Sweden (Vive l'Emperor)

Sweden, or the United Kingdoms of Sweden and Norway, is a constitutional monarchy.

Politics
Sweden is unusual in that it has two seperate parliaments connected by one monarch. However both the Swedish and Norweigan parliaments have different powers.

The Norweigan parliament consists of 190 members elected every 4 years by universal adult sufferage, the leader of the party who holds a majority in the parliament, or in case of a hung parliament the member of parliament who has the support of the most MP's, is appointed chairman of the council and given responsibility for forming a government and managing domestic affairs.

The Swedish parliament consists of 310 members elected every 4 years by universal adult sufferage, the leader of the party who holds a majority in the parliament, or leader of the largest party, is appointed prime minister. The prime minister acts as the head of government of Sweden, but is given responsibility for forming a cabinet that wholy represents the Union. Conseqently all cabinets since the current constitution was formed in 1920 have the obligation to include Norweigan MP's in them. Usually one of the 3 great posts (Foreign Minister, Interior Minister or Finance Minister) is occupied by a Norweigan.