The Annyrion Colonist - Eisshari Coalition, or Coalition, is a political alliance comprising of the cites and regions located on Inaria continent on Annyrion, including Annyrion City and the adjoining Eisshari fortress-city of Eissharikatan, Kamikatan, Port Annakis, the Kamiyama Mountains, and the Perception Mountains historical preserve. The Coalition also holds claim to the minor planet Cyrinius.

The Coalition is a constitutional republic and representative democracy, in which majority rule is tempered by minority rights protected by law. The government is regulated by a system of checks and balances defined by the Coalition Charter, which serves as their supreme legal document.

There are three branches of government, functioning in either legislative, judicial, or executive capacities.

The Council is the legislative branch of the Coalition. Elected to serve three year terms, with no formal term limits, councilors represent the interests of the recoms who elected them.

The Supreme Court is the highest level of the judiciary in the Coalition, serving as the final arbiter of disputes originating at local and provincial levels. It also determines the constitutionality of laws passed by the Council. The justices serve lifetime appointments, subject to nomination by the Chancellor and vetting by the Council.

The Chancellor is the simple-majority-elected leader of the Coalition and serves as the civilian commander-in-chief of the Coalition's aerospace defense force and Peacekeepers. He is responsible for enforcing laws passed by the Council, and for nominating individuals to lead the various departments of the Coalition bureaucracy, such as the Minister of Intelligence and the three senior members of the Ministry of Defense who serve as the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

• Oceania - Treaties of mutual defense, extradition, and letters of diplomatic recognition.
• 253 Mathilde (New Philadelphia) - Treaties of mutual defense, extradition, and letters of diplomatic recognition.
• Mars - Letters of diplomatic recognition.
• Luna Colony - Treaties of mutual defense and letters of diplomatic recognition.
• Lopanga Confederacy - Treaties of planetary defense and letters of diplomatic recognition (the fact that Lopanga Confederacy employs known pirates, “reformed” or not, as key members of their space navy renders a mutual extradition treaty unlikely at this time).
• Space Defense Force - Joint Operations agreement, with regards to matters external to planet Annyrion and any other territories controlled by the Coalition.

The Coalition's Ministry of Defense is made up of two divisions, Peacekeeper Division and Fleet Division. As uniformed services representing the Coalition, their rank structures have been simplified, with similar insignia for similar paygrades across all the branches.

For purposes of joint forces operations, rank structures are equivalent and the rank insignia are intentionally designed to allow anyone from any branch to look and immediately know who the senior person in a situation is. One O4-grade officer from each branch is nominated by the Chancellor and vetted by the Council to serve as the three O5-grade Joint Chiefs of Staff, the senior member becoming its Chairman.

The Peacekeepers are the primary internal security branch of the Coalition, providing an unusually broad range of services including the following:

• Local-level law enforcement
• Search and rescue operations
• Customs and border protection

The elite “Emergency Services Unit” may be tasked with the above, but are usually reserved for:

• Hostage negotiation and rescue
• Capture of high-value targets
• Other uses of special weapons and tactics

The Peacekeepers serve under the leadership of the Peacekeeper Commandant, an O-5 officer nominated by the Chancellor and vetted by the Council. The Commandant is selected from the various O4-grade Peacekeeper personnel, and serves at the leisure of the Chancellor as a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

For jurisdictional purposes, the Coalition's territories are split into four main provinces, which are split up into 'precincts', as detailed below:

• Capital Region
  • Annyrion City
  • Eastside (East of Baraduin River)
  • Eissharikatan Flying Squad (handles offenses by non-Eisshari occurring within Eissharikatan).
  • Annyrion City Spaceport
• Kamiyama Mountains Province
  • Kamikatan
  • Lake Bernain and the Eastern peaks
  • Mrrkatan and Glacier Pass
• Perception Mountains (The largest province, primarily patrolled from the air due to its sheer size)
• Southern Coast Province
  • Coastal Crossing
  • Eden Resort
  • City of Port Annakis
  • The Boardwalk and Moana Lagoon
  • Port Annakis Harbour
  • West Annakis, including Tempest Lagoon
  • Annakian Highlands

On a historical note, the Peacekeepers are considered the “senior” service in the Coalition, pre-dating the actual founding of the Coalition itself. This seniority is purely honorary, and is, for example, used for determining precedent for branch flags flown during ceremonies and order of precedence for medals and ribbons awarded, in the event that awards have been bestowed from multiple branches.

Peacekeeper Division's rank structure is as follows:

*The Peacekeeper Commandant is a cabinet-level position, and is considered equivalent to the other O5-grade member serving on the MoD Joint Chiefs of Staff. The rank of Sergeant Major is unique, and is a single person who serves as the senior enlisted advisor to the Commandant.

The Coalition's aerospace defense forces, also referred to as 'Fleet Division', have two sub-branches, the Navy and the Marines.

The Navy is tasked with defense of Thinora System and its planets. It operates a number of spacecraft, from simple transatmospheric pinnaces up to the Shogun-class space dominance vehicle.

The Marines are responsible for interface operations, maintaining ship-based personnel trained in visit/board/search/seizure operations and combat insertion from orbit to surface.

Fleet Division can trace its roots back to the First Common Muster, when hastily-armed civilian ships banded together to defend the colony's interests from piracy and the threat of forced tribute paid to Sol System.

Fleet Division's rank structures are as follows:

Note that there is no rank of “Captain”. “Captain” is an honorific title, used to address anyone ranked lower than Admiral, who is in command of an individual ship, space station, or other installation.

*The ranks of Master Chief Petty Officer and Sergeant Major are unique to their respective branches of service, each a single person who serves as the senior enlisted advisor to his respective Chief of Staff.

Article: Spacecraft of the Coalition.

The Ministry of Intelligence is the primary information-gathering branch of the Coalition. For pay purposes, they have an equivalent pay scale identical to the Peacekeeper and Armed Forces scales, but no formal rank names. CE1-CE5, CW1, and CO1-CO5 are the equivalent paygrades to the military E1-E5, W1, and O1-O5 grades in the military. It will be the rare occasion that a Ministry operative of any grade will reveal himself to anyone, and break cover, for the purposes of “pulling rank”.

The Minster of Intelligence is the Ministry's CO5-grade official, is nominated by the Chancellor and vetted by the Council, and serves at the Chancellor's leisure. For seniority purposes, he is the equivalent of the Peacekeeper Commandant and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

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