The Political System

"New Highermoon is a strange country, it is both a nation and a socialist state at the same time. It lives under democracy and a modern form of mob rule at the same time. It should be falling apart at the seams, and yet it does not."
- Mariannah Fuyatrez at a talk on national security.

Political System
The Highermoonian political system consists of a parliamentary democracy, and local democracy. The police, industry and ministries are also politicized, and have their own elections (so, you can vote for your company's policy. elections are held once 5 years. Because of the this the New Highermoonian political system is constantly changing, but nonetheless very democratic and stable. The Federal Congress votes on how to run the country, and the Elected Provincial Congresses decide who should participate in the Federal congress, and direct voting decides who should run the Provincial Congress. the Congress has 350 seats, the head of the federal council is Alykul Zhusupov. He manages the council but has no national power. The Prime Minister of the republic is Rosannah Presovská, but she mostly represents the nation internationally, and performs traditional and national functions.

Political Parties
Below is a list of every party, it's abbreviation, how much procent of political party members belong to it and it's political standpoints:

RSUF - Revolutionary Socialist Unity Front - 54% - Liberal Syndicalist - Their election program involves reforming the old democratic system into one inclusive of unions and workplace democracy, as well as rapidly introducing progressive social and political reforms. Formed as a fusion between the [189 seats] (The united front) Party leader: Rosannah Presovská

General Labourers Bund of New Highermoon - 12% - Idiosyncratic social democracy - Their election program involves creating more comprehensive labour laws for the free market, and increasing the average disposable income. [42 seats] (The united front) Party leader: Nicolae Shiramoto

The Harmony Association - 13% - Liberalism - Their election program involves garaunteeing private ownership and reforming the economic system into a more reasonable model, reducing the power of the unions and dramatically lowering taxes. [46 seats] (Democratic coalition) Party leader: Illya Obama

CPNH - Communist Party of New Highermoon - 9% - Orthodox Communism - their election program involves broadening New Highermoon's industrial base, collectivising the means of production, introducing 5 year plans and turning back the liberal reforms. [21 seats] (the red front) Party leader: Otto Wolf

The Magnolia Blossom Clique - Conservative agrarianism - 5% - headed by the prominent writer Eko Sari Hais, the Clique wants make way for a new cultural renaissance, rolling back all socialist ideology, and developing the rural areas instead of urban areas [17 seats] (the red front) Party leader: Eko Sari Hais

The young guards - 4% - Socialist Internationalism - Originally the junior wing of the RSUF, the young guards are twice as fervent and revolutionary in their policies as their "senior" organisations, but are still loyal to the concept of liberal socialism. Aleksis Dzenis is 21 years old at the moment, the youngest party leader in the congress. [14 seats] (united socialist front coalition) Party leader: Aleksis Dzenis

Anarchist Student's league - 3% - Anarchism - Their election program involves the dismanteling of most organisations, and forming communes where people will look out after each other, devoid of greed and ulterior motives. [11 seats] (The red front) Party leader: None

PPP - Poopocratic poopunist party (pory party) - 0.001% - Far Poopotarian Poopism - current focus is opposing every other party. [guy sitting in the bathroom on his phone] (guys we're gonna win big this time for real coalition)

The united front: 245 seats, 3 parties, 70% - the united front is the current ruling coaltion, consisting of socialist and social democratic parties. Altough the dominant party has shifted over the years, they have held a stable grasp over the congress. However, recent social and economic issues are eroding the people's trust in the ruling parties, will their grip hold strong in the face of crisis?

Democratic coalition:
- conservatives, liberals and centrists herded together after the civil war, the democratic coalition is the last beacon of the republic before the war. Because anti-socialism is one of their only overlapping viewpoints working together is difficult, and parties are having to compromise with the left and right. Will the centre hold?

The Red front : - unstatisfied with the united front coalition, the red people's front sees the government as a fake socialist state, because they ally themselves with capitalists and use market economic systems. their viewpoints however vary from anti-revisionism, to utopianism to anarchism, will the people's front be able to grow big enough to dismantle the United front, or will the front forever live in the shadow of the revisionists?

unrepresented parties
NP - Nobility Party - Feudalist fascism - their election program involves reinstating the Suzeranity and reorganising the country into lordships. (unified under the TNC)

BVP - Burgundy Vanguard Party - Burgundy Vanguardism - their election program involves ending all collaboration with the centre countries, the partification of society, entertainment, race, and gender, as well as removing the democratic system and taking back Deepermoonian lands from Libura. (Banned after the 1976 countercoup, since unbanned, but the party has received no seats yet.)

wealth today - Anarcho-capitalism - their election program involves removing the entire state planned economy and giving the police more power and money. They are the Highermoonian organisation with the 2nd highest amount of foreign funding, only after the Highermoonian Sector of the International Medical Organisation (HSotIMO) (unified under the TNC)

TNC - The New Course - Far right extremism - A collection of various anti-socialist right wing parties, their viewpoints do not match, and the party is very disorganised. Despite this their election program involves reforms to centralise the nation, and to completely reject socialism Party leader: Jerry Thierrdette

Iron Wolf Party - traditionalism - Their election program involves re-arming the Highermoonian citizens and recreating the army, and returning to the traditional New Highermoonian values (unified under the TNC)

Shah's will - Conservatism - a party dedicated to returning the era of the Shah, the tribes and pivoting back to the past. (unified under the TNC)

FVD - Freedom! Valour! Democracy! - National populism - Now if you get your house bombed out, don't go complaining to me! if your child or car gets bombed, i don't care! you reap what you sow, and you godamn atheists, communist homosexual foreigners have run this country into the ground! let me remind them what will happen to liars and traitors! (unified under the TNC)

Saints
Saints have existed in New Highermoon since before the era of Suzerainity. Unlike the Techfordshirean saints the Highermoonian Saints weren't selected by the church, but rather by the people themselves. If a saint dies a new candidate can propose himself. And if a majority of citizens agree that the candidate is good enough they will be instituted as Saint. Saints used to run tribes and even cities, but nowadays they are just awarded with a cool staff and have to attend any openings associated with their speciality.
There are saints for: Public transport, Long and empty distances, Abandoned places, creation and transformation (no one is sure what the latter entails) Animals, Death and many more less important ones
Saints have not been religiously affiliated since the 1920's.

The four tenets of the state
As outlined by the father of the nation, Stanislav Volarevic, there are 4 points necessary for the continued existence and stability of new highermoon, they go as follows.

Welfare: If the majority of the population can see the benefits of socialism, liberalism or whatever ideology rules, they will be likely to support it. If those people have no food, no home, no healthcare, then they will blame this on the state, and extremist parties can take power, as we saw before in Irenfell and Northring.

Ideology: If a nation allows its citizens to develop their sense of ideology, to understand politics and to and to fully support and ideology they should also be given to freedom to practice this ideology in clubs, workplaces and organisations even when it is not official government policy. this means supporters of an ideology can find ways to express that in art, work and culture, and this allows both new ideas to enter circulation quickly and labourers to work harder.

Democracy: When the state cracks down on political dissidents, when the state is impervious to change then the only way to bring about even minor political change is trough revolution or the death of the leader, which can bring about the complete destruction of the state. Democracy gives socialism/liberalism/nationalism a safe way to mutate, which may jeopardise the state ideology, but will secure the state.

Unity: Unity, also called "Unity in pluralism" is the concept that the New Highermoonian state should never endorse or cater specifically to the will of a single religion or ethnic group, and that all groups living in a state should mantain their culture and religion, while still seeing themselves and people with different views and backgrounds then them as New Highermoonians. If fractures and outsiders are allowed to exist then it will be easy for racist, counterrevolutionary and seperatist elements to grow, since there is no "outside", "foreign" or "dominant" culture