The Unified Territories

The Unified Territories is a country located on the continent of Carreon and former colony of Trentannia. Although not an Empire per se its society and govenrment is modeled in many ways after the old Imperial Quechina.

History
It is believed that the region was one of the many cradles of humanity. Although hardly civilized when compared to the nations of Althena, there were many small nations that evolved and later populated the east coast. Most notable of these became the Lakkalans during 9th Century.

Lakkalan Empire constituted most of later Quechina, but also Mnopa and East Mnopa and was fairly developed agricultural country with advanced metal-working, arts and architecture.

Politics
Main article: Government of the Unified Territories

Unified Territories use unique form of political system where monarchy is put together with technocracy. It consists of territories, each with its own territorial government and parliament, which is then subordinate to the Imperial Adminsitration and the federal parliament, known as National Council.

In general the Emperor has extensive powers over the country, but in practice the country is led by selected experts based upon their knowledge and skills - the Emperor's Advisors (de facto ministers) and the National Assembly of Experts. Thus the government can be divided into three branches:

Electorial system is used only for the People's Assembly and for some territorial parliaments (House of Burghmasters and the Senate of West Quechina and the General Electorial Parliament of Txipala). Otherwise people can be "invited" to participate on higher levels of government by the heads of respective territorial parliaments or by the HM Most Knowledgable Expert (head of the National Assembly of Experts) on recommendation from any member of the parliament or the selected Governmental Overseer. The Advisors are then mostly selected from the Assembly by Head Advisor or by preceeding Advisor and are appointed by the Emperor.
 * The Imperial Administration (executive): That is the HM Office and the Imperial Advisory
 * The National Council (legislature): National Assembly of Experts and the People's Assembly
 * HM Commitee of Experts (judiciary): This is the highest court with its federal branches known as the Territorial Tribunals. Experts are nominated by Advisor for Internal Matters and Emergencies and appointed by the Emperor himself

Normally people can participate in politics only on the local level, where they can be vooted into parliament (West Quechina and Txipala) or on the national level by being voted into the People's Assembly. In the People's Assembly and the respective parliaments there are several political parties like in normal political system, however this is not true for the Assembly of Experts, where every expert is pursuing the interests of his own field of expertise without being a part of any political entity.