Government of Daxia

Government of the Democratic Republic

Formation	1946 (1946)
Founding document	Basic Law of the Democratic Republic
Legislative branch
Legislature	People's Assembly
Meeting place	Republic Palace
Executive branch
Leader	Chancellor of the Republic
Headquarters	National Executive Complex
Main organ	Cabinet of the Republic
Judicial branch
Court	Supreme Magistracy
Seat	Justice Palace

The Government of the Democratic Republic of Daxia is the national government of Daxia. It is formally organized into three distinct branches of government. Officially a Unitary Republic, where the highest position is the Chancellor who serves as both head of state and of government. The Basic Law was created in 1946 after the fall of the Empire during the military revolt of Dai Hanjian and it establishes the form of goverment as a representative democracy. Several amendments since 1992 have given the office of Chancellor increasingly vast powers to oversee all aspects of governance and gives the position extensive authority in all matters.

The legislative branch of the government is the unicameral People's Assembly made up of five hundred members elected for six-year terms in office. The Assembly is responsible for the writing, review and passing of legislative bills, the approval of the national budget, the declaration of war and at least in theory, supervising the work of the Ministries.

The Supreme Magistracy is the highest court in the nation and the last court of appeal for plaintiffs.

Branches of Government

Executive Branch

Chancellor

Within the executive branch of government, the Chancellor of the Republic who is elected directly by the people serves concurrently as Head of State and Head of Government, has oversight of and directs all of the work carried out by the ministers of the state cabinet and their respective ministries. The Chancellors determines the government program, set of policies to be implemented and prioritizes them accordingly. The Chancellor serves as the supreme commander in chief of the armed forces and therefore has ultimate authority and control on their use and deployment. Elections for Chancellor are held every six years on the first Sunday of June, and Chancellors take office on the first of January of the year following the election. The office of Chancellor has no term limits. The Chancellor may be recalled from office by a referendum that garners the support of seventy five percent of the voters registered on national electoral database. Said referendum can be called only after the first three years of a Chancellor's current term and only if the referendum petition garners forty five percent of the voters registered on national electoral database. The Chancellor has veto on all legislation passed by the People's Assembly, the Chamber of Productive Sectors and the Delegated Committee. As the Council of Applied Sciences is only a supervisory body with no legislative powers of its own, the Chancellor's veto does not apply to its resolutions. The Chancellor has ultimate budgetary authority through his supervision of the Ministry of Finance and its Budget Committee and the Committee of Budgetary Oversight; the legislature has no control of government monies. The Chancellor in his capacity as leader of the Party of Daxian Democrats has control of all party organs and parallel power structures, these are detailed in a separate article. The Chancellor also has direct oversight over the Democratic Christian Church of Daxia and the East through his control of the Ministry of Worship, all members of the Church's hierarchy up to and including its Pope are ministry employees and are theoretically under the authority of the Chancellor. The Chancellor exercises direct control of the Bureau of State Protection, the nation's most powerful security and intelligence agency is outside the normal structure of government and is not subordinated to the Ministry of Interior. The Chancellor has judicial immunity during his period of office, this immunity cannot be stripped away.

Cabinet

The Cabinet is an organ of policymaking and deliberation in which the ministers of state and other governmental agencies participate and receive their marching orders so to speak from the Chancellor of the Republic. Members of the Cabinet who do not hold ministerial rank include the Director of the Bureau of State Protection, the Head of the Institute of National Elections, Polls and Referendums, the Director of the Institute of Human Rights Protection among others. The Cabinet meets at the Chancellor's convenience but typically at th very least three meetings are convened per week. The Cabinet meets in the Republican Chancellery where the Chancellor also has his own offices. Ministers are not required to be elected members of the quadricameral legislature, they are appointed at the discretion of the Chancellor and according to criteria he or she decides upon. All members of the Cabinet have judicial immunity while they are in office, their immunity may be stripped away by a two thirds majority vote in the People's Assembly and the Delegated Committee. The Chamber of Productive Sectors may appoint three of its members to sit in on meetings of the Cabinet, these three members may express their points of view on specific matters pertaining to productive sector of origin, if relevant to the discussion, at the end of the meetings. The three members may be rotated by three other members once a year.

Legislative Branch

Daxia's legislature is composed of four chambers. The primary body is the People's Assembly which is the direct successor of the National Assembly created by the NRF government of Qiu Heng as a rubber stamp for the military regime. The Assembly is led by the Chairman of the People's Assembly. The People's Assembly is Daxia's primary source of legislation and it has the faculty to create legislation on almost any subject matter. The People's Assembly has no budgetary powers of its own and all its activities are funded through the Ministry of Finance. The second chamber is the Chamber of Productive Sectors which is a relatively new body, it was created by Chancellor Linge Chen to give a voice to labor unions, professionist associations and worker and peasant cooperative associations. The third chamber is the Delegated Committee. The Delegated Committee is made up of six hundred local representatives of the Party of Daxian Democrats, one from every electoral district. The Delegated Committee does not elaborate legislation of its own but had the power to revise bills and return them to the People's Assembly. The fourth and last chamber is the Council of Applied Sciences. The Council was created during the tenure of the current Chancellor to vouch that all legislation follows generally accepted scientific principles.