Re: 'Imperial Culture' (non-canonista)
Imperial Persim:
Every Emperor who sat on the Imperial throne had a PerSim made of him to be used for public relations purposes. Naturally this image was carefully sanitized but not to far from reality. The favorite and most widely used Persims are those of Cleon I and Arbatralla the Great, both of whom are dead long enough to attract admiration by the ahistorical.
A similar idea is used in several states. Tizon for instance, though now a republic, gives official approval of the Persim of Swein the Great as being a convenient symbol without the baggage from a live monarch.
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