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==History==

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Early [[Great Levantia]] employed a mixed governmental system of executive Consuls, an aristocratic Senate, and a democratic tribal assembly. In the tribal assembly, citizens were organized on the basis of 25 tribes: five urban tribes of the citizens in the city of [[Urceopolis (City)|Urceopolis]], and twenty rural tribes of citizens in the area roughly corresponding to the [[Urceopolis (Archduchy)|Archduchy of Urceopolis]]. Each tribe voted separately and one after the other. In each tribe, decisions were made by majority vote and its decision counted as one vote regardless of how many electors each tribe held. Once a majority of tribes voted in the same way on a given measure, the voting ended and the matter was decided. Though the institutions of Senate and Consul were extinct by the time of the 600s, the tribal assembly persisted and held real power; it was responsible for the election of the ''Dux'' of Urceopolis. Much of the early reign of [[Gaius Julius Cicurinus]] was devoted to integrating [[Gaelic people|Gaels]] and [[Urcean people|Latino Gaels]] into the assembly, which he successfully did, adding 25 "Gaelic" tribes. The tribes of the assembly formed the basis for the modern [[Estates of Urcea]].