Governorate (Itayana)
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Throughout their histories, major polities of the Karana and Imo basins used governorates for their territorial division. Their number and territory changed in various periods, but foundational principles remained largely unchanged, while the numbering persisted through the entire history of Itayana.
Operating principles
Governor
At the head of any governorate stood the regional governor. In times of centralization, governors were usually appointed from the center, but in decline they usually overtook the central authority and made their positions hereditary with various inheritance principles. Several times, governorates established powerful cliques aiming at reunifying the area under a centralized rule, with various degree of success
History
Pre-unification
First Unifying Realm
Second Unifying Realm
Post-fragmentation and Unifying Revival
Dissolution
The governorate system de facto dissolved through solidification of central authorities in the Two Basins. Itayana Solar Autocracy dismantled the system entirely, appointing the most loyal governors to head governorate conglomerates and politically eliminated the rest, while stripping away any territorial and property rights as part of the 1996 Constitutional Consensus. ISA is divided on provinces, not corresponding to the governorates, though carrying most of their functions.
Amayana Makgato Federation, though nominally a union of governorates, first centralized the governorate authority in the Amayana Federal Council in the 1989 Statute of Yanomi, then in 2012 Statue of Airashe effectively degraded the status of governorates to non-autonomous regions with their heads either co-opted to the Federal Council or appointed from its members with approval of the Federal Popular Assembly. The governorate industrial base was consolidated into governorate conglomerates similar to the ISA model.