The Houses are like family businesses-- but huge conglomerate family businesses. Think Koch Industries or the Mars candy corporation or the Mafia.
In Sasha's day, the three branches of government were the military/executive, the judiciary/religious scholars, and the legislature/Council of Houses. The military were crushed by the heptarchate in the War of Liberation and the judiciary were replaced by the Vidona & Rahal, but the Houses survived in some form.
If you're legally of age (23) and own a full House share, you receive a certain amount of money every year from your House. If you're actively working for the House you get extra, and if you're at executive level you get even more.
If you have a fractional share you get only that fraction of the House funding (and that's true for the extras as well, so a full-share executive makes twice as much as a half-share executive would in the same position).
If you have anything more than a half share you can vote in House elections for the Board of Directors and to choose the House's representatives to the Council of Houses. Again, fractions of a share mean fractions of a vote.
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Re: Naxorian worldbuilding
Date: 2017-07-27 03:54 pm (UTC)In Sasha's day, the three branches of government were the military/executive, the judiciary/religious scholars, and the legislature/Council of Houses. The military were crushed by the heptarchate in the War of Liberation and the judiciary were replaced by the Vidona & Rahal, but the Houses survived in some form.
If you're legally of age (23) and own a full House share, you receive a certain amount of money every year from your House. If you're actively working for the House you get extra, and if you're at executive level you get even more.
If you have a fractional share you get only that fraction of the House funding (and that's true for the extras as well, so a full-share executive makes twice as much as a half-share executive would in the same position).
If you have anything more than a half share you can vote in House elections for the Board of Directors and to choose the House's representatives to the Council of Houses. Again, fractions of a share mean fractions of a vote.