The Indorian Congress

Despite the democratic connotations of 'Congress', the Indorian Congress is a distinctly oligarchical structure. Appointees to this governing bodies come mostly from the successor-organisations of the late-iron age, early-steam age Engineering Guilds of the past. Although they no longer operate as guilds, but instead modern regulatory authorities, they still retain much of the old pomp and circumstance. A hundred years ago, a great series of reforms by Anyod Mereidotti reduced the proportion of the Congress that came from Engineering Guilds from 100% to 70%. Further reforms made in the decade before Federation First Contact reduced this figure further still to 51%, the last great political capaign of Iskretta Poyinid. Instead, other bodies were brought into the form, representing economic, environmental, social, medical, and other regulatory concerns.