Nakar

The nakar or nagar, properly in modern as nakaram and often translated as city, is a traditional political community of Gesnotic origin that now serves as the standard administrative division and constituent of Pytarus. The name is proposed to either derive from நகு naku 'to shine', நகர்வு nakar 'to move', or Damanic nagara, 'gathering'.

In Rurynote, the term was originally used to refer to simple tribes that organized the Rurynotes after their conquest of the Chatokian civilization, before sedentarization made it take on connotations of much looser communities that shared rituals and mythical ancestors, without necessarily being related by blood, by the time of the late Pedullamian Empire. The Pytarene Interregnum saw Gesnotic city-states fully adopt the nakar as their identity, with fellow citizens living as close as possible of religious lives, and deliberating on its governance in an assembly as equals. The tribal characteristics of the concept were retained in the form of conceiving of the nakar as a practically timeless community of spiritual companions, passed down from mythical ancestors into the present day, and thus able to survive the destruction or migration of the physical city as long as belief in it persisted. Pytarene political philosophy eventually took the nakar as the basic or ideal form of political organization. This idea of nakar attained such ideological significance, that policy and intervention could be justified in the name of establishing or correcting nakars. The actual form of nakars established itself as a city identity and corporation that served as one layer among many in the average Pytarene's life.

Nakars today are centred on a physical city, which serves as the center of all rituals conducted in relation to it. The nakar as a political unit is fully autonomous within the Pytarene state, and many privileges within the bounds of a city or even in establishments run by its diaspora are exclusive to fellow citizens. Actually being a member of a nakar is predicated on initiation, not mere residence. An initiate typically comes from a family that has long been members of the nakar, for which the initiation takes place as part of their coming of age, while migrants usually gain trust from living alongside nakar members, and are made eligible for initiation by a direct appeal to its authorities, which is typically bureaucratized for modern nakars. Nakar customs and laws have many variations but generally remain within conventions and prescriptions of Pytarene political theory and cultural traditions. Citizenship of many nakars is uncommon and generally not permitted. In recent years, many non-Pytarenes have attained citizenship of nakars through immigration. Names in Pytarus always incorporate the nakar of a person.