<div align="center">(http://ist3-2.filesor.com/pimpandhost.com/5/3/2/5/53250/2/L/c/d/2LcdU/ThisisSparta.jpg)<br/><br/><strong><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;">This is Sparta!</span></strong></div><div class="floatright">(http://img.engadget.com/common/images/3060000000049343.JPG?0_thumbnail.8456768619858706)</div>Laconophilia (also known as Laconism)[1] is love or admiration of Sparta and of the Spartan culture or constitution. The term derives from Laconia, the part of the Peloponnesus where the Spartans lived.<br/><br/>The unique oligarchy political system setup in  ancient Sparta unique even amongst its peers in the ancient world and amongst the Greek States.   The society of Sparta is derived into three classes.<br/><br/>Spartans -   The ruling class,  from this formed the bulk of the army.   A military state, the young man as boys at the age of seven would attend the Agrope for a military education.    But this was not all they were also taught how to read,  philosophy and dance for example.    They were expected to serve for seven years in the army and then be on active reserve until the age of sixty.      For the women of Sparta.   They held more freedoms and privileges then their counter parts in the rest of Greece,  even that of Athens.     Like the young men the women are schooled, through less in the ways of the military.     They did not marry until their late teens and early twenties.  Unlike other Greek states that seen their women married at the ages of twelve and thirteen.    Nor were they hidden away and adorn with clothing that hid them.   Spartan women were allowed to roam free,  wore dresses that slit up the sides for allowance of freedom of movement.    They participated in the 'Gymnopaedia'   the festival of nude youths an athletic competition.<br/><br/>It is from this class that the players will come from.    Ranging in age from sixteen to twenty years old.<br/><br/>Another unique thing amongst the Spartans was the women practicing polyandry.  It was considered an honor if a more capable man beget ones wife with child.   Such practice was to ensure the continued birth of healthy strong babies.<br/><br/>In all this elite citizens of the state of Sparta are a ruling class that enjoys much in terms of rights and privileges.    With the class of Helots they did not have to worry about the mundane and menial tasks of every day in their leisure and pleasurable pursuits.   However, the were also forbidden in terms of craftsmanship and such from partaking.  For this role fell to the class known as the Perioikoi.<br/><br/>Perioikoi -  Also free citizens of Sparta.    The craftsman and artists of Sparta.   Their loyalty is derived from the fact the law forbid Spartans from taking to such professions.      The army would be filled out with auxiliary troops from this class.<br/><br/>Helots -   Slaves those that performed the menial tasks and farmed working the fields.    Through more akin to feudal serfs then slaves.   For what farms they worked,  from their landlord Spartans.   They were allowed to keep half.   They actually made up the bulk of Spartan society.<br/><br/>At age 20, the Spartan citizen began his membership in one of the syssitia (dining messes or clubs), composed of about fifteen members each, of which every citizen was required to be a member. Here each group learned how to bond and rely on one another.   The men would also at the age of twenty begin their military active duty service of which ten years service is required.  Also no one could elected to a  public office until the age of thirty.    A Spartan male remained in the Spartan reserves until the age of sixty.<br/><br/>From their years of training and studying.   From within the  agoge,  where the young men from the age of seven learned not only military training,  but  culture and philosophy.   To the gymnopaedia where both sexes completed.    While the young women,  trained also in a institutional manner.   Where they learned not of weaving or other such domicile equated to the feminine gender amongst other states.    For with over half the male population always away from the homes.    The woman the majority of the time are the head of the household.   So such things as reading,  writing, mathematics,  culture and philosophy are also taught the young women.      Other then formal military training the education is the same regards.    The difference lays in the young men attended the agoge as a communal boarding school.   While the young women  attended schooling and returned home every day.    These young adults now.   Form into syssitia mess clubs.    Of which while a member are also financially responsible.<br/><br/>The group finds itself while amidst a session of exercise.    Discussing the formation of such a syssitia.   It is also at this time of their life that it is expected they marry.