Government of Hergom
The government of Hergom provides for the administration of Hergom ep Swekorwos.
Gwekwōntiyo Hregwes - Tribal Council
The tribal council is the unicameral legislative body of Hergom, and it brings representatives from each of the sixty-five Wolgos tribes in Hergom. The body is the main discussion forum for the tribes and where state policy is agreed upon. Any one member of the council can table a motion or introduce legislation for discussion and approval. For a motion or piece of legislation to be approved, a majority of three-fifths is required (or 117 votes), and impasses can be broken by the state director, who has the power to vote with the power of one-fifth (or 39 votes).
Members of the council are known as Hregwis Wl̥kwos, Named after wolves, who the Wolgos frequently make comparisons between themselves and the animals because of their unity, strength and cunning.
Hregwis Wl̥kwos - Council Wolves
The Hregwis Wl̥kwos are the tribal representatives for each tribe that sits in the Gwekwōntiyo Hregwes. Each tribe has three representatives despite what size a tribe might be. Nevertheless, most tribes are about a million strong, with some outliers of less than a few hundred thousand and a handful with over two million Wolgos.
Wl̥kwos are only Wolgos from Wolgos tribes, and humans have no representation in the legislature of Hergom.
The Wl̥kwos are not democratically elected through a public vote, as seen in republics. The Wl̥kwos are high officers from a tribe's own tribal conglomerate, and they are typically the highest board directors of their tribal conglomerate. Despite not being voted in, they answer directly to their tribal members, who are tribe enterprise employees, stakeholders and frequently part of large kin collectives known as clans. The Wl̥kwos have outreach offices that consult directly with other high tribal leaders, heads of clans, tribal officers and tribal members.
To become a Wl̥kwos, an individual, typically a Wolgos man must rise through their tribal ranks. They must demonstrate exceptional leadership, strategic acumen, and the ability to manage complex economic and social initiatives to make it through the tribal hierarchy. As such, their rise to the Gwekwōntiyo Hregwes is indirectly through merit, performance, and their ability to serve their tribe's interests effectively and through just popularity.
Duties:
- State Policy Development: policy is typically developed outside council chambers by collectives of interested Wl̥kwos and proposed for debate and negotiation in the chambers.
- Intertribal Negotiation: The Wl̥kwos will discuss officially negotiating matters of territorial use, authority, inter-tribal economic and welfare cooperation, and mediate grievances and resolutions.
- State Funding: The Wl̥kwos will negotiate tribal contributions to the state as a percentage of their revenues and commercial activity. They are directly responsible for a tribe's payment of state services to the tribe and its members.
- Offence and Defence Board: Six Wl̥kwos are elected by the council to oversee the command of the Teuteh₂leigh₂ekmon, liaise with the Hlrike, hold the keys to unanimously permit High yield nuclear strikes, oversee secret defence projects.
- State Boards: Two Wl̥kwos are elected to oversee state boards such as agriculture, energy and infrastructure, human affairs and others.
State Boards
| State Board | Wolgos Name | Focus |
|---|---|---|
| Offence and Defence | Werḱyos | Oversees the Teuteh₂leigh₂ekmon, liaise with the Hlrike, hold the keys to unanimously permit High yield nuclear strikes, oversee secret defence projects. |
| Security and Harmony | Seh2rmon | Board that oversees standards that the Gwherdheh1tōr must abide by, The administration and funding of the H2ermóngwhers, and oversight of the H1ensderkos who are the state secret police. Also oversees the Wolgos courts. |
| Outsider affairs | Ekssteros | The foreign service liaises with the Ombhrosdhom Commonwealth Treaty organisation and coordinates diplomacy. |
| Energy and Infrastructure | H1énérgwe | Oversees planning and investment on energy and infrastructure. |
| Regulatory Committee | Regleygos | Sets and enforces consumer, industrial, commerce, pharmacological, medical, financial, agricultural, telecommunication ant etc standards. One of the largest bureaucracies in Hergom. |
| Tribal and Territorial Affairs | Dhómgʷosgon | Survey, Territorial management, land grants, colonisation grants, titles, deeds and regulates tribal sovereignty over territories and claims. |
| Agriculture and Resources | Hérghteros | Overseers agricultural development, food security, investment and the management of mineral and natural resources. |
| Industry and Commerce | Perkomis | Oversees investment in critical industries and promotes industrial development and output. |
| Sentinel of Culture and Dlrocha | Welh₂skenos | Protects the supremacy of the Wolgos culture and faith, in recent years it has increasingly overseen the growing Cult of the Inner Light that has taken root in Hergom. Also oversees cultural and artistic grants. |
| Wolgos Services Coordination | Wolgos-Serviros | Liases with tribes and sets standards and milestones tribes must meet in Wolgos welfare services such as Health, Legal aid, Motherhood subsidies, Family Enhancement grants and destitution protection. |
| Human Affairs | Wedʰoswosaphar | Oversees human courts, law enforcement, liaises with Human elites such as governors, businessmen and traditional lords to align their activities with the interests of the state. Also oversees matters of human faith, population, movement, labour and relief initiatives. |
Current Voting Blocks - Banners
Voting blocks, also named banners, are informal groupings of council members via ideological lines; they are not political parties, and members can shift blocks as they see fit. Blocks serve to coordinate council voting ideology and strategy, and blocks usually have popular agitators who keep them together and negotiate with members and other blocks.
There are currently five blocks, but the number fluctuates according to prevailing political situations and currents; there are times when there has been a single block or more than a dozen.
| Red Banner | Green Banner | Night Banner | Oak Banner | Antler Banner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The voting block focused on Wolgo's first policies with a moderate outlook, championing further tribal land grants for settlement, industrial expansion through tribal conglomerates, and neutral foreign policy, by which they mean avoiding antagonising other powers while expanding economic influence. Proses the expansion of the OCT with more interventionist policies and appointments of Wolgos advisors to member governments. Promotes a status quo on the human situation, with further integration of the principalities. | Progressive Voting block that champions that Wolgos and human subjects' interests and property go in tandem. Proposes the federation of human subjects into Wolgos-like tribes in order to eliminate the ICoN-championed human courts and integrate hypothetical human tribes into the Wolgos judicial system. A paternalistic outlook on humans and propose a cautious but amicable foreign policy with the aim of expanding economic influence into other powers proposes further economic integration with OCT members. | Supremacist banner that foresees a "purer" form of Hergom seeks to wind back concessions to humans and proposes a form of chattel ownership as it once existed in Old Dhonowlgos. Proposes an unyielding foreign policy, the disbandment of the OCT or its transformation into an imperial organisation. Proses higher military budgets, action and champions the Hlrike and their interest. Economically, the faction waivers through different approaches but nevertheless upholds the tribal conglomerate model. | Focus primarily on promoting the development of single-owner or non-tribal stock companies as a way of stimulating economic vitality and investment. Against negotiated industrial and commerce monopolies, beliefs that tribal conglomerates are leading to reduced competition and consumer choices. Promotes the inclusion of more women into the labour market. Promotes investment in human microfinancing and the enhancement of economic integration of human wastes into greater cosmopolitan economies. Promotes defence readiness but beliefs Hergom is sufficiently large. | Faith is the first group that promotes the elevation of the Vlroika back to a government as a head of state while maintaining the post of state director as the head of government. The block is a catch-all for all the Dlroch'veldr denominations and faithful, which seeks greater influence from the faith in the government and policies aligned with the faith. Promotes the conversion of humans to the faith, using human criminals as sacrifices (bringing back human sacrifice), but seeks a paternalistic and mutualistic relationship with humans much like pastoral Eokoesr once did in old Dhonowlgos. |
The current support base for the State Director has shaped government policy to have moderate wolgos first initiatives, meaning that there is no tabled legal expansion of human indulgences or assurances. The support of the night banner has come largely due to agreements to increase the Hlrike budget and operational participation, but outright support was not obtained as the current government has set a red line on rolling back human indulgences in any way and on renegotiating OCT terms. The Red Banner has a near carte blanche at expanding tribal conglomerate land use and investment but has made concessions to the Oak Banner of reducing seemingly punitive tribal dues from "private businesses" in order to obtain commercial benefits. Employees of non-tribal businesses can also now obtain equal benefits from their tribe, eliminating perceived penalties for working outside your tribe's businesses.
The Antler Banner minority support was obtained by appeasing the largest denomination, the High Komh'hergh, by agreeing to fund the expansion of their Vlroika abbey with state salaries for twenty Dlricho and ten per cent funding for the compound. The other two denominations received a five per cent state grant. The matter of which Vlroika is the true Vlroika remains unresolved, and the state will not change its foundation documents in any form to include a Vlroika as head of state.
Effectively making the Green Banner, alongside the remainder of Oak, the opposition. Green will not work with Night, and the remainder of the more traditional Antler and Night members function as a small but ultra-orthodox dissenting voice. With Green and Oak being more liberal and the remainder of Night and Antler extremely orthodox, there is a split opposition.