Inyurstan Customs
En Doléure de Nadé
En Doléure de Nadé, "On Pain of Nothing", is an honor-pledge where the pledgee admits they have nothing to offer and no reason for the opposite party to trust them. It is, however, considered a form of higher honesty for the party pledging on pain of nothing to admit such a position (whereas a dishonest party would attempt to goad or trick the receiving party into thinking they have something to lose). It is debated among historians and various subcultures that the pledge implies the pledgee will, through luck and/or divine intervention, end up losing everything should they break the pledge.
Famous examples include where Bernardo Lafayette pledged En Doleure de Nade to Fernando Valízeno, promising to spare his junior officers jail or the noose should the mutinying admiral surrender. Lafayette kept his promise, and is even alleged to have defended Valízeno's junior officers from later attempted retribution by the government of Grande Inyursta.
Novías Roujes
A trend known as "Red Brides", Novias Roujes refers to women typically not seen as "innocent" to wear red rather than white on their wedding day. The trend started with Natalia Lejorne Martinez, a known "lady of the night" wearing a red dress and red veil during her public wedding to then-presidente Silvio Betanjour. Typically, "Novias Roujes" refers to a lack of innocence of an intimate physical nature; however, this is not the only case. Following the Inyurstan Civil War, it was common for women who had passively aided or assisted the leftist Solvereux regime to wear red when marrying in the months and short years following the war (most often when marrying men who fought on the counter-revolutionary side). In modern times, so-called "jailhouse marriages" often see incarcerated women wearing red when marrying jailed men or outside simps.
Novios Roujes
Novios Roujes are the less-common though still present trend of non-innocent men wearing red. The most famous case is Jon Javier LeBlanc wearing a red tuxedo when marrying then-senator and later présidente-to-be Rosetta Marcos. Publicly, Marcos declared her husband's decision to wear red as a form of "humility" in response to charges that her husband was still a communist traitor trying to infiltrate the Inyurstan government.
Récompensatíon des Mortés
"Recompensation of the Dead" is a practice wherein an individual takes money or goods from an attacker killed in a justified homicide. During much of the frontier days of Grande Inyursta, this was an unenforced law, neither legal nor illegal, and no records exist of any judge or sheriff attempting to prosecute for taking the money (or gun) from a homicide otherwise deemed justified. In the modern era, Récompensatíon des Mortés is a controversial topic, and ultimately subject to some legal restrictions (usually at the provincial level). For example, in Marindino Centrele, Récompensatíon des Mortés is considered a legal practice only so far as 1) the killing is deemed justified at any level, 2) the goods taken are either on the persons or only equal to (an estimate) of the value of the cost of the encounter (such as bullet costs, legal fees, lost work time, mental injury, etc.).
Mericki Bargaining
"Mericki Bargaining" refers to a negotiation tactic where two parties come to an agreement with mutually accepted terms, but then one party suddenly adds an increased asking price or demand right at the moment of formalizing the agreement. The origins of the term are unclear; however, relate to both alliances and agreements done with one of Inyursta's major allies; the Merick Isles. It is generally accepted that the term was popularized at the onset of the Inyurstan Intervention in the Lolloh-Ruolnik Wars, wherein a simple operation to assist outnumbered Mericki marines in stabilizing Ruolnik and stopping Lollohian genocide ended up turning into a domino-effective of northward counter-offensives and naval engagements - but the origins of the term are believed to have refered to earlier business dealings and tech agreements with Mericki firms.
To call one a "Mericki Bargainer" or "Mericki Merchant" can be used both as an insult and a compliment.
Famous cases of the terms use as an insult include when Assèmblagéo Legislatív Représentaire Jamino Luscine (CIP), accused Orataire de l'Assèmblagéo Jacob de la Porçéza of "Mericki Bargaining" when the latter tacked on a last-minute ask for domestic land-use reform to an already-agreed appropriations bill, in a negative use of the term. On the other hand, actor Julien Sanchez-Leduc spoke positive of director Lucas Corillien, comparing his ability to negotiate more funding for film projects out of the larger study company to "make even the shrewdest of Mericki used boat insurance agents blush with envy".
Granjèchampé
Main Article: Granjèchampé Granjèchampé, roughly translated into English as "big pasture", is a form of land-ownership and working typically seen in rural Inyursta. In such a case, the rural lower-class owns large tracts of land, typically passed down through generations, and receives income via renting the land to larger agricultural "barons". In almost all cases, such barons use imported seasonal labor from urban areas to work the fields during planting and harvest. Throughout its inception, the balance of power between the landowner and the renter has shifted back-and-forth; from pre-Betancourt days where "barons" could get away with overworking and abusing the land, paying the landowners next to nothing for rent, and leaving the burden of housing and providing for temporary workers on the local families - to the peroid just after the Inyurstan Civil War, where landowners (many of them now former ACRI "contras") now extorting exorbiant rent rates and lease agreements with the barrel of a gun.
In the past, Granjèchampé was the cause of significant tensions between the largely animal-agriculture based "rancheros" and the largely plant (food or textile) based "barons". Rancheros typically lived and worked the land permanently, and the cattle-wrangling career was seen as a way of life.