. From each generation the Gamos assembles a caucus of gamergirls who are as genetically distinct from each other as possible, and for each gamergirl a retinue of gamergaters who are HIGHLY GENETICALLY DISTINCT FROM THEIR GAMERGIRL but CLOSELY GENETICALLY SIMILAR TO EACH OTHER - usually gaters who are related, if not familially then on a clan or tribal level.
Through this process, it is assured to within an acceptable level of confidence that individuals who are related are visually similar to each other and individuals who do not share ancestors are easily distinguishable, allowing for the process to be straightforwardly repeated generation after generation.
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"The problem is that when the subject of Grazigazi romance is broached, our overly obsessive troll intellects instantly assume the most ingratiating posture of admiration imaginable. In fact, so conditioned is our own understanding of romance that we cannot help but refer to them as quadrants, when in fact they are not quadrants at all! They are referred to as drupes." -Troll Charles Darwin
Because couplings - or rather, grouplings - or rather, DROUPLINGS - between Grazigazi are established by social order rather than through interpersonal reciprocity, each individual drupe sits somewhere on a sliding scale of GAMOS-FEEL from RAW to RIPE. A drupe's Gamos-feel can be determined by a variety of interacting factors - including but not limited to GRAPHICAL ATTRACTION, GAMOS-PLAY or its intersection with the LEWDONARRATIVE - but because it has no bearing on the reproductive process and pertains only to the interpersonal aspects of each relationship, it is not considered significant to the purview of the Gamos.
In fact, a mixture of raw and ripe drupes among the drouplings is often considered evidence of the Gamos working healthily and as intended, with raw drupes keeping the caucus of gamergirls satisfied and ripe drupes demonstrating the necessary prioritisation of genetic diversity over personal interests.
The Gamos is not, however, completely without social considerations. While similarity in genetics is the Gamos' primary criterion, it is possible for a gamergater to initiate a gater from outside the genetic group into the Gamos if the two genetically-unalike gaters are considered to instead be SOULS-ALIKE.
Beyond the fact that the two Grazigazi are considered to be similar to each other in spirit, the exact nature of each souls-alike relationship varies widely from droupling to droupling. It is common, for example, for two glorygaters to discover they are souls-alike in the heat of battle - in addition to the sprinkle of genetic spice this contributes to the Gamos, the establishment of such a drouple provides an official avenue for two families or clans to formalise bonds forged unofficially in wartime.
According to Grazigazi belief, the ideal souls-alike droupling is said to be JUST LIKE DARK SOULS. But if anyone ever truly knew what 'dark souls' actually were, this knowledge has long since been lost to the sands of time.
Efficiency of reproduction isn't the only issue pressing to a society so densely packed into a single small landmass, though - any form of widespread civil unrest could be potentially devastating to the agrarian nation. For this reason the Polis exists to maintain social cohesion across Grazigaki, and to this end works to include where possible all of the island's tribes, clans and social groups in all of the nation's important political matters.
While the inclusion of only select genetic groups and the incidence of ripe Gamos-feel among procreational drouplings are considered harmless side-effects to the reproductive process, if left unchecked these phenomena can easily lead to larger forms of societal exclusion and disharmony. Thus it is the Polis' job, among other projects, to remedy these problems, even counter to the stated aims of their counterparts in the Gamos.
As such, Grazigazi reproduction is in reality a complex and neverending game, with political interests on one side seeking to secure harmony and unity through the encouragement of raw Gamos-feel, and on the other side gametical concerns represented by gamergaters whose primary aim is always to KEEP POLITICS OUT OF GAMOS.
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