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{{Infobox political system

| name                          = '''Politics of Faneria'''

| legislature_place            =  

| upperhouse                    = Party Council of the National Assembly

| upperhouse_speaker_title      = Party Speaker

| upperhouse_appointer          = proportional vote

| lowerhouse                    = Party Council of the National Assembly

| lowerhouse_speaker_title      = Peoples' Speaker

| lowerhouse_appointer          = local simple majority vote

| title_hos                    = Director of the Republic

| appointer_hos                = Electoral Department

| title_hog                    = Taesteach

| court_seat                    =   

}}

{{Infobox government

| government_name  = '''Politics of [[Faneria]]'''

| branch1          = <!-- no section, if left empty --> Executive

| branch1_label1  = Head of State

| branch2_label1  = Head of Government

| branch2_data1    = Taesteach Sair Luthair

| branch3_data3    =  

}}

=Political Culture=

===Republicanism===

===Open Pseudodemocracy===

==Key Issues==

====Federalism Movement====

====Reform====

=Political Parties=

==Republican Party==

{{Main|Republican Party (Faneria)}}

Of great concern is the increasing polarization of people within the Starkist leadership itself, who have become split between moderates and radicals, with the radicals becoming increasingly obsessed with ideological puritanism to the point of ignoring practical day-to-day maintenance of the State and refusing to cooperate with other parties and occasionally even the Futurists on any points. Above and beyond the original tenets of Cananachan Republicanism, these individuals have become increasingly associated with [[GaelWind|Gaelic ethnocentrism]] and a lack of concern for political cohesion and international relations, which have become major points of political interest. Many political experts expect mass defections to the Futurists from the moderate circles to be a near-future inevitability, with trends since the turn of the century showing no signs of slowing down.

==National Party==

{{Main|National Party (Faneria)}}

The National Party is the largest party outside of the Republican Party of Faneria, and has several core policy points - namely, greater integration or even admission into the Levantine Union, rehabilitative justice, free market economics, and a federal government system to replace the existing unitary republic. As a market and social liberal party, it supports ties with other Levantine and western Sarpedonic nations over the traditional block of Fhainnin allies. They often compromise and overlap on some policy positions with the Futurist faction of the Republicans, although the Nationals have serious issues with the Futurists' lack of interest in cultural progressivism.

==Minimalist Party==

{{Main|Christian Minimalist Party (Faneria)}}

The Christian Minimalists are the third largest existing party and the newest political party in Faneria, being a 2025 merger of the former Social and New Way Parties as well as several smaller fringe groups. Its predecessors, being hardline socialist/theocrat parties, suffered a series of winnowing electoral defeats throughout the 1990s and onwards, leading to the eventual splitting of the Social party into fundamentalist and reformist factions. The fundamentalists of each side largely splintered away, with the majority of the Minimalist base being former New Way and other Catholic groups; in spite of this, moderate socialists and a few tolerant hardliners have found a place in the party, along with a wave of Protestant Christians allowed in after the seizure of party leadership by the former socialist Domhnic Lutair.

==Minor Parties and Independents==

====Greenpath and Greenwoods====

====Scapan Reintegration Party====

====Integration and Justice Party====

(Society for the Preservation/Reinstatement of the Throne) - founded 1906, banned 1909-2010, extant

====Defunct Parties====

=See Also/Notes=

Fhainnin politics have been largely dominated by one party since the [[Fhainnin Civil War|1906 Revolution]], but competing party politics are legal and on occasion encouraged. The primary opposition party split from the Republicans in 1927 and has since been renamed several times, with major shifts in politics occurring after the [[Second Great War]], in the 1960s, and in the 1990s-2000s. The last thirty years have seen the collapse of many single-issue parties and smaller factions folding into larger ones, coinciding with a mellowing of rhetoric and political divisions following 1950s-1960s postwar instability and recovery. Major issues within Faneria center around infrastructure, religion and religious rights and toleration, regional separatism in the north and far west, and revanchist and trade-oriented foreign policy. This has played into urban-rural divides, but has largely surpassed local tribalism. Electoral districting is based on the county system, which is largely fixed around municipalities and townships, meaning factoring in varying degrees of voting power can be extremely complex and difficult when considering population changes and the tricameral nature of the [[National Assembly of the Fhainnin Republic|legislature]] and their varying modes of election.