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==History==
The Church of Akrona, by its own admission, is uncertain of the exact date of its founding. The first Akronists emerged in the Crystal Coast region of Avnatra sometime between 1470 and 1480 CE. They would instigate the Tavari Civil War by 1490, as the leaders of the Church, known as "the Elders," ordered that the Akronist faith be spread by force. Akronist military conquest of the [[
During the era of the Acronian Empire, the Church of Akrona was not only an established state church, its institutions held governing authority over a broad and sweeping jurisdiction that was said to cover "morality." By the turn of the 21st century, the Church of Akrona maintained and operated the Acronian national pension and social security program, the national healthcare service, and the entire system of criminal courts. The "civil government" of Acronis, as it was called, was left with authority over the military, foreign relations, various regulatory actions, and "civil law." Civil courts had authority primarily over property disputes and theft, while nearly every other type of crime - from murder to sexual assault to medical malpractice - were handled in the religious courts. While the civil government was responsible to an elected Parliament, the leadership of the Church of Akrona was beholden to no authority.
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