Lastor

Overview

Lastor is a country on the planet Olmara bordering Coritha.

Geography

Mountain ranges divide vast plains wide rivers carve valleys and low rolling hills stretch for hundreds of selm. At the borders rises the Great Canyon an imposing almost sacred boundary. Old farming villages have been abandoned stone shells slowly reclaimed by vegetation.

Government System

Lastor is a presidential parliamentary republic with a clear separation of executive legislative and judicial powers. The President is both head of state and head of government elected every five years with a maximum of two terms. It has a House and a Senate and its law and procedures often reference the nine day Ennead of the Universal Calendar.

Executive Branch

The President and the Cabinet set national policy security infrastructure and inter state coordination. Emergency directives may be issued for one Ennead nine days and require congressional approval for extension.

Legislative Branch

A bicameral Congress composed of a Senate which confirms high offices and treaties and a House of Representatives elected by population which introduces budgets taxation bills and manages powerful committees such as Oversight Security and Borders Trade Energy and Water Civil Liberties and others.

Judicial Branch

The Supreme Court conducts constitutional review and may strike down laws as unconstitutional. It also handles inter state disputes. Lower courts handle criminal and civil cases.

Lawmaking Process

• Submission of a draft bill by a Representative or Senator or as a government proposal.
• Committee hearings amendments and committee votes.
• Debate and vote in the plenary session of each chamber.
• A reconciliation committee unifies the versions for final approval.
• The President signs it into law or issues a veto. Overriding the veto requires two thirds of both chambers.
• Publication in the Current Years Register followed by regulations and public consultation.

Elections and Terms

• President five year term maximum two terms.
• House two year terms.
• Senate six year terms one third renewed every two years.

Economy

An open market economy driven by private initiative and innovation. Clear social classes exist but extreme inequalities are uncommon. Growth relies on industry commerce services and technology companies expanding into new markets.

Society

Citizens enjoy a respectable standard of living with access to education and health care. Social mobility is considered attainable and advancement in politics business or entertainment is a common aspiration. Beneath general stability tensions and ambitions persist.

Capital

Selvaron is the political and cultural center housing national institutions major corporations and media a crossroads of technology and art. Life in the city is mediated through Cast screens distributed Communicators and policy directives from the Social Point System.

Defense and Special Forces

Border security and rapid response units are complemented by elite formations such as the Lastor Rangers known for reconnaissance targeted strikes and long duration autonomous missions.

Lastor Rangers

The Lastor Rangers are Lastor’s elite commando force. Small highly trained teams excel in surprise operations reconnaissance and combat in difficult terrain. These units can operate independently for extended periods without resupply functioning as the invisible guardians of the nation.

Political Parties PRG OSF CBF

A tripartite political landscape with distinct profiles yet converging in centralized control through tools such as the Social Point System the Aerial Surveillance Grid the City Security Service and the Polity Protection Service. Ideological differences serve rhetoric while practical governance remains centralized.

Shared Foundations

Society is treated as an administered field rather than a decisive authority. Each party accepts a degree of corruption inherent in concentrated power. Silence orders appear whenever political narratives are threatened.

Institutions and Reach

There is shared acceptance of the Social Point System as a behavior filter the Aerial Surveillance Grid as a surveillance canopy the City Security Service for daily enforcement and the Polity Protection Service as the final barrier. Internationally influence is projected through Lastor’s mission in the Olmara Planetary Council.

PRG — Progressive Renewal Guild

• Profile a progressive party promising expanded rights and access to the commons while maintaining centralized coordination and tightly managed participation.
• Base urban centers such as Selvaron young professionals service sectors and part of the academic community.
• Policy urban infrastructure and social programs formal transparency SPS and ASG remain non negotiable for security.
• CSS PPS visible cooperation with CSS for soft enforcement low noise PPS operations with frequent silence orders.
• OPC seeks influence through Lastor’s delegation on matters of rights and resources without challenging domestic tools.
• Corruption modes channeling municipal funds to friendly providers advisor appointments through political obligations weakened oversight.
• Plot role leads protests but consents to restrictions when Murmur and ASG indicate hot spots.

OSF — Order Stability Front

• Profile a conservative party of order and stability favoring strong executive authority and hierarchical governance.
• Base regional communities security services logistics and supply sectors.
• Policy strengthening CSS expansion of ASG widening PPS authority for political risk cases strict framework for networks such as Murmur.
• CSS PPS tight directive alignment larger silence orders proactive checks and scans.
• OPC pushes hard positions on borders and security through the delegation.
• Corruption modes preferential procurement for orivan fleets and scarab drones inflated contracts legal shields for friendly boards.
• Plot role pressures for aggressive interpretation of Alisa Geres’s escape and harsher stance in zones such as the Great Canyon.

CBF — Civic Balance Forum

• Profile a centrist technocratic party promising balanced freedoms and security through regulation and standardization while keeping core levers centralized.
• Base urban middle class administrative staff media and media related businesses seeking predictable trade with Coritha and the Syndarion Union.
• Policy limited PPS oversight with time caps standardized CSS procedures flexible ASG corridors for commerce avoidance of shocks that disrupt markets.
• CSS PPS requests documentation but rarely enforces when costs rise prefers mild silence orders that expand quietly.
• OPC invests in diplomacy through committees and evaluation reports from the delegation.
• Corruption modes public private partnerships with tailored terms corporate labyrinths that erode checks influence exchanges inside committees.
• Plot role the rational voice that still upholds tools keeping decisive power away from the social base.

Notes

Lastor’s institutions present a façade of democratic order supported by sophisticated surveillance and a political ecosystem that values stability over direct civic empowerment. Beneath the orderly structure lies a culture of managed tension where political parties compete rhetorically while converging on centralized mechanisms that define life across the country.

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