Internal structure of the Commonwealth

(This is the secular structure not Þyóðgurrunðinornir hierarchy)

Commonwealth of Álfarsland is a strongly-decentralized country made up by sixty-four autonomous electorates. Electorates are granted many rights by the High Lawspeakers of the Commonwealth that strengthen their independency legitimately despite their titular of being the lesser states inside a country. It is said that an electorate can have every single features of an actual country with its own currency, measurement, army, law, obligation, convention and affair. The people of the electorate shall decide and establish their own issues without involvement from other electorates and the High Electorate unless it's necessary to do so. With the fear of tyrannies, the Álfar don't proclaim a law-writter for them. This is the secular representation of Þórdórýgerður, the Þyóðlegurnorn of Álfarsland, distribution her influence over territory of Álfarsland for other petty Nornir.

Þórdórýgerður thought that this division would be good for Álfar at the scale of the entireness. As this shall cause envy or collaborate on production, development and strength between different Electorates or different Álfar factions, or their Nornir, which in both case do good because it cause them to be more potent within the sense of rivalry or help them, within the sense of collaborate. And high right of self-standing, even at the relation with other electorates, instead of being directly controlled by a central government, should heighten the power of each Electorate that was granted it. This division will make each Electorate strugglely learn and get stronger from that.

Treaty of Skógar and the Foundation of the Commonwealth
When the bloodshed that plague the Álfar for over three terrible years, a series of rebellions pushed it into the deephole of religious intolerance and civil war, caused by the depression and disappoitment which makes the Þyóðlegurnorn to become futility and she was so terrible that abandoned her responsibility and caused the power of nature go out of control and stability dropped, drawn to an end.

Secularly
More in Foundation of the Commonwealth

The first gathering after the civil war, known as the first Alþingikar. During five days, participants discussed, added and adjusted the proposals on how Álfarsland should be reorganized. After many argurment and established agreement, the sixth day's morning the Declaration of the Foundation of the Commonwealth was proclaimed. With the following terms:


 * 1) Commonwealth of the Álfar Electorates will be formed.
 * 2) Sixty-four leaders would be granted land and great autonomous control over their land, having their own views and ways in economy, law, military, politic, navy, development and society. Those governmental entity are, under no other entity but the High Alþingikar.
 * 3) Other lesser leaders would have land in sphere of influence of the Electorates (if their land happened to be so), in that case, they have to follow their Electorate's predefined law of obligation as well as views and ways on defined aspects that were issued for the Electorates to take on.
 * 4) The central government of Álfarsland is the High Alþingikar. The High Alþingikar serves as the representation of entire Commonwealth, central body that stand for the entire Álfarkind. It's the Electorates's obligation to serve the High Alþingikar, following the High Alþingikar's lead to support and protect the Álfar, when needed.
 * 5) Every 8 years the Lawspeakers (praised-leaders of the Electorates) elect a woman or man among them to become the High Lawspeaker. The High Lawspeaker will be the common voice of sixty-four electorates of the Álfar, has the respected right and influence to call for the help of Electorates when the independency of the Álfar is threatened or when the true faith of the Álfar is needing protection.

Þyóðgurrunðinornar
Þórdórýgerður - Þyóðlegurnorn of Álfarsland - abandoned her own people because of the desperation on seeing her power was hampered by the outfaith church and government. Without words and advice of a country Norn, natural force and lesser Norn sunk themselves in the state of forsaken, lead to the collapse of the Old Republic nation-management machine. Þórdórýgerður realized her significance in keeping her country stable and returned to restore the order, with the help of other lesser Nornir. However, the Old Republic's power and the unification of the country was totally ruined. When the Þyóðlegurnorn finally came back to her chair, she had to give more right for her lesser Nornir, let they have more influence upon their smaller realms. And only by this way Þórdórýgerður can remanage her country. It's also supposed that it should make Álfarsland grow stronger and faster. Álfarsland could be poor in nature, but with right way to follow it still can be powerful. By her deed of giving out power to other Nornir, the basis of the Commonwealth was formed. Eeee.

(After this it will only about the secular structure not Þyóðgurrunðinornir hierarchy)

Electorate
Main writing: Electorates

Electorates are basic adminstrative units of the Commonwealth. Together they formed the concept of economy and society for the Álfar. Diplomatic relations between Electorates create the foundstream of Commonwealth's politic.

Electorates have excellent autonomous rights. They have their own hand in economy, military, law system, culture, society and policy. Unless it's written and proclaimed by the High Alþingikar, those have freedom over how their affairs should be looked and dealt. It is each Electorate's duty to correspond to the call of the High Alþingikar when needed, and the High Alþingikar shall called the Electorates when the independence and future of Álfarsland is on its own voice.

While the High Alþingikar holds significant influence on foreign diplomatic policy, based on the favor of Electorates, the Electorates independently handle relations with other Electorates; and not-Álfar nations under the guidance of the High Alþingikar. Relations between Electorates vary from war, rivalry to trade league and naval alliance. Harassment over the weaker will attract attention from High Alþingikar (and other Electorates).

High state
Alþingheimr is the only high state.

High state is where the High Alþingikar locates. The High Alþingikar is the presentative of the Álfarsland, organized from the Alþingikar of the Electorates. High Alþingikar doesn't belonging to any Electorates, small or strong. Therefore the High state isn't directly controlled by any Electorate, even the Electorate of the High Lawspeaker(ess) - the highest chair of the tree. The great assembly gathers at the ground at the center of the land of Alþingheimr. The land it self isn't owned by anyone. Nearby the city of Alþingsheimr settled down, ruled by the local council, have the right to participate the High Alþingikar same as other Electorates.

County
Main writing: Counties

County are the basic adminstratetive units of a Electorates, the internal division of an Electorate.

Appearently not having favors like Electorates and Álfarsland, counties isn't ruled by a Alþingikar. Instead they are under a local council, whose member comes from self-managing houses of villages, small tribes, towns, cities within those counties. They have to follow their ward's law and obligation rather than create it themself, making themselves through restricted autonomy. The head of a county is a governor, a minor lawspeaker, elected among the local councilors.

They form the basis of territory-management system of a Electorate, a County's council is in charge of keeping the law, maintain roads and bridges, construct requested facilities, training army and contribute to their Electorate's large army when it's time. Among the counties of an Electorate, there is always the wealthiest capital-county and occasionally a few of surrounding counties which is directly controlled by that Electorate's Alþingikar.

Stórnýlendu
Main writing: Stórnýlendu

Stórnýlendu are the basic territory units of an Electorate over its oversea lands, outside of the island of Álfarsland, mostly in the new continent of Nýja Graenland, consist of many Nýlendahafnir. Bend to an unique and different geography, economy and society affair, mostly their Electorate have a different set of laws and policies on them.

Stórnýlendu have considerable granted self-management rights on colonial settler expansion, exploration, trade with natives, religious mission and economy development. They, on themselves, executing and keeping the law at the oversea lands, making local decision and policy. They get investment from the mainland and their settlements shall be added as a part of the Alþingikar.

Nýlendahafn
Main writing: Nýlendahafn

Nýlendahafnir are lands that is divided within Stórnýlendu to manage men and women. They take ordered from their Stórnýlendu; oversee progression and situation within their sphere of influence. Share the government positioning with the counties, they are governed by a local council made up by members from self-managing house of settlements. Those are created arround a central colonial settlement, commonly near the coast or a river as the stand for the most important trade post, with villages, mines and woods, farms and plantations surrround it. They are known as the marks of colonial expansion pace, as when a new Nýlendahafn is formed and started to be built, the territory of Álfarsland is expanded. Each Nýlendahafn possesses a colonial army to protect themselves from the agressive natives as well as outside-Álfar's colonies. It's the truth that Electorates and Stórnýlendu have to send their own army to help a newborn Nýlendahafn, spend a huge amount of wealth and supply to support them before getting any real benefit.

Hopúrfýrkírte
A group of counties with a special bonds tie them together. Could be a number of counties ruled by one council, a trade and protective league between cities, a union between tribals. Head of a Hopúrfýrkírte performs the obligations and responsibility over counties that they adminstrate for their Electorate instead of each County doing it on itself.

Borgar
Cities - the grand settlement with large number of habitants. The main commonhouses of workforce; the concentrations of wealth and coin; centers of defense and military, the home of production and crafting, they play a important role in wealth-generating and the growing of man. Cities attract larger interest by the heads of state, being developed and focused on by the councils.

From surrounding villages or lesser cities, goods and stocks flow to the cities, where some of them are processed by the specially taught men and women; The merchants, making wealth by exchanging, distribute them for the folk; Ship and labors comes from every corner for the opportunities; people always find everything they need, in the greater cities they can find anything they want. All of the convenience, material and spritual needs gather together at those points in the map.

Laid near rivers as a water supply for life and semi-important ways of transporting; or laid on the coast create an advantage for trading and moving. Cities are capable of hold on large population. It's based on the three creation: growing and feeding creates the foods and the raw, production creates the necessities and luxuries for people. Trade creates wealth. The nature of cities are that they can house large number of men and women but at the same time but they also complicate the concerns of Álfar, as there are so many men and women would make the relations between them less close, everyone know about together less.

Halda
The large area of land, where peasants farming and growing, plants and animals for food and goods; or where trees are looked after then cut for woods; or where skilled man and women create the useful and well-looked craft; or where everypeople forgather to buy and sell, meet and talk, where weapons and wargears are stored and men get ready to fight, where ships were built and dock, things are stored, or where a group of Álfar share the same interest. Halda are often granted by the Alþingikar for a certain people or organization or were bought. Owners of the granted land must follow the Alþingikar's direction if there is but if it bought they only have to pay land tax and comply the regular established laws.

-Temple: the central ground where religious structures stand, surrounded by farmland and productive constructions that servre as the income sources for the temple. The temple handed them to Álfar peasants and crafters so that they can based their living on it if they agree to pay a portion of their product to the temple and work for them to do in a certain day of week.

-Spekník: areas of land that the council give to an appropriate man or woman, or a group of men and women. As a return, they have to watch them and make sure coins from land are paid enough. They maintain public facilities like wall, road or bridge within their spekník, guarantee order and stability, prevent law-cheating, manage and improving argicultual parts of land. They often consist of a village, land for crops and cattles, the spekníkarður's residence and certain surrounding features like river, road, hill, marketground, mountain or woods.

Trade post: or market are built and sustained by trade leagues, cities or Electorates.

Fort: Lay at strategically or economically essential points, that men garrison inside can protect and control the area from being harmed by various threats, patrol and watching, training and resting. The forts are make sure to be uncapturable by surrounding structure and defensive weapons.

Many other less seen constructions.

Þlorpeyrið
Village or large farm, where the basic needs of men are first taken and modified. Second most ordinary (most is in cities) men and women live and work in those place. Many families settle down in the þlorpeyrið, each has a small area of land to growing grain and plants, a common land in the center that families let their cattles grazing, a shrine, a commonhouse, secondary roles like inn, mill, smith, etcentrad. In case of the large farm own by a family: the landlord's longhouse.

Village daily affairs are handled by the villages councils with prominent members are wise men and women from the village. The villagers directly pay and do their obligation with the state directly, while the farmers in the owned farms pay a part of their grown to the owners and keep the rest. Compare to cities or halda, þlorpeyrið have less reaching to convenience and material needs, they have to trade with occasionally pass by travelling merchants or make a trip to nearby cities for well crafted and processed goods in demands. Their societies, distinct from cities, are small groups of common folks who work and live together, therefore sow the seeds of close relation and helpful attitude toward each other, which is turn out to be good.

Alþingikar structure
Each village, certain classified halda or city is handled by a minor council, whose members are trusted to be worthy by people within the same settlement. In cities since the popultion is large they are voted properly during the public meetings; while in villages they are appointed by words of the villagers or being elders; in temple they are prestigious priestesses, on standard. Those councils are in charge of making very lesser decision, represent the Alþingikar on keeping and realising the law and handle adminstration quest