Internal structure of the Commonwealth

(This is the secular structure not Þyóðgurrunðinornir hierarchy)

Commonwealth of Álfarsland is a strongly-decentralized country made up by many autonomous state figure called 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 economy, 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 supreme 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 believes 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 Reykyavíð 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
Adurra here Foundation of the Commonwealth

Meeting together at the rabble of the Old Republic's capital, the high priestess Ýlkalverra (wife and successor of the assassinated high priest Vörluarður who was the actual spiritual leader of the revolt) and pagan rebellion leaders discussed how the ruined country should be reorganized and rebuilt. The proplem was that the rebellion army was created by different armies from different regions, commanded by local commanders. As a result, after the war they demanded the prize for their contribution to the Paganization. Ýlkalverra had no other good choice than accepted to give those warlords rights to rule over their land independently. She was going to rule the land of Vestiland and Bergbjórsteinn herself and the Commonwealth was formed.

Þyóðgurrunðinornar
Þórdórýgerður - Þyóðlegurnorn of Álfarsland - abandoned her own people when she felt her power was hampered by the church and the Republic state, as she believed she should make her nation unstable by stop give offer to [[Ýarhalda|, which will led to her people stand up against the church and the government themselves. 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 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 foundstream adminstrative titles 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 (which is very rare since when a common law of the Commonwealth is written it needs the acceptance of all of the Electorate), 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 and 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 formed for the purpose of management of a Electorates, the internal division of an Electorate.

Appearently not having favors like Electorates and Álfarsland, counties isn't ruled by a proper Alþingikar. Instead they are under a local council, whose member comes from self-managing houses of villages, halda, small tribes, towns, cities within those counties, with a member being voted to be a "minor lawspeaker". Counties have to follow their ward's law of obligation, rule with more restricted autonomy but still have good enough rights of control over their internal system, as they still honor their obligation over their leading state and do not go the opposite way of any of established law from their heading government. The head of a county is a governor, a minor lawspeaker, chosen by its Electorate's Alþingikar among the Alþingikar's members.

They lay the fundamental concept 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 policies to promote and keep them.

Stórnýlendu have considerable granted self-management rights on colonial settler expansion, exploration, trade with natives, religious mission and economy development. Those colonial regions also keeping an colonial army for many mission such as deal with natives or protect their border. 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 common folks. 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. To some extent, they are large centers of village which used to be villages but favored by luck.

Halda
An area of land which are managed and adminstrated by a family, a group of people or individual. It could be land granted by the Alþingikar for a certain people or organization, ogrinally existed or were bought and built on. Owners of the granted land must follow the Alþingikar's direction if there is but if there is no or they bought it 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.

Tribe
Tribes are village-like settlements but larger and hold pretty better infrastructure and contain large community. Tribal society function like a tiny but considerably self-sufficient system with it owns facilities that can serve for most of its people needs and development. To some extent they do let their hand in trade and industrial production as well as cultural and religious service. They have their own militias, often a ruling family with a party of other people supporting them, significantly number of secular and religious offices, law-executing system and capability of developing their own society and economy more independently. In cases a large tribe is the center of certain regions and surrounding villages cooperate with them so that they are like a small tribalism realm.

Þlorpeyrið
Village, where most basic produces are first created. 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 and locally 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.

Alþingikar structure
Each village, tribe, certain classified halda or cities 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 mostly 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 locally decision and handle adminstration task.

Those council sent an numbers of councilors to be a member of the county council, then the county councilors will choose a member to be the county's governor. Those governors tied to the county council but have some issued right. The council and the governmet judge and act base on the settled law on the counties by their Alþingikar but have a level of freedom to rule over the land; help their Alþingikar to control their territory.

The common Álfar have more control toward who should and should not be a part of their electorate's Alþingikar. They choose them by write their name in a piece of paper/wood before place them inside a box. During a public meeting, under many witnesses an Álfur will count the number of votes for each candidate.

The councils often gather once a year (it depends on the Electorate's law). Their affair is based on the above method of voting. An Electorate's Alþingikar has two parts:

-Every single person who is 16 or above will be able to vote for a person to become a long-term member every 8 years. People with the most votes will become the Alþingikar's members fo the good next 8 years until a new election is held. There is no requirement of education or status. Enough people vote means being accepted. Foreigner and criminal don't have this right.

-Contemporary members are chosen randomly from the common people and can only joined once in one of the annual conventions. They still can vote for things that was issued in that convention along with long-term members and their vote still be counted. This could be a decisive force in the Alþingikar and is meant to prevent the long-term members from abusing their position.

The number of seats inside the Alþingikar depends on the number of settlements and their size. For a small village, a seat will be added. Bigger villages stand for 2 seats each. Big cities often has up to 50 seats each.

For every 4 years a member of the Alþingikar will be trusted and voted by other members of Alþingikar to be the finally for every 8 years among the Newly Lawspeaker(esse)s there is one who shall become the High Lawspeaker of the Commonwealth, the highest honor title of the entire Álfar. It is possible that the old High Lawspeaker(ess) can be continue to keep their poisition even if they are no more the Lawspeaker of their Electorate if people wish so. The High Lawspeker is the head of the high Alþingikar, which gather once every four years, consist of many Electorate's Alþingikar and, debate the law as well the affair of the entire Commonwealth. Under some circumstances summoning of the High Alþingikar could be instantly done.