Dwarven Empire the Hammer of Haffelosterium
The governmental system of the Dwarves.
Structure
Dwarven Empire the Hammer of Haffelosterium is a pre-modern bureaucratic despotism with a large service-gentry bureaucracy closely managing a set of smaller political units it has recently absorbed -- kind of like a cross between Imperial China, the Inca Empire and the Spanish Empire under the Bourbons. The three main entities that wield political power in the empire are its military, its judges (the service gentry governors) and a high-profile religious secret society, the Hamersten, (its members go about masked). The army and Hamersten are of roughly equal power, and are sometimes the same people, especially at their high echelons and are both directly accountable to the emperor. The service gentry, as in most despotisms, is held firmly in check for fear of it becoming an incipient aristocracy.
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