The Legislature
Members draft directives and bills, move them through committee, and take them to a recorded vote. Debate is in character and on the record — the transcript is what the press reports and what the wiki keeps.
In-universe institutions
Government
A legislature, an executive and a bench — each with written rules and a public record.
How the country is organised
The institutions
Three branches carry the simulation. Each has written rules, a public record, and members who hold their seats because someone put them there.
The Executive
An elected administration that signs or vetoes, names its cabinet, and answers for the state of the country at the next election. The office is powerful; it is not permanent.
The Courts
Challenges are heard, argued and decided. A ruling can strike down a law that the other two branches were perfectly happy with — which is the point of having a bench at all.
Procedure
Everything is written down
Directives follow a fixed format so that anyone can read one and know exactly what it does. Committees keep calendars. Votes are recorded. Departments file progress reports on a fixed cycle, signed by the people responsible for them.
The paperwork is not decoration. It is what makes a disagreement resolvable instead of endless, and what lets a new member catch up on a year of history in an afternoon.
Why it matters
A record you can quote
A voice vote disappears. A recorded vote follows an official into the next campaign. That difference explains most of what happens on the floor.
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Where members serve
Every one of these is filled by a member, and every one of them is open to someone who has been here a week.
Legislators
File bills, work committees, whip votes, hold the floor.
The cabinet
Run departments, file reports, answer the press.
The bench
Hear challenges, write opinions, decide what the law allows.
Counsel and clerks
Research, briefs and oral argument for the parties before the court.
Campaign staff
Message, strategy and turnout for someone else's race.
Press corps
Cover all of the above, and ask the questions nobody wants asked.