North Korinon

Protectorate of North Korinon
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Motto: The toloa bird flies far, but will always return to the water.
Anthem:  REDIRECT [Imperial Citizenry]
Status	Protectorate, Semi-Autonomous Nation
Capital	Verlucio
Largest City	Durnovaria
Official languages	Anglish, Haru-Dakat
Recognised national languages	Anglish
Recognised regional languages	Anglish
Demonym(s)	Kori
Government	Semi-Autonomous Imperial Autocracy
• Vicarius Imperator	Mertz Holznack
• Vice-Lord	Ragul Yevitz
Legislature	Advisory to the Vicarius Imperator
• Upper house	Protectorate Service Ministry
• Lower house	Citizenry Services Ministry
Autonomous Province
• 2021	Nothern independence took place on March 30th, 2021.
Area
• Total	10,430 km2 (4,030 sq mi)
Population
• 2021 census	89,589
Currency	Haru Credit (HCr)

Government

Government Information The government of the Protectorate of North Korinon is a borderline archduchy, where military and civil governance go hand in hand. Citizens are encouraged and even required to work for the government for a certain period of time, whether it be in the armed forces or in civil governance. The government is widely accepting of all races, creeds, and ethnicities, though this attitude is born more out of a practical need than an altruistic one.

Authority is divided into multiple city-state/regional commissariats that govern wards. These governing bodies act as smaller replicas of the imperial government and offer the flexibility and capability to govern such a fairly sizable population between the current three growing city-states.

The North Korinon commissariats are separated by 2 different distinctions:

Executive power in the Korinon Imperial Court is held by the Korinon Service Ministry, a coalition of nobles of various government service and high ranking military leaders, each of whom also acts as the head of one of the government's departments. Acting as the head of the state and the Council is the Senior Advisor, a first among equals who has special powers that were created to allow the Council to act quicker and more decisively in times of emergency, as well as being the most trusted advisor to the current leader of the territories. Senior Advisors are elected for four-year terms, though this can be shortened or lengthened depending on extraneous circumstances.

The Citizenry Services Ministry, consisting of lower ranked nobles, military officers, merchants and so on, has not gone the route of the mainland version of being mostly ceremonial. This direct distinction allows the Citizenry Services Ministry power to create and modify laws. There are very few instances in the colonial history where the two sides have agreed unanimously without modification of a bill or edict.

While the mainland acts as a hereditary led autocracy, North Korinon does change leaders every eight years.

Government Type: Semi-Autonomous Imperial Autocracy

Ideological Stance: Neo-Epicurean

Head of State:

• Mertz Holznack - Vicarius Imperator, Highest Noble rank of the Protectorate of North Korinon

Senior Advisor:

• Ragul Yevitz - Advocate of the Imperator, Vice-Lord of the Korinon Imperial Court

Haru Foreign Naval Affairs Officer

• Sengar d'isto Fasri'Nu Hallas - Senior Diplomatic Officer to North Korinon, head of the SVHY (Ministry of Foreign Naval Affairs).

Korinon Service Ministry:

• Hugo Vale - Ministry of Transport
• Terri Smith - Ministry of Defense
• Yulis Sarn - First General of the North Korinon Self Defense Forces Command.
• Gareth Jones - First Admiral of the North Korinon Naval Command and Control
• Johan Heron - North Korinon Security Directorate (NKSD)
• Rigel Ivono - Ministry of Industrial Oversight
• Angela Ivancius - Social, Health and Population Services Ministry

Citizenry Services Ministry:

• Tomas Millar - Environmental Services Ministry
• Tharn Thune - Executive Officer, North Korinon Branch of Kunya Trade Authority
• James Maori - Medical Technology and Research Services Ministry
• Helga Ivono - Food Services Ministry
• Siegfred Yankle - Ministry of North Korinon Foreign Trade Affairs

City-States

• Durnovaria
• Verlucio
• Cunetio

• Townships
• Nebbiosa
• Foresta Nera
• Roccia Rupestre

North Korinon Self Defense Forces

Self Defense Forces Information

• Type: Voluntary Service
• Military age: 16 years old
• Active NKSDF personnel: 5,500
• Reserve personnel: 13,000
• Deployed HIL personnel: 17,300
• Reserve personnel: 23,789
• NKSDF Small Arms
• NKSDF Vehicle Listing

Tiered Citizenship

Tiered citizenship structure follows the same as the mainland. As citizens become more effective and useful members of society, their citizenship tier can rise, granting them more rights and privileges. A popular punishment for minor crimes is the reduction of a citizenship tier, which can restrict their freedom of speech, freedom of movement, and countless other details of daily life that go as far down as the amount of water allotted to a citizen's showers each month. Frequently, such verdicts come paired with specific criteria for the reinstatement of a citizen's tier.

These Tier levels compare to contemporary economics/living standards as of current.

Despite the Haru penchant for authoritarian/autocracy of a sort, it’s still mostly a meritocracy. People will go up and down in tiers multiple times in their life. You’re not destined for poverty, but you’re not going to stay at a high level just because you’re born there.

Productivity earns your place in this system.

• 0: Dissident.
• 1-3: Varying degrees of criminal or incarceration tiers.
• 4-5: Basic income. But with universal healthcare and military conscription this is more than likely a place everyone’s been at some point. So there’s no shame in being here, only staying here. Non-skilled labor is in this category.
• 6-8: Lower middle class to middle class. Educated-skilled workers, clerks, military enlisted, and the like. Probably a good portion of the population.
• 9-11: Upper middle class. A level to aspire to, maybe two houses, a few luxuries. Tradesmen, craftsmen, educators, senior military enlisted, professionals.
• 12-13: Upper class. Small business owners, junior officers, junior politicians, bankers.
• 14-16: Court class. Nobles, senior military officers, politicians, corporate leaders, minor celebrities.
• 17-18: High class. Minor house lords, high ranking military, high ranking politicians, captains of industry, well known athletes and artisans.
• 19-20: Regent class. Major house lords, heads of major corporations, occasional war veteran military leader. Etc.
• 21-24: Royal class. These people are so few in numbers (across the entire imperium's territories) that they spend the resources to not be noticed. And arguing if someone’s on tier 21 or 25 is considered rude anyway. They have the financial power to control entire city-states, perhaps multiples of such and tend to self police themselves for the good of the nation. The common citizen may have heard of “the 21 Club” but probably couldn’t name a single member.
• 25: Imperial class. Generally speaking the leadership of the territories, they're associated family members named as possible successors should the House and bloodline they represent, be chosen to lead the nation. The lives of the Imperium are at their mercy and control, as are the choices of where to lead them.

Judicial branch

Tribunal of Atonement (Supreme authority of the Tribunal is appointed by the Archduke after designation by the council; all other officers of the Tribunal are appointed by the Citizenry Services Ministry council )

Laandstrad

Houses major and minor within the North Korinon domain. The island nation has quite a few major houses making a showing, making it a political powerhouse within the Haru imperial landscape.

Major Houses:

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  Jargo Vlos

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  Hallas Velven

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  Vek Elemmiire

• Jargo Vlos - First House to be created after the Renor Elemmiire came into being. One of the first to deploy a retinue to NK.
• Vek Elemmiire – Founded in Ulan-Ude, a prestigious splinter of the main Renor Elemmiire. Saw advantages to aiding the rise of the NK military.
• Hallas Velven – Not considered a major house until recently, has grown considerably due to strategic location and embedding itself into NK.

Minor Houses:

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  Renor Vlos

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  Merchantile House Aier Duathe

• Renor Vlos – A legionary house that can be found in every place that has a Haru presence.
• Merchantile House Aier Duathe – A proud and popular house stemming from the merchantile guilds, a bridge between both they and the traditional houses.