Thread:AenMaps/@comment-30574470-20160922181129/@comment-15419758-20160928032952

3 more collectives are incorporated.

Now about Kharzonus's elections. Each district, every 3-7 years depending on the district, holds democratic elections for which guild will control it. The citizens in the town and each village in the district will vote for a village/town delegate who will go to the town for the district convention. At the convention, the delegates will vote for which guild to lead the district. Village delegates get one vote each, and the town delegate gets 2-5 votes depending on the district (districts containing their collective's city usually give 4-10 votes to the city delegate, and citadel Ennrit's district awards its delegate 15 votes). Districts with only one guild often have a guild from a neighboring district in their elections, and some guilds on the verge of becoming houses partake in the elections of many districts, even far from their home district in other collectives. When the elected guild takes power in a district, they appoint mayors for the villages, and usually the guild captain becomes mayor of the town if it's their home district. The guild then appoints a representative for the district at the collective council.

Now every 10 years, Kharzonus holds national elections for which houses will control collectives, and which house will become the royal house. First, the mayors of the villages and the town in each district will decide among themselves on an elector to sent to the collective convention. Some mayors might hold a democratic referendum in their village for which elector they will decide on, but most go with their own beliefs. The electors at the collective convention then vote on which house should both control the collective and get crown electors to go to the royal convention. The winning house then gets to appoint their own representatives (who only really represent the house) to fill 20-50% of the seats (depending on the collective) at the collective council, and their prince/princess becomes chief of the council (unless they are the royal house, in which their prince/princess is the monarch of Kharzonus, so they appoint a separate chief). Then, each collective gets a certain number of crown electors, proportionate to the population of their city (yep, just the city), to go to the royal convention and vote for which house will become the royal house. Each collective's crown electors are pledged to vote for the house that won the collective, although there are on average two faithless electors each election. The winning royal house then gets to fill 30% of the seats in the Kharzonus parliament with senators loyal to them, and their prince/princess becomes king/queen of Kharzonus. The other 70% of the seats in the parliament are filled by collective senators, who are decided on by the first meeting of the collective councils after they are elected by the collective conventions.

Despite being led by a monarch, Kharzonus is technically an Oligarchic Republic. Basically what the U.S. would be if the political parties were dynasties and there were extra steps between the popular vote and the presidency besides the electoral college, or just the U.S. post-Trump presidency.