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Flag of the Grand Kingdom of Aerion
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Royal Coat of Arms of Aerion
Aerion Quick Facts
Conventional Long Form: The Grand Kingdom of Aerion
Conventional Short Form: Aerion
Government: Capitalist Monarchy
Tech Level: Postmodern
Population: 8+ Billion
Head of State: HRH Crown Prince Damoen Wasterin
Head of Government: Lord High Steward Riden Vesten
Capital: Astevane, the Royal City
Geography:: Primarily Urban Megacities divided by broad pristine Royally protected wilderness.
Climate: Temperate with Varied subclimates
Economy: Free Market under Monopoly by Megacorporations
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The Grand Kingdom of Aerion is an Capitalist Monarchy. It is an postmodern nation. Aerion is both the name of the nation, and the name of the small continent that the nation is on. Aerion was once a land with numerous nomadic clans, which formed into twenty large tribes. These tribes formed a loose alliance under the Council of Tribes, which became the first national government, and led to the modernization of Aerion. Aerion has been through many successive regimes, most dictatorial in nature but not in name. Currently Aerion is a monarchy with many megacorporations having significant power as well.
Politics of Aerion
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Coat of Arms of the Royal Government
Head of State: Crown Prince Damoen Wasterin
Head of Government: Lord High Steward Riden Vesten
Aerion is a monarchy with strong elements of capitalism. It is ruled by the King, and his appointed Privy Council.
The Privy Council consists of the Nine Great Officers of State, Ministers, Deputy Ministers, and general Privy Councillors whom the King appoints.
The First Great Officer of State, the Lord High Steward, is the Head of Government. He runs the day to day government, and serves as the Royal Regent in the case of death or the incapacitation of the King.
Aerion is divided politically, and geographically into twenty provinces. Royal Governors govern each of these provinces, with the Royal Ministries having provincial level authority over certain areas of provincial government.
The King has firm control over the megacorporations of Aerion. By Royal Prerogative, every large corporation in Aerion must grant 10% ownership to the King. Also, a Royal Representative must sit on the Board of Directors of each corporation.
The Crown
The Crown is an institution disembodied. The person who wears the crown is the Sovereign, the King of Aerion. The Crown is eternal, and carries on. The Royal Palace, and all royal property belongs to the Crown. Royal Prerogative belongs to the Crown. It is an office but more an institution. In the absence of the Sovereign, such as now, the assets of the Crown are governed by the Crown Board which is composed of members of the Royal Family of Aerion. Though not vested with full powers as if he wore the Crown, the Crown Prince is the Regent of Aerion.
The Privy Council
The Privy Council of the Grand Kingdom of Aerion (formally: His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council) is the principal advisory body to the Aerionian Sovereign. The Privy Council's membership includes the Great Officers of State, Ministers, Royal Advisors, and whomever the Sovereign chooses to appoint to it. It is chaired by the Lord President of the Council.
The Privy Council meets in the Grand Council Chambers in the Government Wing of the Royal Palace. It meets twice a week, but in practice the Great Officers of State do not always attend. Most often it is the Lord High Steward, Lord President of the Council, Ministers or Deputy Ministers who are regularly in attendance.
Members of the Privy Council are officially styled "The Right Honorable", abbreviated "The Rt. Hon."
The Great Officers of State
Lord High Steward
Leader of the His Majesty's Government
Lord High Chancellor
Equivalent to "Minister of State" in other nations. Chief diplomatic officer.
Lord High Treasurer
Head of all government finances, and financial areas.
Lord President of the Council
Presides over Privy Council meetings.
Lord Privy Seal
A titular position, truly given to favored of King.
Lord Great Chamberlain
Head of the Royal Household.
Lord High Justice
"Supreme Judge" of Aerion after the Crown.
Lord High Marshal
Head of His Majesty's Armed Forces (Specifically Army)
Lord High Admiral
Head of His Majesty's Royal Navy
Lord High Air Marshal
Head of His Majesty's Royal Air Force
The Ministries
Ministry of Justice
Ministry of the Interior
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Ministry of Defence
Ministry of Health and Social Affairs
Ministry of the Treasury
Ministry of Education
Ministry of Commerce
Ministry of Education
Ministry of Transportation
Ministry of Energy
Ministry of Defence, the Minister is a deputy assistant to the Lord High Marshal.
Ministry of Public Awareness(Propaganda Ministry)
NOTE: Often times the role of one of His Majesty's Ministers, and a Great Officer of State will be in the same. But in these cases, the Officer of State takes precedent, and is usually the immediate superior of the Minister. The Minister therefore serves as a sort of Deputy and co-head to the Great Officer of State.
Local Royal Ministry Bureaucracy
Many functions of local government are handled by the local offices and huge bureaucracy of an Royal Ministry rather than the local government. For example, the Ministry of Education directly runs all schools on every level, and the Ministry of Transporation handles all transportation and roadways down to the township level at which the local council will directly supervise local roadways such as streets.
Police forces on all levels are supervised by the Department of Public Security of the Ministry of the Interior, and directly managed by the Department on the regional, county, and rural district level. Metropolitan police forces are jointly supervised between the Department and a Lord Mayor's appointee who is usually known as the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis.
This top to bottom organization leads to standardized procedure on all levels of government, meaning that directives can come straight from the Royal Governor or King himself and be implemented immediately on local levels.
Provincial and Local Government
Each of the 20 provinces of Aerion has an Royal Governor, appointed by the Crown. The Royal Governors take varying interest in government, but many live like kings themselves living in their Provincial Palaces within the individual provincial capitals. They in turn appoint the Regional Governors as well as the Lord Mayors who run the major cities where population is usually concentrated the most. Metropolitan counties are most often directly under the Royal Governor, who appoints the Lord Mayor rather than the Regional Governor having such rights. At times the Crown has jurisdiction over a city, having granted a special charter, and therefore the Lord Mayor is a Royal Mayor and appointed by the Crown. This is the case, oddly enough, for many of the provincial capitals where the Royal Governors themselves live.
Lord Mayors appoint Mayors of Metropolitan Districts. Ward Councillors, however, are elected officials. Regional Governors appoint County Commissioners, who appoint Rural District Commissioners and Township Mayors (who are sometimes elected dependent on local tradition).
Often the Royal Governor will override or dictate appointments to these positions, or even the Lord High Steward may override them all if the Crown chooses to take interest in certain geographic areas.
Each chief officer appoints his council to help him run his government such as County and City Councils.
Counties vary in size, but may be rather large if they contain rural districts which are largely unpopulated. The number of counties in a region vary, but may be up to 40 in larger regions.
Royal Governors' Power
Royal Governors have vast power, almost as subordinate kings, though vast responsibility as they are the ones to blame if something goes wrong in their province. Megacorporations who dominate the province may put pressure on the Governor as well. Many live their life in luxury, however, holding "court" at their Governor's Palace while leaving the real work to their lackeys. Each Provincial Capital has an Governor's Palace, which is usually quiet elaborate, and the annual salary for an Royal Governor is rumored to top 2 million Gold Leaves.
Internal Political Divisions of Aerion
Province - Royal Governor
Region - Regional Governor
County - County Commissioner
Metropolitan County - Lord Mayor ex: Greater Astevane
-Metropolitan Districts - Mayor ex: Industrial District
-Metropolitan Wards - Councillor ex: 5th Ward
Rural Districts - District Commissioner
Township - Mayor
Community - Alderman
Megacorporations and Monopolies (The Plutocracy)
Huge megacorporations hold monopoly over the majority if not all goods made in Aerion. They are a part of people’s daily lives. The majority of the population live, and works under the megacorporations. The most widely used term by the public is that the majority of the population of Aerion are “wage slaves”, and that the small upper class are their masters. Megacorporations control, police, and nearly independently govern their holdings. Many “human assets” as they are called by the corporate elite live in massive apartment blocs owned by megacorporations. Megacorporations literally almost run the cities where they are headquartered, able to pay off the majority of local officials.
Corporate warfare is common, and takes many forms including corporate espionage. As long as they do not cause too many deaths, or the warfare does not become open the Royal Government turns a blind eye to such activities.
While the megacorporations are traded publically on the Aerionian National Stock Exchange (ANSE), often the founding families of a corporation will hold the majority of the stock in that corporation, or single individuals such as corporate officers hold the majority of the stock creating an unofficial plutocracy composed of the majority of Aerion's upper class.
The wealthiest, and largest megacorporation in Aerion is Amkarethz Holdings
The Monarchy is able to remain in power by laws which are heavily enforced, stating that the Crown is to own 10% of every major corporation within the Grand Kingdom of Aerion, though sometimes it owns more, and that an Royal Representative shall sit on the Board of Directors of such major corporations. When there is no King of Aerion, blood members of the Royal Family sit on the Crown Board which controls their holdings. The Royal Family also has the strong support of the people as a legitimate institution, and also through extensive use of Royal propaganda.
There is a constant struggle, however, between the Royal Government and the Megacorporations for power. This struggle has not yet emerged into open warfare, but takes many subtle forms.
Ethnicity and Race
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Ethnicity Statistics
Ethnicity Statistics
Aerionian - 60%
-Eastern Aerionians - 20%
-Western Aerionians - 40%
African-Aerionian - 25%
Caucasion - 5%
Arabic - 2%
Elven - 2%
Other - 6%
Aerionians
Most Aerionians are of two ethnic groups, the Eastern Aerionians and the Western Aerionians. Both have pretty much the same physical features, a mixture of Arabic and Italian features. These features are tanned skin, sharp angular facial features, dark hair, and brown eyes. Eye color variations due to intermixing are more common in Eastern Aerionians, and are considered something of a marker of beauty but looked down upon by some Western Aerionians. Western Aerionians are however considered the "lesser" people, with Eastern Aerionians making up the majority of the nation's "elite". The Royal Family is considered Eastern Aerionian.
The term "Aerionian" may cause some confusion as it refers to an ethnic Aerionian as well as those of other ethnicities living within Aerion.