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===Legislative=== | ===Legislative=== | ||
[[File:XishengLegis.png|thumb|Main chamber of Xisheng's Colonial Senate]] | [[File:XishengLegis.png|thumb|Main chamber of Xisheng's Colonial Senate]] | ||
The Colonial Senate is the unicameral legislature of Xisheng, a successor body to the deliberative Settler Commission that existed under the Qian administration. The Colonial Senate is composed of fifty six members, elected to terms of five years; there is no established limit on the number of terms that members can serve which has historically resulted in a Senate that is filled with members of a few select political dynasties. The Colonial Senate is not nearly as toothless as mainland legislative bodies, it has the power set spending priorities and modify budgets for Xisheng's administrative departments and has specialized organs to carry out audits. Use of its auditing power has led to clashes with several governors, in 1999 the Colonial Senate building was besieged by police at the direction of then Governor Wang Ruchi in a bid to stop the Audit Board from convening to review the government's accounts; the governor was eventually ordered by the Ministry of Interior to lift the police blockade. While the governor is named by the central authorities, the senate has at times toyed with codifying for itself the power to remove governors; invariably it has backed down from confrontation with the center but the issue pops up semi regularly during political campaigning. | The Colonial Senate is the unicameral legislature of Xisheng, a successor body to the deliberative Settler Commission that existed under the Qian administration. The Colonial Senate is composed of fifty six members, elected to terms of five years; there is no established limit on the number of terms that members can serve which has historically resulted in a Senate that is filled with members of a few select political dynasties. The Colonial Senate is not nearly as toothless as mainland legislative bodies, it has the power set spending priorities and modify budgets for Xisheng's administrative departments and has specialized organs to carry out audits. | ||
Use of its auditing power has led to clashes with several governors, in 1999 the Colonial Senate building was besieged by police at the direction of then Governor Wang Ruchi in a bid to stop the Audit Board from convening to review the government's accounts; the governor was eventually ordered by the Ministry of Interior to lift the police blockade. While the governor is named by the central authorities, the senate has at times toyed with codifying for itself the power to remove governors; invariably it has backed down from confrontation with the center but the issue pops up semi regularly during political campaigning. | |||
===Autonomies=== | ===Autonomies=== | ||
Historically the segregation of ethnic [[Daxian people|Daxians]] from the conquered groups living on Xisheng was something that happened organically and not as a result of a top down dictate from local governments. Certain degree of intermixing was even tolerated as a way to promote social harmony and foster supporters of [[Daxia]] from people of mixed background. The [[Party of Daxian Democrats|PDD]] put a stop to this status quo immediately upon taking power, clamping down on race mixing and beginning a policy of urban isolation of minorities by driving them into delineated pockets to live in. In 2015 the Law on Autonomies was passed by the legislature, this law provided for the creation of quasi autonomous administrative regions within Xisheng for certain ethnic groups known as Autonomies. There are currently only two existing designated Autonomies, the [[Chimoche|Chimor]] Autonomy and the Ixa'Taka Autonomy, homeland of the Chimor and [[Ixa'Taka]] ethnic groups respectively. | Historically the segregation of ethnic [[Daxian people|Daxians]] from the conquered groups living on Xisheng was something that happened organically and not as a result of a top down dictate from local governments. Certain degree of intermixing was even tolerated as a way to promote social harmony and foster supporters of [[Daxia]] from people of mixed background. The [[Party of Daxian Democrats|PDD]] put a stop to this status quo immediately upon taking power, clamping down on race mixing and beginning a policy of urban isolation of minorities by driving them into delineated pockets to live in. In 2015 the Law on Autonomies was passed by the legislature, this law provided for the creation of quasi autonomous administrative regions within Xisheng for certain ethnic groups known as Autonomies. There are currently only two existing designated Autonomies, the [[Chimoche|Chimor]] Autonomy and the Ixa'Taka Autonomy, homeland of the Chimor and [[Ixa'Taka]] ethnic groups respectively. | ||