Yuerwadis

Yuerwadi, also known as the *Popular Constituencies of Yuerwadi*, is a Federal Republic comprising the previous holdings of the Koraksyet Kings of Wadtui. The Constituencies is primarily known for its role within The Long War, in which the recently democratised Yuerwadi regime conducted a sixteen year long conflict to end noble privilege, monarchical rule, and national sovereignty within the Zu'ua Basin region. Despite this trouble past, and its defeat in this conflict, Yuerwadi, today, is a global power and a peaceful participant in the supranational Internationale of Nations, along with the Union of Essencian People's Republics, Republic of Ryriad, and the Republic of Sarcid.

## **Government and Politics**

### Bloc Democracy

Created in the crises and revolt in the end phases of the Koraksyet Monarchy, before undertaking considerable reform and consolidation under the Liberationist regime of Lusakt and his successors, Bloc Democracy is a coalition-based democratic structure focused on the democratisation of society and government through the guiding hand of the state and national bureaucracy.

Originally tasked with curtailing the worse excesses of demagoguery, while maintaining Royal control over governmental affairs, Bloc-dem systems limits full public participation within local and federal elections through the intermediary influence of state maintained Politically Parties, who dominate the system through direct influence over personnel selection for political positions and coalition based control over government. Under Lusakt and his political successors, the people were permitted more popular control through the democratisation of the Political Parties, with modern Yuerwadi and other Bloc Democracies popularising Political Parties and their official agendas through primary processes and the referendums on agenda and policy opinions by Party members. With all parties subsided by government funding and any citizen able to create a political party and receive official government recognistion if they are able to gather a petition of a sufficient percentage of their province's population.

### Grand Parliament

In the present day, the *Popular Constituencies of Yuerwadi* is a Federal Republic split between 10 Constituencies (Provinces) and two Federal Territories, each granted autonomy through a local governing Assembly and Judicial system under the authority of the Federal: Grand Parliament and Grand Court of Justice. This Grand Parliament is the bicameral, unilateral Federal authority of the Yuerwadi state and is comprised of a Lower House known as the **Popular Assembly** and a Upper House known as the **Bloc Council,** the latter of which elected from amongst their Party ranks the Head of State, the **Premier.**

* **Popular Assembly** The Popular Assembly is a 350 Seat representative assembly comprised of representatives appointed by the prevailing Political Parties, whose delineation in the institution is allocated through a single nation-wide vote of political alignment. These vote occur once every 2 years and is a first-past-the-post ballot on political affinity rather than on candidates. The Assembly is the main legislative authority of the Yuerwadi State and has control over the Republic's legal, financial, geopolitical, and structural affairs.

* **Bloc Council** The Bloc Council is a 38 man, Council compromised of representatives of each Province's leading Political Parties, as determined by their own provincial elections, with the top Four Parties in each province, with over 15% of the vote share, granted a seat upon the Council to represent their Province and Party's interest in national affairs. These Councillars are appointed by the Provincial Parties organisations and are not elected by the people. The Bloc Council is the Executive authority of the state, which elects from amongst the Parties within its rank the Premier, and in tandem with this official Head of State leads the Executive Departments, whose leaders report to the Council, and has Final approval over any Bill or Iniatives passed by the Popular Assembly. Through its role as Head of the Executive Departments, the Bloc Council has control over the Yuerwadi National Liberation Front (Army) and thus military affairs of the country.

* **Premier** The Premier is the Leader of the National Party, anointed authority by the Bloc Council, and serves as a Head of Parliament and Head of State, with authority to decide ties in either house of Parliament, appoint the Nation's Representative on the National Council, and in tandem with the Bloc Council is the Final Say on the legitimisation of Party registrations and Appointment list of each Party, with the ability to force Parties to redraft their listings if so necessary. Though a majority vote of the Party's Members can force a listing through after two redraftings.

### Judicial System

Within Yuerwadi, the justice system is a three tiered hierarchy, which bases its legal parameters upon a codification of Church Doctrines, Ducal dictates, and court precedent by the Koraksyet Monarchs on their unification of the Yuerwadi State, modified and expanded on in previous decades by Liberationist and Republican scrutiny. These three tiers of the Yuerwadi judicial hierarchy represent the menial district courts, which manage day to day disputes between citizenry and criminal tribunals, the appeal Constituency courts, which takes appeals from local district courts and manages criminal cases and cases from between the districts, and the federal **Grand Court of Justice**, which is a committee of the most senor judges of the nation which acts as the final appeal court, oversees cases between Constituencies or between Constituencies and major institutions/corporations, and receives charges against the Federal Government directly, a right the reforms of the Liberationists under Lusakt granted to all citizens of the nation.

Enforcement of this Korak Codexes, as the legal code is still called, is the responsibility of the Department of Judicial Affairs, a executive department under the technical authority of the Premier and Bloc Council, but which mainly serves the dictates of its local, regional, and national authorities. All local, metropolitan, and regional police forces fall under the broad banner of this Department, but typically tend to manage their own affairs with little Department oversight, other than broad determination by the Department of training and policing procedures and inspections on their moral and financial standing.

### Constituencies

Divided into Ten Provinces or Constituencies, most originating from pre-Unification Duchies that comprised the Wadi Valley before the Koraksyet Unification, Yuerwadi is a Federal state which permits its regional divisions or Constituencies self-governance through a subordinate regional Parliament, known in all the Constituencies but Bigwafi and Wagagot (Waragot) as a Constituent Assembly.

* Within Bigwafi, its regional Parliament is known as the *General Thinsi of Administration* and is led by a Lector, similar to the Frehaulish Thinsi. Despite this nomenclature distinction, the Bigwafi regional government is identical to the other Constituent Parliaments, the Constituency merely retains its traditional titles and nomenclature within its regional Parliament.

* While the recently incorporated Wagagot Constituency, founded 89 Years after the Great War, labels its regional government as the *Grand Meeeting-House* or *By-Than Foray.* Unlike the other Regional Parliaments, the By-Than Foray is a unicameral body, comprised of directly elected representatives of each of the member Tribes, cities, and ethnic groups of the Wagagoti Constituent Government.

With the exception of the Wagagot Constituency, formed from the Joa Crisis, the Ten Constituencies are administrated by their bicameral Constituent Assemblies, comprised of the Upper Constituent Councils and the Lower Regional Assemblies, in tandem with their Regional Courts of Justices, and the Regional Director, a Constituent Head of State that serves as the head of the regional divisions of the National Departments and the director of Party affairs within the region.

* **Constituent Council** The Constituent Council is a committee comprising the Heads of each Regional Parties able to garner over 10% of vote of the Constituency's electorate. Serving as a intermediary to the Federal Government to the regions, the Council is mainly responsible for the approval and enforcement of legislation, laws, and financial distribution of bills and dictates ratified by the Regional Assembly or the Grand Parliament. In this role, the Constituent Council is the main dispensation of regional funds and grants, the latter in cooperation with the Constituency's Regional Bank, though the responsibility of proportioning the budget and approving loans falls upon the Regional Assembly and the Regional Bank, respectively. The Council, while theoretically able to reject dictates and laws from the Grand Parliament, typically restrain themselves outside of exceptional circumstances, as the Grand Court of Justice has the ability to indict the state for undermining the democratic process for refusing to enact Federal legislation.
* **Regional Assembly** The Regional Assembly is a proportional representative assembly, comprised of representatives appointed by Regional Political Parties, whose delineation is determined by provincial votes of political alignment. These votes occur once every 2 years and are also employed by the Federal Government to determine the Constituency's representatives on the Bloc Council. The Regional Assemblies are the primarily legislative branches of their Constituencies, with control over regional implementation of the Federal Laws and the Constituency's own legal code, government structure, and finances.
* **Regional Director** The Regional Director is the Head Executive of each Constituency, appointed by Constituent Council from one of the Regional Divisions of Departments for the course of their term, with the approval of the Bloc Council. The Director serves as the main intermediary between the regional Departments of the Province and the Executive Department within the Bloc Council and is the technical Head of State of the Constituency able to mediate on disputes and call ties within their Constituent Assembly. Though the Regional Director has no direct veto or vote within either House of their Constituency's local government.

**Ten Constituencies**

Otalri : Incorporated on Unification : 322 Years before the Great War.

* The most rural Constituency of the Republic, Otalri is second province of the nation, second in stature and power only to the homeland of the Koraksyet Monarchy, Wadti. Otalri is a land of rivers and humble villas, with the region containing the most productive farm land and the largest rural and agrarian population within the otherwise exceedingly urban Yuerwadi state. The Constituency is most well known for its agrarian and river-side vistas, its relatively warm climate, the productive fields of corn that is a stable of its country-side, and its possession of the Second City of the Republic, Triason.

Wadti : Incorporated on Unification : 322 Years before the Great War

* The center of Wadi culture, governance, and administration, Wadti is the most populated region of the Republic, mainly due to the present of the city of Doesuson in the province, a city of 5.2 million inhabitants and the administrative and cultural capital of the Yuerwadi state. Standing amidst the center of the Wadi Valley and the main headwaters of the Screscun River, the life-blood of the Yuerwadi State, Wadti is the main crossroads and terminal hub for the immense Yuerwadi transit system and the homeland of the Koraksyet Monarchy, which founded itself within the humble city of Doesuson and its environ at the center of a principal gorge of the Wadi Valley. The Region is primarily known for the spanning metropolitan, which is Doesuson, the center of political and cultural life within the province, and the impressive aristocratic splendor of the old dwellings and villas of the Koraksyseti Monarchs and their Great Nobles, with many of the ancillary cities of the provinces and its rural regions relatively unknown outside of their status as transit stops during journeys between the other Constituencies.

Spidsdys : Incorporated on Unification : 322 Years before the Great War

* Based on the Spied Basin, the northern and endpoint of the Wadi Valley, and the upper portions of the previous non-navigable Spyidis River, a tributary of the Screscun, Spidsys is a moderately sized and relatively rustic constituency known for its ancient and sweeping Ayiad (acorn) nurseries and its more humble urbanisation. With the province comprised of a series of small and homely urban centers, with extensive street-car suburbs of single family and multi-unit homes, instead of one primarily and sprawling megalopolis, like Triason in Otalri or Doesuson in Wadti.

Pardmen : Incorporated on Unification : 322 Years before the Great War

* Centered around the upper portions of the Spied Basin and the so called Gates of Pard, which is the origins of the constituencies name, Pardmen is the third largest and western most Constituency of the Republic. The Constituency is underscored by the present of the sweeping Pardis River, a large navigable river that feeds into Enclosed Sea, its status as the occupant of the western entrance of the Wadi Valley, and the presence of Third city of the Republic, Spieak. Also known as the Gate City, due to its proximity to the Gates of Pard and its previously status as the main bastion of the country to western assaults, Spieak is a humble city based around the Pardis river, retaining many of its more historic and antiquated features, due to standing as the only city not entirely eradicated during the Long War, with few to any large skyscrapers or sweeping beacons of modernity. The Constituency is most well-known for its historic and authentic architecture, the numerous grand and well-maintained historic castles that dot the province, and the survival and continued residence of the Dukes of Ouai, the last surviving house of Ducal rank within the Republic following the revolution, who continue to spout their titles and retain their residence in their historic villas, but completely stripped of political influence or official recognition. It is also said that Pardmen was the first province to import and grow corn, in favour of the traditional Ayiad trees, and to this day large corn fields span the river and country-side operated by the Department of Agriculture and family farmers.

Gorswad  : Incorporated on Unification : 322 Years before the Great War

* A periphery, northern Constituency, the lands of Gorswad was a traditional march of the Dukes of Ouai employed to defend the Grand Duchy and the entire Valley from Utaq threats from the northern Tundra, which in the modern day is a rustic and modest province defined by its mountainous terrain and strange northern customs and dialect. Influenced by a series of conquest and migrations by Utaq and Vlesiq raindeer-riders, the Wadi inhabitants of the region are joined by a significant minority of assimilated ethnic-Utaqs and have even intermixed with these foreigners over the course of the Yuerwadi State, leaving them with loan words and a way of speaking that varies from the dialects of the lowland and strange customs and holidays influenced by their history of conquest. One noticeable example is the Festival of the Sun, a grand ceremony and day of feasting during the summer solstice, where every major town opens up a large feast for any member of the town or foreigners to partake in and perform important ceremonies to ensure the sun returns again following the upcoming Polar Night. Due to its status on the foothills and western reaches of the Utaq Mountains and its harsh cold winters, the Constituency is the least inhabited of the core Valley Constituency, but enjoy frequent winter tourism for winter sports and sight seeings of its mountain and valley sights and the many old forts that lay within the province.

Toways  : Incorporated on Unification : 322 Years before the Great War

* Representing the core territories of the defunct Duchy of Toways, the Constituency is a hilly province extending into the eastern hinterland of the Torta Mountains and is generally disregarded by its fellow Wadis as a plighted land of industrial decline and crime in the shadow of its neighbours Otalri and Wadti. This conception owes to its western portions comprising old suburbs of the Triason, with a higher proportion of low income communities than the Triason City proper and its most immediate suburbs and Otalri dominance over popular Wadi media. In reality, Toways is a prosperous region comprising a series of humble Ayiad fields,humble villages, and large towns marking the scattered valleys formed by the topography of the Torta Mountain and the numerous tributaries of the Screscun river that run through the region. Though there is some reality to this myth as many Industrial era mining and manufacturing towns exist throughout the hinterland of the province, who inhabitants abandoned the area when the local deposits dried out or were evicted during the Great War, in fact the province is still stained in many places from the heavy fighting of the later stages of the war, with many old bunkers and mines built by the Liberationist Defenders still found across its length to this day. Along with its Viwati neighbour, the province forms the main border with the Kingdom of Erihani, with several important International railway junctions spanning the region allowing travel between Triason, Doueson, and the rest of the country to and with the inhabitants of the Kingdom.

Viwati  : Incorporated on Unification : 322 Years before the Great War

Bigwafi  : Incorporated on Unification : 322 Years before the Great War

Liaje  : Incorporated by Popular Referendum : 79 Years after the Great War

Wagagoti  : Redistributed into Incorporation after a Treaty  : 84 Years after the Great War

### Party System

A essential component of Bloc Democracy, as master-minded by Tohas Lusakt and his Liberationist Consultants, is the existence of empowered political electoral organisation, popularised through the implementation of voter control and a strict financing policy, where such organisation, considered as they are as State organisation, are forced into full financial transparency and may only employ a federally provided subsidy for use in political campaigning.