Fiction:Draconid Imperium/Government

The state government of the Imperial Adminsitration of the Sublime Draocnid Imperium is an administrative body responsible for maintaining the Imperium, its territories and its various assets.

Assembly
Responsible for managing a vast intergalactic territory, the Imperial Adminsitration works as a federal government consisting of three primary branches:
 * The House of the Grand Senate, the legislative branch
 * The House of Administration, the executive branch
 * The House of High Law the legislative branch

Legislative Branch
The primary responsibility of the legislative branch is to draft and agree on policies both domestic and foreign. The Imperium utilises a bicameral system, a lower house (the Homeland Council) and the Upper House (The Praetor's Council).

Homeland Council
It is the role of the Homeland Council to draft legislation and policy. Each Member of the council, known as Council Speakers, represents a stellar designation, normally either a subsector or an alien province. While in other governments an equivalent politician might represent a certain number of people or planets, Council Speakers have a responsibility to convey the agendas of the subsector and regional councils they represent. In practice, many council speakers held positions on one or two subsector councils and during times when the Homeland Council is not in session will delegate with the councils they represent as figureheads. It is the responsibility of the Homeland Council to draft new legislation, which is passed to the Praetor's Council before returning with amendments to which the Homeland Council must either agree to by majority vote, or adjust with their own amendments.

Council Speakers are elected by vote, chosen as the best representative of the subsector's council and their positions are not guaranteed, and can be challenged by votes of no confidence from the council they represent, and Speakers have in the past been removed by councils pressured into doing so by their constituents. Depending on the politics of the relevant subsector the election vote will be conducted either internally by the council or in a public election.

Praetor's Council
The Praetor's Council is the Grand Senate's upper house. Unlike the Homeland Council, praetors function as both legislators in the upper house and as sector governors, chosen from within the ruling aristocratic families. The role of the Praetor's Council is to scrutinise and evaluate legislation that is drafted in the Homeland Council, in practice the council also serves as a forum to manage the competition prevalent within the imperial aristocracy and particularly among its highest echelons. To gain a seat on the council an aristocratic grand house must have enough political extent to dominate a sector, the largest and most top-level of the Imperium's administrative divisions.

While the Grand Senate has varied in its population between hundreds to thousands of seats, the Grand Senate consists of only a couple of hundred: Three seats for each sector, to which there are 149 that encompass the Imperium. Because praetors fill a dual role as sector governors, it is not uncommon for praetors to involve themselves in the politics of the sectors they manage, tying themselves to one or several House Speakers. Checks and balances subsequently set in place after the First House War have been drafted to limit the ability of praetors to involve themselves so directly with the workings of the Homeland Council.

Executive Branch
Set apart from the Grand Senate, the House of Administration is the executive branch of the Imperial Government. Four primary bodies make up the House of Administration: The Office of the Paragon the Office of the Imperial Chancellor, the Panel of Viceroys and the Panel of High Ministers.

Office of the Paragon
Considered the highest office in the Imperial government, the Office of the Paragon consists of the Paragon, who serves as head of state, and their numerous advisers. Although requiring confirmation from the Grand Senate, the paragon has the authority to declare war, to veto any legislation passing though the house, and is the prime signatory of any new legislation that has passed the bicameral process.