Government of Ascadia

A-PLACEHOLDER- This was a far more interesting and well written page many moons ago, but i closed the page accidentally without saving. Information is now much more shorthanded.

"For many in these halls, they are the sons of the sons of the sons whose fathers fathers helped pen the original Tizzonian Reforms. These are young men, indoctrinated men, who assume the system of Guerric Law mingled with the Absolute Theocracy of the House of Tizzone is a system working as intended. I largely agree with them, of course, otherwise I would not be Lord Alessandro's Clerk-Historical, after all. I simply wish the younger men of law regarded the older ways more kindly, rather than as a stepping stone to the golden age. The local lords are growing fat on favorable bulls and reforms, and their Buccellas are swelling with new blood as the agro-communes become subverted by the Lordships. I can almost taste a future where the rule of law is gilded by a merchant's coin, rather than by heaven's splendor." -Clerk-Historical Vito Allafraghe of Alessandro XI, regarding the university students taking the Imperial Estimation in the capital.

For much of Ascadian history, central authority has reigned supreme. An ancient network of increasing complex and inefficient autocracies ruled by some variety of micromanagement obsessed ruler doomed to pass on his neuroticism to his heir. This style of governance was once known as the "Ascadian Style of Governance", a military minded autocracy rife with inefficiencies. Various aspiring rulers, often the kind who usurp, sought to reform the Ascadian system, and most have succeeded. Each era in Ascadia can be defined by rigid, status quo abiding lines of kings who all descend from a revolutionary firebrand who used his will to rewrite law and pen reforms. It makes Ascadian history a cycle of extreme change and stagnation throughout, what we assume, is thousands of years dating back to the First Bronze Age in Lontia, a people who have mostly maintained this style of neurotic autocracy, but divided between confederated Clan Lords.

The most recent pair of Great Reforms, the First and Second Tizzonian Reforms, penned several generations apart from one another, are the primary contributors to the current manner of governance, known as "Mingled Guerric Law", an evolution from what was called "Anemic Guerric Law" from the first reformation. This has been the most intense change ever experienced in Ascadian reforms, mostly due to the way it reduced Ascadia's border size massively, and turned the title of "King" to "Emperor", and turned many of the duchies into "League States", nominally increasing their tax burden, but giving them near full autonomy. Because of this, modern Ascadia mostly regards itself with purely Ascadian disputes, and does so with a far larger reserve of currency to use from the invigorated and independent league tributaries it now draws from, as well as the fairly efficient manner of taxation that the low level government can partake in without imperial oversight.

Hereditary Colonial Estates (Prinicpal Foreign Colonies) -DEFUNCT-

As of the Reign of Vestus Tizzone II, all foreign colonies have been abolished and their estates returned to the League, many of whom were absorbed into the Principal Realms through the "Colonial Reintegration System" Of Vestus II, and maintained during the long, relatively peaceful reign of Leopo I.