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===Law=== | ===Law=== | ||
'' | {{main|Law of Rumahoki}} {{also|Constitution of Rumahoki|Judicary of Rumahoki}} | ||
The system of law used in Rumahoki is the system of {{wp|civil law (legal system)|civil law}}, a legal system that has its basis in the Caphiric legal system. Under the civil legal system, laws are determined by written statutes and not judicial precedents; a judge may not have the authority to make law, but they do have the authority to merely interpret the law. The only instance in which judicial authority has been used to change the law is when a given law is interpreted as being in violation of the [[Constitution of Rumahoki|Constitution]], and even then that kind of authority is exclusive to either the [[Supreme Court of Rumahoki]] or any of the supreme courts of any of the nation's main subdivisions. In agreement with the ''Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen'', which had emerged as a result of the Kilikas Enlightenment in the latter half of the 18th Century, freedom is the natural condition of society; any prohibitions to that natural condition can only be done in the name of keeping actions considered to be deleterious to society from destroying society altogether. Basically, the law can only establish prohibitions if it is needed, and said prohibitions must not cause inconveniences deemed to be greater than the societal inconveniences that a given law is trying to prohibit. | |||
Rumahokian law has four major subdivisions, with those being: {{wp|private law|private civic law}}, {{wp|criminal law}}, {{wp|administration law}}, and {{wp|constitutional law}}. Private civic law encompasses non-criminal disputes such as {{wp|contract law}}, {{wp|family law}}, and {{wp|property law}}; sentences under private civic law are typically monetary or compensatory in nature with punishments usually being minimal. Criminal law, as the name suggests, encompasses criminal disputes over matters such as {{wp|thefts}}, {{wp|assaults}}, and {{wp|homicides}}; criminal sentencing can either be {{wp|Punishment|punitive}} or {{wp|Rehabilitation (penology)|rehabilitative}} depending on the nature of the crime committed, the history of the accused, and the personal discretion of the judge presiding the case. Administrative law encompasses legal matters pertaining to the executive branch of government on both the national level and in the subnational level; administrative cases can usually mean instances of, for example, disputing fines levied due to a {{wp|parking violation}}, but it can also mean determining the legal custody of a minor. Constitutional law, as the name suggests, exclusively encompasses not just the directly-codified provisions within the Constitution, but also documents that are considered to be highly important to the Constitution such as the Rights of Man; this typically arises over laws that are suspected, whether by an organization or a private citizen, of being unconstitutional. | |||
All four realms of law have their own judicial hierarchies, but all of them end with the Supreme Court of Rumahoki as the highest court in the country as well as being the highest that an {{wp|appeal}} can go; all decisions made by the Supreme Court are considered final and unappealable. | |||
==Demographics== | ==Demographics== | ||
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[[Cartadanians]] in Rumahoki have always been a presence ever since the establishment of the [[Independent Gemean state|Pirate Republic of Portas Gemeas]] in [[1498]]. As a fellow Romance culture, the Cartadanians were largely treated as near-equals by the Delepasians with the only demerit being that they spoke [[Cartadanian language|Cartadanian]] instead of [[Pelaxian language|Pelaxian]]. | [[Cartadanians]] in Rumahoki have always been a presence ever since the establishment of the [[Independent Gemean state|Pirate Republic of Portas Gemeas]] in [[1498]]. As a fellow Romance culture, the Cartadanians were largely treated as near-equals by the Delepasians with the only demerit being that they spoke [[Cartadanian language|Cartadanian]] instead of [[Pelaxian language|Pelaxian]]. | ||
Race relations between the Delepasians and the non-Delepasians | Race relations between the Delepasians and the non-Delepasians would not start to slowly improve until after the Velvet Revolution. Even to this day, a worryingly high amount of Delepasians still hold [[Delepasian exceptionalism|exceptionalistic]] views with varying degrees of Delepasian supremacy. | ||
===Language=== | ===Language=== | ||
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The concordat also established the [[twelve permil]] law in which Rumahokian taxpayers are obligated to devolve 12‰ (1.2%) from their {{wp|tax}} returns to an organised religion that has been officially recognised by the state, or to a state-run social welfare programme. According to statistics from 2032, 64.8% of the population had made a choice from amongst the recognised religions. This tax law has had the unintended effect of funding minority congregations which would not have had such a boost in funding through regular donations from their adherents. As of 2035, the current religious denominations that the Rumahokian taxpayer may choose from are as follows: | The concordat also established the [[twelve permil]] law in which Rumahokian taxpayers are obligated to devolve 12‰ (1.2%) from their {{wp|tax}} returns to an organised religion that has been officially recognised by the state, or to a state-run social welfare programme. According to statistics from 2032, 64.8% of the population had made a choice from amongst the recognised religions. This tax law has had the unintended effect of funding minority congregations which would not have had such a boost in funding through regular donations from their adherents. As of 2035, the current religious denominations that the Rumahokian taxpayer may choose from are as follows: | ||
* [[Catholic Church in Rumahoki| | * [[Catholic Church in Rumahoki|Latin Catholic Rite]] | ||
* [[Caphiric Church|Caphiric Rite]] | * [[Caphiric Church|Caphiric Catholic Rite]] | ||
* [[Coscivian Catholic Church|Coscivian Rite]] | * [[Coscivian Catholic Church|Coscivian Catholic Rite]] | ||
* [[Mercantile Reform Protestant|Mercantile Reform]] | * [[Mercantile Reform Protestant|Mercantile Reform]] | ||
* [[Marian Kapuhenasa]] | * [[Marian Kapuhenasa]] | ||