1. The State: 1 France, composed of Metropole (European part) & Outre-Mer (territories in North America, Carraibes, South-America, Africa, Antarctica & Pacific)
2. Région: France, as of 2016 has 13 official Regions. Corse is considered in France as both a Region and Special-status territory such as Martinique, Guyane & Mayotte
3. Département: Each Région is divided in Departments. In the Metropole, they all have a double digits code ranging from 01 to 95. Corse having a special status is 2A or 2B. Overseas have a 3 digit code. Since 2021, Alsace was granted a special "semi-regional" status between its two departments, the 67 & 68. PARIS IS CONSIDERED IN FRANCE AS BOTH A CITY AND DEPARTEMENT
4. Canton, EPTs, Métropoles, Urban Areas: That one is kinda confusing, but long story short it's a union of several cities around a big one, for economic & cultural reasons. They don't have any political power though.
5. Communes: Commonly known as Ville (City). Paris is considered in france as both a city and departement where its arrondissments serve as different mini-cities. Each Parisian arrondissements have quartiers.
6. Quartier: A part of the city.
How does your country work?
Federal->provincial(3 territories)->municipal
1. Bund/Federation
2. States
3. Districts (only some states have them and they no parliment or admanstrative unit)
4. County
5. Community
EU
State
Regions ( 20 I think, 4 of them with special statute)
Provinces
Metropolitan areas ( bullshit recently created)
Municipalities
Circoscrizione (=costituency?)
1 enclave
2 exclaves
>Guyane française
Only foreigners say that.
Real badboy from the 93
President
(popularly elected for years, appoints Council of Minister and some personal, per constitution the President can be compared to thastof Franc or Russia, de facto however the Chancellor is the main guy)
Council of Ministers
(headed by the Chancellor, makes laws etc.)
Parliament
(split into the elected National Council, wwhich is more powerful and unelected Federal Council representing states in theory, but is just used to put old politicians into or buy favours)
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Provinces
(technically a Federal state, but de facto semi-federal wwith little statepower)
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Districts
(doing administrative stuff like passports)
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Municipalities/Communities
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Areas
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There are a few special cases however, such as Statuary Towns, which are towns that arent part ofa district but have district rights (print and issue passports and whatever)
Thenthere´s Vienna which is of course a city, it is also a Statuatry City as mentioned above, giving it district righs, furthermore it is also a Province.
>Outre-Mer (territories in North America, Carraibes, South-America, Africa, Antarctica & Pacific)
And Indian Ocean.
also prefectures
popularly elected for 6 years*
Also in municipalities mayors are either directly elected, or elected by the Town Council, depends on the province
so is the President in power or the chancellor like your northern neighbor?
de jure: the President
de facto: the Chancellor
Oh shit I've no idea how to articulate this.
>4 Kingdoms
>Hundreds of counties
>Some counties are divided into boroughs, some aren't
>Some counties are merged into city mayor regions
>There are two London's who both do their own thing
>Large parts of the country are owned by the crown which again sort of get to do their own thing irrespective of county
>Two counties are still feudal duchies which do their own thing
>Most of the crown dependencies are democracies, except one still runs a medieval feudal system which no one has bothered to change
>Nothing is written down, everything is run on the idea that it's just how we've always done it so we'll keep doing it
It's a shitshow and a half for sure.
still, the President wields a lot ofpower entrusted with the Constitution, as such h ecould dissolve Parliament and dismiss the Government, and in a few months there are Presidential elections, and almost all parliamentary parties agreed to support theincumbent President, fearing of losing as allof them are unpopular.
In fact 6 literal who candidates got the neeeded sigantures already, before incumbent Alexander VdB, and his main opponent, Rosenkranz
there's no hierachy order?!
There probably is but I've no idea what it is. I live in one of the two duchies and it's a mess who can do what, case in point -
We're trying to build a football stadium on land which is owned by the crown. The crown said yes, but the duchy said no. Some work was done but now it has stalled and no one seems to know what's going on.
also, this election has more candidates than ever before
The austrian president has much the same power as the german preisdent. The diffrence is that the german president traditonally doesn't use that power and is not directly elected.
>>Two counties are still feudal duchies which do their own thing
Which ones and how do I acquire membership ?
Cornwall and Leister.
Cornwall because of some old treaty that predates the unification of England, Leister because of a civil war in the 15th century. There used to be many more but they've all been abolished. There is no membership sadly, it's just the county council likes to think it's a semi independent kingdom even though it's not.
here he doesnt use it either.
Our Presidentis directly elected and still appoints the Chancellor and his cabinet, which in germany i think the parliament does both?
What good even is the german president
Country:
State:
county:
township:
City/town
There are also unincorporated areas and census designated spots for very rural areas
I just wanted a retirement plan in an ancien régime style comfy place :(
The german chancellor and his cabinet are suggested by the president and the parlament only approves them but in reality the president would only ever suggest someone who has a majority in the parlament. The channelor also only takes office officaly after he has been handed a document by the president that tells him he's now the channelor.
>What good even is the german president
He says hello to people and hold speeches.
He can also refuse to sign laws that he thinks are unconstitutional.
He and his wife are also in charge of a bunch of charities but she doesn't get paid for that and that's why the wife of the german president is often called the federal housewife.
I'm afraid while lot of how our country works is a bodged medieval system it's so convoluted and well hidden that you'll never notice.
Then again if you like ancient where I am in Cornwall there is a 2500 year old iron age village where you can sit in the roundhouses and get drunk in. It's a magical experience
>He can also refuse to sign laws that he thinks are unconstitutional.
same, almost never used though.
all in all the german president is useless and may aswell just be done by parliament entirely
Couldn't he just go to Sark or did the guy that owns the Guardian finally manage to buy everyone off there