Consigahria is operated entirely by its government, called the First Legislature of Consigahria, or simply the First Legislature. The First Legislature has the power to create and enforce laws, but does not have the power to reverse a Prime Minister's veto or any past veto. The First Legislature is divided into two groups which serve two different purposes. One half, the Parliament, comprised of officials elected by the nation's voting population, controls lawmaking processes by determining constitutionality of individual justice's legal decisions. In other words, the entire Parliament can veto one justice's ruling unanimously, but they cannot override a ruling from the Prime Minister. The other half, the Representative Assembly (often abbreviated as RA), creates laws as necessary by individual trials, and each ruling is preserved until later challenged and reversed, or until stricken out by a Prime Minister.

The Prime Minister has the power to create, destroy, and enforce laws; create, limit and destroy organizations of all kinds; and to regulate the Parliament and RA. The Parliament, a group of ten hand-chosen individuals elected from the territories, also has the power to create laws; but the Representative Assembly, a group of 150 individuals hand-selected by the Prime Minister and by Prime Ministers past, are responsible for amending laws which require amendment by unanimous vote. The Prime Minister does not have the right to directly influence tax rates or percentages as it pertains to the national monetary systems. The Prime Minister has the right to declare war and civil war, and also has the right to execute anybody in his jurisdiction without trial or reason, though the Parliament decided in 1901 that the Prime Minister must indicate a "proper reason ... before the execution takes place, or he may be impeached and replaced."

A decision made by Parliament and/or RA can be overturned with a majority vote by the voting population in a referendum.

The monetary system is highly monitored. There is an undisclosed but specific amount of bills and coins that are supposed to be in circulation around Consigahria and in foreign trade. If at any point there's an inconsistency, it's recorded and tracked by a government agency and resolved legally. The stock market and value of the ruice is monitored daily by the National Financial Association, a corporation directly underneath the nation's Minister of Finance.

Consigahria is currently under martial law.

Spending

Consigahria is a scholarly bastion of learning and reason, comprised of intelligentsia who rank themselves by the number of their university degrees. Consigahria, while not completely neglecting its less fortunate citizens, contributes a paltry amount of its budget to Welfare. Consigahria, never a nation to be overly concerned with Administration, nonetheless, has a small cadre of administrators, bookkeepers, accountants and pencil-pushers on the payroll to keep things running smoothly. While there is some sense of Social Equality in The Just Monocratic Commonwealth of Consigahria, the government does not concentrate much of its time or budget on it leaving many out in the cold on social initiatives like education and employment. Consigahria is a strikingly beautiful nation of clear skies and pristine beaches which gives one an overwhelming sense of healthiness due to the fairly heavy governmental contributions to the Environment. The Consigahria Defence Forces are neither paltry nor overwhelming in this nation that can defend itself against even formidable foes. The trade of goods, services, information, money, anything, in Consigahria is an all-consuming activity for most of the population due to the government's insistence on concentrating on Commerce. The literacy rate in The Just Monocratic Commonwealth of Consigahria is nearly 100% due to the government's complete dedication to Education and the funding thereof. Public Transportation in Consigahria, while adequate, is a low priority in governmental budget discussions, where most attendees arrive in their state-issued personal vehicles. The HealthCare system in Consigahria is all-encompassing and permeates most facets of life incorporating everything from wellness to well-being, from exercise to employment, from scoop to nuts and most things in between. Not everyone in Consigahria is a police officer or a lawyer, but a lot of citizens are in this nation that has more than a passing interest in Law and Order.

Public healthcare

There are several interregional hospitals which are the second, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, and tenth largest hospitals in all of Spiritus. The first (in second place) is Vermillion City Metropolitan Interregional Hospital, which has over 150 locations in Capital Territory alone. The second (in fourth place) is Voya Hospital Group (VHG), which has over 120 locations across Voya Territory.

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Public education

In Consighria, education is extremely specialized, and the government funds 100% of public schools and 40-67% of private schools. Education is compulsory at the elementary and lower secondary levels. Most students attend public schools through the lower secondary level, but private education is popular at the upper secondary and university levels.

Education prior to elementary school is provided at children halls, preschools, and some places of worship.

Preschool is about elementary literacy skills, like phonetics and other basics. Elementary school is about other elementary skills, like basic mathematics, basic language skills, team sports exercises, and recreational skills. Middle school is about advanced proficiency in these, and introduction of sciences, a multitude of jobs, and liberal arts. (First year middle school students must take anatomy and physiology, a single course; second year students must take psychology; and third year students must take a higher-ranked science, such as chemistry or botany, the choice being that of the student.) High school is about specialization in a certain trade, or certain trades. In high school and universities, the average student will show advanced proficiency in written and spoken English as well as their native language(s); basic proficiency in a secondary language; will specialize in a science; will be artistically inclined in some way; will show basic proficiency in team sports; and will show basic proficiency in human anatomy. Throughout middle and high school, Consigahrian and world history is taught.

Children either go attend secular public school or religious public schools through middle school.

Classes available to the average high school student include, but are not limited to, metal workshop, wood workshop, automotives, electronics, computer science, music theory, music composition, creative writing and prose, calligraphy, geology, geography (in particular, advanced courses), algebra, geometry, calculus, and more.

Parliament

Consigahria's Parliament has the right to create laws and settle federal-level lawsuits based on their constitutionality. The Parliament created the nation's constitution, the Consigahrian Federal Body, shortly after the ratification of the Vermillion Treaty.

See Federal and territorial laws of Consigahria for a complete list of laws.

Politics

Politics in Consigahria are held on a very tight leash. The Prime Minister is presented with a few daily RA trials on which there are no legislation. The Prime Minister helps to creates laws in this way; he decides what is best, and his decision is referenced in law forevermore, until a successor imposes a contradictory law which negates the previous. As he does this, the Representative Assembly immediately nips unnecessary addenda in the bud.

The decisions are generally made in either a father-knows-best decision-making process or one which benefits everybody in the long term. Prime Ministers Davis 2-9 have worked very hard to make Consigahria the place it is today through its extensive legislation.

Elections

Citizens are granted every ten years with official polls, called ballots, on which they indicate in pen which representatives they want representing their area in the Representative Assembly. The representatives which appear on the ballot are hand-chosen by the Head Minister of Law and Order.

It began months before the nation's federation, when some citizens rebelled violently against the dictatorial government and were executed on the spot for treason. After this act, Dictator for Life Cornelius Davis I was assassinated in his personal chamber by his security guards, who were ordered to commit the act of treason secretly by the Dictator's son. The Dictator's successor promised one day elections would be widespread in the nation.

Today, citizens are allowed to participate in elections, although not too many.

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High police ratios in urban areas

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A Consigahrian citizen, identity masked, holds a sign that reads in red "too many cops - too little justice."

History

In 1906, there was a 12:1 police ratio, and 80% of homes in Vermillion City were burned and their residents shot for an attempted revolution, one that would have murdered seven billion more people, that Division didn't want to happen. With the Prime Minister's permission, these homes and lives were destroyed. The city was rebuilt larger and larger in symbolism of the prosperous relationship between the Consigahrian government and its constituents. In 2131, 17 million homes in Tanahog were ransacked by police in search of a terrorist; 8.2% of its residential district was ravaged, leaving another three percent terrified.

In 2135, a survey showed the police to citizen ratio was 9:2. In January 2137, another survey showed the police to citizen ratio was 4:7.

Capital Punishment

In 2023, the government began to use public beatings as deterrents for breaking the law, and it was very effective. These beatings would be carried out by police and government agents that worked directly with the public. Minors would not be beaten, however, and would instead simply either face their own parents or incarceration. Adults would be regularly beaten near or in the place where their crime occurred. Justices (judges) do not decide whether a person is beaten, but can decide whether a person dies for their crime. Therefore, most theft is usually armed, or explosive, and sporadic.

Murder in itself has not been legally defined as a crime that deserves the death penalty. If a person murders and in the same moment is murdered themselves, the murderer's death is legally justifiable, and his killer is a hero. However, if the murderer kills, steals a car, and then a random individual blindsides him at 80 miles per hour and kills him that way, unless he willfully killed the murderer specifically for his crimes, his death is not legally justifiable. If the murderer leaves the scene of the crime, he cannot be killed; he must be arrested and tried before a jury, and subsequently sentenced to 25 to 50 years in territorial prison (if the murder he committed was unarmed) or federal prison (if armed).

Theft in itself has also not been legally defined as a crime deserving death. If a person breaks into a house (legally, burglary), whether he has stolen a valuable item (legally, theft) or not, and the patriarch of the house shoots him with a shotgun and wounds or kills him, the wounding or death of the thief is legally justifiable. However, if the thief is shot off of the man's property, his death is not legally justifiable. In the case that a thief actually escapes the man's premises, the man is not allowed to send someone from his house to hunt the thief down (legally, criminal endangerment), but legally may do it himself; moreover, if the thief was armed and had fired a shot before his escape, anybody walking down the street may subdue him for as long as they don't handcuff, kill, mortally wound him, or beat him while he is unable to defend himself. In this case, as in any, the police should be called to the scene of the crime in order to conduct an investigation and place under arrest and/or flog anybody who has broken any laws. Misdemeanors deserved no more than ten flogs, and felonies no more than 100.

In 2136, the laws regarding public floggings came under fire through tens of court cases. Eventually, Prime Minister Davis XI would outlaw it. Before it became a criminal act for the police to beat citizens who broke the law, they were only allowed to use a belt or a flog, both of which were issued by their agency. To use any other object would be a felony punishable by termination of their employment. Today, officers are allowed to engage with combative suspects only if to subdue them, for instance chasing a fleeing suspect on foot and tackling them, causing some bodily damage. However, to attack a compliant suspect usually results in termination of employment and jail time for assault and abuse of legal authority.

Corporeal punishment

Capital punishment is legally synonymous with the death penalty, whereas corporeal punishment is a separate concept which doesn't involve death or killing. In the instances where a perpetrator cannot be legally killed for murder or burglary, it is legal to pursue, apprehend, and beat him (legally, citizen's arrest); but to harm him to the point of unconsciousness is where the line lies. It is a felony to harm him past that point or to harm him to the point of fatal injury; and to kill him there is murder. Police are required to recommend that citizens only pursue and apprehend subjects who commit crimes like burglary, theft, and unarmed murder, and that citizens leave corporeal punishment to the professionals.

Police and corporeal punishment

Police officers are legally allowed to issue public beatings at the time of arrest, but legally speaking, it's only appropriate in situations where, for example, a man assaults a woman, or a high-school-aged teenager commits petty theft. Usually, for larger crimes, like theft in material cost of more than R$1,000 (except in cases of theft of a motor vehicle), the police don't beat perpetrators because, morally speaking, the jail sentence will suffice for punishment.

Up until 2131, the police was notorious for beating their criminals with flogs, belts, sticks, and whips, until the outlawing of corporeal punishment from policemen to civilians during Davis X's reign. However, a year following Davis XI's inauguration, the outlawing was reversed in 2137.

Consigahria National Armada

Consigahria National Armada
Military and psychic manpower
Military age	Recruitment: 15-49; reserves: 20-60
Availability	age 15-60: 93%
Fit for military service	age 15–60
Reaching military age annually	1.8 billion
Current size of forces	4,580,150,000
Military expenditures
Amount	R$33.502 trillion
Percent of GDP	14%

The Consigahrian National Armada (also known generally as Consigahria National Armada and Consigahria National Guard, and known colloquially as the national armada, the national guard, and the NatArms) is a broad term that generally refers to two entities, either the Consigahrian Royal Army or the Royal Navy; or specifically to the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines as a whole, a singular entity.

When referred to as Consigahria National Guard or the national guard, it refers to a small fraction of troops from these groups as separate entities confederated against the public in times of riot. This has happened only once in Consigahrian history, resulting in the impeachment of a Prime Minister, and it has been water under the bridge for decades. The subject is considered taboo to bring up in haute or public company.

Consigahria is a notorious police state during international conflict, during which periods walled cities (Tanahog, Vermillion City, Soho City, Enryuu, Konomahamaru, and Dockmackie) close their municipal borders. City walls are reinforced heavily, are five to eight miles in height, 70 to 100 feet thick, and virtually impenetrable. These cities have missile defense systems which are constantly monitored by government workers. Coupled with walls, these cities are virtually untouchable. In Vermillion City's case, Capital Territory as a whole is prohibited from being exited or entered by any sapient entity, alive or dead.

As a nation, Consigahria is a mainly isolationist state which only militarizes against foreign offense forces. In its entire history, the Consigahrian National Armada has only participated in three wars: the war in which confederated forces who later formed the Consigahrian Dictatorship fought for rights to the Vermillion Plantations, the war in which West Consigahria and mainland Consigahria confederated to fight against Gerenstran military embargo ships, and the war against Brasilistan.

In total, there are 4.58 billion reserve officers in the ranks of the national armada. These reserve officers are highly-trained assassins trained by the Consigahrian government. In event of declaration of war or anticipation of declaration of war, 52% of the total adult population and 20% of the juvenile population of the nation will be recruited and trained to fight and kill in close quarters and at great distances; and to fund this, the country will suffer a 20% tax hike in all areas. In event of riot or civil war within the nation, the nation guard will be dispatched, and those exhibiting riotous behavior will be subdued if possible, or if the person or situation is too dangerous they will be non-fatally incapacitated and jailed. In event of civil war within the region, as Spiritian law prohibits civil war, the entire national armada will be dispatched where necessary.

The national armada is an immense force, considering the national population has exceeded 22 billion, more than 90% of the entire world; and alongside its federal agencies, the country is in total definitely a force to be reckoned with. All four branches of the national armada may have up to 25 million active officers each.

Consigahrian Royal Army

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Consigahrian Royal Navy

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Consigahrian Royal Air Force

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Consigahrian Royal Marines

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Government agencies

Government agencies employ over seven billion Consigahrian citizens across the nation. Government operatives lead these agencies by employing and directing government agents. Government operatives, unlike agents, are allowed to enter private property by any means necessary, even by utilization of lethal force.

The Corporal Service

The Corporal Service, colloquially known as the CS, is a federal intelligence and protection organization which is responsible for the protection of the Davis Royal Family, their staff, and all their subordinates. The CS is comprised of about 12,670 members who are trained to kill at the double, armed or not. The CS is responsible for less than one percent of deaths every year in Consigahria, and all of these deaths were a direct result of an attack on the Royal Family. CS and its sister agencies NBI and CIA often collaborate and act together. Less often, the NBI and CIA will also work with the nation's Operatives' Division.

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The Operatives' Division (of the Just Monocratic Commonwealth of Consigahria)

The Operatives' Division of the Just Monocratic Commonwealth of Consigahria, known in Consigahria as simply the Operatives' Division or colloquially as Division, is a branch of the World Operatives' Division, which has many branches in many nations across the world. Put simply, they employ psychic individuals and train them to hunt psychic criminals down where non-psychic intervention is impossible. According to a WOD study, roughly 57% of the entire world is potentially psychic, and 12% of that group are employed with Division.

WOD scientists claim the quantification of a specific percentage of the world which is psychic would probably be illegal in many countries, and morally invasive in others where the law permits; and therefore, WOD has prohibited its branches from investigating it. However, Consigahria and a few other select nations were chosen to make as close an estimate as is legally permitted. In 2135, 43% of Consigahrian citizens were admittedly psychic against a 52% estimated potential.

Consigahria's Division sector employs 12,600 personnel as of 2031; 15,500 personnel as of 2135; and 18,700 as of 2136.

Central Intelligence Agency

The Central Intelligence Agency of Consigahria, known mostly by its domestic name Central Intelligence Agency and its colloquial acronym CIA, is the nation's primary intelligence agency. Its 270,000-some employees operate from domestic, international, and regional embassies, and from many other locations around the world. The staff of the CIA report to the Director of National Intelligence, who reports directly to the Minister of Defense.

The CIA has four traditional principal activities, which are gathering information about foreign governments, corporations, and individuals; analyzing that information, along with intelligence gathered by other Consigahrian intelligence agencies, in order to provide national security intelligence assessment to senior policymakers; carrying out or overseeing covert activities and some tactical operations by its own employees, by members of the NatArms, or by other partners; and prosecution of national and international drug cartels who either don't fulfill or overshoot their quotas.

The CIA, NBI and COWTA tend to work together.

National Bureau of Investigation

The National Bureau of Investigation of Consigahria (National Bureau of Investigation, or NBI), is an intelligence and investigation agency centered in Consigahria responsible for the nation's protection from, to, and monitoring of extraterrestrial activity, and protection of the nation during international struggles by tactical long-range firearm and helicopter-rocket combat, or by hacking computers and networks across the world. The NBI is capable of shutting down the world's strongest supercomputers: it's been done. NBI agents are said to be the "ninjas of the government agencies". The NBI employed 15,240 personnel in 2135, employing a total staff of 31,120.

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Central Operations, Weapons and Technology Agency

The Central Operations, Weapons and Technology Agency of Consigahria, also known by its shorthand name Central Operations and colloquially by its acronym COWTA, is a nationalized intelligence and weapons-monitoring agency specializing in tracking weaponry throughout the country, as well as in and out of the country. COWTA would be held liable for any illegal manufacturing or distribution of weaponry and technology which would be detrimental at a federal level of security. It employs around 650,000 agents who they specially train to fight with firearms and without. The main purpose of the agency to make sure the black market stays within its quota limit as far as importation of guns, ammunition, drugs, and other weaponry and technology are concerned.

COWTA has been involved in two international wars and remains involved in hundreds of domestic disputes per year. Only 12 COWTA agents die in the line of duty per year.

Domestically, COWTA regulates, documents transactions within, and manages the country's white, gray and black markets. Without it, the national, regional, and global black markets would severely decline or even crash.

National Police Agency

The population of Consigahria is almost dominated by a nationalized police agency, conveniently called the National Police Agency, also known officially as NPA (abbreviated) and colloquially as the police, the cops, and similar vaguer terms. Every territory's police officers answer directly to a single Territory Police Commander, or TPC, who in turn answers directly to the Minister of Defense. Every territory has its own TPC. Every territory is subdivided into counties. Every county is operated by one County Sheriff, and many Deputy Sheriffs. Sheriffs and deputy sheriffs have legal influence nationwide; however, there is no demand for them in cities which have their own police departments, which employ their own officers - sergeants, corporals, privates, and officers in training.

Many cities have their own separate branch of the NPA. Examples include Vermillion City Police Department, Dockmackie Police Department, and Koto Police Department, and 72 others. Often but not always, in these urban agglomerations each borough has its own subdivision within the branch. Examples include Rochester Police Department and Dixie Police Department, both of Vermillion City alongside each of their sister subdivisions.

Further reading

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