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[[Kæra'zna]] is a self-identified species-centric state which practices a systematic form of species-based discrimination known as Collective Purity ([[Kæzhyn language|Kæzhyn]]: ''Kæ'zhadny Ny'kæd'') which exists against the historical backdrop of centuries of discrimination. Animosity against Kemonomimi, more specifically the Nekomimi, is believed to date to antiquity within the area that comprises modern-day Kæra'zna, with pejorative terms such as Ryn'ul being used against them. During the Ny'sæk Empire, Nekomimi were excluded from political and cultural life with a judicial system that threatened collective punishment for communities that did not comply with sentences against Nekomimi it convicted of criminal activity.
Despite an anti-
While the rights of Kemonomimi were briefly improved following the 1851 Nylic Revolution, efforts to facilitate the Nekomimi population ended entirely following the end of [[the Grey Interim]]. Under the newly-declared Collective Republic, the [[Cult nihilism (ideology)|Cult nihilist]] movement - notably spearheaded by political factions such as the [[Fundamental Doctrinaires]] and [[Cult of Absolute Purity]] - were placed in positions of power, which further allowed for the entrenchment of speciest principles in the political, economic and social systems of the state. Such principles would, throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, allow regimes led by members of those factions to enact policies of [[W:Eugenics|eugenics]] and the extermination or expulsion of the non-Az'ra population, in genocides such as the [[Driving of the Kemonomimi]] and later the more extreme Purification of Sight.
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