Confederacy of Vulcan

The Confederacy of Vulcan was the Vulcan state, and one of the founding Coalition member states. Prior to the Founding of the Coalition, the Confederacy was a major interstellar power and participated in a long-standing rivalry with the Andorian Empire.

Empire
The Confederacy of Vulcan was governed by the Vulcan Council, a group of just seven ministers, each responsible for a different ministry. Elections were held every ten years, with candidates selected logically on their merit for the job. Other governing bodies were the High Assembly and the Vulcan High Command, with the Vulcan High Command's Administrator functioning as head of government, governing with the approval of the Council. The head of government also took the title of Vulcan Administrator.

It was also known that their state was governed by an oligarchy of several prominent families on Vulcan, though this does not preclude non-members of the oligrachy from serving. ===Ministries ​ ===

The seven ministries of the Confederacy are:


 * Ministry of State


 * Ministry of Defense


 * Ministry of Security


 * Ministry of Trade


 * Ministry of Thought


 * Ministry of Science


 * Ministry of Health

Each was maintained various agencies to carry out it's functions.

In matters such as legislation and debate on important issues were handled by three different bodies. One such body is the Proposal Group which exists alongside the Rectification Group and the hr'Khash'te; also known as the Expunging Group. The Expunging Group exists only to remove or veto laws which provides an easy manner for change. The other two groups require a large majority to pass legislation with expunction requiring only one-fourth of the body's two thousand six members to remove a law.

The general idea of this would be that a good law should require a large consensus with bad laws being easy to stop and change. Though a very logic way to determine legislation, it can be exploitable depending on the many political groups that are in power on the Vulcan homeworld. Typically, debate is often a venue for discussion on the subject with a later vote on the Referendum itself. Normally, laws that are removed are done so quickly, however, a piece of legislation that widely affects Vulcan can take a week of discussions to take place. This would remain in effect until the viewers indicate that the time for debate is over and voting is made by the electorate. Votes can often be swayed by what is said in the debates themselves.

Territory

 * Vulcan
 * Kethri
 * T'Khut
 * P'Jem
 * Cor Caroli IX
 * Merak II
 * Har’mot
 * Mevet
 * Calanara