The Ethnologistical Committee for a More Prosperous Golden Branch is a Diasporan organization based off of the abandoned Diasporan colony of Slighter. Described as an extension of administrative sociology and academia in general, their belief system assumes the world can be improved through quantification. They have access to the Divines Integrity and Reason via the Slighter archives.
In "This Month of Ours", they begin working on stealth for Integrity, with plans to eventually reach and 'civilize' the planet of Gemm.
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Sokrates has been rising up the ranks of the Ethnologistical Committee since the Golden War and become the Candidate of Integrity. When they form the Golden Demarchy, the Ethnologistical Committee's resources are folded in alongside those of the former Apostolosian Empire.