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Supreme Court of Montecara
Location	Montecara
Composition method	Senate election based on nomination by judicial commission
Authorized by	Constitution of Montecara
Appeals from	Court of Appeal Administrative Court
Judge term length	Life tenure with mandatory retirement at 70
Number of positions	33

Old senate of Montecara

History

The old Senate in session c. 1650

Montecara's Senate traces its lineage to the ancient Senate of the Solarian Republic, the ultimate source of state authority. As an independent state after the fall of the Solarian Empire, Montecara's leading patrician families constituted their own deliberative assembly to fill the power vacuum that was created when central state authority receded. As it existed from the fall of the Latin Republic through the late 18th century, the Senate was largely an aristocratic body that served the interests of Montecara's ruling class. It was a forum for leading families to smooth out friction created by competing business interests, promote trade, provide for a navy and an army that would defend them and their property, and create laws that kept the plebeians in check. It also performed the crucial function of choosing the Doxe, the head of state of the crowned republic, who ruled for life. Elections of senators were sporadic and perfunctory, with certain families guaranteed that their candidate of choice would be elected by his fellows. Although this system was undemocratic by modern standards, it provided an essential mechanism for preventing the internecine conflicts that plagued other medieval city-states and forced the wealthy to work together to promote their, and the state's, best interests.

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The historic Arsenàl

Montecara was historically one of the most powerful seagoing states in the world. At its peak around 1500, the Montecaran Navy boasted over 3,000 vessels which were turned out on an industrial scale by its Arsenàl, a fortress and shipbuilding factory that could produce up to a ship a day when working at full capacity. Montecarans were masters of the sail-and-oar ship, basing their designs on naval architecture with a history that stretched back to the Solarian Republic. These vessels, highly maneuverable and with a shallow draft, were ideally suited to navigating the Solarian Sea and allowed Montecarans to acquire far-flung territory as part of their overseas possessions, the Stado Ultramarìn.

Montecaran seafaring prowess was recognized by the Gaullican Empire during its occupation in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, with many Montecarans serving in specialized and even command roles in the Gaullican navy.

List of Montecaran flags

Historic flags

Flag	Date	Use	Description
		Flag of the Etrurian First Republic
		Flag of the Gaullican Empire
		Flag of the Greater Solarian Republic