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Iboma does not have a written Constitution in the vein of other constitutional political systems. All of the extant statutes, long-standing political customs and judicial precedent form the basis of the political system and thus together comprise the Constitution. It has been possible for the country to maintain such a Constitution because the Golden Elves live much longer than other species like humans, lupines or vulpines, so they have more time to entrench their political system and to cultivate successors who will maintain it. Thus, the country's way of working has persisted for over 4 centuries.
==Monarch==
The sovereignty of the nation and the existence of the state vests in and emanates from the Crown. The Crown is empowered with royal prerogatives to exercise the sovereignty and authority with which it is vested. However, the Crown is an incorporeal entity that only manifests through the person of the Queen. As such, during her reign, the Queen holds the Crown in trust until it passes to the next Queen. Thus, the Queen has the power to exercise the royal prerogatives vested in the Crown. The Queen is immune but her ministers are responsible. This means that the Queen is immune from prosecution, but she is required to act on the advice of her democratically elected ministers. As such she cannot exercise many of the royal prerogatives of the Crown independently of the institutions and officials of her government except in specific cases.
These constraints on the monarch's practical authority arose as a result of tradition, convention and statutes. The Crown cannot give itself more royal prerogatives and is bound by the statutes it passes as such the process of constraints on the monarch's power in the day to day running of government is largely irreversible. Instead, the monarch's practical role in the government is restricted to emergency powers and largely symbolic functions.
The Queen has the following ceremonial functions (this means that the monarch cannot exercise independent discretion and is usually asked by the Chancellor to perform these functions and cannot refuse to do so):
* To grant pardons
* To grant and withhold peerages
* To grant royal assent to bills
* To appoint the leader of the largest party in the Council of the People as Chancellor
* To appoint State Councillors
* To appoint Justices of the Supreme and High Chambers of Justice
* To declare war and make peace
* To conclude international agreements and treaties
* To dissolve the Council of the People and call for new elections
* To read the Speech from the Throne and announce the official opening of the annual sessions of the National Assembly
* To alienate and acquire assets of the Crown Estate.
The Queen has the discretion to exercise the following powers:
* To appoint and dismiss members of the Council of Electors and the Council of State
* To grant and withdraw military decorations and orders of chilvalry
* To grant and withhold sinecure positions in the Council of Elders
* To hold audiences with the Chancellor, to informed by them and to counsel them on political and state affairs
* To hold audiences with the High Priestess of the Akronist Church of Iboma
* To receive intelligence reports from the nation's various intelligence services
* To request the amendment of bills where they affect her personal interests
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* To appoint the leader of the largest party in the Council of the People as the Chancellor of Iboma.
* To appoint State Councillors with the approval of the Chancellor of Iboma.
* To promulgate bills and make them law or to withhold royal assent and veto legislation with the approval of the Chancellor.
* To dissolve the Council of the People and call for new elections with the approval of the Chancellor.
* To appoint Justices of the Supreme Chamber of Justice from the recommendations provided by the Chancellor from the nominations of the Judicial Committee of the Council of the People.
* To appoint and dismiss members of the Council of Electors and the Council of State.
* To declare war and make peace with the approval of the Chancellor.
* To grant and withdraw aristocratic peerages.
* To coin currency and raise taxes with the approval of the National Assembly. In practice, the State Councillor of the Treasury prepares the annual budget and tax bills to the Council of the People with the approval of the Council of Ministers.
* To issue stamps, passports and identity documents. In practice this is executed by the State Councillor of Home Affairs.
* To grant pardons. In reality, this is exercised by the State Councillor of Justice.
* To conclude treaties and international agreements with the approval of the Chancellor.
* To raise armies and navies. In practice, this is done by statute with the proposal of the Chancellor or State Councillor for Defence and the approval of the Council of the People
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* The Queen has the power to grant title and withhold peerages by letters patent
* The Queen has the power to dissolve the Council of the People and the Council of Peers and call for new elections with the approval of the Council of Ministers
* The Queen has the power to promulgate bills and thereby make them laws or decline to do so thereby vetoing them, but subject to the approval of the Council of Ministers
* The Queen has the power to appoint State Councillors with the approval of the Chancellor
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As such, the Queen has the following role in the government of Iboma:
* Appoint and dismiss members of the Council of State
* Appoint and dismiss members of the Council of Electors
* Appoint the leader of the largest party in the Council of the People as the Chancellor and receive their resignation
* Appoint the Justices of the Supreme Chamber of Justice and the State Councillors of the Council of Ministers based on the advice of the Chancellor
* Declare war and make peace on the advice of the Chancellor
* Sign acts of the National Assembly into law
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The Queen has the following powers and duties:
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