Aegis of Aeidi

Unfortunately even now relatively little is known about the inner-workings of the Aegis of Aeidi. What is known is that there is no democratic mechanism. Rather there is an immense civil service called the Aegis, that operates intrusively into the lives of the citizens. The economy is centrally planned, with little independent authority allowed away from the Aegis. Combined with the innate telepathy of the Konen citizen, and almost everything known about the Konen government from those outside is what can be gleaned from SIGINT. Here there is some small relief - with their focus on telepathy, the Konen do lag in terms of communications security, and their networks have often been the vector for those who would listen in on the Ashalla Pact.

One major discovery was that no level of the Aegis operates with a single decision-maker. Everywhere there are councils great and small, panels, tables, committees, and anything else similar. With the ability for leaders to tell when a subordinate is plotting to assassinate them, and the ability of subordinates to know when leaders find out, Konen society had to learn ways to sidestep strong-man autocracy. They found it in the councils of their civil service. The politics are impossible to follow, but it removes the incentive to try to earn promotion by bumping off the leader.