Politics of Ovandera

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Polity type	Socialist Confederal Democracy
Constitution	Civil Accords of Ovandera
Legislative branch
Name	General Forum of the Communist Party
Type	Unicameral
Meeting place	Volkshauptgebäude, Vanner People's Capital Building
Presiding officer	, Speaker of the Central Forum of the Communist Party
Executive branch
Head of State
Title	Commissar of Foreign Affars Kommisar der Außenpolitik
Appointer	General Forum of the Communist Party
Cabinet
Appointer	General Forum of the Communist Party
Ministries	26
Judicial branch
People's Court Volksgericht
Seat	Vanner

Typology

Cardinal Socialist Democracy

Further Information: Cardinal Socialism

The Communist Party

The Ovan Communist Party (Ovan: Ovänitsche Kommunistische Syndikatverwaltungspartei | English: Ovan Communist Syndicate-Administrative Party) is the central coordinative polity of the Common State. It is a cooperative organization, made up of representatives and appointees from local Labor Committees and organized into a series of general forums and specialized commissariats, each focusing on various economic or political functions. The Party is meant to facilitate economic management on various administrative levels. Officially the O.K.S.V.P. is a neutral association with equal power to local committee's on the commune level; it respects local authorities right to free organization while enforcing individual rights and entitlements.

Party Forums

Party Forums are made up of democratically elected industrial representatives. There are 5 Forums within the Communist Party at the federal level: The General Forum alongside the Forums on Agriculture, Production, Transport, and Construction. The General Forum is made up of representatives from each of the communes and is the primary council in which major economic plans are formulated. Its duties are primarily technical and administrative, developing broad initiatives around which local workers will organize. The General Forum likewise has the ability to propose federation-wide legislation, as well as to set social and foreign policy.

The four smaller forums focus on the 'four pillars of labor' within the Common State, on which all specific industries are built. Each of these smaller forums are made up of two groups, first being representatives from particular Industrial Sections of local Labor Committees, as opposed to the committees as a whole. Second to these representatives are specialized appointees; appointees are usually specialists within their field in terms of expertise or administration, and are appointed by the representatives of their Forum, they likewise have the ability to vote and participate within the forum. These Forums likewise have their own specific functions; the Forum for Agriculture for example is the primary decision making body in terms of agronomy, agroforestry, and environmental legislation. Specialized Forums develop similar economic plans to the General Forum, but with the ability to establish much more specific plans and longterm objectives.

Commissariats

Commissariats are formed similar to the Specialized Forums of the National Party, being made up of representatives from specific Industrial Sections as well as appointed specialists. Commissariats pertain toward specific industries similar to pre-revolutionary industrial unions and are the primary pan-national means of labor organization, outside of local institutions, and have the ability to set mass objectives and economic stratagem akin to a corporation in a capitalist country. Local Cooperatives organize at their own behest, but they work toward goals decided upon collectively within any given Commissariat.

Party Committees

Outside of official forums within the party there are various jobs and functions which are appointed or implemented for functions of state, known as Party Committees. The General Forum chooses a committee to carry out routine or administrative duties that do not require the discussion of all members; these committee does not have decision-making powers, and their actions are ratified by the Forum. Committees can likewise organize themselves through different departments, including Archives, Culture or Foreign Affairs. The number of Commissariats can vary, sometimes two or more overlapping on a single plan or issue if necessary, and most without longterm assignments are disbanded after reaching their goal.

The Party likewise has the ability to develop various Sub-Committees of specialists or experts in any given field, or of general administrators. Sub-committees can be used to modify existing economic plans, produce new ones, begin inquiries, or manage surveys and or economic studies. They are implemented by any of the Forums, and while they have no enactment authority, they may present any of their findings or plans to the Forum for deliberation and implementation.

Elections and Decision Making

Deliberation

Much of the decision making and appointment procedures within the Common State operate through a system of deliberative consensus-making at various levels. Due to basic practicality, consensus government exists primarily in the organization of local forces, namely in terms of communal decision making, but likewise exists in most forums and councils within the Communist Party.

Federal Elections

Referendum

There are two recognized styles of local action within the Common State, Major and General. General, or on-going actions are any actions or decisions made my a Labor Council that affects only that Labor Council, such as minor economic decisions or community projects. Major actions are any actions proposed by a Labor Council that would affect other Communes, these include major construction projects, economic plans, or laws, that are proposed by local bodies.

Major and General actions begin the same way, with a Commune's Labor Council deliberating a proposal. If the proposal is supported by the Commune, it is either implemented, sent on to all other Communes that it needs ratification from, repeating the process, or forms a national referendum.

Referenda manage immediate actions within the State, including deliberative time periods for each commune, followed by a set vote. Referendums in the Common State follow three general procedures, isolated, universal, and public. Isolated referendum is a kind of direct-democratic executive decision applied to the populations of Communes directly affected by a major Central Party decision, while universal referendum apply to all communes within the Party. Public Referenda follow an outlined procedure, where would-be Referendum are put on public display to be ratified first by its starting community, commune, canton, and then the nation as a whole where it is run through both a general public referendum, chamber vote, and put forth before the People's Court.