Roman Empire (Abrittus)

The Roman Empire is a large republic in Southern Europe, Northern Africa and Western Asia.

In the West, it borders the Celtic Empire. In the North, it borders the Southern Federation, Corvatia and Slavonia. In the East, it borders the Persian Republic and Saba. In the South, it borders the commonwealth of the Imaziyen.

The capital is Rome and the population is around 160 million.

Latin and Greek are the empire`s official languages, but many more traditional languages (Gothic, Arabic, Aramaic, Armenian) and languages of more or less recent "peregrini" (immigrants) are spoken, too.

History
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Constitution and politics
Rome is the world`s oldest and most stable democracy and republic.

Its legislature, the Senate, resides in Rome. It has currently 1250 members. Elections are held every three years. For every 100,000 citizens with voting rights (i.e. citizens over the age of 17, who are not imprisoned or institutionalised), one senator is directly elected, who represents his constituency. Only citizens over the age of 28 are eligible as senators.

The executive branch is split into

All executive officials are elected by the Senate with absolute majority. Twin officers can only pass decrees or submit legal initiatives in their domain if both agree. The Praetorium passes its judgements and its legislative vetoes with at least 9 votes.
 * 2 Consuls (responsible for foreign relations and the military and with the right of own-motion legislative initiative in all domains)
 * 12 Praetors (functioning as Supreme Court and controlling legislation and jurisdiction)
 * 2 Censors (responsible for the empire`s treasury, its tax and customs administration, and the registration of citizens)
 * 2 Aedils (responsible for central policing, intelligence, public order and environmental protection issues)
 * and a number of Quaestor pairs, each pair responsible for a branch of the public services (the welfare system; the imperial roads, railroads, airways, waterways and space infrastructure; the imperial academies and schools; etc.).

The empire`s provinces enjoy a certain degree of independence. The constitutional structure is replicated on the provincial level (only some names are changed, i.e. the provincial parliaments are called "comitiae" instead of senate and the consuls are called proconsuls). The provinces, in turn, grant their cities and rural dioceses some degree of independence, where, again, the structure is replicated to a certain degree.

Imperial politics are dominated by a two-party system - the "Optimates" and the "Populares". Each party`s ideological nuances and stances on political issues have changed over the long course of their histories - for example, the Optimates have turned from anti-Christian to pro-religious (including Christians) and the Populares have switched between anti-war positions (in the 3rd-7th century and since the 18th century) and pro-war positions (in the phase of late imperial expansion). What has remained stable is that the Optimates´ electoral basis is the upper class and the Populares are rooted in the working classes.

Culture
Salvador79 (talk) 12:55, April 23, 2014 (UTC)

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