Politics and Politicians of the World Sovereign Democratic Workers Republic

# The Workers' Constitution

The "Workers'Constitution" of the World Sovereign Democratic Workers' Republic was proclaimed by the Provisional Soviet in January 2226, after a few months of rule-by-decree, during the Provisional Government. It defies the WSDWR as a One-Party Revolutionary Constitutional Republic, with the Consul being the Head of State/Government, Head of the Legislative and the De-Facto Executive Leader. It gives the sole authority to the Workers' Unity Party and states that "FasKomm"is the official ideology. The Black flag with red stripes and the Working Eagle in the middle with a 5-point star above its head is also granted by the Constitution. In spite of the USSR-era heraldry, it is not a fully socialist state.The Constitution of the WSDWR can only be modified by the World Soviet with the accept of the Consul.

# Powers

From the Constitution, powers in the Workers' Republic aren't actually divided, as the Consul is both in the Executive and the Legislative. In spite of the presence of the Ministers in the Executive, the power of the Consul is (almost) unlimited, which means that the Workers' Republic is a Personalist Dictatorship. However, the Inner Party members (the ones that directly respond to the Consul) do have some power in the state, so the Workers' Republic can also be considered an Oligarchy.

**Legislative Power**

The Unicameral Parliament in the WSDWR is called "The World Soviet" (soviet=council), and is officially based upon Democratic Centralism. It is headed by the Consul, and the deputies are elected through a popular vote (however the Consul has always decided who was part of the World Soviet/Council, the elections being merely a sham.). The Soviet as a Legislative body has the following attributions:

* promulgation of decrees and laws (with the Consul's signature);
* interpretation of current laws (directly responds to the Consul);
* Modifies the Constitution of the WSDWR (with the Consul's approval)
* implementing a national referendum on its own initiative (more or less).
* abrogation of decrees, issued by the Soviet/Council of Ministers (though this job mostly relies upon the Consul)
* establishment of orders and medals of the WSDWR and implementing the awarding procedures (helps the Consul).
* establishment of honorary titles of the WSDWR and their assignment (more or less).
* dismissal of the Soviet of Ministers at the convocation of the Consul
* realization of the right to pardon (at least officially);
* establishment of military and diplomatic ranks and other special ranks (helps the Consul);
* declaration of the general and partial mobilization (helps the Consul);
* declaration of war and peace (with the help of the Consul)
* ratification and denunciation of interplanetary treaties (with the Consul's approval);
* appointment and dismissal of World Ambassadors on other planets (if the Consul wants to);
* receiving of Letters of Credence and Letters of Recall from alien diplomatic representatives in the WSDWR (helps the Consul)
* declaration of the martial law in a given region or across the WSDWR in the interest of defending the country or preserving public order and state security (at the Consul's order).

However, it is noted that the World Soviet/Council is a puppet Parliament, as it follows the exact orders of the Consul, who actually holds the full political power. In contrast to the official rule-by-decree of the Provisional Government, it serves mostly as another cog in the Propaganda apparatus of the WSDWR, which further gives the impression to be a democratic nation to the citizen to further implement the regime, and separates the notion of "Inner Party" from the Soviet, which didn't happen during the Provisional Government, wgere the Inner Party formed an unstable Provisional Soviet that was dismissed by the Workers' Constitution of January 2226.

**Executive Power**

The Consul and the Soviet of Ministers hold the executive branch. The Consul (being the Head of the State and Executive, the Head of Legislative, and the Party General Secretary) is the most influent person and has access to all the Government's treasury. He stays in the office for life, and because Anton Ruslanov is a vampire, his life never ends. (though this fact is known only by "Inner Party" members, who are undead, too). The Consul directly appoints the Soviet of Ministers. He is granted to use the telescreens to appear publicly, (even though he also appears in person at ceremonies), to make the ConsulCasts and so a huge Cult of Personality, from where the name "The Red Czar" or the "Labour Hero" or "Big Brother" emerged from. The iconic face of Ruslanov appearing on telescreens can be seen in any part of the WSDWR, either as a static screensaver picture or live, becoming a symbol of the victorious Party and the Workers' Republic itself, which he usually refers to as "Our Glorious Labour State". The Minister of Propaganda, Dr. Facilier was responsible for the introduction of the Telescreens, and so the people on the world have come to fully trust the Consul, the regime now being unable to fall.

As the Executive power is in his hand, he has the biggest influence in decision-making, overpassing the Legislative. His word often makes the law, and the Legislative only agrees with what he says. He prefers to rule with an iron fist, but "for the Greater-Good of Humankind", at least officially. The implemetation of the extreme idiosyncratic "FasKomm" basically allowed him to apply all the means both far-right and far-left totalitarian governments may use to control the population. He is also very influential in the Armed forces, too. He wears the highest military rank, "Commander-Overseer (Generalissimus) of the Workers' Republic", which is over the rank of "Commander (Marshal) of the Workers' Republic". He is also the supreme commander of the Nightwatch Observational Group and S.P.E.C.T.R.E. It is also important to see that he had chosen to wear the title of "Consul", which was probably inspired by the French First Republic Consulate, established by Napoleon Bonaparte, who himself had inspired from the ancient Roman Republic, one of the most stable oligarchical regimes in history. Though in here we don't have really an oligarchy, a collective oligarchy, but some kind of Absolute Totalitarianism. With the Telescreens, the Consul can see everything the citizens are doing, he has full political power, with no one really overpowering him, not even the Workers' Constitution (which grants him this power). Still, he had left the Inner Party members as the only ones who have some kind of power in the Labour State, in the light of the FasKomm ideology, which is in fact pure Oligarchical Collectivism, as described into "the Boook", which was written by Ruslanov (and possibly by Mina, too).

The Soviet of Ministers, also known as the Council of Ministers, is the other part of the Executive, which is another puppet institution of the Consul. Also located in the Citadel, the twelve/thirteen Ministries (one of which, the thirteenth is unofficial) There are six "Presidential Ministries": the Ministry of War and Peace (MiniWarPax), Ministry of External Affairs (MiniExternAff), Ministry of Internal Affairs (MiniInternAff), Ministry of Civil Protection (MiniCivProt), Ministry of Justice (MiniJust) and the Ministry of Propaganda (MiniGanda). However, only five of these are official, the Ministry of Propaganda is known only to Inner Party members amd the Elite Working-Liberation Army officers.

List of the Ministries in the WSDWR, with every office incubent.