Government of Urcea: Difference between revisions

Prior to the reform of 1892, there was another kind of local government in place, prefectures. Prefectures were extremely common and were employed for cities and areas that did not traditionally enjoy communal rights and privileges. Under these prefectures, the highest local hereditary authority would directly appoint a prefect to govern a region and create an administration under them. Prefects would serve as long as they had the confidence of whoever appointed them. Prior to the [[Great Confessional War]], the local nobility typically appointed the prefects, but following the conflict the [[Apostolic King of Urcea]] assumed direct control over vast swaths of the country. Appointment of prefects became a time consuming affair for the Crown and the inability to oversee so many local prefects was the source of corruption and poor governance in many parts of the country. [[King Aedanicus VIII]] swept away most of the prefectures during his reign, granting communal rights to most areas and elevating some guild communes elsewhere, but a handful remained in place until the entire country was reorganized in by [[Gréagóir FitzRex]] in 1892. Prefectures were not always permanent institutions; oftentimes they would be used to organize new [[Ómestaderoi]] regions or reclaimed land until such time that a civil commune could be established. Prefectures in this manner were also used under the Rectory system for newly acquired territories in [[Levantia]], most especially in the [[Kingdom of Crotona]] as pre-existing feudal units did not exist in the primarily city-state dotted islands.

== Overseas Possessions ==