Wednesday 10 June 2020

The Estates -General

Hi All,

"Hi Hannah, does your Byzantine Empire have a Congress and political parties ?"
The answer to this question is yes on both accounts . Except the "congress" is called the Estates -General. It is tricameral , notwithstanding the concept of "The Emperor in Estates General " concept. The Byzantine hail their their "mother of all Estates General "  as a key example that they are the "arsenal of Imperial Democracy". It is a body that's been around for at 15 billion years.

1). The Consiglio Rada or Imperial Council

There are 60 states of the Realm. Each state elects 2 councillors, regardless of size or population. Thus Venus with a population of 3 billion elects the same as the state and  Duchy of the Sombrero galaxy (population 980,000 quadrillion) . 

Membership : 120
Electorate : all adult citizens


2). The Harrenhaus or House of Lords

Consisting of the 50,123 hereditary Lord's Temporal and the 5,689 most senior  clerics of the established religion . Only the Emperor can appoint new members.

Membership : 55,812

Electorate :  none. Although Her Imperial Majesty the Emperor can appoint new Peers whenever she chooses.

3). The Duma

The Emperor appoints a Ministry /government on the understanding they have "the confidence"  of the Duma. It is an  wholly elective body , divided into constituencies, but with Byzantine features,   as follows:

1). Open  - one for everyone 1 million people and universal adult suffrage.  

2) State - 2 billion members for each state, franchise is universal adult suffrage.

These two represent 40% of total membership.

The other sixty percent are divided into "boroughs" as follows

3).Freehold
4).Stadtholder
5). Pyramids and ziggurats
6)  . Pots and Pans 
7). Scott, Lott and Poll tax 

Membership of the Duma: 3 Centillion 
Electorate : 7 different franchises , with different sizes  and varied rights to vote. 

I shall of course explain 3- 7 at a later date.

In the meantime here's a bit of opera , before it gets banned as racist colonialist imperialist



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