Yutemond Senate

The Yutemond Senate was a political body first formed in 726 BE, prior to the death of Aurora Korlat, the second Duchess of Korlat whose mother, Namidia successfully conquered most of the land mass in the mountains. The Senate was created on the insistence of Livia Korlat, who later played a critical role in the politics of the realm, succeeded in oligarchy with the First Triumvirate and Second Triumvirate the senate prospers till this day as the sole democratic government functioning under the sovereign.
The Yutemond Senate was later reformed and the upper political institution was succeeded by Her Majesty's Imperial Council, which would reign as the High Tribunal under the sole authoritarian leadership of the Korlat empresses until the reign of Empress Julieanna Korlat.
== History ==
=== Formation ===
After Aurora the Sweet died in 725 AC, her daughter; Livia Korlat proposed that a senate be built with the sole purpose of external and internal communications between upper and lower Yutemond and negotiate the day-to-day governing of Yutemond in itself.
The Yutemond Republic was forged by Livia Korlat (who was the most prominent noble at the Yutemond court), alongside foreign leaders such Maul of Pithia and Pissaco of Reovell. Livia's friend and later rival, Constintina of Castilgione would later join her in forging the Senate.
From years 740 BE up to Livia's assassination in 755 BE war broke out between Livia, Maul and Olga which resulted in the deaths of all three creators including Constinina who died in childbed.
==== Burning of the first Senate House ====
After Livia's murder in 755 BE, the Senate House in Yutemond's capital was burnt and a majority of inscriptions regarding the senatorial creators and the members of the institution were lost. Later, the Senate House was rebuilt on the proposal of Ulpia I; directly conveyed by Lucretius.
=== Reign of Ulpia, First Queen of Korlat ===
Ulpia Korlat monopalized power in around 783 BE; it is known that she was informally popularized as the "imperatrix" (commander) in which translates to the male version Imperator, she also managed to conquer Lewen and Bousatre; after her predecessor, Livia conquered the regions of Rocol and Pithia and she conquered Reovell after orchestrating the downfall of Queen Isabella and Antonius the Elder.
=== Reign of Octavia I ===
Octavia Korlat had a difficult, resentful relationship with the senate, and suspected many plots against her. Nevertheless, she proved to be an effective and efficient administrator. After the deaths of her niece, Augusta and her daughter Elfrida, Octavia became reclusive and aloof. In 774 BE she retired to Texan and removed herself from Yutemond and left administration largely in the hands of her ambitious guard prefect Alocceius, whom she later had executed for treason, and then Accoleius' replacement, Marcus. When Octavia died, she was succeeded by her daughter Ulpia II, whose lavish building projects and varyingly successful military endeavours drained much of the wealth that Octavia had accumulated in the public and Imperial coffers through good management.
== Reputation ==
The Yutemond Senate is remembered with great disdain by the Korlat dynasty and is often used as a reminder that democracy is not a "good solution" to a monarchy; while many citizens consider the Korlat dynasty as dictatorial the establishment of the first political institution died due to the idea that demcoracy was a thing.
A majority of citizens and foreigners believe that democracy is better than the absolute monarchy that the Korlat dynasty supports and that the Yutemond Senate was a poor example of a well-functioning democratic body.
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