Venice (Principia Moderni)

Urban Areas
The capital city of the Venetian Republic is Venice, which is also the most populous city and the richest with one of the highest amounts of foreign trade in the world. There are several other port cities however the majority of trade is still done through Venice. Venice is also home to one of the first replacable parts factories in the world, the Venetian Armoury, which gives Venice a great production capacity and allows them to field and supply huge fleets and armies, it also gives them the ability to produce a large amount of tradable commodities.

There are only two more cities that come close to the power of Venice and these are Verona and Padua. They have no specific function within the Republic other than to be de facto military head quarters due to the fact that they supply the majority of the Venetian Soldiers within the army.

Subdivisions
The Venetian Republic is devided into 3 provinces and 18 districts.

Government
The official name of Venice is the'' Venetian Republic. The Venetian Republic is ruled by the Doge'' as head of state and head of all government institutions. Under him is the Collegio who comprise of a group of selected officials chosen by the Doge who act as the executive arm of the government. Then there is the Minor Consiglio who supervise the actions of the Collegio and may veto them, however they too can have veto forced on their decisions by the Doge. After is the Consiglio dei Dieci who consist of 10 chosen individuals (chosen by the Collegio) and have authority over all government actions, they are at the same level of control as the Pregadi who number 120 individuals (chosen by the Collegio) take care of day to day legislation. Finally there is the Autorità Grande who form the acting force of the Government who carry out decrees and government business.

The current ruler is Doge Constantino who is head of the Furioso family, currently the largest Venetian Patrician family and holds the most influence with both the working class and middle class. Constantino advocates free trade and a system where the merchants and businessmen of Venice form the main economic authority, he also believes that Catholocism is important though think that the Pope should not rule an empire and that the religion should be kept seperate from government, he believes that only pure Venetians should have full citizenship and that other peoples under Venetian rule should have seperate citizenship and also wishes to make Venice a strong military power.