Kokan

In Chisei, the word kokan (国奸 こかん), also pronounced kohukan (こくかん), is a pejorative term or ethnic slur for a traitor to the Chiseian state. The word kokan is distinct from the general word for traitor, which could be used for any country or ethnicity. It is a digraph of the koji characters for "state/country" and "traitor". In addition, kokan is a gendered term, indicated by the construction of the word. Kan (奸), in classical Hua legal language, adopted by Chisei, primarily referred to illicit sex. Implied by this term was a Chiseian carrying on an illicit relationship with the enemy. Kokan is often worded as "collaborator" in translation.

The term emerged in the aftermath of the First Escar-Varunan War, and was used in reference to Chiseians accused of being fifth columnists during the war, or collaborating with Yamataian occupation authorities in the lost New Territories. After the New Year Rebellion, it would also come to be levelled at anti-war politicians, socialists, ashikasists or other opponents to the Conciliar Government.

Following the reconquest of the New Territories in the Second Escar-Varunan War, Chisei was left with an enormous population of former collaborators, demobilised soldiers, deserters and lower-class Yamataian colonists who were made effectively stateless when the Yamataian government ceased mass repatriation efforts following the Treaty of Eito. Against much opposition, Chancellor Hatsume Amami naturalised all 4 million Seimin (西民 'Westerners') in 1962. The move provoked severe outrage among Chiseian nationalists, and the term kokan would quickly be again repurposed for these new citizens, as well as the Shinkitashimin (新北市民 'New Northern Citizens'), the ethnically Kuijuan inhabitants of Dornod province in Uraan.

Many homonyms of the word exist, and are sometimes used in pejorative puns, as with 股間 ('crotch') or 小管 ('small tube', referring to genitalia), or as euphemisms. 国間, meaning 'Between Countries', is how the slur is typically rendered in Chiseian newspapers.