Yukkira
TNPer
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- An Actual Walrus#6526
So... Yukkira's slightly confusing. Specifically, over these two points:
Which leads into the next question of:
Is Yukkira a Capitalist Oligarchy? Or an Absolute Monarchy?
Here is an explanation that I gave to Thederic Nors via Discord:
Yukkira likes strong-armed monarchies and doesn't like the uppity peasants. It will clamp down aggressively at the first sight of rebellion. We prefer to deal diplomatically with monarchies compared to, say, democracies or politically-inclined plebeian governments (aka. communists). Thus, Yukkira has very limited civil rights or freedoms, and there are very few political freedoms at least in relation to the Retainer estate.
So the Corporations are technically privately owned, despite the Regency, and each other's CEOs, being on each of their Board of Directors. They all have obligations to fulfill in relation to the State but are thereafter free to do as they please. In addition, the Regency, since they're on the board of each company, are allowed to speak for each Corporation and will often actively seek out business opportunities. Like your (TN's) civil war.
So logically, in a way, there is an oligarchy? The answer to that is both yes and no.
Technically, all CEOs are part of the Noble estate, but more by hap-stance than actual consequence. CEOs normally aren't required to attend summons of the Imperial Court despite them nearly always attending. This is because board meetings technically serve the same function as Imperial Court summons; albeit, much more in a personal and less bureaucratic fashion. CEOs will actually maintain a minor Imperial Ministry in order to make sure their own obligations both to their companies and to the State are met. So in conclusion, the companies technically run an oligarchy within the Imperial Court itself but they can't do anything in pertinence to the creation of laws and policy. The CEOs are however, are normally close friends and or "calabash*" relatives of the Regents, so it wouldn't be too hard for their suggestions to become law.
Therefore, since the CEOs are so close to the Regency, there is a good explanation (in my opinion), for why the Imperial Court has limited many rights of the Retainer estate. Every Retainer, if not serving in the Imperial Yukkirian Guardia or in a Ministry, is working in service to a Megacorporation. And if the Retainers, say, get the idea to attempt to rebel against the Imperial Court and Regency due to exposure to non-related foreign culture, the results could be much worse than possibly the Megacorporations seizing political power for themselves (which is ironic, since they technically have a large amount of influence on the Imperial Court anyways).
Should the Retainers ever seize power, Yukkira would flip to a democracy. Or, worse-case scenario, a socialist/communist state. This would mean that after suppression rebellion after rebellion over a span of nearly a thousand years, all that effort would get thrown to the wind as quite likely, the new government would move swiftly to undo a thousand years of civil and political suppression while persecuting the Noble estate for their perceived slights. The Retainer estate, while under colonial occupation, enjoyed a few instances of greater civil and political equality, but ultimately, those policies were undone with Yukkira gaining its independence in the early 2000s.
However, there are efforts within both the Regency and the Imperial Court to move progressively into the 21st century with inclusive-leaning policy moves in pertinence to the civil freedoms of the Retainer estate. These moves might be soon be made apparent as the Most Glorious Principality begins to make its own mark on history, for the first time in nearly seven centuries.
- Why Yukkira's trying very so hard to suppress and insulate its Retainer estate populace?
- Why or what or how do the Megacorporations interact with and fit in with Yukkira's given government structure?
Which leads into the next question of:
Is Yukkira a Capitalist Oligarchy? Or an Absolute Monarchy?
Here is an explanation that I gave to Thederic Nors via Discord:
Yukkira likes strong-armed monarchies and doesn't like the uppity peasants. It will clamp down aggressively at the first sight of rebellion. We prefer to deal diplomatically with monarchies compared to, say, democracies or politically-inclined plebeian governments (aka. communists). Thus, Yukkira has very limited civil rights or freedoms, and there are very few political freedoms at least in relation to the Retainer estate.
So the Corporations are technically privately owned, despite the Regency, and each other's CEOs, being on each of their Board of Directors. They all have obligations to fulfill in relation to the State but are thereafter free to do as they please. In addition, the Regency, since they're on the board of each company, are allowed to speak for each Corporation and will often actively seek out business opportunities. Like your (TN's) civil war.
So logically, in a way, there is an oligarchy? The answer to that is both yes and no.
Technically, all CEOs are part of the Noble estate, but more by hap-stance than actual consequence. CEOs normally aren't required to attend summons of the Imperial Court despite them nearly always attending. This is because board meetings technically serve the same function as Imperial Court summons; albeit, much more in a personal and less bureaucratic fashion. CEOs will actually maintain a minor Imperial Ministry in order to make sure their own obligations both to their companies and to the State are met. So in conclusion, the companies technically run an oligarchy within the Imperial Court itself but they can't do anything in pertinence to the creation of laws and policy. The CEOs are however, are normally close friends and or "calabash*" relatives of the Regents, so it wouldn't be too hard for their suggestions to become law.
Therefore, since the CEOs are so close to the Regency, there is a good explanation (in my opinion), for why the Imperial Court has limited many rights of the Retainer estate. Every Retainer, if not serving in the Imperial Yukkirian Guardia or in a Ministry, is working in service to a Megacorporation. And if the Retainers, say, get the idea to attempt to rebel against the Imperial Court and Regency due to exposure to non-related foreign culture, the results could be much worse than possibly the Megacorporations seizing political power for themselves (which is ironic, since they technically have a large amount of influence on the Imperial Court anyways).
Should the Retainers ever seize power, Yukkira would flip to a democracy. Or, worse-case scenario, a socialist/communist state. This would mean that after suppression rebellion after rebellion over a span of nearly a thousand years, all that effort would get thrown to the wind as quite likely, the new government would move swiftly to undo a thousand years of civil and political suppression while persecuting the Noble estate for their perceived slights. The Retainer estate, while under colonial occupation, enjoyed a few instances of greater civil and political equality, but ultimately, those policies were undone with Yukkira gaining its independence in the early 2000s.
However, there are efforts within both the Regency and the Imperial Court to move progressively into the 21st century with inclusive-leaning policy moves in pertinence to the civil freedoms of the Retainer estate. These moves might be soon be made apparent as the Most Glorious Principality begins to make its own mark on history, for the first time in nearly seven centuries.