Current State of the Government

• Dominant Party: Marxist Party
  • President: Amelia Granger
  • Vice President: Rowen Edwards-Carrera
• Minority I Party: Democratic Socialist Party
  • President: Jennifer Ingram-Paz
  • Vice President: Ernesto Cook
• Minority II Party: Stacramite Peace Party
  • President: Juan Reynolds
  • Vice President: Sarita Torrente-Sandoval
• Minority III Party: Social Democratic Party
  • President: Julián Beck
  • Vice President: Viktor Dahl
• Minority IV Party: Marxist-Leninist Party
  • President: Xènia Capote-Silva
  • Vice President: Thomas Higgins
• Minority V Party: Stacramite Vengeance Party
  • President: Bailey Perron-Paul
  • Vice President: Sergio Knight

How Stacramon's Elections and Federal Government Work

Elections

• Stacramon holds two different types of elections: Partisan Elections and Representative Elections. Both of these elections are held every year, and Partisan Elections are held first.
• Partisan Elections facilitate the election of active political parties.
  • Active political parties are political parties which get representation in Stacramite Parliament. There can be six at any given time.
  • Any number of political parties can run for any given election, but only the six with the most votes will become active parties.
    • If there is a gap of 2,000 votes or less between the 6th place party and any other party within 2,000 votes OR between the 1st place party and any other party, there will be a run-off election where every citizen of Stacramon gets to vote between the given parties.
  • After the Partisan Election and any subsequent run-offs, the top six parties will be deemed active parties. The party that got the most votes will be deemed the Dominant Party, and every other active party will be deemed the Minority I, Minority II, Minority III, Minority IV, and Minority V parties in order of how many votes they received.
• Representative Elections facilitate the election of specific representatives belonging to an active party.
  • After being elected, each active party has to elect who will represent them in Parliament for the year (the number of representatives will be discussed in the Government section).
  • Each active party also must elect a President and Vice President for the year.
  • Every citizen will be allowed to vote on candidates from the party that they voted for in the original Partisan Election (not counting run-offs), but they cannot vote for a candidate for any other party.
    • The Representative Election utilizes ranked-choice voting, meaning that if each person's top-choice candidate does not receive enough votes to qualify as a representative, their vote will go to their next choice. Each citizen get to pick as many as ten candidates ranked in order of preference, or as few as one.
    • The candidate that gets the most votes among citizens who voted for their party will become their party's President, the one who gets the second-most will become Vice President, and the rest of the representative seats will be filled in order of the candidates that got the most votes.
  • If there is a small gap between the 1st place candidate of any party and any other candidate OR between the candidate with enough votes to fill the last seat and any other candidate with less votes, run-off elections will be held involving every voter eligible for the party's original Representative Election.
    • The size the gap has to be to facilitate a run-off is voted on by every candidate in each party prior to the original Representative Election, and can be anywhere from 50 votes to 5000 votes. Usually how big the gap has to be to facilitate a run-off is primarily determined by how many eligible voters there are more than anything.

Government

• There are six major political parties in Stacramon active at any given time. 
• Each active political party gets the following number of representatives (subject to change in event of population increase):
  • Dominant Party: 20
  • Minority I Party: 18
  • Minority II Party: 15
  • Minority III Party: 14
  • Minority IV Party: 13
  • Minority V Party: 10
  • Total Members: 90
• Parliament votes on all legislative matters.
  • Any legislation must receive 65% support from Parliament to pass. If any piece of legislation gets between 50 and 64% support, however, it must be voted on again in one year's time. This will continue to be the case for the same piece of legislation annually until it either passes or receives less than 50% of the vote, in which case it would need to be proposed again to be voted on.
• Representatives' votes can count differently depending on their party and position. The following is how many votes each type of representative gets when voting on any piece of legislation,
  • All Normal Representatives (not VP or P of a party): 1 Vote
  • Minority V Party Vice President: 1.5 Votes
  • Minority V Party President: 2 Votes
  • Minority IV-II Parties Vice Presidents: 2 Votes
  • Minority IV-II Parties Presidents: 3 Votes
  • Minority I Party Vice President: 3 Votes
  • Minority I Party President: 3.5 Votes
  • Dominant Party Vice President: 4 Votes
  • Dominant Party President: 5 Votes
• The Dominant Party President, in effect, is the most powerful politician in the country, and as such usually acts as chief diplomat and commander-in-chief of the military. Second-in-command for those positions is the D.P. Vice President, then the Minority I Party President, then the Minority I Party Vice President, and so on.