Aurisian Government
The Aurisian Government, also known as the Commonwealth Government, is the national government of Aurisia. Like other Westminster-style systems of government, the Aurisian Government is made up of three branches: the executive (the Prime Minister, their ministers, and government departments), the legislative (the Parliament of Aurisia), and the judicial.
The legislative organ of Aurisia, the federal Parliament, is made up of two chambers: the lower House of Representatives and upper Senate. The House of Representatives has ??? members, each representing an individual electoral district of about 165,000 people. The Senate has ?? members: twelve from each of the six states and two each from Aurisia's internal territories, the Aurisian Capital Territory and Northern Territory. The Aurisian monarch, currently King Alexander I, is represented by the Governor-General on the federal level.
The Aurisian Government in its executive capacity is formed by the party or coalition with a majority in the House of Representatives, with the Prime Minister being the parliamentary leader who has the support of a majority of members there. The Prime Minister is formally appointed to the role by the Governor-General.
The government is based in the nation's capital, Koloberra, in the Aurisian Capital Territory. The head offices of all fourteen federal departments lie in Koloberra, along with Parliament House and the High Court. The judicial branch of government, headed by the High Court of Aurisia, is independent of the legislative and executive branch, and ensures that government acts according to the constitution and law. As a founding member of the Commonwealth and a former Erealandian colony before Federation in 1905, Aurisia's Constitution is influenced heavily by the Erealandian Westhaughton system of government, as well as the Ibravian Constitution.
Structure
Legislature
Executive
Head of state
Executive council
Cabinet
Departments
There are 14 departments in the Aurisian Government:
- Attorney-General's Department
- Department of Agriculture
- Department of Defence
- Department of Education
- Department of Finance
- Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
- Department of Health
- Department of Home Affairs
- Department of Industry, Energy and Resources
- Department of Infrastructure and Regional Development
- Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet
- Department of Social Services
- Department of the Treasury
- Department of Veterans' Affairs
Additionally, there are four departments which support the Aurisian Parliament:
- Department of Parliamentary Services
- Department of the House of Representatives
- Department of the Senate
- Parliamentary Budget Office