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Though the [[Institute for Republican Health]] ranks Argévia favourably as a "Competitive" state, praising its term limits, vigorous use of direct democracy, frequent elections, and poorly entrenched partisan interests, it notes concerningly low levels of voter information and voter turnout. Argévians are known for having a culture that does not take politics very seriously, frequently electing fringe and joke parties or independents with extreme, incoherent, or parodical platforms to the Argévian Assembly. An IRH study found that only about half of the Auditorium had any meaningful prior experience in politics, law, local government, or management/administration, and that those that did had (on average) significantly fewer years of experience than legislators in other West Coast states and [[Korlēdan]].

Major political challenges in the state include the Auditorium's failure to balance the budget and the government's failure to spend within the limits of that budget, leading to a gradually mounting public debt despite impressive economic growth. Argévian authorities have been subject to severe criticism nationally for their poor enforcement of federal and state drug laws and for its (in the words of [[Irasur Mérovin|Prime Executive Mérovin]]) "half-arsed attempt at prison and sentencing reform: Decrowding jails by avoiding jail sentences even for dangerous offenders, and failing to follow up on promises of a 'rehabilitation-focused' justice system by implementing all of the lenient parole and release terms but not actually providing any rehabilitative programmes."