Governorates of Alaska (Russian America)



The Alaska:Alaskan Democratic Federative Republic:0 is a federation made up of eighteen governorates (: губернии, gubernii; Singular: губерния, guberniya) and one federal district (федеративный округ, federativnyy okrug). Most of the states were established in 1940, when three of the original governorates (Columbia:New Albion:0, Sitka:New Russia:0, and Oregon:0:0) agreed to relinquish large portions of their territories (with the first two even agreeing to divide and dissolving their governments in order to do so), with the northern most governorates being annexed after the defeat of Alaskan Socialist Republic:Communist Alaska:0 in 1938.

The constitution of Alaska defines each governorate as a sovereign entity, allowed full control of their area and government, in exchange for federal support and a unifying foreign policy. In essence, the federal government is often described as a. The Federal District of New Archangel:0:0 is not a governorate in its own right, and is directly governed by the federal government. The district is constitutionally barred from gaining governoratehood, in exchange the civilian population of the district gain limited representation in the Congress of Alaska:Senate:0.

The constitution helps to define the boundary between federal and governorate powers. In many instances, the federal government is barred from declaring certain laws or powers, leaving the governorate governments to do so. Among which includes language and health care. Similar to the neighboring United States:0:0, the use of the name "governorate" is used as a unifying entity, but not required to be the exact government. For example, Vancouver:0:0 officially describes itself as the Province of Vancouver, which is also the case in Russian (Ванкуверская провинция, Vankuverskaya provintsiya). This name change does not give the governorate special status within the federation, and is merely used for cultural purposes.