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The '''administrative divisions of Cartadania''' or '''political divisions of Cartadania''' are the various governing entities that together form [[Cartadania]]. The first subdivisions are the states and territories, of which there are thirty-four total. The admission of states into the union is authorized by the [[Constitution of Cartadania]] and is conducted by [[Cartadanian National Congress|Congress]]. Most of the states admitted to the union outside of those in the Lusia Velha (Lusia region) have been formed from territories of Cartadania (that is, land under the sovereignty of the federal government but not part of any state) that were organized by an act or resolution of Congress, subject to the Congress' plenary powers under the territorial clause of Constitution, or from land in an already formed state or annexed nation that was partitioned to form smaller states. The Cartadanian [[Federal government of Cartadania|federal]] and state governments operate within a system of parallel sovereignty, so political states are not technically "divisions" created from Cartadania as in a unitary system, but rather units that, together with the [[Alahuela|capital]] and territories administered by the federal government, compose Cartadania. Territories of Cartadania are typically lands that have been purchased or annexed and fall under the sovereignty of the federal government. They have essentially all of the same powers of states except that they do not possess the same degree of autonomy as a state and do not maintain their infrastructure networks (Ilhas Bicarianas was the exception, maintaining all of it's networks due to its extreme distance before cession to Urcea).