Fiction:Imperial Confederacy of Raydoni Systems

The Imperial Confederacy of Independent Systems is a constitutional Monarchy which was formed in 2765 by The Templar Imperium.

Government
The government of the ICIS is a constitutional monarchy lead by an Emperor and has two other branches of political power, The Royal Senate and The Imperial Court.

The Emperor
The Emperor (and all past emperors) of the ICIS can all draw the bloodline back to Rason, who is give credit for the creation of The Templar Imperium and later, the ICIS. As such, the emperors are decided by inheritance, usually from father to son; but there is always the possibility of an empress due to the former emperor having no sons.

While the emperor is seen as the greatest authority in the ICIS (and it is), the senate and court are always involved in whatever the emperor does. Meaning the emperor simply cannot pass a law without the approval of the senate, which then have to be approved by the court.

The Royal Senate
The Royal Senate is is the more democratic branch of government. It currently has 10 members, two for every sector under the ICIS' control. The main duty of a senator is to keep control of the sector from which he was elected, and to pass laws specific to their aforementioned sector. The senate, along with the court, must approve of any petition for war with a unanimous decision: either presented by the emperor, a senator, a judge, or a large portion of the ICIS' citizens.

The Imperial Court
The Imperial Court is the judicial branch of government, it's main purpose is as the final "enforcer" of laws proposed by the emperor or senate.

The court has 5 members, which are not decided by voting from sector based voter like the senate. Instead, they are voted for nationally, and as such what the judge(s) is from has no influence on their position.

History
The history of the ICIS is a long and winding one; The ICIS is native to the Planet Rasoni, located in The Arm of Knowledge of the Borealis Galaxy.

Tribal Stage
In Year 2532, the Raydoni were nothing more than a small number of warrior clans that hunted the wildlife and gathered fruit from any flora that bore healthy, non-poisonous fruit. At one point in time (Year 2582), these clans were faced with great drought and warring with other tribes on the continent that spiked a great increase in the mortality rate of the clans; It was at this time that in one of the clans, Named "G'se Omeh D'so Zoje Nahq'h" In the native Raydoni Language, A figure named Rason appeared.

Rason reasoned that their barbaric and war-mongering ways were what led to their current time of strife on their un-named world; He and his followers effectively assumed control of their clan and put in place a governmental regime of communism and laid strict laws against practicing any form of weapon training and ownership of aforementioned weaponry, with the exception of warriors put in place as defenders of the clan.

Rason's Communism
Rason's Communism was met with much controversy, as many people were effected and punished under his No-Weapons and Training law. This had eventually lead to a brutal civil war that lasted for 20 years, and held causalities larger than ever recorded at that time.

Forming The Templar Imperium
The war ended in Year 2602 with Rason's victory, but the rebel determination Rason saw in the war as well as his ever growing age (He was 224 years old when took over, and 244 when the war ended) caused him to falter in his ideals. In Year 2607, he decided to repeal his No-Weapons and Training law and revised the government into a constitutional monarchy; naming it "The Templar Imperium" and placed his son, Rafarus, as the King. Rafarus agreed to his father's offer of leadership and organized and re-organized several things i.e. Military, food production, etc. Rason died in Year 2617. Shortly thereafter, Rafarus completed the construction of the City that the Imperium would call home, naming the city "Rason City" and the Planet itself "Rasoni", both in the name of his father.

Civilization Stage
In Year 2717 The Templar Imperium remained a city-nation nestled on the coast of the largest continent (named Heartland) and had even perfected guns and vehicles in that time, but in 800 ADR more cities were founding from smaller village (Some may have been from the old Tribal clans) And forming nations, some of them already having multiple cities. The Templar Imperium finally felt the need to expand and remain the Superpower it had previously been before these new cities formed. Negotiating with other city-nations to merge with them had been surprisingly easy, already the Imperium had three cities (including Rason City) to its name; it was when they had to deal with The Republic of The Heartland that was a problem.

Imperium-Republic Tensions
By Year 2720 the tensions between The Templar Imperium and The Republic of The Heartland were becomingly increasingly high. The Imperium was stockpiling weapons, tanks, and soldier for when the seemingly inevitable war would begin. The spark that lit off the powder keg was in Year 2722 when Republic forces moved in on and attacked an outpost set up in Templar territory; The Templar Imperium reacted swiftly and brutally, bombing out one of the Republic’s cities for days before being forced to retreat by Republic forces. The War For The Heartland had begun.

Allies
"We would lay our lives down for you."


 * Aeoneonatrix Empire -You gave us shelter when we were lost in your galaxy. It won't be forgotten.

Friends
"It's good to have people to trust."


 * Zoles Imperium -You seem nice enough, I hope we can be allies in the future.

Neutral
"We don't know what to think of you."
 * Drakodominatus Tyranny -You treated us fairly when we met, but we don't like what others say about you.

Enemies
"You sicken us."

At War
"We'll do whatever we can to defeat you."

Quotes (Add your own!)
"I always believe that honor and respect be given to all people, even your enemies. To me, my nation portrays that better than anyone." - ICIS Admiral, Kiznad.