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All empires have a government, ranging from Anarchy to Dictatorship. The difference between each type of government is only the way officials are elected. For example, in an Anarchic government anyone may request any government position, including that of the emperor, whereas in a Democratic empire whenever a certain position is requested, all citizens are able to cast a vote for the player they deem worthy to hold said position.
All empires have a government. Each [[empire]] has one main leader, commonly referred to as the ''emperor'', that controls everything. The emperor can however give other empire members permissions to help manage areas of the empire.
 
The type of government can be changed at any time by the emperor of the empire. This greatly reduces the important of the government type and commonly leaves any government type that allows for someone to takeover the emperor office unsafe for public empires. So when planning to have an empire with an open [[Immigration_Policy|immigration policy]], it is very important to read up on the different government types.
 
==Voting and Promotions==
Some government types allow players to vote. Players may set or change their current standing votes at any time. Once per week, votes are tallied and offices assigned.
 
Office assignments due to voting or military office promotion occur at 0:00 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Time UTC] on Saturdays. Here in Colorado, that's 5:00pm on Friday afternoon, 6:00pm when we're on daylight savings time.
 
Some government types permit players to request offices. Requests for office may be placed or changed at any time. The government type determines when your request might be considered. For example, when requesting an occupied office in a voting government type, you must wait until the next vote tally.


==Government Offices==
==Government Offices==
The [[Governance]] (F12) window's ''Citizen'' has controls for casting your vote and requesting offices.
The [[Governance]] (F12) window's ''Citizen'' lists all empire members, showing their government offices, and the boss hierarchy.


The following list shows the Chain-of-Command of offices that can be held. Titles of office can be changed when an empire is created.
==Domains==
The following list shows the [[Chain_of_Command|chain of Command]] of domains that can be held.


# President - The president holds authority over all the universe. There is only one president.
* '''Universe''' - holds authority over all the [[galaxies]] and everything in them.
# Vice President - The vice president wields the same authority as the president. There can be one vice president for each [[galaxy]].
* '''Galaxy''' - holds authority over everything in the galaxy.  
# Senator - A senator has authority over one or more [[sector]]s.
* '''Sector''' - holds authority over all [[Solar_System|solar system]]s in the [[sector]].
# Congressman - A congressman has authority over one or more [[System|solar system]]s.
* '''Solar System''' - holds authority over all [[world]]s in a solar system.
# Governor - A governor has authority over one or more [[world]]s. A planetary governor has authority over all its moons; a lunar governor has authority over a single [[moon]].
* '''World''' - holds authority over the world [[cities]] on it.
# Mayor - A mayor has authority over one or more [[cities]].
* '''City''' - holds authority over only the city.


==Title==
Gender specific variations for each position can be given. On the user-interface window, the male and female variations of a title are separated using a slash.<br>For example, <code>Emperor/Empress</code> or <code>Crown Prince/Crown Princess</code>.
Gender specific variations for each position can be given. On the user-interface window, the male and female variations of a title are separated using a slash.<br>For example, <code>Emperor/Empress</code> or <code>Crown Prince/Crown Princess</code>.


==Government Types==
==Quotes from patch notes==
The following table highlights the differences between the government types. It also shows the default titles of office.
{{Collapsible
 
| Related patch notes
{| class="wikitable"
| 2 = [http://www.hazeron.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=8185 '''Update 2015-11-06: Governance Does Not Work''"]
! Government Type
: The current implementation of governance does not work.
! Gain Office
:: Governance changed a lot. Not all ideas discussed on the forum were implemented. I think the result is workable; it can grow in a good direction from here.
! Succession
::* Government types eliminated, including all related code to handle various kinds of succession.
! Default Titles
::* Voting eliminated.
|-
::* Request for government office eliminated.
| Anarchy
::* [[Immigration_Policy|Immigration policy]] now has only two choices, open or password. By Request and By Invitation types eliminated. [[Empire]]s with either of those settings will change to password.
|Any office is granted to anyone who requests it, including Harlequin. 15 minutes must pass before an office can be taken by someone else.
::* Government ''offices'' are defined by a set of policies that can be attached to people in an empire.
|
::** Title is an office setting. Every government official can have their own title of office.
||
::** Founder office is now defined as a set of these office policies. It used to reference an office type that is now obsolete. Founder office is granted to people who found cities who do not already hold a government office.
# Harlequin
::** Governance domain (the places they govern) are defined in office settings.
# Clown Prince
::*** Governance domain can contain a mix of different kinds of places: universe, galaxy, sector, solar system, world, city. It used to be restricted to only one kind.
# Trickster
::*** Governance domains are not exclusive. Multiple governors can have the same places in their domains. Previously, each place could have only one governor.
# Huckster
::**** The domain affects where you can perform certain actions.
# Jester
::**** Policies cannot restrict actions performed by players in a domain as this would be ambiguous if others also govern any of the domain's places. This is why policies like Right to Found Cities and Trespass Policy must be empire-wide and cannot vary across different governance domains.
# Town Clown
::*** Founding a city automatically adds the city and it's world to your governance domain. The world is needed to load officers from there.
|-
::*** Places have increasing value based on their type. Government Target Value is based on the sum of the value of all the places in a governors domain and the domains of their subordinates, recursively.
| Banana Republic
::**** Shown on avatar web pages.
| El Presidente's office can be requested by anyone.<br><br> El President position is granted by winning a popular vote of all citizens.General position is assigned according to individual [[reputation]], like the Military government type.<br><br> Acceptance of the General position assignment is mandatory.<br><br>Subordinate positions are assigned by any higher positions. e.g. Members of Parliament can assign Governor and Mayor positions and El Presidente can assign any position, except the General position.El Presidente or the General can remove the other from office by assassination.<br><br> The assassinated victim respawns holding no position.
::**** Value is a multiplier used when determining rewards for assassination missions.
|
::**** When the emperor is removed from office for any reason, their immediate subordinate with the highest value becomes the new emperor. If there are none, then a citizen is chosen at random.
||
::** There is a setting to enable changing the flag. The UI to actually do this is not complete yet.
# El Presidente
::** One and only one emperor is allowed. Other governors can also have the universe in their domain and all the same permission settings as the emperor, including the ability to revoke the office of the emperor.
# General
::** Governor boss hierarchy is assigned by people, not determined by the places they govern. The hierarchy starts at the emperor.
# Cabinet Member
::* Existing governance information was converted into this new format. It will be close but the boss hierarchy will not be right. You can work with it from there.
# Member of Parliament
::* Offices are no longer lost due to inactivity online. You used to lose your office if you were off line for 30 days.
# Governor
::* Citizens tab of the Governance window now shows the organization chart of the government, according to the boss hierarchy. Non-government citizens are listed after that.
# Mayor
::* Flag and empire name moved from policies page to the announcements page of the Governance window, since it is the first page to be seen.
|-
::* This is new, barely functional. There are many ways to improve it. There may even be a bug or two.
| Democracy
}}
| Any office can be requested by anyone. Unoccupied offices are granted immediately. <br><br>Occupied offices are granted by winning a popular vote of all citizens.
| When the President leaves, the Vice President automatically succeeds to President.
||
# President
# Vice President
# Senator
# Congressman or Congresswoman
# Governor
# Mayor
|-
| Dictatorship
| Subordinate offices are assigned by any higher office. e.g. Senators can assign Governor and Prefect offices and the Emperor can assign any office.
| Acceptance of an office assignment is mandatory.<br><br> Position assignments cannot be resigned. <br><br>The Prime Minister automatically succeeds to Emperor when the Emperor leaves. <br><br>If the Emperor leaves when there is no Prime Minister, the citizen with the highest [[reputation]] is promoted to Emperor.
||
# Emperor or Empress
# Prime Minister
# Viceroy
# Senator
# Governor
# Prefect
|-
| Military
| All offices, including Commander, are assigned according to individual [[reputation]]. Acceptance of a position assignment is mandatory. <br><br>Unoccupied positions are open to claim by anyone at the next lower position. e.g. An unoccupied Company Commander position can be claimed by anyone; an unoccupied Division Commander position can only be claimed by a Brigade Commander.
|
||
# Commander
# Vice Commander
# Division Commander
# Brigade Commander
# Regiment Commander
# Company Commander
|-
| Monarchy
| Subordinate offices are offered by any higher offices, e.g. Counts may offer Marquis and Baron offices and the King may offer any office. <br><br>Acceptance of an office is voluntary except succession to King. <br><br>The Crown Prince automatically succeeds to King when the King leaves.
| The Crown Prince automatically succeeds to King when the King leaves. <br><br>If the King leaves when there is no Crown Prince, a new King is appointed from the citizenry.
||
# King or Queen
# Crown Prince or Crown Princess
# Duke or Duchess
# Count or Countess
# Marquis or Marquesa
# Baron or Baroness
|-
| Organized Crime
| Unoccupied offices are open to claim by anyone in the next lower office. e.g. An unoccupied Gang Leader office can be claimed by anyone; an unoccupied Godfather office can only be claimed by a Boss.
| Succession is achieved by assassinating a person holding the next higher office. e.g. A Boss becomes a Godfather by assassinating a Godfather. <br><br>The assassinated victim respawns holding no office.
||
# Lord
# Vice
# Godfather
# Boss
# Enforcer
# Gang Leader
|-
| Republic
| Any office can be requested by anyone. Unoccupied offices are granted immediately. <br><br>Occupied offices are granted by winning a vote cast among those holding the next office lower than the office sought. e.g. <br><br>To become a Congressman, one must win a vote of the Governors; to become Mayor, one must win a popular vote of the citizens.
| Exceptions apply to the President, who is voted by the Senators, and the Vice President, who is appointed by the President. <br><br>When the President leaves, the Vice President automatically succeeds to President.
||
# President
# Vice President
# Senator
# Congressman or Congresswoman
# Governor
# Mayor
|-
| Theocracy
| Unoccupied Deacon positions are granted to anyone who requests them. <br><br>The next higher position can be requested when it becomes unoccupied. <br><br>Position increases beyond Deacon are granted by winning a vote of one's peers. e.g. <br><br>A Deacon must win a vote of the Deacons in order to advance to Priest. <br><br>Exceptions apply to the Pope, who is voted by the Arch Bishops, and the Cardinal, who is appointed by the Pope.
| When the Pope leaves, the Cardinal automatically succeeds to Pope.
||
# Pope
# Cardinal
# Arch Bishop
# Bishop
# Priest or Priestess
# Deacon or Deaconess
|}


[[Category:Empires]]
[[Category:Empires]]

Revision as of 03:02, 10 November 2015

This section is in need of revision.
Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page.
The reason given is: Very much work in progress, see Update 2015-11-06 for more information.

All empires have a government. Each empire has one main leader, commonly referred to as the emperor, that controls everything. The emperor can however give other empire members permissions to help manage areas of the empire.

Government Offices

The Governance (F12) window's Citizen lists all empire members, showing their government offices, and the boss hierarchy.

Domains

The following list shows the chain of Command of domains that can be held.

  • Universe - holds authority over all the galaxies and everything in them.
  • Galaxy - holds authority over everything in the galaxy.
  • Sector - holds authority over all solar systems in the sector.
  • Solar System - holds authority over all worlds in a solar system.
  • World - holds authority over the world cities on it.
  • City - holds authority over only the city.

Title

Gender specific variations for each position can be given. On the user-interface window, the male and female variations of a title are separated using a slash.
For example, Emperor/Empress or Crown Prince/Crown Princess.

Quotes from patch notes

Related patch notes
'Update 2015-11-06: Governance Does Not Work"
The current implementation of governance does not work.
Governance changed a lot. Not all ideas discussed on the forum were implemented. I think the result is workable; it can grow in a good direction from here.
  • Government types eliminated, including all related code to handle various kinds of succession.
  • Voting eliminated.
  • Request for government office eliminated.
  • Immigration policy now has only two choices, open or password. By Request and By Invitation types eliminated. Empires with either of those settings will change to password.
  • Government offices are defined by a set of policies that can be attached to people in an empire.
    • Title is an office setting. Every government official can have their own title of office.
    • Founder office is now defined as a set of these office policies. It used to reference an office type that is now obsolete. Founder office is granted to people who found cities who do not already hold a government office.
    • Governance domain (the places they govern) are defined in office settings.
      • Governance domain can contain a mix of different kinds of places: universe, galaxy, sector, solar system, world, city. It used to be restricted to only one kind.
      • Governance domains are not exclusive. Multiple governors can have the same places in their domains. Previously, each place could have only one governor.
        • The domain affects where you can perform certain actions.
        • Policies cannot restrict actions performed by players in a domain as this would be ambiguous if others also govern any of the domain's places. This is why policies like Right to Found Cities and Trespass Policy must be empire-wide and cannot vary across different governance domains.
      • Founding a city automatically adds the city and it's world to your governance domain. The world is needed to load officers from there.
      • Places have increasing value based on their type. Government Target Value is based on the sum of the value of all the places in a governors domain and the domains of their subordinates, recursively.
        • Shown on avatar web pages.
        • Value is a multiplier used when determining rewards for assassination missions.
        • When the emperor is removed from office for any reason, their immediate subordinate with the highest value becomes the new emperor. If there are none, then a citizen is chosen at random.
    • There is a setting to enable changing the flag. The UI to actually do this is not complete yet.
    • One and only one emperor is allowed. Other governors can also have the universe in their domain and all the same permission settings as the emperor, including the ability to revoke the office of the emperor.
    • Governor boss hierarchy is assigned by people, not determined by the places they govern. The hierarchy starts at the emperor.
  • Existing governance information was converted into this new format. It will be close but the boss hierarchy will not be right. You can work with it from there.
  • Offices are no longer lost due to inactivity online. You used to lose your office if you were off line for 30 days.
  • Citizens tab of the Governance window now shows the organization chart of the government, according to the boss hierarchy. Non-government citizens are listed after that.
  • Flag and empire name moved from policies page to the announcements page of the Governance window, since it is the first page to be seen.
  • This is new, barely functional. There are many ways to improve it. There may even be a bug or two.