Relarian Government

Formally, Relerian is ruled by a Monarch, a King or a Queen. The title is passed down from parent to child, favoring eldest male children. There has never been a break in the Relerian Royal Bloodline, although there is speculation that, in cases where royal couples found themselves infertile, they secretly adopted the children of relatives and claimed them as their own.

This practice was covertly documented by a royal historian during the 300s AE, particularly in his diary reports that Queen Atemixa and her husband, Prince Temmaes. The Prince was famously sterile, yet they had two children. The historian also mused on the possibility that the Queen slept with her husband’s brother, who was a prolific breeder, but there is no certainty to that claim. In the end, many guess that the Queen and her husband adopted a few of his brother’s illegitimate children.

However, over the last thousand years, the overall power and influence of the monarchs has waned, making the Monarch more of a figurehead. Instead, most major decisions are determined by a Senatorial body known as the *Konassim*.

## Waning of Monarchical Power

In the twenty-seventh year after the Battle of Dreidal, Royal Advisors and Scholars met in the Relerian capital of Baenkatior to discuss the creation of the Relerian Senate, the *Konassim*. Concerns had been expressed throughout all branches of government as to the Monarchy’s fitness to rule the kingdom and make decisions on behalf of its citizens. Over the course of several hundred years, the Relerian Royalty had isolated itself from the rest of Atemnity, only marrying other Relerian Royals, often first or second cousins or even siblings. As a result, there was a marked decline in the psychological capacity of Royals. The King at that time, Luxianem IV, was growing increasingly unpredictable and many feared that he was growing quite mad.

Worried for the safety and security of their kingdom, representatives for the government laid out a new constitution that still left all final signing power with the Monarch, but transferred most of the thinking, planning, and drafting of legislation to this new Senatorial body.

Despite their waning political power, the Royalty still hires a full staff of Guardians, Villains, and Heroes, as appropriate, to see to their needs. However, there are often “horror stories” of unreasonable local Relerian Dukes and Duchesses pressuring their staff into nonsensical quests and impossible tasks for their own amusement.

The current rulers of Relerian are Queen Axamica and her Queen Consort, Prince Karulos, also her second cousin.

## The Konassim

The Relerian *Konassim*  has served as the major decision-making body of Relerian since the twenty-seventh year after the Battle of Dredal.

It is composed of **seven** representatives from each of the four districts of Relerian:

* 4 royal representatives, chosen by royal families from the district every 10 years (or more often if a Royal Konassor is found to have a medical exception, such as dementia, or retires)
* 3 non-royal representatives, elected by the common people every 4 years

A Konassim may have male or female representatives. The gender distribution does not favor or trend along with the particular Monarch in power at any given time. More traditionally, the Konassim tended to be all-male, but in recent years, there has been a majority-female distribution.

The ***Konassors*** (*Kuinessuir* is the plural in Atemnition) meet daily in their own districts to handle local affairs with a monthly all-Konassim meeting in Baenkatior to discuss kingdom-wide or national affairs and approve new legislation to be signed by the King or the Queen. This monthly meeting typically lasts two days, but in the case of a crisis, such as war or famine, it has been known to last up to five days.

It is important to note that non-royal representatives can be Guardians, Heroes, or Villains. There is no record of anyone from Earth or otherwise not falling under one of those categories ever being elected in the history of the Konassim.

Additionally, one member of the Konassim for each district is responsible for maintaining thorough knowledge of all goings-on in the following departments:

1. Military and Defense
2. Portals and Technology
3. Foreign Affairs and Diplomacy
4. Domestic Affairs and Health
5. Finance and Trade
6. Justice and Corrections
7. Science and Agriculture

During the monthly meeting in the capital, the 4 representatives of each department meet to discuss particular concerns that have not been handled by the department itself and to answer questions or make decisions and recommendations.

## Portals

### Portal Monitoring

Scholars have nearly perfecting portaling detection and containment. While much of Relerian is open to portaling, there is an office in Baenkatior whose sole responsibility is recording informations about all portals into, out of, and within Relerian. There is a log of every portal “imprint” in this central office with copies kept off-site in case of invasion or nefarious use.

### Portal Containment

Portaling containment is another innovation of Relerian that is used both at Hawthorne Institute of Legends, technically a neutral region unaffiliated with any kingdom, and the capital city. When someone tries to portal into Hawthorne without advanced notice/clearance, they are “stored,” in a sense, like a genie in a bottle until experts have a chance to confirm their identity and ascertain that they are not a threat.

## Public Enterpises

Public Enterprises are overseen by the Malayikim.

## Public Service & Administration

Most Public Service and Administration positions are handled by the Malayikim.

## Welfare and Population Development

Relerian’s main source of welfare and public assistance is administered by the Malayikim. The Humanitarian Assistance division of the Domestic Guard will often go to less affluent rural communities and distribute goods that are difficult to obtain in that community, whether that’s food, cloth, raw metal, blankets and home goods, or farming and work implements.

Additionally, within the past two decades, Relerian has begun a new program of workforce development and education in rural communities. Experts are sent into these communities to teach the population, who often only speaks a very regional dialect, Standard Atemnition. During this instruction, they identify the most talented and intelligent members of the community. These young people and adults are sent to district schools and given special education with others of similar background. In addition to further language instruction, these special programs teach young people about agriculture, business, finance, science, mathematics, Relerian history, and politics. After completing the course of instruction, they are sent back to their community in the hopes that they will share their knowledge and the communities will develop and thrive organically, without too much additional outside intervention.

## Foreign Affairs

The Overseer of Foreign Affairs operates an office directly in communication with the four Kuinessuir who oversee foreign affairs and diplomacy. The department includes not only diplomacy, foreign affairs, and trade, but it also oversees the intelligence department of Relerian.

Despite being nestled firmly in the interior of the main land continent of Atemnity, Relerian does not have a long history of collaboration with neighbors. Traditionally, Relerian has been somewhat suspicious of outsiders and also proud of their own history, as they view Relerian as the cradle of all Atemnian civilization. As such, Relerian has also historically tried to avoid joining foreign wars except in situations that the Foreign Affairs Department to be more perilous for Relerian to avoid.

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