Adijan City

Adijan City Adijan
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Anthem: Dünyanın hər yerindən Adijan'a
Capital and	Adijan City
Recognised national languages	Adiji
Ethnic groups	Adiji (61%), Vardanan (10%), Gharbiyyun (9%)
Demonym(s)	Adijan, Adiji
Government	Semi-Democratic Republic
• Lord Mayor	Tanju Altun
• Senior Imtizi	Təhminə Jafarova
• House President	Tura Karatay
• Corporate Mandate Executor	Cag Yilmaz
Legislature	Municipal Parliament
• Upper house	Enfranchised House
• Lower house	Municipal House
Establishment
• Founding of the City (estimated)	March 20, 1289
Population
• Estimate	2,254,053
GDP (nominal)	estimate
• Total	$76.29 Billion
• Per capita	$33,847
Gini	35.21 medium
HDI	0.932 very high
Currency	Credit Share (≎)

Adijan City is a city state in the North Ozeros Sea. The city-state has a long history as a fiefdom of empowered merchant familes used to protect their trade interests from the domination of larger nearby states. While the power of the merchant familes has been diminished in the wake of waves of democrazation, the families still maintain some of their influence through the ancient chartered privledges in the city's government. Adijan's economy is technologically advanced and economically wealthy, and is relatively large for a city-state. However, it's size is still heavily overshadowed by the other nations in the Northern Ozeros.

Government

The Municipal Parliament

The City's government is centered around the Municipal Parliament. This parliament is the government's legislative branch and is the government's most powerful branch. The parliament can be divided into an upper house, the Enfranchised House, and the lower house called the Municipal House. The Municipal House is relatively simple. It is comprised of 425 Lay Electors, elected by popular elections on a 3-year basis. The Enfranchised House is more complex. It is comprised of 220 Electors, however these electors come from 2 different sources. The majority, 125 electors, are Chartered Electors. These Electors are elected by registered publicly traded corporations. The remaining electors are the Guilded Electors, appointed through a mechanism called Guild Arbitration. To pass legislation, the support of a majority of both houses must obtained.

The Chartered Electors

Corporations that are registered for public trading in the city's principal stock exchange may also obtain electoral privileges. These privileges are tied to the charter of the City of Adijan Commonality Corporation (CACC), a state corporation originally chartered for promoting the interests of non-citizens who traveled to the city to work and the city's incorporated middle class. Corporations may purchase publicly traded shares of CACC from a pool of shares. Corporations must own at least 1 full share to vote. During elections, each corporation receives 'votes' equal to their share (partial votes are allowed), and participate in a series of auctions to purchase the right to appoint electors. In addition to the Chartered Electors, the corporations vote in a ranked election to decide a single Corporate Mandate Executor. Candidates for the position must be submitted by voting corporations (at a limit of 1 per corporation). The main purpose of the CME is to serve as a tie-breaker in the Enfranchised house if needed.

The Guilded Electors

The Guild Electors are a body of 95 Guild members selected through Guild Arbitration. These electors make up a sub-body of the Enfranchised House called the Guilded Association. In addition to being Electors in the Enfranchised House, the Guilded Association is also given the responsibility of affirming candidates for the Lay Electors.

Guild Arbitration

Guild Arbitration is the method of selecting Guild Members to comprise the Guilded Association. Every 4 years, each guild chooses a representative to serve as their Guild's Arbiter. However, for 3 Guilds selected on rotation, their Arbiters are also given the special title of Imtizi. The Guild Arbiters then will go through the process of electing each of 92 Guilded Electors from a list of candidates approved by the Imtizi. When this process is complete, the Imtizi become an additional 3 Guilded Electors and the non-Imtizi Arbiters are dissolved.

The Lay Electors

Every 4 years a national election is run. Each district chooses 1 or more Lay Electors to represent the district. Each candidate Elector must be endorsed by one of the city's Guilds, and passed by the Guilded Association, up to a maximum of 5 candidates per seat. Candidates are elected by ranked voting. The first act of the house must be to pass (by majority vote) a special bill referred to as the Administrative Mandate, which details the rules by which the house will operate, and which must name one of the Lay Electors the title of House President to serve as representative of the body. The Administrative Mandate may be dissolved at any time if dissolution passes by a majority vote.

Executive Mandate

After each election, the City's Parliament passes a bill called the Executive Mandate which determines the leadership of the executive government. This includes the Lord Mayor of Adijan and the Secretaries for each of the government's Departments. The Mandate also describes a mandate by which the leadership is expected to lead the country. The Lord Mayor and the Secretaries may each, individually or multiple at once, be recalled by the Parliament at any time.

Registered Judges

To be a judge in Adijan, one must be endorsed by one of the city's Guilds. Endorsed judicial candidates must then be passed by the Guilded Association to become a Registered Judge. Fortunately, a Registered Judge must only be passed once in their life. Registered Judges need not hold office. Those not in office are referred to as Judges-In-Recess. Registered Judges holding office are referred to as Standing Judges.

Board of Judges

Every four years, elections are held to seat judges to districts. Any Registered Judge may announce their candidacy for any district, or for the Board of Judges. However, once an announcement is made, they are committed for that election. Judges are not elected by the general population, but rather from the population of Registered Judges. The Board of Judges is an appeals court, and decisions made by the district Judges may be appealed to the Board. Decisions by the Board are final and may only be overwritten by subsequent Board decisions. The Board, along with the Guild Association, also has the power to disbar Registered Judges, revoking their registration. This requires the affirmation of both the Association and the Board, and is an uncommon occurrence mainly used as punishment for misconduct.

Artisan Guilds

The artisan guilds of Adijan are an important feature to Adijan's luxury economy. During the merchant republic, the urban artisan industrial class negotiated equal rights with the patrician merchant families, dividing the Guilds into the Guilded Families (merchants) and the Artisan Guilds. Today some of the most important artisan guilds include: The Skilled Dressmakers of Katex The Company of Handbag Broiders The Automobile Craftsmembers of Tapan The Fine Arts Guild The Musicians' Association The Wonderful Jewelers Guild The Fine Company of Cordwainers (shoemakers and fine leather workers) The Architects' Guild The Tailors' Company The Fine Glovers' Association (gloves)

Ideological Guilds

The Young Adiji Advocacy Guild

A large ideological organization borne from the passions of democratic reform within the city, the Young Adiji Guild was permitted to form an official registered guild several decades ago out of a fear that passionate reformers would be pushed into violent radicalism if excluded from the system. The Guild, to this day, remains a very passionate Guild with a strong following among the youth and passionate republicans. The Young Adiji group is the proud flag-bearer of Adiji Democracy and strongly supports pro-democracy members. There are acute fears, especially among the wealthy and politically-entrenched, that the group continues to operate an underclass of radicalized revolutionaries. Many conspiracy theories circulate around this organization, as either activists fighting an entrenched oligrachy or as a controlled opposition. For now the group continues to aggressively pursue reform within the bounds of the city's government system.

The Safe Laborer Advocacy Group

The Safe Laborer Group is a municipal group that lobbies for and maintains regulations in favor of the city's working class. The group is significantly less passionate than the Young Adiji and is more accepted by the ruling class. In Practice the group serves as a coordinator of labor unions and safety regulation boards. The guild is itself institutionally integrated as the City's de-facto labor regulatory agency and enforces labor laws in Adijan alongside state officials. Due to being institutionalized, the group has grown more conservative, disavoing support for more radical reforms in favor of incrimental progress in the name of the working class.

The State Association

The State Association is an exclusive, usually conservative club. The club is devoted to maintaining the unity of the City's factions and preventing external actors from exploiting disunity. It is a nationalist guild which harkens to older eras of elder stateswomen and statesmen advising the City's rulership of threats to the City's aggregate interests. Today the State Association is often a key element of many conspiracy theories circultating through the city, due to its secretive and exlusive nature. It's membership is well connected with retired corporate directors and executives alongside senior guild members and retired politicians. In times of crisis it has often formed the nucleus of unity for a rallying of Adijan's disparate factions

Demographics

Religion

Adijan is a secular state with strong guarntees of religious freedom. The dominate religion in the city is the Vardanan Apolistic Church. This is followed by Eastern Christianity, Azardinism, and Judaism. No religious group makes up a majority of the population, though Christianity if counting all sects combined makes up ~45% of the population.

Economy

The economy of Adijan City is advanced and hosts several specialties. The City hosts an old and stable financial industry dating to the banking systems of the Adijan merchant republic, founded by the merchants of the city to finance their trading ventures. Flagship banking companies such as Doshimba Bank trace their origins back to the city's banking families. Several investment funds operate in the city, most notable of which is the AviQos Holdings firm.

Adijan's most well known industry may be its luxury brands and artisan crafts. The artisans of Adijan are politically empowered and are highly supported by the government. Major luxury artisan guilds specialized in products ranging from women's purses to painted art to the hospitality guilds running the sprawling Cennetna resorts across the beaches of the environs. Luxury car maker Kanbuki Motor Company found its origin in Adijan and maintains its main headquarters in the Kend district. Luxury clothing, leatherwork and tailoring blooms in Katex Village. Hand-made artisan arts, crafts, and jewelry can be found sold in the boutique shops and workshops of the Waterfront District.

Hand-in-hand with the luxury and artisanal industries, Adijan enjoys a large tourism industry. Many people travel to the city annually, arriving at the Adijan City International Airport (ACA) in Plains District, or the Orak L. Erdinc International Airport (OEA) in Tapan district. There are many tourist destinations throught the city. In Katex village tourists are given guided tours of workshops used by craftspeople for hundreds of years. In the Lighthouse district adults can find a vibrant nightlife and enjoy music from talented up-and-coming young musicians. The Old Quarter hosts numerous historical buildings, including the old central trading house. Along the shores of Norashen and Shorza districts wealthy visitors relax on private beaches and in luxurious beachside mansions close to downtown. Visitors enjoy hiking in the scenic Tepelor hills, hunting for the beautiful sight of the city skyline from atop the hills. In Kend district and the waterfront visitors enjoy a dazzling variety of boutique shops and luxurious restaurants on the shores of the picturesque eastern shore. Parks in the Daramak, Plains, Tepelor and Paldo districts offer tourists the chance to take a break from the hustle and bustle of the urban city, providing natural greenery, animal enclosures, and wide-open spaces free from high-rise structures. Old forts in Kicik district, Pambak island, and other locations offer visitors the change to experience the history of the old merchant republic.

Major Corporations

AviQos Holdings, Inc (AviQos)

Type: Investment Fund CEO: İnna Qoşqarsoy (Qoşqarsoy Family)

This investment fund began humble: as a small fund for managing the growth of the personal fortunes of the Qoşqarsoy family several decades ago. While one of the founding merchant families, the Qoşqarsoy have been a minor and politically irrelevant faction in the guilds for some time. However, fortunate investments have grown the fund into a major asset. At the age of 37 years old, Inna wrestled control over the fund and has maintained a powerful control over it with a large 33% personal ownership. She privatized the family fund into a public-traded investment bank, allowing her to indirectly purchase voting shares of the CACC through the fund. She is believed to have ambitions to drive the family into the most powerful guild families in the city, though she faces firm resistance from conservative, powerful guild families unhappy with Qoşqarsoy’s rapid fortunes. The fund is advertised as a major investor in ‘innovation’, and is investing in ‘emerging’ industries and ‘emerging’ markets.

Beynel-Goende Logistics Solutions Inc (BGLS Group)

Type: Logistics Services CEO: Murad Naghiyev (Naghiyev Family) The BGLS Group is a relatively recent merger between the city's largest shipping companies. The conglomerate controls most of Adijan's logistics industry (~70% of the market). This includes deliveries, commercial distribution networks, and some of the city's commercial shipping harbor infrastructure (shared with state-owned companies). It was argued that consolidation was required to compete with foreign competition, though consolidation into BGLS has proven enormously profitable to many investors and concerns over competition have been overlooked.

Kaplan Brand Holdings (Kaplan)

Type: Luxury Brands CEO: Kaz Üzeyirzadə

Originating as a clothing manufacturer by the guild family Surxeygil, Kaplan has restructured itself multiple times. The original company, Surxeygil Fabrics Incorporated rebranded itself as a trendy fashion design house. With the backing of the guild family in the city’s politics, the company absorbed several fashion sellers. The company has diversified itself beyond its core business of primarily women’s fashion, breaking into accessories. It has expanded into the tourism and real estate industries by the purchase of prime coastal real estate and re-development into the sprawling Cennetna Executive Resorts complex along the northern coast of the Adijan environs. With the diversification of the company, it restructured itself under the umbrella holding company Kaplan Brands. Well known subsidiaries include: Surxeygil Fashion House, Cennetna Resort Holdings, Cennetna Loungewear Group, and Kanbuki Motor Company

Doshimba Banking Corporation (Doshimba Bank)

Type: Financial Services CEO: Nasrin Xalidzadə (Xalidzadə Family)

The most politically powerful company in Adijan, Doshimba is also the city’s largest bank. The company is closely tied to the Xalidzadə family, the most powerful guild family in the city, owning a 27% stake in the company. The bank finds its origins centuries ago, as a mechanism for financing credit for the city’s guilds to unite and resist foreign pressures. Over the years, the firm has grown quickly through the merger and acquisition of rival banking companies as part of Adijan’s financial consolidation period. While the company’s reputation was tarnished following a widely publicized securities fraud case of insider trading among its senior employees, the company has made extensive reforms to rebuild trust through transparency outreach programs. Beyond its size, the company’s most notable advantage over rivals is its extensive adoption of fintech and financial software.

Abiyev-Nübarqızı Financial Services Corporation (ANFS Bank)

Type: Financial Services CEO: Novruz Rajabov

Adijan Defense Service (ADS)

The Adijan Defense Services (ADS) report to the Lord Mayor, though most decisions are delegated to the Secretary of Defense. It consists of 3 branches: the ATF (Army), AMF (Navy), and the ASOF (Army/SF). Notably, Adijan does not have an independant air force, as its air elements are all integrated into its 3 branches. The ATF controls the largest air contingent, followed by the AMF and the specialized ASOF.

Adijan Territorial Force (ATF)

Adijan maintains a standing army of 80,500 active duty personnel for the defense of her territories. Of these, 32,000 are used as a quick reaction force for intercepting and delaying any invasion force threatening the city. These forces make up the Territorial Interception Corps (TIC), Adijan's regular army force. Most of these forces are located in army bases in the northern Enviorns. In addition to these regular forces, a large portion of the active personnel, ~25,000 members, administer the city's mandatory military draft.

Adijan Special Operations Force (ASOF)

Of Adijan's 80,500 standing personnel, a portion are trained for force projection and special operations. These forces form their own independant military branch, the Adijan Special Operations Force. This branch numbers 23,400 strong. These personel are more heavily trained than the ATF and include a significant special-forces division. The ASOF specializes in a multitude of missions including hostage rescue, counter-terrorism, reconnaissance, and sabotage. Expected operations include missions such as rescue of a captured civilian vessel, neutralizing terrorists threatening a government or civilian building, securing high-priority assets abroad, etc.

Adijan Maritime Force (AMF)

Adijan's navy has historically been the primary defense force for the city. Today it continues to be the most powerful branch of the military, and the primary defense of the city from foreign military intervention. The fleet consists of several pillars: The Kicik-class destroyers are used for projecting power into the North Ozeros Sea. They are often used for deploying special forces via helicoptor. The Xalidzade-class submarine is the greatest threat to enemy ships. There is always at least 1 submarine at sea at any given time. Their most effective strategy is to lurk quiety on the sea floor and ambush enemy vessels. Finally, the navy uses the Bashi-class multirole patrol craft for maintaining a watch off the coast, performing mine operations, and anti-piracy/coast guard measures. The Merket-class amphibious ship is used for deploying the AMF onto the battlefield where needed.

The fleet consists of:

4x 4,300T Kicik-class Destroyers

8x 539T Bashi-class Littoral Fast Patrol Craft

3x 6,300T Merket-class Landing Platform Dock

4x 1,450T Xalidzade-class Diesel-Electric Submarines

Commonality Executive Group (CEG)

The CEG group is similar to Adijan's ASOF military force, though there are major differences. The most striking is that the CEG is completely independant of the ADS. The CEG is governed by the City's Guilds and is directly controlled by the Guilded Association. The Imtizi serve as the group's civilian leadership, with the Senior Imtizi as the commander-in-chief, though it may and often does deploy alongside the military. The CEG is much smaller than the ASOF, consisting of ~5,500-6,000 personnel. The CEG also qualify as a semi-mercinary force, as the GA is known to contract out their services to privage individuals, both Adijani citizens and foreigners. The CEG is extremely secretive about these dealings and it is difficult for outsiders to differentiate between when the CEG is carrying out missions for the GA or for a outside contractor. This is an intentional arrangment both to support its costs, and more importantly to allow the GA plausable deniability if any deployment adversly harms diplomatic relations.