Subdivisions of the Batavian Empire

The Batavian Empire is officialy a centralised state, but because of it's large extend and ethnic differences there is a very complex administrative subdivisonal system. In summary, the Batavian Empire is divided into 111 departments, 4 crown-territories, 1 imperial city and 1 Military Administrated Zone.

Departments
The main subdivisons in the Batavian Empire are the departments. A department is comparable with a province and it covers a certain area of the empire. In total there are 111 departments with 63 located in Europe, 24 in Africa, 12 in Asia, 4 in North-America, 5 in Latin-America and 3 in Oceania.

Imperial-Governor
The chief executive officer of a department is an Imperial-Governor. Governors are appointed by the Emperor and serve at length of his wish. He executes the national policy in the departments and serves as a substitute of the Emperor. Governors need ratification of the State Assembly, although the Emperor can also choose to appoint a governor with an executive order, which does not need to be ratified by the State Assembly. An executive order to appoint a governor is not rare, it happens often when a State Assembly is filled with turncoats who oppose the government's policy. In rare cases when the State Assembly rejects the appointed governor the Emperor can ask for a comprise-council, in which the State Assembly may suggest a governor, this only happens in some cases when large populated departments reject a governor.