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The Concalian empire acted as pseudo-democratic society, with governance and lawmaking being divided among three bodies – the Centuriate Assembly, the Senate, and the Magistrates. The Clergy in addition had an advisory role to all three bodies, bringing whose role was to convey the will of the gods. The Clergy thus acted as a 4th pillar of governance, holding a lot of soft power due to the empire's deeply religious nature, and the difficulties the other three bodies could experience if the citizenry viewed their decrees as going against the will of the gods.

The Centuriate Assembly

The Centuriate Assembly acted as a forum in which anyone that held a military or public service position, be that they held it currently, or had in the past. Their function was to vote on laws, laid forth by the Senate. They also voted for candidates for the different Magister positions, with the list of candidates also being laid forth by the Senate. Laws enacted by the Centuriate Assembly acted as as the foundation of Concalian law, that could only be repealed through another vote by the Centuriate Assembly.

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The Centuriate Assembly met twice a year in the capitol to discuss and vote on propositions, a process that could last anywhere from days to weeks. Each military rank, and each type of public servant, would have a set number of votes. Participants belonging to the same military rank, or type of public service, would therefore be divided into a number of groups equal to the votes their position had, where each group had to come to an agreement on how their vote would be cast. This system therefore strongly favored those with a strong persuasive character, not to mention favoring those with the resources to actually travel to and attend the Assembly. The allocation of votes given to each military rank and type of public service were also put up in such a way that the sum of votes given to those of officer rank up (and equivalent for public servant positions) was always greater than the sum of votes given to those with lower ranks.

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The Magistrates

The Magistrates were the elected government officials of Concalia. It was their job to run and govern some portion of the Concalian Empire. They held some authority in determining taxes and legislations, but could never make a decree that went against a law voted in by the Centuriate Assembly.