Since the coup in 1962 the military has used a cultural corporative and unitary model of the Burman state, replacing local administration and reviving the model of the British Frontier Area Administration but as an integrative instrument of the central government. The military intervened in the Shan States and pressured the saophas to surrender their power. The Burman nation turned into a hegemonic nation state ruled by Ne Win's Revolutionary Council and the Burma Socialist Programme Party (BSPP) Although non-Burman culture and language were officially protected, Burman became the national language and all citizens are supposed to share a common identity. In 1982 the regime limited the access to citizenship to descendants of ethnic groups living in the country before 1823. Where