Empire of Valenor (ehm-pyre uhv val-ehn-ohr)

Structure

The People's Assembly is the most active and effectual body within the Empire of Valenor, enacting legislation, managing finances, and maintaining significant investigative powers. However, it is not actually the most powerful body. Although it does not have as many powers, and they are enacted with any frequency, the Valenoran High Council is the single most powerful jurisdictive body in the empire because of its ability to unilaterally make executive orders and declare military administration. Finally, the Prime Tribunal, although technically the weakest of the three bodies, is responsible for many necessary constraints on both the People's Assembly and High Council, with the ability to declare legislation passed by the People's Assembly in violation of the Valenoran Constitutional Charter and the ability to mandate the High Council to enact executive orders.

Demography and Population

The population of the Empire of Valenor is approximately 1.4 quadrillion, although 50% of its population is concentrated in about a dozen star systems, with nearly 100 trillion inhabitants in the Tsor sytem alone. Another 40% of the population lives within an additional 30 or so star systems. Most of the remaining 10% of the population is spread throughout nearly 300 systems. Finally, an extraordinarily small contingent of the population, less than half a percent, mostly scientists, military personnel, or independent pioneers, are spread across the more than 1,100 additional star systems claimed by the Empire of Valenor.

Territories

The Empire of Valenor has an externally recognized and colonially realized claim to 1,460 star systems. Although it claims in some capacity various territories throughout another approximately 1,000 star systems, these claims are either unrecognized by foreign powers and/or have not been actualized by a considerable colonization effort. Of the Empire of Valenor's fully legitimate territory, its core 12 star systems, including Valenor itself, are fully colonized and exploited. The next level outward, including about 30 star systems, are mostly exploited in terms of resources but not quite as highly populated. Another 300 or so star systems are not nearly as populous and some resources within them remain untapped, but several megacorporations ensure these systems do not go without exploitation. The final 1,100 or so systems that Valenor maintains a legitimate claim to are hardly populated whatsoever, with what little population they have mostly made up of touring military personnel, and their resources remain largely untapped. Although the United Civilizations, including the Empire of Valenor, have agreed not to make actual territorial claims outside the Milky Way Galaxy, Valenor controls vast swathes of territory on the Andromeda Frontier, more than any other civilization in the UC. These systems are virtually only colonized by researchers, and a full inventory of their latent resources has yet to be taken.

Founding Date

2949 CE (3750 EOC)

Type

Geopolitical, Empire

Alternative Names

Valenor, Valenoran Empire

Training Level

Professional

Veterancy Level

Veteran

Demonym

Valenoran

Government System

Democracy, Representative

Power Structure

Federation

Economic System

Post-scarcity economy

Currency

The Empire of Valenor's official currency, the Valenoran Cardinal, traces its roots back to the Pandoran Cardinal, which served as the tender of the Pandoran Empire in some form for millennia. Its physical denominations include a one cardinal note, five cardinal note, 10 cardinal note, 20 cardinal note, 50 cardinal note, 100 cardinal note, and 500 cardinal note. Valenoran Cardinal coins have long since been discarded as legal tender and are no longer minted. Their value has greatly increased with time as the remaining number dwindles. In addition to the cardinal, the Empire of Valenor also accepts the Interstellar Credit, a centralized digital currency, as legal tender, due to its participation in the Interstellar Open Trade Association (IOTA) with the the United Nations of Humanity, the Hekaitian Empire, the Federation of Lothi, and the Mavrad Republic of Lothi. Although the Valenoran Cardinal is still the most common currency in the Empire of Valenor's core systems, in the outer reaches of the empire, the Interstellar Credit has been widely accepted. The Empire of Valenor's final legal tender is Etherium, a UNH-based cryptocurrency. Before the United Nations of Humanity made contact with the Empire of Valenor, Etherium was a smaller and less valuable cryptocurrency on the verge of collapse, but its name's translation into Standardized Valenoran offered a unique marketing opportunity. The Valenoran word that translates as "ether" in English refers to the most popular conception of the afterlife to the N'xrough especially in Pandoran culture. Seeing the opportunity before them, Etherium pivoted to marketing almost entirely toward N'xrough investors and seemingly overnight, it became the single most valuable non-centralized currency in the known universe.

Legislative Body

The most powerful legislative body within the Empire of Valenor is the People's Assembly, made up of 119,157 representatives. The 53 provinces of the planet Valenor that first united under the Empire of Valenor each delegate one representative, with an average constituent population of 400 million per, but throughout the rest of the empire, each legislator represents an average of 10 billion constituents. The powers of the People's Assembly include the powers to make laws, raise and provide money and oversee its expenditure, impeach federal officers, approve tribunal appointments, approve treaties, and nominate High Councilors, as well as substantial investigative powers.

Judicial Body

The Empire of Valenor's highest court is the Prime Tribunal, made up of eleven tribunes appointed by the High Council, although these appointments can be vetoed by the People's Assembly with a supermajority. The powers of the Prime Tribunal include presiding over federal or otherwise sufficiently prominent litigation, vetoing the decisions of the High Council or People's Assembly if they are deemed to be in violation of the Valenoran Constitutional Charter, ordaining High Councilors, and mandating the High Council to issue executive orders.

Executive Body

The highest executive body and highest overall jurisdictive body of the Empire of Valenor is the High Council, made up of seven councilors nominated by the People's Assembly, ordained by the Prime Tribunal, and elected by popular vote. The High Council holds several executive powers, including the powers to issue executive orders, grant reprieves and pardons, make treaties, appoint tribunes, declare war, and command the military, but its most authoritative and controversial power is the power to authorize the unilateral military administration of nonmilitary resources and territory.

Controlled Territories