Alcairet

Alcairet is a Burgoignesc province in confluence of the Barbary Straits and the Sea of Istroya, in Audonia. It is considered part of La Garrote. Historically Alcairet was a middle power of the Istroyan civilization in antiquity. It is considered the last vestige of the Istroyan civilization until it was conquered by the Oduniyyad Caliphate in the 7th century AD. It remained under Oduniyyad control until the fall of that empire in 1514 when it was left to its own devices until the Truffle Races between the coastal states of the Kingdom of Dericania (Burgundie) and Caphiria led to its annexation by Burgoignesc Kandahar-Kandara Trading Company in 1577. It was administered as part of the Barbary Straits Colony from 1577-1836 when the mainland was lost, then given provincial status in 1875 when the unified nation of Burgundie was formed.

Geology
Alcairet is an island in the western mouth of the Barbary Straits. The islands are the remains of a land bridge that used to connect the southwestern and northern continental islands of Alshar. At the end of the last ice age when sea levels rose, the lowlands flooded and formed the Barbary Straits.

Because of this phenomenon, the geography that remains to form the island chain is hilly with low lying areas being built up by silty undercurrents coming from the Aab-e-Farus. This makes the northern coasts very fertile and verdant. The northern faces of the hilly landscape is also quite fertile as the Antarctic atmosphere pulls warm air out of the Aab-e-Farus]] extending the growing season and keeping it humid year round.

Over the past few thousand years of human settlement the nutrient rich silt has been spread throughout the islands, but the heavily rains in the monsoon season rapidly errode anything that is not secured by deep roots. As such much of the islands hillsides have been terraced for cultivation and rivers and streams have been the subject of extensive terraforming and human intervention.

Climate
Alcairet's prevailing winds are the warm and moist trade winds blowing westerly from the Sea of Kandahar and the Aab-e-Farus.

Early settlements
Main article: Istroyan civilization

Oduniyyad Caliphate
Main article: Oduniyyad Caliphate

Colonization

 * Truffle Races
 * Barbary Straits Colony

Politics
Alcairet is part of the Burgoignesc Overseas Territory Assembly's Audonio-Alshari Burgundie geographic designation. Burgoignesc Overseas Territory Assembly is a constituent country equivalent of Burgundie with its own assembly, prime minister, budget, and laws. Burgundie's national governmental influence is limited to subsidies, education, and security, however, its financial and cultural institutes cast a long shadow across Alcairet.

Alcairet is a province within Burgoignesc Overseas Territory Assembly with its own semi-elected -, representative legislative body, and court system.

Alcairetoise are Burgoigniacs/Burgoignix with complete civil and economic rights, and citizenship (political rights) under the same federal service criteria as all residents of Burgundie. Burgoignesc is the official language but and Burgoignesc are both in use. However, there was a time during the 1960s and 1970s when children were forbidden to speak in schools. is now taught in schools; it is sometimes even a requirement for employment.

Provincial executive
The provincial executive is the -. Three candidates are elected by a election held every 5 years, the three candidates are presented to the Court of St. Alphador and the next - is chosen from these candidates. If the citizenry rejects the selection, a run-off election is held with the remaining two candidates.

Provincial legislature
Like the Citizens Court of the National Assembly (Burg. La Assemblee de Ciutadans de l'Assemblee Nacional, ACAN), The Alcairetoise Citizen's Court of the Provincial Assembly is a unicameral legislator. It makes provincial law, has the power of the provincial purse, and has the power of impeachment, by which it can remove sitting members of the provincial government. The Assembly has three seats for each province, one for the Burgoignesc Overseas Territory Assembly's Alcairet liaison, 3 for the clergy, 3 seats reserved for municipal leaders, and 3 for a rota of private business leaders. On 6 occasions throughout the year 3 more seats are opened to the public to debate topics that are not on the annual legislative agenda.