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Imperium basics

Starsystems

The empire consists of about 83000 inhabited star systems.

  • One is the capital system(with more that 200billion people)
  • 174 are primary systems(With an average population of about 100 billion people each)
  • slightly below 17400 secondary(With an average population of about 1 billion people each)
  • rest of the inhabited systems are classified as tertiary(with an average population of 10 million people)

There are an additional 530 000 star systems with a smaller colony, mining station or similar (with an average population of 100 000 people each).

The empire claims an area of 1200 parsecs across from side to side and all the way to “top and bottom” of the galactic disk(about 300 pc high), but given that volume is 339 million cubic parsecs and that the volume has approximately 41 million star systems and the fastest starships take 267 days to travel from one end to other, only about 1 in 67 star systems in the area has any presence from the empire.

The primary systems are each owned by one of the great noble families. The secondary systems are all owned by a lesser noble house each, tertiary systems are mostly owned as additional systems by great noble houses, but a large number are formerly independent planets that have joined the empire.

There are more than 320 000 other inhabited planets in the area outside the empire control, but the average population of them is much smaller.

Population

There are about 3.6*10^13 people in the empire.

About half of the people live in primary systems and about half in secondary with only about 2% in tertiary and 0.2% in colonies. Even just the core system has about 3 times the total population of all the 530 000 colony systems and about 1/3 the population sum of all the populations of tertiary systems.

There is no exact census on the inhabitants of the non imperial planets as a whole, the estimates put the total other human population at about 1.2*10^13, making the empire have about 3/4 of all humans.

Politics

Politically the empire has the emperor and a parliament with two chambers, both with 522 members.

There are 174 great noble houses, slightly less than 17400 lesser noble houses and slightly below 1.74 million minor noble houses.

By the constitution there are 174 great houses and maximally 100 times lesser and 10000 times minor noble houses. If a house loses great noble status for some reason(and few have happened though the years, mostly due to treason), one of the lesser noble houses has to be appointed as a greater house within a year and a day. Whereas there is no time limit or absolute requirement to fill the ranks of the lower houses, but they tend to be reasonably close to the maximum(normally less than 1% below)

The chamber of nobles has:

  • 174 members from the great houses, each house sending one representative.
  • 174 members from the lesser houses, each 99 to 100 houses sending one representative.
  • 174 members from the minor houses, each 9900 to 10000 houses sending one representative.

The chamber of people has its members elected directly based on population. There is currently about 1 representative/69 billion people.

Currently it is as follows:

  • Core system: 3
  • The Primary systems: 259 total
  • The secondary systems: 250 total
  • The tertiary systems and colonies 10 total

All three parties have different powers, but the emperor(due to “unity”) and the chamber of nobles(Due to being able to block any action by the other parties with a 2/3 vote and the sheer amount of monetary resources that the nobles control) tend to be dominant

The high council consists of 6 members: 3 from the nobles and 3 from chamber of people.

Laws and customs

The basic laws are the same everywhere, but with some variations on the local levels.

See laws

The imperium has many cultures in effect that cause problems when communicating, though with many central things in common mitigate the problems if the different parties make an effort to understand each other.

See: cultural familiarities

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