Culture of Yarphei

Contemporary Culture of Yarphei, of the Grand Yarphese Republic is based on traditional Vietnamese culture, with Theravada Buddhist influences. It has been regulated by the government due to its Yarphese Fascist policies. Due to the wide spread of culture, the Vietnamese Liberation Army wanted to unify the culture in accordance with the nationalist policies. The official culture was created mostly from Vietnamese culture, because Yarphei often considers itself the new South Vietnam.

The Vietnamese culture, predecessor to Yarphese culture, began with the Đông Sơn culture around 2000 BC in what is now known as Vietnam. It was a highly agricultural civilization dependent on the cultivation of wet rice. Within the next several centuries, Chinese influence put Vietnam under the Sinosphere with Korea and Japan, influencing the language to the point that it would seem a dialect of Chinese. Vietnam asserted its distinction when it declared independence from China and spread its culture southward. France later took over the area known as Indochina exerting its influence of Catholicism and Western culture. The language was romanized with the Latin alphabet. When the socialists came to power, all culture was surpressed, but the information age brought culture back in the 1990s.

When the Yarphese took power, they resumed strict socialist control over all areas of life, following the Vietnamese government in establishing a non-culture. Later, however, with Tranh's conversion to Buddhism and the introduction of Yarphese Fascism, it was realized that in order to have an organized, unified society, it was necessary to have a unified culture rather than depriving the population of it.

The Yarphese culture was rather created by the government to force Vietnamse customs upon those throughout Yarphei in order to have a more unified nation. The culture has not experienced any major cultural upheavals since 2007, and likely it will remain that way. Tranh Chup-yar is considered the father of Yarphese culture. The scope of Yarphese culture is narrowed so that it is not like any culture in the world, but not overly remote.

Society
A society's main division is the family. The family is an important part of organization, and should include one or two children, a father, and a mother according to Yarphese planning programs. Recently a one-child policy was passed, changing family planning in Yarphei significantly. Unlike the western belief of individualism, Yarphese culture emphasize membership as a family. After the family, the family should report to their local vicinity, and from there directly to the government, without intermediacy. In Yarphei, arranged marriages are allowed, but not required. When a person dies, their body is cremated according to Buddhist rituals.