Nal

The nal (Kaskian, 'person') is a social organization based on the concepts of corporation and association as held by various cultures from Sostria and wider eastern Hypocos, most notably the Kaskians. In nalic cultures the nal comes first as the fundamental yet also independent unit of society, and individuals have personhood only through being part of a nal; their identity and actions are strictly guided by the nal's gestalt interests. To emphasize this intimacy and supremacy, nals have always been referred to with language relating to the body, but this also emphasized how the being of members was reciprocally important to their existence; men were both merely but also crucially the flesh and organs of the nal. Kaskian law referred to the nal with vividly visceral terms that were more than metaphors, invoking images such as dismemberment, gluttony, disease, and nutrition.