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The District government is structurally similar and in most respects functionally equivalent the government of an internal territory (Mainland chartered province). Its legislative body is the biennially-elected District Council (''Etukakovar''). | The District government is structurally similar and in most respects functionally equivalent the government of an internal territory (Mainland chartered province). Its legislative body is the biennially-elected District Council (''Etukakovar''). | ||
Political parties have been banned from participating in the politics of the District since | Political parties have been banned from participating in the politics of the District since 1986 AD, when they were outlawed by the [[Index of Kiravian legislation|Capital District Governmental Reform Act]] in the wake of the [[1986 Kartika Unrest]]. All elections in the District are non-partisan and there is no mechanism for the registration of political parties. There are numerous extraparliamentary advocacy organisations and pressure groups active in the District that are structured like actual political parties and use the term "party" in their names, but they are forbidden to run campaigns, donate to candidates, or direct the activity of officeholders. | ||
===Administrative Divisions=== | ===Administrative Divisions=== | ||
Virtually all governmental functions in Ksoīnvra are carried out on a district-wide basis by the District Administration (province-level) or the Kartika Municipal Authority (municipal-level). However, vestigial countyship-level administrative divisions (including independent municipalities) persist for historical reasons. | |||
Most of the District's territory is divided among three [[countyship]]s: Ksoīnvra, Pentékostea, and Tyderian. The remainder is assigned to either the {{wp|independent city}} of Kartika or the independent borough (''vìutivestra'') of Éamonsar. Éamonsar is the only independent borough in the nation. The three countyships are all [[Countyship#Grades|non-governing]], but the District Administration maintains a dedicated countyship registrar and countyship court for each of them. | |||
Before Kirosocialism, local governance in the District was patterned after Ventarya and Hanoram, with Kartika and the three countyships (Éamonsar remained a municipality within Co. Ksoīnvra for most of this time) having more or less identical powers and governmental structures to countyships in the neighbouring states. Under Kirosocialism, the City of Kartika was extended to include all land in Cos. Ksoīnvra and Pentekostia. Éamonsar was similarly annexed, but Co. Tyderian, still largely undeveloped at the time, was spared. | Although Kartika was (and remains) chartered as an independent city outside the jurisdiction of any countyship, in 1939 the municipal boundaries of Kartika were made coëxtensive with the boundaries of Ksoīnvra without formally abolishing the countyships. As a result, the city is now (uniquely) independent ''in part'', with historic core of the city remaining outside of any countyship and the rest of Kartika nested under both a countyship and the Kartika municipality.<ref>In [[Great Kirav]] it is rare for a municipality to extend across countyship lines (less than 10 such cases out of hundreds of countyships and thousands of municipalities), but a fair number of municipalities in the overseas provinces are so situated. Still, Kartika is the only Kiravian municipality that extends into multiple countyships ''and'' beyond the jurisdiction of any countyship.</ref> The 1939 reörganisation abolished Éamonsar, annexing it to Kartika, but its independence was restored in 1986. | ||
The Borough of Éamonsar is a separate municipality electing a council and provost. The borough government is concerned mainly with planning matters, construction permits, quality-of-life ordinances, a library, streetlamps, and a few {{wp|city park|parks}}. All other municipal services, from sewage to policing, are contracted out to the Kartika Municipal Authority. Although it is not part of Ksoīnvra Countyship, Éamonsar is within the jurisdiction of the Ksoīnvra Countyship trial court. | |||
[[Kiravian addressing system|Departing from the usual custom]], mailing addresses in Kartika do not include the countyship name, even where applicable. Residents and small businesses in Éamonsar usually record their address as being in "Éamonsar, EKS", reflecting the affluent borough's separate identity and social cachet. However, the many larger businesses and organisations based in Éamonsar, many of which have a national or even international profile, prefer "Kartika, EKS". | |||
<!--Before Kirosocialism, local governance in the District was patterned after Ventarya and Hanoram, with Kartika and the three countyships (Éamonsar remained a municipality within Co. Ksoīnvra for most of this time) having more or less identical powers and governmental structures to countyships in the neighbouring states. Under Kirosocialism, the City of Kartika was extended to include all land in Cos. Ksoīnvra and Pentekostia. Éamonsar was similarly annexed, but Co. Tyderian, still largely undeveloped at the time, was spared. --> | |||
==Economy== | ==Economy== | ||