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The Constitution requires that each state be governed under a republican government, the definition of republic in the Constitution differing from the standard Staynish definition in the sense that it simply refers to the requirement to be constituent and subordinate to the larger Confederation. This gave rise to a new term, referring to the states as concordian republics. The governance of each state is influenced significantly by its history and circumstances. Because South Hills was initially formed from a unification between three kingdoms in the Ulvrikian civilization and the codexian-speaking [[Kingdom of Thesland]], they are governed differently than the rest of the country, whose systems of government reflect the political systems under which they were governed before their annexation into the nation.

 

 

The tendency of the Ulvriks to summon large gatherings of their common people to deliberate on issues of import to the community persists in the form of the lower legislature, known as the Moothus, in which the legislative body consists of citizens selected by a voluntary lottery once a year to deliberate issues of import, and approve the report of the executive branch on the governance of the State. With regular governance having been vested in a body of nobles, the Ulvrikian states retain an upper legislative chamber of full-time legislators elected by proportional representation, known as the Edelhus.

 

The state of Rostraver's history was mostly as the vassal of a larger empire, the people of the region being largely made up of the nomadic [[Vangdren]] people. As such, upon becoming a state through the Breakup of Elishan by President Baldwin in 1798, the state adopted a similar system to the national government, including a state legislature directly elected by the people, a Governor also elected by the people, and a judiciary appointed by the Governor and approved by the legislature. The primary distinction of the Rostraver system of government is its method of representation. Due to the people's nomadic lifestyle, it was encoded into the state's constitution that representatives should not elected based on geography, but instead by community. Such a system was very unique in the early days of the UCCS, but has since become an arbitrary difference with the advent of the industrialization and urbanization. Some nomadic communities (who make up a notable minority) are still represented by their shared community, but the majority of Rostraver's population now live in stationary settlements, with their "community" now being synonymous with the city in which they live.

 

New Tilden, the sole inheritor to the Chincuatlan civilization, adopted a similar system as the larger national government, but due to the nature of the Chincuatlan system being centered around the existence of a multitude of city states. This can be seen in how the constituencies are drawn; every city that traces its history back to a walled city state pre-annexation has its own unique constituency. Every other part of New Tilden remains as part of a large constituency, which results in places that were established post-annexation to be underrepresented in the state legislature.