Elections in the Modern Roman Empire

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

The Empire is fragile politically, with parties organized at the provincial level organized into voting blocks in the Imperial Senate based on three separate axes:  Latin/Greek, Republican/Democrat, and Liberal/Communal.

Latin/Greek is primarily a language based distinction between the western and eastern halves of the empire, with the Germanic and other peripheral provinces forming a swing block that keeps either side from gaining primacy.  Over the centuries other secondary distinctions have arisen to supplement the language based one.  The principal secondary distinctions at present concern whether imperial inheritance should trace through the female or not.  (Generally Latin=no ; Greek=yes; with a few radicals suggesting that Empresses should be allowed to rule in their own right).

Republicans favor a strong central imperial government while Democrats favor power being held at the local level. 

Liberals want to end state subsidies for bread and circuses so as to allow people to choose for themselves how to spend their denarii.  Communalists favor expanding them.  Liberals and Communalists also differ on the issue of slavery.  Liberals want to emancipate the slaves, now that the mechanization of agriculture and housekeeping has largely eliminated the need for them, while communalists argue that the slaves are not ready for freedom and thus need the continued subsidies to keep them alive and non-rebellious.  Neither party bothers to consider what the slaves might want.