Arraz

Basic Info:

Arraz; Areisanian Empire

Formerly Altzanavia

Leader(s): Altue System of government: Tyrranical Imperialistic Patriarchal Socio-Capitalist/Socialist Dictatorship

Arraz or the Areisanian Empire is one of the largest and most notable factions. Dating back to mid-Season 1, their second-largest impact on the realm has been their Quartz Towers, which have been replicated each season without flaw. Their largest impact? The fact that they have started and been an aggressor in 16 different wars throughout each season. In Season 2, it had a major shop associated with it, similar to AVALON. It was named Altuecorp, but later changed to Iris Corp. Thought the empire has gone through many reformations, it still stands as a beacon of success.

Members: Altue, Goldenstar2660, Wipy\_, Zoonde, AssassinAugustus, Wallowed

Areisanian Law:

The law in Arraz follows most law in the United States. The consitiution containing:

**Section 1.** The House of Representatives shall be composed of members chosen every second year by the people of the several states, and the electors in each state shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the state legislature.

No person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the age of twenty five years, and been seven years a citizen of Arraz, and who shall not, when elected, be an inhabitant of that state in which he shall be chosen.

Representatives and direct taxes shall be apportioned among the several states which may be included within this union, according to their respective numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole number of free persons, including those bound to service for a term of years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons. The actual Enumeration shall be made within three years after the first meeting of the Congress of the Areisanian Empire, and within every subsequent term of ten years, in such manner as they shall by law direct. The number of Representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty thousand, but each state shall have at least one Representative; and until such enumeration shall be made, the state of Jool shall be entitled to chuse three, Salivania eight, Uwuland and Providence Plantations one, Wuhu five, Altuev six, Colegan four, Altzanavia eight, Cauhf one, Ukaz six, Mahen ten, South Xalan five, North Nalan five, and Yehan three.

When vacancies happen in the Representation from any state, the executive authority thereof shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies.

The House of Representatives shall choose their speaker and other officers; and shall have the sole power of impeachment.

The Treason Trials from Ancient Rome will be instated in Arraz. The trials state:

"In Roman law, the offences originally falling under the head of treason were almost exclusively those committed in military service. The very name *perduellio*, the name of the crime in the older Roman law, is evidence of this. *Perduelles* were, strictly, public enemies who bore arms against the state; and traitors were regarded as having no more rights than public enemies. The Twelve Tables made it punishable with death to communicate with the enemy or to betray a citizen to the enemy. Other kinds of *perduellio* were punished by "interdiction of fire and water" (*aquae et ignis interdictio*), in other words, banishment. The crime was tried before a special tribunal (*quaestio*) by two officials (*duumviri perduellionis*), which was perhaps the earliest permanent criminal court existing at Rome.

At a later period, the name of *perduellio* gave place to that of *laesa maiestas*, *deminuta* or *minuta maiestas*, or simply *maiestas*. The *lex Iulia maiestatis*, to which the date of 48 B.C. has been conjecturally assigned, continued to be the basis of the Roman law of treason until the latest period of the empire. The original text of the law appears to have still dealt with what were chiefly military offences, such as sending letters or messages to the enemy, giving up a standard or fortress, and desertion."

"With the empire, the law of treason was greatly expanded in scope, mainly in the reign of Tiberius, and led to the rise of a class of professional informers, called *delatores*. The concept of the emperor as divine had much to do with this. It became a maxim that treason was next to sacrilege in gravity.

The law as it existed in the time of Justinian is contained chiefly in the titles of the Digest and Codex *Ad legem Iuliam maiestatis*. The definition given in the Digest (taken from Ulpian) is this: ''*maiestatis crimen illud est quod adversus populum Romanum vel adversus securitatem eius committitur."* ("The crime of majestas is that which is committed against the Roman people or against their safety.") Of treasons other than military offences, some of the more noticeable were the raising of an army or levying war without the command of the emperor, the questioning of the emperor's choice of a successor, the murder of (or conspiracy to murder) hostages or certain magistrates of high rank, the occupation of public places, the meeting within the city of persons hostile to the state with weapons or stones, incitement to sedition or administration of unlawful oaths, release of prisoners justly confined, falsification of public documents, and failure of a provincial governor to quit his province at the expiration of his office or to deliver his army to his successor." **Arraz** also contains a senate much like the ancient Romans.

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