#wasi

Title: Shallow

Arrangement: wasi

Vocals: Maguro & Xandu

Album: wither.

Circle: Takamchi Walk

Takamachi Walk - Empty

Touhou Kikeijuu ~ Wily Beast and Weakest Creature: Anchor - Takamachi Walk

[Entrusting this World to Idols ~ Idolatrize World (Stage 6 Boss Theme)]

from the Touhou Project remix album Gensokyo Party Vol. 1 released by KodamaSounds

Credits and Lyrics:

aaaa happy wbw, fran!! <3<3<3

SO the human government took a bit of inspiration from the Goblins, so I’ll cover them first!!

Essentially, the Goblin government has a central power at all times, but where that central power is depends on a form of election! They’ve got several cities: Wasi (the current capital), Gyr, and Palor are the biggest. The way they figure out what the capital city is goes something like this:

A city holds an election for a council of five lawmakers for every 50,000 citizens. This city has a population of, say, 500k people, so they will have a legislature of 50. Those 50 are now responsible for electing one representative for every 100k people in their city to be part of the federal council. So, that’s five people in the federal council, and there, they will cooperate with the other representatives from other cities to decide who among them will be the “president” (i need a better name for it but that’s the idea). Whoever the president is, their city will be the capital city until they either a) retire, b) die, or c) get on so many people’s bad side that they get overthrown (not by a rebellion, usually; there’s a voting process to change the leader or capital, and if there’s a three-fourths majority, it will go through).

This overthrowing thing happens a lot, by the way. Wasi is on the longest streak of having the capital status - it’s been about a hundred years, and twelve different leaders. The previous record was seventy years and fifteen leaders, so it’s stabilizing a little bit.

So, way back when Arthur Coldstone was supposed to take over the monarchy of the humans, he saw this structure that the goblins were using, and saw a way to maybe improve it for a people who didn’t want to shift their political maps every few years. And he also wanted to make it work for smaller gatherings of people - Goblins rely on their cities, and any smaller outposts are temporary and effectively lawless. Humans, on the other hand, are often in towns of less than a thousand people, scattered among the countryside.

And, of course, he didn’t want to be a king. Sure, everyone calls him one even to this day, but a title is not a sign of qualification.

So he changed it to work on a smaller scale, and be a bit more recursive. A representative for every fifty people, so even the smallest towns could have a leader of some sort. For every five representatives, there’s one that is sent to work with the others of their kind that are the closest. For every five of those, the same thing. Towns with more than two of these smaller councils, each council is given a zone to govern. Cities with more than five zones have Districts consisting of 2-5 of these zones. Once you hit district-level government, your council stops sending 1/5 of itself to the higher ups, and you start sending 1/10 of your people to Avatica in the central government.

A lot of people in human towns/cities are very well-versed in how their government works, because of this :D Almost everyone knows someone on a council, no matter how small of a scale that person is governing over. Council members on the lowest tier do their best to hear the thoughts of everyone in their community; it’s expected that you pass these on higher and higher up to get the majority opinion on every major decision the government makes.

Also, the shift in Avatica is seasonal, and rotates between District leaders. It helps get more opinions weighed in, as well as getting people from all kinds of backgrounds the voice they deserve.

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Thank you again for the ask!!! this has been v fun to talk about :D

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