Ta Seti
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Amnic State of Ta Seti  Ⲧⲁ Ⲥⲉⲧⲓ (Re Babates) |
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Ta Seti (Re Babates: Ⲧⲁ Ⲥⲉⲧⲓ), officially the Amnic State of Ta Seti, is a country in Tarephia. Most of its territory lies in the northeasternmost portion of the Serion Desert, specifically in the outflow of the Ar river over the Ilemian Sea. Ta Seti is bordered by Andrar to the northeast, TA011∈⊾ƨ and Dematísna to the north, TA002∈⊾ƨ to the west, TA020∈⊾ƨ to the south and TA014∈⊾ƨ to the southeast. Its fourteen governorates cover a total area of 262,119 square kilometers (101,205 square miles) and have an estimated population of 14 million. Khenu is the nation’s capital and largest city; other major cities include Tuat and Amakh Utpen.
Ta Seti is one of the world’s oldest continuous major civilizations, tracing its heritage along the Ar Delta back to the 5th millennia BCE. Ancient Ta Seti saw some of the earliest developments of writing, agriculture, urbanization, religion and central government. It was first unified as a single state by Het in the 7th century BCE and reached its territorial height in the 4th century BCE when Serion the Great conquered most of northern Tarephia. Ta Seti’s long and rich cultural heritage is an integral part of its national identity, as numerous dynasties of Kherpus reign over the country for thousands of years, and developing their culture through prominent architecture and structured language.
By the late dynastic period, Ta Seti was ethnically fragmented between the coastal Birrics, who were mostly mixed due to their trade interaction with other cultures (predominantly Hellenisians), and the agricultural Amnics, who were the most genetically related to the Ancient Tasetians as they lived inland throughout the Ar. Following the collapse of the dynastic rule in the early 20th century amid pressure from Ulethan powers, both ethnic groups ultimately agreed to create a democratic parliamentary republic which was dominated by their political parties through support from minority groups.
Birric governments were more open to international trade and ultimately granted extraction rights to the Ulethan powers and the Federal States. The far-left wing of the Amnics seized control of their party amidst heavy dissatisfaction with the Birrics and started a six-year revolution that consequently led to the formation of the Amnic State in 1958. The Amnics imposed an authoritarian regime that subsequently disenfranchised other ethnic groups and promoted a heavily-regulated social and economic system, under an Amnic-centered agricultural society that rejects external influence.
Etymology
Ta (land) Seti (of the Bow)
History
Geography
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Geology, topography and hydrography
Government and politics
The Amnic State of Ta Seti is a one-party state governed by the Community of Workers and Children of Amn (CWCA), which considers itself as nationalist and socially conservative. The Perkharenput is the highest organ of state power and only branch of government per the principle of unified power. The CWCA leads state activities by holding two-thirds of the seats in the Perkharenput, and these party members are, in accordance with democratic centralism, responsible for implementing policies adopted by the Amnic Central Committee and the Perkharenput. The Perkharenput has unlimited state power bar the limitations it sets on itself; by controlling this organ, the CWCA has complete state power.
The Tasetian political system is considered authoritarian. There are no freely elected national leaders, political opposition is suppresed, all religious activity is controlled by the CWCA, dissent is not permitted, and civil rights are curtailed. Direct elections occur only at the local level, not the national level, with all the candidates controlled by the CWCA.
The nature of elections is highly constrained by the CWCA's monopoly on power in Ta Seti, censorship, and party control over elections. The CWCA tightly controls the nomination and election processes at every level of governance, and numerous academics have reported that the tiered, indirect electoral mechanism in the Perkharenput system ensures that deputies at the highest level face no semblance of electoral accountability to the citizens.
Government structure
The Khenti of Ta Seti is the head of government, serving as the ceremonial figurehead under the Perkharenput. As a one-party state, the general secretary of the CWCA holds ultimate power and authority over state and government. The Kherpu is the paramount leader of Ta Seti (above the Khenti), a title that has been historically used by the monarch of the numerous dynasties and was supressed under the Democratic Republic of Ar. The offices of Kherpu, general secretary of the CWCA and chairman of the Amnic Central Committee have been held by one individual since the formation of the Amnic State in 1958, granting the individual de jure and de facto power over the country. The title of Kherpu is currently used for its cultural relevance and as the symbol of national unity, rather than a monarchical role with life tenure, as the Amnic Central Committee is empowered to appoint the holder of these three roles each six years without any intervention of the current holder, which is disqualified for reelection in the role. The Amnic Central Committee consists of hereditary members, which are the patriarchs of the ethnically-Amnic tribes in each province, and appointed members, which previously held significant positions in the central government.
The Khenti is appointed for a three-year term (renewable once) by the Perkharenput, from a list of candidates previously approved by the Amnic Central Committee, and presides over the State Council. The State Council is constitutionally the highest administrative organ of the country and the executive organ of the Perkharenput, the highest ordgan of state power, composed of four Vice-Khentis and the heads of ministries and commissions, which are mostly of Amnic ethnicity (the only ethnic-Birrics permitted to serve in the council are the Minister for National Unity and the Minister for the Reconciliation of Tasetians and Militant Regulation). All decisions approved by the State Council and its members must be authorized by the Amnic Central Committee.
The CWCA
The Community of Workers and Children of Amn (CWCA) dominates the Tasetian political landscape. The political party was founded in 1923, following the collapse of the last monarchical dynasty in Ta Seti, as part of the compromise between the Amnics and Birrics (the major ethnic groups of Ta Seti) to established a parliamentary democratic system for the national government, which was formally named as the Democratic Republic of Ar. Following increased tensions with the Democratic Alliance of Birrics for Progress (DABP), the political party of the Birrics, a civil war between them started in 1952; this conflict was eventually won by the Amnics in 1958, effectively ending the Republic and starting the current Amnic State of Ta Seti. The Amnics expelled the surviving members of the DABP and started exercising significant control over the lives of the ethnic Birrics, imposing a one-child policy and indoctrinating youngers in the social policy of the CWCA.
Constitutionally, the party's highest body is the Perkharenput, the national legislative organ, which meets for party purposes every six years. The Perkharenput elects the appointed members of the Amnic Central Committee and the Amnic Committee of Guardians and Experts (ACGEX), responsible for enforcing party policy and discipline in the local governments.
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Administrative divisions
Administrative divisions of Ta Seti