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The archipelago has a tropical climate with strong oceanic influences overall, with more varied and typically cooler climates created by functions of altitude and local wind patterns shaped by the islands' mountainous topography. The four major islands are: Melos (home to the capital, Thyatria), Kommenori (the largest island), Kazomalis (the smallest major island), and Chyros (known for other strengths). | The archipelago has a tropical climate with strong oceanic influences overall, with more varied and typically cooler climates created by functions of altitude and local wind patterns shaped by the islands' mountainous topography. The four major islands are: Melos (home to the capital, Thyatria), Kommenori (the largest island), Kazomalis (the smallest major island), and Chyros (known for other strengths). | ||
==Politics== | ==Governance and Politics== | ||
The Melian | The politics of the Melian Isles take place in the framework of a fairly standard {{wp|parliamentary republic}} in which executive power is ordinarily and in most cases exercised by a Council of Ministers led by a Prime Minister, who serves as {{wp|head of government}}. The Prime Minister and his nominated Council of Ministers are elected by and accountable to Parliament, and the government depends on Parliament for {{wp|confidence and supply}}. | ||
The {{wp|head of state}}, styled the Nomarch or Lord Protector or some shit, is appointed by the [[Prime Executive of the Kiravian Federacy]] on his own prerogative. The Nomarch is traditionally a Kiravian who is not from the Melians. The Nomarch has no ficxed term, but is replaced or reconfirmed<ref>Per a 1963 ExCol memorandum, reconfirmations are to be avoided. [[Andrus Candrin]] ignored this advice.</ref> every six years as a matter of convention. Ye nomarch does a few things: | |||
*Facilitating the government formation process and ensuring that constitutionality is upheld | |||
*Ceremonial duties involving the Marble Emperor so that the gayreeks don't get freaked out | |||
*Executive authority over security of the Seven Churches and other enumerated holy sites | |||
*Executive authority over general security, public order, and civil defence operations | |||
*Judicial appointments in consultation. | |||
Things the Governor can notionally do but not really: | |||
*Veto - Every Governor is asked to veto one bill during their tenure and send it back for minor corrections just to remind the politea that it can be done in case it is ever needed for something real. Other than this, the Governor signs everything Parliament sends him. | |||
*Prerogative of mercy (strictly on advice) | |||
*Honours (strictly on advice) | |||
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The | Parliament is elected every three years by (closed) party-list proportional representation. | ||
Only persons with {{wp|Household registration in Kiravia|registered domicile}} in the Melian Isles may vote in Melian elections, stand for the same, or serve as a public minister. Unless the Nomarch presses the emergency takeover button. | |||
The Melians have an independent judiciary. Appeals from the Synhedrion of the Melian Isles are to the federal Sector Court for Occidental Jurisdictions in Kartika, which employs specially-trained judges to review cases where non-Coscivian law (Ardmori common law or whatever the Melians have). From thence any further appeal is to the Federal Consistory. | |||
===Constitutional Status=== | ===Constitutional Status=== | ||