Government of the Empire of Aidis

The government of Aidis is currently that of a Senatorial Monarchy determined by the tenth constitution. In theory, power is rested in the Imperial Senate, which acts as the legislative body of the government. The Emperor, the chief executive, is a first among equals in the Senate, and is aided by the Head Senator, who historically was equivalent to the Prime Minister of other states.

History
The current government of Aidis is the result of several thousand years of evolution and changes despite popular conception which holds that the system of administration of Aidis had been remarkable consistent. In truth, while many of the basic elements remained unusually consistent - such as the office of Emperor and the Imperial Senate itself - numerous shifts in power, importance, and influenced have occurred. The tribal system that developed in early Aidis as a result of the post-Djakhetian migrations was and is drastically different than the modern-day bureaucratic and meritocratic system. However, certain trends can be observed in the history of Aidis' government.

Beginning from the first and second constitutions (around the middle 3rd and early 4th millennium AY respectively), the Aidisese people were united around the idea of themselves being the true heirs of Djakhet. Thus, the government they formed was an attempt to control the in-fighting among various tribes and clans and unite them in a common goal. The post-tribal system gradually evolved into the extremely centralized govenrmental system ruled by noble clans during the late 4th through early 6th millennia. Following the Industrial Revolution, this sytem quickly decentralized and lost power as the clans increasingly struggled for power; with the economic collapse of the mid-6th millennia, Aidis resorted to a semi-tribal (called neo-tribal by some) system where new clans fought over the declining Empire.

Pre-Imperial Era (Before c. 2500 AY)
The origins of a centralized Aidisese government is debatable, and the date at which a recognizable Aidisese state or proto-state emerged is even more difficult to ascertain. What is certain that pre-Imperial Aidis was, politically, divided into several clans and tribes (many of whom carry ancestral names that remain as Aidisese surnames). The large majority of these were so-called refugees from Djakhet, who came to the region between c. 500 to 2000 AY. A minority of these tribes, particularly in the North, were likely Meyic in origin. A few were possibly Itholian or Merthic as well. Many of these tribes were organized under super-tribes, which formed small proto-states in Pre-Imperial times. However, these should not be considered true political states. While it is true that these tribes were not necessary nomadic in nature (as later media would portray them), their numbers were still too few and their organization too decentralized to be considered true states. In essence they could be considered confederations of groups rather than de facto states.

Perhaps the only exception to this were the urbanized regions surrounding modern-day Don Holden, Vasos, and the twin cities of Kaiterpatos and Don Quingis. In these three regions, more centralized polities - possibly city-states (and definitely so by the mid 3rd millennia) - seem to have existed side-by-side with the less urbanized tribes. Many scholars have hypothesized that these three regions were settled by elites from Djakhet, who carried with them some semblance of their more politically centralized homelands. This is further supported by the fact that a higher proportion of the tribes originating from these regions not only carry their Djakhetian surnames (which continue to survive into the modern day), but that they also continued producing cultural artifacts (such as written records) in a Djakhetian manner, although of course this was nowhere as intense or productive as in Djakhetian times.

Regardless, as romaniticized through various epics of later times, the pre-Imperial era was one of warring tribes and clans that competitive with or against each other for control of fertile territory. The confederations that arose during this time quickly rose and fell as they came, and the closest to a permanent confederation came with the two super-confederations, XXX and YYY, which were on and off polities that united large numbers of the western and eastern tribes respectively.