Sydraxian Hierarchy

The Sydraxian political system is a unitary democracy, with suffrage formerly extended to landowning individuals but now greatly expanded. These citizens then elect regional governor-legislators known as Hierarchs, who meet on the capital of Dar Nakar (Borandt III) in the High Symphony to pass laws and run government. The Hierarchs also elect the Triumvirate, who function as the executive. The Triumvirate in turn appoints a First Voice from the citizenry, who then serves as a largely ceremonial head of state and as a presiding officer for the High Symphony.

First Voice
A Head of State selected by the Triumvirate from among the Citizens.

Triumvirate
An executive council of three representatives chosen from among the Sub-Parliaments.

High Symphony
The Sydraxian populace is divided into "Territories". There may be more or less of these, but there is an attempt to maintain roughly equal representation given the number of citizens present. Each Territory may elect a Hierarch to the High Symphony, which is a collection of all of these legislators.

Sub-parliaments
Dar Nakar, Kar Akar, and Nox Degar are the three most populous Sydraxian worlds, and they each have a 'sub-parliament' entitled to select one of the three Trierachs of the Triumvirate.

Other Territories
Other Territories, usually from smaller colonies with only a handful of legislators, are not entitled to elect a Trierarch. Beyond that, they are still ordinary members of the High Symphony.

The Graduates
Alternatively, the "Young Officers", the "Class of '15", or "the Gabriel School", these are the younger generation of officers who fought and survived the confrontations with Starfleet that many of their fellows perished in. They embraced opposition to the Ashalla Pact, to the Reds government, and to the useless bloodshed. They were key to breaking the Red's control over the military, and did much to ensure that riots could not be suppressed from orbit.

The Vanguard
The faction most deeply aligned to the working class of the Sydraxian Hierarchy. The working classes were deeply squeezed by the wartime economic measures enforced by the government, and that was on top of preexisting resentment over a lack of political representation and an unfair social system. When the Red Hierarchy were toppled, the Vanguard in many ways did the most to shatter the Reds base on the streets.

The Reds
The dominant political faction of the pre-collapse political system, the Reds maintained a ruthless fist. They pursued a policy of Ashalla Pact membership and unyielding confrontation with the Federation over the Teacup Pig incident. This, in the end, proved to be their downfall. With the Gabriel Expanse conflict pushing ever further into the lines of communication between the Pact and the Hierarchy, they became inevitably isolated, and then eliminated. With the failure of this strategy, and their approach to the Federation in general, the long-lasting rule of the Reds ended in ignominy.

"The Red party is a ruling coalition of the ancient land owning families and militarist factions. They have been the most electorally successful party in the last century, having been formed in a merger between the militarist Lavender faction and the Browns of the landowners. The party has strong ideological reasons to align with the Cardassians so strongly: the militarist wing because the Cardassians most align with their worldview, and the landowners because they fear the free trade, egalitarianism, and universal suffrage of the Federation will lead to their final destruction as a political force. The political force of the military faction had been steadily weakened leading up to the current crisis due to military defeat by the Federation."

The Blues
The secondary force in Sydraxian pre-collapse politics. They formed as a "steady-as-she-goes" party out of Reds renegades and a few of the Yellow and Black factions. They focus on stable governance and not rocking the boat. In the post-collapse they have fared better than the Reds, but without any great success.

The Yellow
The Yellow party is the home of academics and other liberals in the Hierarchy, including some of the new veteran-entrepreneurs. Their main objective is to extend suffrage more widely, either by repealing the ten year military service rule for owning land or by removing the requirement to hold land altogether. Their economic program focuses on giving workers more direct control over the industries that employ them. While in a more broad electorate the Yellow party could find considerable success, the inward-looking electorate has typically seen them as a ineffectual protest vote and not a serious political force.

The Black
The Black party is a single-issue party demanding more sovereignty for the planets and colonies left out of the Triumvirate selection, and more Federal power structures in general. They are very popular on Lox Matar and have a traditional base on Sydrax itself stemming from the countries that were conquered by the Hierarchy during planetary unification. However, they lack the outright numbers to effect real change, and indeed their voting base is often split by the Yellows.

The Green
The Greens consist of similar but with more strongly Yellow and landowning Red influences. Landowner Reds think the Romulan senate structure is very compatible with their own power base, and certain elements in the Yellow group believe the Romulans will enable greater development and advancement of the Sydraxian economy and people.

Collapse of the Red Hierarchy
Despite having held a tight grip on power for so long, the end of the established regime came with shocking abruptness. Catastrophic losses during the Gabriel Campaign, including the unmitigated failure to hold their territory in the face of RAdm Ainsworth's assault, cracked the powerbase just wide enough for the already simmering unrest to explode. The Reds were toppled, and in some instances violently purged. A number even went so far as to flee Sydraxian space to escape the abrupt collapse.

In their place, however, came much freer and broader elections, with a great variety of new factions and candidates. For the time being, power is now concentrated between the Graduates and Vanguard, but neither side is really able to get further than a plurality, with no one achieving a majority thus far.