Caligorantes live in feudal societies split between the warriors, the clergy, and the peasants. All lords and kings are warriors first. They have a system of vassalage that requires peasants to work the land and tithe to them and to the clergy. The clergy educate all children in very cruel schools, letting them go home to their families to work the farming seasons. The warriors gain tribute for ostensibly protecting the peasants, though they often raid and rape them instead. The peasants live lives of toil.

Caligorante peasant families are structured such that everyone works the fields. The men are eligible for conscription if a war comes. While many peasant men respect the women in their families or communities, they are viewed overall as little more than property. A warrior, especially a lord, can take a peasant woman any time he wishes. Peasants have four options for life: remain a peasant, join a lord's house as a servant, hope to be chosen to be clergy, or become a bandit. Very rarely, a conscripted peasant will prove so great in combat that they will be knighted and become a warrior, though this is rare.

Clergy preach that it is the will of the Divine that peasants suffer, that warriors die in battle, and that plague, flooding, fire, and storms destroy the lands of the caligorantes. They maintain the massive oppression of the peasant class. They educate, preach, and travel about serving as (very cruel and demanding) medics and secret police.

Warriors levy fees and tribute from peasants in order to fund their houses, weaponry, armor, and horses, ostensibly, but often spend it on drink and sex. They are little better than the bandits they claim to be protecting peasants from, but when a real war breaks out, they lead the cavalry and are a force to be reckoned with.

Bandits are usually run away peasants, disgraced clergy and warriors, and non-caligorantes. They are common in caligorante countries.

Caligorante lords keep massive castles as fortifications. They have catapults and ballistae, archers, and knights to protect them and their wealth, which they take from the peasants. They live in relative comfort, but still a degraded lifestyle with little real sanitation or comfort.

Caligorantes are considered adults by the age of 17, when they reach their last growth spurt. Those who do not hit that last growth spurt must try to force it through violent accidents, but usually, they are caught and outcast. Courtship is violent and cruel, with warriors and clergy taking what women they please. Some peasants have more gentle forms of courtship, usually involving arts, singing, poetry, and dancing, but these can be ended by the whim of a warrior or clergy.

Through the year, there are three main festivals for caligorantes: the lord's birthday, the new year, and harvest. During the lord's birthday, the annual tributes are delivered and the warriors and clergy enjoy a great feast at the expense of the peasants. At the new year, the peasants and warriors get drunk while the clergy pray and fast. Harvest time is when the peasants feast, taking what they can before the clergy calculate their tribute or the warriors come through. Every caligorante celebrates birthdays, adulthood anniversaries, and marriages throughout their lives.