Politics of Nhoor

General
Nhoor is a bottom-up democracy with complete separation of powers. The current political system has been in place since 1978. The people elect the parliaments of the municipalities (parlament li garhinili) and the parliaments of the provinces (parlament li vōqhinili) of Nhoor, the latter of which in turn elect the parliament the nation (parlament li rhwsali). The parliament of the nation is commonly known as Conast (‘The Floor’). The chairperson of the nation’s parliament was de facto head of state of Nhoor between the death of King Armhad V in 2017 and the accession of King Elerha Maximus in 2020. The incumbent chairwoman has been Her Relevancy Leymhī Arcarany-Ƨach since December 2019.

Legislative
The legislative powers consist of the aforementioned parliaments. The national parliament of Nhoor is a unicameral institution. It has 199 members who are elected by the members of the provincial parliaments for a four year term. Each province elects a certain amount of seats the number of which is based on its number of inhabitants; before each election the amount of seats represented by a province is recalculated. The members of the provincial parlements elect the members of the national parliament using a system of proportional representation (following the Sainte-Lagüe method), except for the province of Sīron-Onharh, which uses a Single Transferable Vote system.

Under the current constitution, national elections took place in 1977, 1981, 1985, 1989, 1993, 1997, 2001, 2005, 2009, 2013, 2017, and 2019. Usually they take place on the first Sunday of April, with the new parliament being inaugurated on the first Monday of May of the same year. The elections of 2019 took place on 1 December; these early elections were necessary following the proposal to invite Prince Maximus of Havalland to become the next King of Nhoor. The next elections will take place on Sunday 2 April 2023 at the latest.

Executive
Since 1978, the executive powers of each level are (mostly) self-regulating institutions, which means that the incumbent alderpeople (pɵvar, municipal level), councillors (nhāsɵlteƨy, provincial level), and ministers (munusta, national level) decide for themselves who will leave and who will join them, although the respective legislative institutions can issue binding advise on the appointment or removal of executive members if they consider this in the nation’s interest. The chairperson of the Council of Ministers is the head of government, currently Prime Minister Huldoro Sā̦ƨws-Patorheqh, since the Council reshuffle of 30 December 2019. Before 2019, the Prime Minister was internationally known as the First Minister. Before 1978, the First Minister was appointed directly by the King. First/Prime Ministers have been since 1845:

Judiciary
The members of the judiciary are appointed by citizens who have a law degree; citizens with a law degree cannot vote in the elections for the legislative parliaments. Members of the judiciary do not necessarily have to be citizens of Nhoor, but they will have to have a proven knowledge of the Nhoor constitution and the Nhoor Civil and Penal codes, and master the Nhoor language.

Political parties and elections
Political parties can contest the elections on the national level if they participate in at least one third of the provinces (5) representing at least one third of the total amount of seats in the national parliament (67). Parties that are currently fulfilling these requirements and obtained seats during the last election of 1 December 2019 are the following (from left to right):

• Norhim pw Qhamhwsana (NQh, 'General Collective', socialists and communists; currently 3 seats in parliament; pink)

• Sosa̦līsimoch pw Cwstana (SC, 'Socialist Party', socialists and left-wing socialdemocrats; listed under 'other' in the table below as they don't participate in all provinces; 1 seat; violet)

• Cwstana qo Onnubecāsa̦qo li Jorali (COJ, 'Workers' Party of the Dominion', socialdemocrats; 18 seats; red)

• Cwstana qo Rhonhwcoqo (CRh, 'Nature Party', greens and environmentalists; 32 seats; light green)

• Suhemhwn qo Illwnoqo s Qarhasytwnoqo (SIQ, 'Union for Progress and Prosperity', liberaldemocrats; 55 seats; dark blue)

• Onhws li Jorali (OJ, 'Future of the Dominion', intellectuals and pragmatists; listed under 'other' in the table below as they don't participate in all provinces; 8 seats; yellow)

• Līberal pw Cwstana (LC, 'Liberal Party', liberals; 37 seats; light blue)

• Cwstana qo Esaswnoqo (CE, 'Party of Liberties', libertarians; 9 seats; purple)

• Gerchrunw̦ch pw Cwstana (GC, 'Republican Party', republicans and non-confessional conservatives; listed under 'other' in the table below as they don't participate in all provinces; 2 seats; medium blue)

• Cwstana qo Curhisorhanoqo s Jo̦qhuroqo (CCJ, 'Party of Agrarians and Fishermen', religious conservatives; 17 seats; dark green)

• Cwstana qo Qhonhwroqo s A̦sytanaqo (CQhA, 'Party of Values and Tradition', religious conservatives; 9 seats; orange)

• Democraƨīa̦nhoch pw Hwrhiswcamhana (DH, 'Democratic Alliance', ultra-conservatives; 8 seats; brown)

Monarchy
Main article: The monarchy of Nhoor

Nhoor has had a king as its head of state since the creation of the Dominion, but the throne was vacant between the death of the childless last King Armhad V in 2017, and the accession of King Elerha Maximus on 29 February 2020. The role of the King is purely ceremonial.

Government ministers
As mentioned, the members of the Council of Ministers are normally appointed by the Council of Ministers itself. In general this system works as long as there is at least one member of the Council left who can appoint fellow ministers. If for some reason there are no members left, parliament appoints one or more ministers to get the system going again. Since the system was put into place in 1978, the number of ministers that was replaced at the same time hasn't exceeded five or six, which is less than one third of the total number of members of the Council of Ministers. The incumbent members of the Council of Ministers are: