The Star-Kin

The Star-Kin are a multi-species polity closed aligned to the United Federation of Planets.

Government
The Star-Kin has subsumed much of the specific organs of government that existed for the Honiani as a specific nation-state. This has left them with a comprehensive and competent civil service that has done much to speed along development of the recently merged species.

The Koliate Tower
The seat of government for the Star-Kin. The Ministers meet here, even though the tower itself is now too small for the civil service as a whole. Now many separate buildings have been constructed near the Koliate Tower, with typically only senior-level work taking place at the traditional home.

The Crenelation
The Crenelation is a council granted authority to review behaviour of Ministers and officials of the Koliate Tower and remove them for cause. The council is religious in nature, with nominees produced largely from among Monastic Orders. Selection, however, is conducted via a vote under universal suffrage. They serve as a check and balance on the Koliate Tower's bureaucracy. To this end they are invested with considerable powers of review and inquiry, capable of compelling evidence and testimony from among the civil service.

There are no real political parties or factions involved, with each candidate standing for election on their own merits. Nominees are sought from the various shepherds of Lakhept, the Monastic Orders, and other religious aspects. In the period since the merger of the Obar and Yan-Ros, the Crenelation has expanded to incorporate Obar belief systems and secular Yan-Ros traditions. This has generate some ructions in Honiani society that they have had to take care to smooth over.

Society
The Star-Kin started largely as a Honiani initiative, which is why it is based on Okatha, but they have been willingly joined by the Obar and then the Yan-Ros.