Demographics of Trigunia

Ethnicity
The largest ethnicity of Trigunia is that of Trigunians (Rodshya: Triguniye]], making up roughly 87% of the population. Due to past poverty, political oppression, and geographical factors Trigunia has not seen large influxes of immigrants like many other nations of Terra have and therefore, its population has remained relatively homogeneous.

Language
The most widely spoken language in Trigunia is Rodshya. Rodshya is a Delic language related to Deltarian. In the past, the language used a derivative of the Tokundian alphabet but in the last several hundred years the language has experienced mass Romanization. Trigunia has attempted, over the last several decades, to reinvent itself as the definitive information technology, computer hardware, software contributor and processor to the world. In this attempt, the government pushed the usage of standard Roman letters to ease translation and better aid in the dissemination of information to clients. Because of this, very few people or areas of the country still adhere to the old Tokundian alphabet, although it is still widely seen in academic circles in order to study historical documents.

There are three dialects of Rodshya spoken in Trigunia that are tied to the three main islands of the nation-state:


 * 1) The Tirgithye dialect is spoken on Tirgith and is considered the standard form of the language, despite the fact that the ancient city of Rodshyadam, where the language derived, is not located on the island. The dialect is harsher than the other two forms and tends to adhere to strict grammar and stresses proper accent usage. Since it is considered to be both standard and "accentless" this dialect is most widely used in news programming, television, and radio.
 * 2) The Dam dialect is spoken on the main island of Chadonya. It uses slightly different stresses and vocabulary inflections than does the Tirgithye dialect.
 * 3) The Novyii dialect is considered the "softest". It is found exclusively on the island of Ostrov Trigun and has many Old Language words, phrases and accents on words.  This dialect is the rarest of the three and is only spoken in rural areas of the island, however, in the more urbanized areas, the dialect has been mostly replaced by the Tigithye dialect.

Religion
Trigunians tend to be religious in nature, the majority submitting to the mainline form of Lutheran Protestantism. After several centuries of religious repression at the hands of Communist or Totalitarian regimes, the people of Trigunia have undergone a religious revival in the recent century and legislation aiding religion has become increasingly popular.

Alongside Lutheran Protestants are followers of the Terran Catholic Church and its pontiff. With around 12% of the population, atheism maintains itself as throwbacks to the secular religions of the Communist and Totalitarian regimes.