He admired the federations surrounding him, and sought to divide his constituent peoples into helpfully-equal polities. In such a way, he tore countries along their perforations, and made northern Selzikirm and southern Selzikirm Boschla and Selzikirm, respectively.
As none spoke a common language, and the emperor himself despised most of the native tongues, he revived the temple liturgical tongue and bid a committee whip it into usefulness for an administrative language.
His predecessor having followed the advice of his close advisor, named Forward (in our tongue), the emperor proceeded along an opposite course which he named, privately, the Backward way. Though he term was also utilized by the emperor’s newly freed press, it was an independent coinage; officially, the emperor’s domestic policy went by a handful of ponderous acronyms.
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