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The Yamatai Star Empire is a huge, cultured, and socially progressive nation that is notable for its post-humanism and its militarization. It is the setting's cornerstone faction. Yamatai has a compassionate multicultural population estimated at somewhere around 10 billion distributed in over 40 star systems and thousands of starships. Yamataians have extensive civil rights.
Yamatai became the dominant power its region in ye_01 (The first year of the Empire) and remains a strongly influential power to this day, both politically and through its strong military, the Star Army of Yamatai. The government places its priorities on defense, education, and agriculture. Yamatai has been involved in many wars in its short history.
The Faction Manager for Yamatai is Wes.
This is what players had to say about Yamatai:
Yamatai is a Constitutional Monarchy with the Empress as head of state and government, and with the citizenry serving as the national legislature through direct democracy (formerly representative democracy). Traditionally, Yamatai has been a fairly military-focused and expansionist nation. The capital of the Yamatai Star Empire is Kyoto, Yamatai.
See: constitution
Branch | Executive | Legislative | Military |
---|---|---|---|
Leaders | Empress | Citizens | Admiralty |
Functions | Daily operation | Submit and vote on laws | Defend and expand |
In practice, the Empress tries to stay out of the other branches' affairs despite having the power to do so, and has defended the Military from any control by the Legislative branch. Because of this, the military has tended to act independently (thus its listing as a separate branch of government).
The empire also has one Suzerainty, the Elysian Celestial Empire.
Yamatai's courts exist under all three branches; crimes by military members are held by military tribunals, government-related crimes and some major crimes by Executive courts, and common crimes by courts under Legislative jurisdiction. This can be confusing at times. Generally, a convicted person has the right to appeal to one of the other court systems, and then to the Empress herself.
For Yamataian laws, see: law.