The Sæcular society includes all those who live extramuros - literally, outside the walls, meaning those who do not live inside the monastic Maths, i.e. the avout. The Saecular world is historically unstable, giving rise to frequent changes in society and civilizations in recurring cycles of increasing praxis or technology, flourishing economic growth, exploration, warfare, collapse, rebuilding, etc. Due to this unpredictability, those living intramuros generally refer to whatever current regime(s) are in place collectively as the Saecular Power, or rather pejoratively, as the Panjandrums.