From Kyratisian philosopher Giacomiz di Fior’s Examen Regentis, transl. An Examination of Government (1218):

xiii. And, in keeping with departure from theological contention over matters particular to arkalis and its kin, and having established that government is willed by the people, there too is the secular contention. For arkalis is in its very nature a defiance, of essence and of earth, and as well in its very nature a manipulation; this is its relation with reality. Governing authority, which derives itself from a people’s will, is then by nature mortally opposed to that which assumes regency without right; they that persuade a people otherwise is a viper, and a pest of society.

xiv. The practice of arkalis, inasmuch as it furthers the interest of the people, may be a tool, a facilitator of civil society, which in its application secures the life and health of a people, but no further. Its domain ought only extend out so far as rightful government may make use of it, just as a country’s lands may only extend as far as they are cultivated; and taking the inverse, beyond this purview it is the case that such cultivation throws aside the compact between man and crown, when such use may in fact impair the liberty of others within society.

In understanding these which spring from the basest principles, our synthesis is clear: arkalis makes no master. It is then the duty of independent government to immure arkalis within its rightful bounds, and employ it for the benefit of society.

From a speech by the Sun-King Leonis XV commemorating the successful conquest and annexation of Adalumeneli by Kyratisia, delivered in the Mausoleum at Hiesos (1224):

We stand in the hall of the Sun-Kings before me, the final resting place of my father and his fathers before him; here, where our divine lineage is heavy in the air, I repeat now at the end of this war the maxim which begun it: Adalumeneli is not only the divine right, but the earthly mission of our people.

That cabal which ruled from mountaintops, branded generations of poor slaves, now by our hand falls back to the earth; those vipers, false masters of fertile ground, now become subject and citizen, in rightful compact with their fellow man. No longer will their lands be governed by rule of defiant, capricious arkalimi; instead, they will see safety and prosperity under our grand Exarchate, and they will look to the East and see a new dawn.

Indeed, within greater Kyratisia, it is not only salvation we have shown to them; it is civilization itself.