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Hŕromszék Government Structure

From a distance one might be forgiven for thinking Hŕromszék's government looks like anarchy. Frankly, from up close it sometimes looks like anarchy. Technically, on the national level, Hz is a fractional-citizenship model co-dominium layered confederated republic. Occupants are each allocated fractional citizenship in multiple republics, of equal portions based on tribe (usually matrilinear) and languages spoken (as tested by a stiff fluency exam) among the nine official ones. Thus a Yom who speaks Yommanisch and Turayiec is a citizen of the Yom (tribal) republic, the Yommanisch (language) republic, and the Turayiec republic, franchised at 1/3 of a vote in each (federal votes) or 1-n vote in each (purely republic-related votes). Calculation of "n" is by a formula based on number of languages spoken and number of citizens in those republics.

A picture being worth a thousand words, here is Hŕromszék government in brief:

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Levente 11 41 Prime Minister A 5 16 11 3-judge courts.

Organized by province, not by republic, though each of the 25 provinces has at least one Provincial Court of Appeals for each of the 15 republics.

Provinces where population does not warrant a full-time PCoA share with other provinces in circuit courts, with the court in session for weeks in each jurisdiction in turn.

Sorry - there's no sensible way to diagram this.
Magor 11 70 Presidat B 5 17 11 dept of
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Monntagny 11 25 Presidat C 5 19 11 head of government
Prime Minister
Mongral 11 64 Prime Minister D 5 19 11
Alpard 11 50 LePremier E 5 8 11 Departements sans Ministéres
Yom 11 10 Eldest J 5 6 11
  Language Republics   Council of Ministers
Magyatic 11 50 E Prevni B 5 16 11
Skyaav 11 112 Presidat D 5 11 11 Ministeries of:
Maansi 11 88 Prevni F 5 9 11 Interior
Úgretic 11 46 Prvni Uredni G 5 5 11 Finance
Turayiec 11 144 Prime Minister H 5 18 11 Trade
Nopalcany 11 76 Prime Minister C 5 16 11 Defense
Ris 11 19 Miniszterelnök D 5 12 11 Agriculture
Yommanisch 11 310 Dom Bar'o J 5 4 11 Transport
Loirisian 11 106 Prime Minister E 5 8 11 others ...

Additional explanation

The layered republics each cover the whole of the territory of Hz and deal with international, national, and wide-area concerns. Their officers pertain to federal and provincial representation. County, city, and village offices are decided on a geographical basis, all voters in a precinct equally franchised. Voting precincts for the layered republics differ, with the aim being strict proportionality within a language or tribe.

Some republics operate on a parlimentary system - one votes for a party, or its particular local representative, and that party's leaders, or the leaders of such coalitions as are required to form a majority, lead the republic. Some are direct-democracy - pure one-person, one (fractional) vote, with multiparty candidate selection. Each republic has a lower body of legislators, with differing numbers of members, and an upper body with eleven members.

The hierarchy of administrative subdivisions is convoluted; they overlap:

The federal legislature (Hz overall) is composed of the eleven "senators' (terminology differs, but that one is most used) of each republic, plus a population-allocated number of lower-house representatives, all seated in a unicameral body. The number of lower-body reps contributed toward the federal body varies from four to sixteen. An additional five federal legislators are selected from each republic's local officials, by those officials - five from each. "Republic's local officials" means those (mayors, county councils, town boardsmembers) who happen to be from a particualar tribe or language, since the layered republics themselves don't reach down to the local level. That's 424 seats, if you're counting.

There are language republic citizens not a part of a tribal republic (ex: naturalized citizens who have no family connection or declared identity with a tribe). There are tribal republic citizens without language republic membership (ex: immigrants who became citizens by marrying into a tribe, yet who cannot yet pass a fluency exam in one of the nine official languages). There are provisional citizens - those who meet requirements for naturalization yet who have joined neither type of republic yet. These "provs" have most of the rights and responsibilities of full citizens, yet they may not vote. There are also resident aliens and visitors, who enjoy most of the protections of Hŕromszéki law (and are subject to it) yet who cannot or wish not to become citizens.

One would think this amount of governance would be a stifling weight of bureaucracy, but not so. All the positions are part-time in the legislatures. Another mitigating factor is the high degree of agreement required for enactment of laws and regulations -- making it hard for a government to get things done is not a bad thing. The electoral bureau is a bit of a seven-headed octopus, true. There's more politics involved in apportionment and redistricting than in actually electing a new Premier.

 

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