Literature in Illuminatia
Literature is a highly-valued component of Illuminatian culture, thanks to Illuminatia's voracious collective appetite for access to the ideas, enlightenment, and expression that books, manuscripts, and other texts provide. Both fiction and non-fiction literature are consumed at a rate that is accelerated relative to even the most advanced of historical Earthly developed societies. Printed non-periodical publications, in conjunction with other forms of mass media, including newspapers, magazines, and broadcasting, contribute to a thriving information economy.
The most popular genres of literature in Illuminatia include but are not limited to amalgamated biographies, historical science nonfiction, and preapocalyptic fiction. Some readers also appreciate graphical copulatory fiction. Illuminatians look to literature in the form of novels, short stories, folklore, metafiction, encyclopedic non-fiction, treatise, memoirs, critiques, diadactics, and more to gain a deeper understanding of humanity and the truths of existence if not at least a little entertainment.
The predominance of written literature in Illuminatia is printed in the Glossa Communi language as Glossa Communi is the single universally-spoken language in Illuminatia and is adopted as the one language of public discourse. However, publishers do not neglect speakers of the Protolucidian languages. Certain publishers primarily located in population centers where the Protolucidian languages are most heavily spoken specialize in translating texts to the four Protolucidian languages and publishing authors who natively write in these largely private home languages.
Written literature is most commonly printed on paper stock made from the papershrub, which is a renewable resource that is responsibly grown, harvested, and recycled. Illuminatians tend to appreciate the tactical, corporeal relationship one feels with a physical volume of literature and as a result electronic forms of transmitting printed literature have not substantively developed in Illuminatia, creating space for the physical book to remain the supreme form of printed literature.
As with ancient post-modern Earthly literature, non-periodical written literature in Illuminatia is often adapted into performing arts format such as theatre and cinema as well as into broadcast formats for wireless and telekinephotocast.