The Imperial Parliament in London is based on the same model as the old British Parliament. It was formed before the Great War, but didn't take its final form until after the Rose Restoration when the Palace of Westminster was rebuilt. Parliament is a bicameral legislative bodies, with the House of Lords and House of Commons. Membership in both houses is apportioned to the population of the Empire's constituent kingdoms. MPs are elected in general elections by the citizens of the constituent kingdoms, and serve only for the duration of that Parliament. 655 members of the House of Lords are representative members that are elected by the parliaments of the constituent kingdoms and serve for life or until resignation. In addition, there are up to 150 life peers who are created by the sovereign (in addition, the sovereign may not create more than 20 new life peers a year). There are also 25 Lords Spiritual (the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, and 23 additional Lords elected by the Imperial Bishop's Conference), 15 Law Lords who form the Appellate Committee of the House of Lords and any Prince of the Blood who holds a non-sovereign title. Governments are formed in the House of Commons, and the Lords may not veto any legislation. They may block legislation, sending the legislation back to the Commons three times for re-review until the Commons either gives up or simply passes it on its own the fourth time. The Lords may not block money bills.
A Counsellor of State is a member of the Imperial family that undertake special duties that are delegated to them by the sovereign, currently King-Emperor John II. The constituent kingdoms also have their own Counsellors of State. A Counsellor of State may preside over meetings of the Privy Council, accept ambassadors and other foreign dignitaries, undertake official state visits abroad and sign certain state documents, in addition to any other task delegated to them by the sovereign. Successive Regency Acts have stated that the sovereign's consort is a Counsellor of State, and that the other Counsellors are the first four members in the line of succession who are at least 21 years old (or 18 in the case of the Prince of Wales), are Imperial subjects and are domiciled in Great Britain. All of the King-Emperor's siblings aside from the Duke of Clarence reside abroad as consorts, while the Duke of Clarence's military service overseas has seen him move in and out of his role as Counsellor of State, alternating with the oldest two children of the Duke of York on numerous occasions. After his last deployment began, John II suggested that he would not name the Duke of Clarence as Counsellor of State until his retirement from the Royal Navy. The current Counsellors of State include Princess Consort Marudhar of Jaipur, the Princess of Wales, Princess Tahira Marie of Kashmir (the youngest child of King Thomas of Kashmir, who resides in Great Britain with her husband, Prince Ernst Christoph II of Fulda, the First Minister of East of England), the Duke of York and the Countess of Inverness. Next year, John II's second child, Archduchess Anne Louise of Great Britain, will reach the age of majority and is slated to replace the Countess of Inverness. Additionally, Archduchess Hedwig Sybille of Hesse, the eldest daughter of the Duke of Windsor and the Queen of Hesse, will turn 21 next year, and there has been some discussion about making her a Counsellor of State to replace the Duke of York as long as she remains in London, though there has been some debate about whether she's an Imperial subject or not.
Black Friday Bombings / King-Emperor John II
Friedrich Wilhelm, Crown Prince of Prussia / Congress of Atomic Powers
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