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The State of Kiygrava is a constitutional republic with a unique tricameral legislature known as the Republican Assembly. The lowest house of the Assembly, known as the Assembly of Delegates, is elected at-large by proportional representation, while the middle house (Legislative Congress) is elected by single-transferrable vote from municipal constituencies and twelve arbitrary electoral districts covering unincorporated areas, and the upper house (Council of State) comprises one Councillor for each countyship, regardless of population, elected by plurality vote.

The purpose of this uorthodox arrangement derives from the divergent interests and uneven population spread among Kiygrava's geographic regions and the special constitutional status of the Sedhem ethnic group. The charter of the Colony of the Kiygrava Watershed granted the province as a homeland to the marginalised Sedhem people of Northern Éorsa in gratitude for Sedhem Kedhur Valēkas' discovery of Great Kirav, but permitted other Coscivians to settle there as well. At the time of the Republican Revolution, the Sedhem comprised some 40% of the Kiygravan population, and were present in significant numbers even in the Estuary region. As such, proposals to abolish special status for the Sedhem under the new constitution proved politically untenable, and Article IX of the Fundamental Statute reäffirms that Kiygrava is the inalienable national home of the Sedhem people. As immigration from Éorsa and internal migration from elsewhere in Great Kirav rapidly increased the non-Sedhem population in Lower Kiygrava, the population-based, single-victor electoral system quickly began to diminish the political voice of voters in Upper, Northern, and Aterandic Kiygrava. After legal challenges from the Sedhem community and a tax revolt by Northern Kiygravans of all ethnicities, a constitutional convention met in Aldëmar to work out a compromise reulting in the current system.