North America

The **North American Union** (NAU), officially the **Great House of North America**,  is a Dynastic House located primarily in North America, with some territory located in the Caribbean. It consists of several feudal realms and shares a land border with the South American Reich to its south.

The North American Union came into being following the Millennium Coup. A cadre of American Metahumans, including Teris Renner, Juliana Kelvin, and Columbia herself quickly and efficiently eliminated the United States’ ability to respond as metahumans across the nation seized power. In hours, Mexico and Canada followed suit. In a high level meeting of the metahumans, Juliana Kelvin was selected as the President of the newly formed North American Union.

With a largely peaceful transfer of power, the NAU enjoyed relative peace and prosperity for normal humans and metahumans alike, despite the changes to governance.  In 2007, Juliana Kelvin died and her son Josiah was elected to succeed her, despite rumors that her sons assassinated her.

Since 2007, the seat of the NAU’s power shifted from New York City to Kingston, Jamaica, and while preserving the largely libertarian policies of his mother, Josiah Kelvins has adopted a far more hawkish and interventionist foreign policy, as well as demonstrating far more sympathy for the anti-Dynastic Resistance.

## **Government**

The NAU is a unitary, neo-feudal parliamentary state. There are two houses in its legislature; the House of Representatives and the House of Lords. The NAU is divided into 650 constituencies that elect a single representative to the House of Representatives, which anyone, human or metahuman, can be elected to. The House of Representatives does not propose legislation, it merely votes on it with a simple majority.

The House of Lords is made up of 500 metahuman lords, most of whom have life peerage but some are elected (elections for both houses are every four years). The House of Lords can propose legislation, with resolutions passed at a simple majority. If the House of Representatives votes against a bill, the House of Lords can still pass it with a 60% majority. The House of Lords may also, with a three fourths super majority remove the President from office.

The real beating heart of the NAU is the Privy Council, which is selected from the House of Lords by the President. Within the Privy Council is the Cabinet, which decides on policy, and is made up of ministers and headed by the Lord Chancellor, who is second only to the President in terms of power. The Privy Council also functions as the Supreme Court of the North American Union.

If the President dies or is removed from office, the House of Lords, with a simple majority, may select his replacement with the approval of the House of Representatives. The President is the supreme commander of the military forces of the NAU, and may grant titles of nobility and nominate individuals for various offices when the time arises.

Real power in the NAU is held by regional metahuman lords. As a result of the rather non-interventionist and libertarian government, local lords and authorities enact most of the real policies. The larger holdings, known as dominions, can be quite large, encompassing at their largest several former-US States. These domains maintain their own armies and are largely free to make their own laws.

## Vassals

Free State of Texas

Arcane Council of Neo-America