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The degree of centralization and unified political authority varied over the course of the Confederation's history. In [[1883]] following the Confederation's victory over [[Urcea]] in its attempted expansion of [[New Harren]], the Confederation convened an emergency standing central government called the Union Directorate. The Union Directorate was invested with the ability to call on any Confederation unit military while also collecting a small voluntary contribution from the members on an annual basis; in [[1912]] it also began to collect a share of all tariff dues collected by the members. With these funds, a small but functional Confederation-wide bureaucratic apparatus was established, allowing the Directorate to sponsor construction of roads, bridges, airports, and other infrastructure. Composed of seven independent Directors, the Union Directorate was nominally under the authority and direction under the National Conference. In practice, the Union Directorate took on the characteristics of an independent central government, renewed annually by the National Conference for the "duration of the crisis" that was continued Occidental pressure in [[Cusinaut]]. The Directorate's independent power was its authority over the military, bureaucracy, and administration, largely ensuring the inability of the Conference to dissolve it. The Union Directorate served as a quasi-executive committee at the pleasure of the National Conference in theory, but in practice many members of the Directorate became independently politically influential, preventing them from being recalled or replaced. National political factions in the 20th century would often form as cliques around individual Directorate members. In the 1960s, these cliques would increasingly take on an ethnic component. | The degree of centralization and unified political authority varied over the course of the Confederation's history. In [[1883]] following the Confederation's victory over [[Urcea]] in its attempted expansion of [[New Harren]], the Confederation convened an emergency standing central government called the Union Directorate. The Union Directorate was invested with the ability to call on any Confederation unit military while also collecting a small voluntary contribution from the members on an annual basis; in [[1912]] it also began to collect a share of all tariff dues collected by the members. With these funds, a small but functional Confederation-wide bureaucratic apparatus was established, allowing the Directorate to sponsor construction of roads, bridges, airports, and other infrastructure. Composed of seven independent Directors, the Union Directorate was nominally under the authority and direction under the National Conference. In practice, the Union Directorate took on the characteristics of an independent central government, renewed annually by the National Conference for the "duration of the crisis" that was continued Occidental pressure in [[Cusinaut]]. The Directorate's independent power was its authority over the military, bureaucracy, and administration, largely ensuring the inability of the Conference to dissolve it. The Union Directorate served as a quasi-executive committee at the pleasure of the National Conference in theory, but in practice many members of the Directorate became independently politically influential, preventing them from being recalled or replaced. National political factions in the 20th century would often form as cliques around individual Directorate members. In the 1960s, these cliques would increasingly take on an ethnic component. | ||
===Constituents=== | |||
Legal conceptions of the sovereignty of the constituent members evolved over time, altering the model of how "local governance" and "constituent nations" worked in the Confederation. The Occidental notions of sovereignty and nationhood were largely foreign to the indigenous Cronan peoples that formed the Confederation in the 17th century. As the peoples of the Confederation were exposed to [[Occidental]] legal treatises and conceptions, the leading legal experts and thinkers of the Confederation began to adapt the Occidental models and systems into their own conception of themselves. | |||
By the end of the 20th century, all of the sedentary members of the Confederation had distinct borders relative to one another. Nearly all of these constituents had strong, deeply-held conceptions of themselves as sovereign entities within a broader Confederation. In many respects, restoration of that sovereignty after the [[Algosh coup]] - and therefore, a return to tradition - was a major motivator to many former constituent peoples in siding with [[Occident]]al powers against [[Algoquona]]. | |||
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