Structure
Aquria-Catopolis is a parliamentary republic, meaning that citizens elect a Member of Parliament to represent the electoral district in which they reside in Parliament. Parliament is the main legislative authority of Aquria-Catopolis.
Legislative power
Legislative power in Aquria-Catopolis is vested in the Parliament of Aquria-Catopolis, which consists of a number of Members of Parliament, who are each elected by the residents of an electoral district they represent.
A Member of Parliament must be 13 years of age or older, live in the electoral district they represent, and be a citizen of Aquria-Catopolis. A Member serves a term of four years, with no term limit.
In Parliament, there must be at least 80% of all Members present for the excercise of power. Decisions are made by a majority vote, and when there is a tie, the result is in the negative.
If a member is attainted of treason, their citizenship is revoked or they no longer meet the residency requirement (except in cases where they reside at a Government office where their presence is required), they lose their Member status. It is illegal for a Member of Parliament to accept monetary or other compensation to vote in any specific way. This is punishable by revocation of citizenship.
Executive power
The executive power is vested in the Government of Aquria-Catopolis, headed by the Prime Minister, who is elected by Parliament.
The decisions of the Government of Aquria-Catopolis are subject to the discretion of Parliament.
The Prime Minister may create ministries and appoint ministers to run them to advise the Prime Minister in their sector, or to make autonomous decisions, subject to the Prime Minister's discretion. The Prime Minister has the power to change the capital city of Aquria-Catopolis.
The Prime Minister may appoint Deputies and delegate them specific powers.
The provinces and semi-autonomous region
Legislative power
In the provinces and the semi-autonomous region, the legislative power is vested in the legislature of that province or semi-autonomous region, consisting of the Premier and one house called the Legislative Assembly.
The Legislative Assembly functions almost identically to Parliament, except that Members represent provincial (or, in Aquria, Aqurian) electoral districts, which may differ from the national electoral districts.
The semi-autonomous region, Aquria, may declare that some decisions of Parliament or the federal government that are deemed against the will or values of the Aqurian people, shall not apply to and in Aquria. For Aquria, the Legislative Assembly is called the Aqurian Parliament.
Executive power
The executive power of the provinces and the semi-autonomous is vested in the government of that province or the semi-autonomous region, headed by the Premier. Unlike the Prime Minister, the Premier is directly elected by the constituents of that province or semi-autonomous region.
The Premier has the same powers as the Prime Minister, but on a provincial/semi-autonomous-regional scale.
Separation of legislative powers
Parliament of Aquria-Catopolis
Parliament has the following exclusive powers:
a) To approve and amend the Constitution of Aquria-Catopolis;
b) To establish basic principles of the domestic and foreign policies;
c) To change the contents of the national census;
d) To approve the state budget;
e) To establish or revise the boundaries of provinces or the semi-autonomous region, electoral districts and municipalities;
f) To exercise the right of amnesty;
g) To elect the Supreme Court; and
h) To appoint the Attorney General.
Furthermore, the following areas are exclusively Parliamentary legislative areas:
a) The public debt and property;
b) The regulation of trade and commerce;
c) The borrowing of money on the public credit;
d) Postal service;
e) The census and statistics;
f) Defence, including the military, militia and naval service;
g) Legal tender, currency and coinage, and the issue of paper currency;
h) Banking, and incorporation of banks;
i) Weights and measures;
j) Bills of exchange and promissory notes;
l) Interest;
m) Bankruptcy and insolvency;
n) Patents and copyrights;
o) Naturalisation and immigration; and
p) Provincial or local projects, that is to say,
(i) Lines of ships, railways, canals, telegraphs, and other projects connecting two or more provinces or the semi-autonomous region, beyond the limits of the province or the semi-autonomous region, or with any foreign country, or
(ii) Those projects, although entirely in one province, that are declared by Parliament to be for the benefit of the whole of Aquria-Catopolis or for more than one province and semi-autonomous region.
Legislatures of the provinces or semi-autonomous region
The following areas are exclusively legislative areas for the legislatures of the provinces or of the semi-autonomous region:
a) The borrowing of money on the sole credit of that province or semi-autonomous region;
b) The establishment of offices of that province or semi-autonomous region, and the payment of officers of that province or semi-autonomous region;
c) The management of the public lands belonging to that province or semi-autonomous region;
d) Local projects other than
(i) Lines of ships, railways, canals, telegraphs, and other projects connecting two or more provinces or the semi-autonomous region, beyond the limits of the province or the semi-autonomous region, or with any foreign country, or
(ii) Those projects, although entirely in one province, that are declared by Parliament to be for the benefit of the whole of Aquria-Catopolis or for more than one province and semi-autonomous region.
e) The administration of justice in that province or semi-autonomous region;
f) Property and civil rights in that province or that semi-autonomous region;
g) Generally all matters of a provincial or semi-autonomous-regional nature in that province or semi-autonomous region.
Elections
Electoral rights
Every citizen of Aquria-Catopolis has the right to vote in an election for a Member of Parliament who represents their electoral district. Citizens residing outside Aquria-Catopolis vote in the 'non-resident electoral district,' with one representative Member of Parliament.
Those citizens resident in Aquria-Catopolis also have the right to vote in an election of the Premier of their province or semi-autonomous region, as well as of a Member of Legislative Assembly or of Aqurian Parliament in whose provincial or Aqurian electoral district they reside.
System
Aquria-Catopolis uses the normalised score voting system (NSV).
NSV works as follows:
1. Each elector scores all the candidates 0–9 (or checks a box for none of the above, if they do not like any of the candidates).
2. Their votes are normalised as follows:
a. All of the elector's points are added together;
b. That number is divided by 100;
c. Each of the elector's scores are divided by the final number.
3. All the normalised scores are added together for each candidate, and the candidate with the highest score wins.
Why normalise the score?
Normalising each elector's score makes it such that each elector has a total of 100 points. No elector has any more points to give than another, even if one elector gives the scores 0, 0, 1 and another gives the scores 9, 9, 9.
Example:
Elector A votes as follows:
1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
Elector B votes as follows:
4, 3, 1, 5, 5.
Elector A gave a total of 15 points, and Elector B gave a total of 18 points, but they both gave a total of 100 normalised points.
Here's the math:
Elector A:
1+2+3+4+5=15
15/100=0.15
Rounded, 1/0.15=6.67, 2/0.15=13.33, 3/0.15=20, 4/0.15=26.67, 5/0.15=33.33
↳ 6.67+13.33+20+26.67+33.33=100
Elector B:
4+3+1+5+5=18
18/100=0.18
Rounded, 4/0.18=22.22, 3/0.18=16.67, 1/0.18=5.56, 5/0.18=27.78, 5/0.18=27.78
↳ 22.22+16.67+5.55+27.78+27.78=100
Last modified: 4 June 2026