Eovinjai Sovereignty

Eovinjai Third Sovereignty

 Aristocratic technocracy

**Council:** Commissariat of Eovinj

**Details** **Government:** *Build up admin. efficiency*
**Taxation:** *Maintain current*
**Spending:** *Trade & foreign aid*
**Debt:** *Pay off*
**Military:** *Powerful trade fleet*
**Economy:** *Mixed*
**Trade:** *Dirigism*
**Foreign:** *Contain the Empire*
**Alliance:** *GCTO*

**Reformists:** *Keep unrecognized, combat radicals*

 Overview Population

The **Eovinjai Third Sovereignty** is a subject realm of the Phero Ecumene, encompassing the historical territories and population centers of the Eovinjai species. Its capital is their homeworld of Eovinj.

Located on the eastern side of the Ecumene's heartland, the Sovereignty borders the Makhaira Parity, Tvolai Technocracy, and Volyn Stellar Chorus. It consists of 5 prefectures and contains 3 major inhabited planets: Eovinj, Lacuna, Caesura, and Chatoyant. The unincorporated world of Timara is also completely surrounded by Eovinjai space.

## Government

The government of the Eovinjai is rooted in their aristocratic clans, the *tanakazhi*, and the magnates which comprise them. Magistrates are elected by the eligible magnates who have legal residence in their prefecture, with each magnate receiving one vote. However, the Sovereign of Eovinj is elected by a Sovereignty-wide vote in which each magnate clan receives one vote, which may be determined by a vote internal to the clan, the absolute decree of its matriarch, or some other method.

In the case of both magistrates and the Sovereign, the election uses a two-round cardinal ballot, in which the top four candidates from the first graduate to the second. If necessary, successive rounds may be held, dropping the lowest-performing candidate each time.

Municipalities in the Sovereignty are termed either **subprefectures** or **metropolitan districts**, the latter being used only on Eovinj and Lacuna.

While criminal justice is in principle very similar to anywhere else in the Ecumene, in practice it has some notable distinctions which continue from Eovinjai traditions of justice. One of the most prominent examples of this is a weregild and corporal punishment system. Under this system, convicts of crimes such as murder and manslaughter are charged an extensive fine, often in the hundreds of millions to billions of cubits, paid to both the ruling adjudicator and magistrate and the family or next of kin of the deceased. If the weregild cannot be paid in full or in a timely manner, a local *kanvari* is commissioned to make up the remainder via corporal punishment.

## Astrography

The Sovereignty borders the Makhaira Parity to its north, the Tvolai Technocracy to its west, and the Volyn Stellar Chorus to its south, and the Caishiwaran Eparchy of Yan Kythre along its southeastern edge. To its east lies Etherically fogged Null-Sector Space and the Sovereign Wall, a formation which has historically funneled attacks from the east through quasi-choke points.

## Society & Culture

*See also: Eovinjai#Culture*
The culture of the Sovereignty is primarily a reflection of the Eovinjai themselves, with other resident species being relatively few.

Tima themselves are unique for their unusual morphology and largely translucent bodies, save for their "heads," which contain the densest vital tissues and brain. Most sport an oblong "torso" extending back from head and into a set of six to nine tendrils. They are organized on Timara into a single polity known as the **Tima Glaciation**, a loose gerontocratic confederation of Timan nations.
The current magistrate, Haiyan ka-Seshat, has made the full integration of the Tima a distinct part of his policy, to much controversy among both the Sovereignty and the Tima themselves.