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== The Benevolent Circle ==
The Benevolent Circle serves as the most powerful executive body within the nation, continuing the centuries old tradition of maintaining the confidence and strength of a nation behind a collective, popular monarchy with the new additions of popular democratic elements. Limited in power and privileges by the vague writings of the Peoples' Declaration Constitution, the rare unity of all the Impartial Assembly, and the Declarations of Law and Order from the Stable Mandate, the circle consists of the six aurian Monarchs and Monarchesses, their shared Personal Cabinet, and the royal figureheads of the feline and human Regal Evocatives. With exceptions to other powerful Political Households and wealthy corporations, the circle is generally considered independent from any outside influence.
=== Monarchs' and Monarchesses' ===
Unlike most monarchies in the world, Duominzu has six elective, semi-constitutional monarchs that act more align to their autocratic counterparts, yet differ in the fact that all six of the monarchs share the title and power of heads of state and government. These six monarchs, each one an ethnarch serving as rulers and representatives over their entire respective ethnicities, are indirectly elected into power by their ethnic peoples', who each vote for one ethnic political Household, the political parties of Duominzu, as electors. Once the political Household is elected, they each hold a seperate, isolated election to determine who among them should become the next monarch, this title usually falling into the hands of the head of the Household. These elections for all six monarchs occur simultaneously, first on the national level for the electors, and then within the Monarchs' Palace for the monarchs. The term of an elected monarch is set at fifteen years, with the max number of terms allowed being up to four.
Once the new monarchs are elected, a dethronement and enthronement ceremony takes place at the nations parliament, under the night of a full moon. The ceremony starts privately when the old monarchs take a bow to recognize the new monarchs, then physically crowning their new successors with the Jeweled Crowns of Obligation and handing over the Silver Blades of Old, and finally finish their role with a grandiose speech. The group then exit the throne room, the new monarchs publicly proclaiming an oath of cooperation and benevolence to the peoples' of Duominzu, and join their blades together for symbolic national and ethnic unity, all six blades pointed upwards to the full moon as a sign of the universes order taking its natural course.
After the public ceremony, the six monarchs gather in the private royal chamber of the Impartial Assembly. Inside the room, the six monarchs start off their first gathering by debating and agreeing on which executive, legislative, and judicial officials should be replaced, their decisions based on social connections and personal merits of the individuals in addition to how much influence each monarch holds over the others. In regards to the legislative body of the Impartial Assembly, each monarch has to select up to 62 Diligents and 26 Wisemen into their seats, usually selecting these legislators from among their own Political Households as well as Household members. For the ministries, each minister appointed or removed is usually considered part of a series of political concessions or favors of the monarchs used to remain in good standing with their fellow equals. For the judicial branch, the monarchs usually leave that branch alone, as the constitution placed the most emphasis and detail in exacts to how the process of removing or appointing the Devoted Judges should go, making the entire process long and tedious.
=== Personal Cabinets' ===
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