The UFUR is officially a socialist republic with a Tricameral government. The Upper Chamber is represented by the Council of the Nations. The Council of the Nations is elected by the individual republics within the UFUR with equal representation of two counselors each. The Lower Chamber is represented by the Council of the People who are elected on a national level based on electoral sectors with the number of representatives being decided by population. Finally is the National Union, a trade congress where representatives of recognized trade unions assemble.
The Lower Chamber is arguably the most important of the Legislative Branch and holds the power to propose legislation and impeach federal level officials. The Upper Chamber has the power the confirm or reject legislation of the Lower Chamber. Both houses must agree to elect a Prime Minister. The National Union meanwhile has the powers to “defend the rights of the working people''. When the Union reaches a ¾ majority they have the power to veto any bill that is a “threat to the working people” as well as reject a Prime Minister.
The current formation of government was formed as part of the compromise that formed the Articles of the New Republic, the agreement between the numerous Anti-Auverian groups and leaders from across the Auverian Empire. After a long debate it was decided that a market socialist Republic would be formed that respected the rights of every individual nation while being united under one Republic. The Upper Chamber was designed to reflect the rights of each Republic as an equal part of the greater nation by granting it the right to reject legislation that can be a threat to the stability of the UFUR. The Lower Chamber, by contrast, was designed to represent all the people of the UFUR as people belonging to one nation, a nation which grants them the right to propose changes in the UFUR. Finally the Union is to ensure that the rights of the working people are never forgotten by acting as a Tribune that can reject legislation that is a direct threat to the people and unions.
Unfortunately the actual power of the central government, and even the power of the sub-Republics, are far more limited than what the law says they should have. The UFUR has suffered greatly from warlordism, especially outside the core of Syria and Anatolia. In these areas the government is closer to feudalism as Generalissimos hand out power to their lieutenants to maintain control. Many representatives from these areas are products of vote rigging by the generals leading to corruption and lack of legislation against these problems.
The Union of Free Ummah Republics or UFUR is a country located in Tellurian which makes up the majority of the Middle East, Caucasus, and Anatolia. It borders the !Alexandria Kingdom to the West, the SIA to the North, and Volkov and the Aryan Empire to the East.
The UFUR was formed out of the ruins of the Auviran Empire after the signing of its’ founding document, the Declaration of a Free Peoples, in 1923 in the Grand Assembly that followed the end of the War Against Imperialism and Self Liberation. The nation war formed as a Socialist Union between the numerous sub-republics that made up the fledgling state. The first near-decade of its’ existence saw rapid political, social, and economic development under the leadership and ideology of its’ first President, ______.
The death of _____ in 1931 saw the country spiral into chaos, however. The numerous issues relating to autonomy, military strongmen, and political divisions saw the fledgling nation splinter while central authority wanned day by day. By 1936 the country was heavily divided, had failed to reach its’ developmental goals in Mesopotamia, the Levante Interior, and has faced numerous uprisings from Arab tribes in Arabia.
