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title: Concalian Culture title: Concalian Culture
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date: 2024-04-30T16:52:17.273Z date: 2024-04-30T17:32:19.501Z
tags: game-master, concalia, concalian culture, concalian empire, concalian tags: game-master, concalia, concalian culture, concalian empire, concalian
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dateCreated: 2023-01-06T16:53:59.820Z dateCreated: 2023-01-06T16:53:59.820Z
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<h1>Governance</h1> <h1>Governance</h1>
<p>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.</p> <p>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.</p>
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<h2>The Centuriate Assembly</h2> <h2>The Centuriate Assembly</h2>
<p>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 Laws enacted by the Centuriate Assembly acted as as the foundation of Concalian law, that could only be repealed through another vote by the Centuriate Assembly.</p> <p>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.</p>
<p>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. Magisters could not vote in the Centuriate Assembly.</p> <p>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. Magisters could not vote in the Centuriate Assembly.</p>
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<p>Magistrate positions below Preator were not typically voted on by the Centuriate Assembly, instead being appointed by the governing Preator or Consul directly. However, the Centuriate Assembly, as the highest legislative body, did have the authority to overturn any selection if such a decree passed their vote.</p> <p>Magistrate positions below Preator were not typically voted on by the Centuriate Assembly, instead being appointed by the governing Preator or Consul directly. However, the Centuriate Assembly, as the highest legislative body, did have the authority to overturn any selection if such a decree passed their vote.</p>
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<h2>The Senate</h2> <h2>The Senate</h2>
<p>The Senate's function was to draft legislations, and candidate lists for magistrate positions which, the Centuriate Assembly would vote on. Senate members were appointed by the Consuls. They served for life, unless they became so disliked that the rest of the Senate brought forth a decree for vote at the Centuriate Assembly to deprive them of their position, and said decree passed. The Senate acted as a forum where they, and people they invited in, would discuss the state and future course of the empire, and put forth decrees regarding these for the Centuriate Assembly to decide on the course of action through vote. The argument for the Senate's existence was that the regular citizen would not have the capacity or time needed to form an informed proposition about the empire's future trajectory.</p>
<p>Senators were often former high-ranking magistrates, and the cyclical nature of consuls selecting senators, and the Senate picking candidates for the Consul position, meant there were often a lot of collusion between senators and magistrates. While the Senate held no direct law-making power, the soft power they held in being able to decide what the Centuriate Assembly would vote on meant they could indefinitely block legislature they did not approve of. The only thing effectively preventing the Senate from stacking the odds when it came to magistrate candidates, or refusing to put forth certain legislations for voting at the Centuriate Assembly, would be the public's opinion and reaction to said actions. More than once in the empire's history was the entire Senate lynched by the citizenry due to being perceived as so corrupt that the general public deemed them enemies of the Empire. This effectively meant that if certain people became too popular, the Senate may be indirectly forced to include them on the list of magistrate candidates to avoid public outcry. The similar situation would apply for popularly wanted legislation.</p>
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<h2>The Clergy</h2>
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<p>only things preventing them from stacking magistrate candidates, or refusing to put forth certain legislation for voting at the Centuriate Assembly, would be their ability to keep public public opinion favorable enough, and public outcry low enough. More than once in the Empire's existence was the Senate lynched due to public outcry, who had deemed the Senate as having become corrupt, and no longer working in the empire's best interest.</p>
<p>The reason they had a senate was because the average person was because it was deemed as having someone who could work full-time on legislature, as the regular citizen was deemed as not have the time to do so properly.</p>
<h1>Religious Views</h1> <h1>Religious Views</h1>
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