Good afternoon, gents'.
May I present: The Confederated Royal Charters of Brazil; founded, administered by and profitable for the Royal Charter of The Brazilian Viceroyalty. The Royal Charter Corporation, the latest manifestation of the Royal Charter, is answerable to the one and only, Pedro the IV - who knows better than too actually use his Royal Powers. Nonetheless, he is a much beloved and cherished figure.
Legislative is broken down into a proportional representative 'lower' house in which representatives are chosen in a direct election every two years and an 'upper' house in which delegates are chosen by a select group of individuals every six years. That 'select group' is composed of various state charter managers, corporate Charter elected representatives, judges and of course: Pedro IV himself. This whole process is a tad anti-democratic, more republican if not an outright oligarchy, but it works.
The judiciary branch, which resembles most other conceptualized judiciary branches other than a few eccentric changes, explained later, carries out the common law of Brazil with objective and supreme oversight. The most important part being the actual Corporate Charter itself, the foundation of the central (i.e. Corporate or federal) government. The Charter sets out the boundaries of federal law, which consists of constitutional acts of both Houses of the legislative branch (Congress), constitutional treaties, regulations, and case law originating from the federal judiciary.
The Charter of the federal government (as opposed to the individual charters of each state, which are now closer to a mandate from The Charter) is relatively modest in scope, but deep in execution. As a result, most Confederation law (especially the actual "living law" experienced by the majority of citizens on a day-to-day basis) consists primarily of state law, which can and does vary greatly from one state to the next. Though at both the corporate and state levels, the rule of law is originally and largely derived from the common law system of English law.
Promoting above all else, "life, liberty and property," the Charter gleefully plagiarizes from John Locke but doesn't feel the need to switch out 'property' for "pursuit of happiness." However, Corporate law has diverged greatly from its English ancestor both in terms of substance and procedure, and has incorporated a number of civil law innovations. The individual states are plenary sovereigns, while the corporate sovereign possesses only the limited supreme authority enumerated in the Charter.
Religion is decidedly less interesting, with a fairly Catholic and devote nation enjoying their freedom of assembly, religion and a government that doesn't have the necessary scope to matter. There is hardly any sense of 'Cultural Wars' which pervades most of the contemporary [RL] Western world. There is a wide and vocal consensus that religion matters, yet is not dominating. There is a sense of religious orthodoxy inside the country, with parishes with the most Church-aligned doctrine receiving more casual, unofficial aid. In the form of both higher attendance and more extreme, fundamentalist or reformist, churches suddenly finding their lights off, their water stopped, and permits revoked.
Demographically, The Confederated Royal Charters of Brazil's National Research for Sample of Domiciles (PNAD) census revealed the following: 76.4% of the population is White; 22.3% are Pardo (brown); 3.4% are Black; 0.1% is Asian. Most Brazilians can trace their ancestry to the country's indigenous peoples, Portuguese colonists, and African slaves. Since 1500, with the arrival of the Portuguese, miscegenation between these three groups took place. Over the three centuries of Portuguese and later Royal Charter rule some two million Portuguese have migrated to the bustling coastal cities.
A final note on the nomenclature of the country. Individual state 'charters' were initially of the significance of the current 'central Charter' however with the final governance meeting following the abdication of Pedro II from direct rule of the country - the state charters submitted to new federal/corporate/central Charter. The state constitutions are invariably referred to either as charter (with a lower case 'r'), a mandate (viz, from the central Charter) or merely a state's supreme law.
A final, final note. The Executive Branch is technically 'only' King Pedro Carlos of Orléans-Braganza, in actuality the actual execution of laws by the Congress (as well as regulations originating from the Executive Branch) is conducted by a 15 member committee of corporate leaders. Who are selected by 'shareholders,' which are a combination of public leaders, Brazilian cultural luminaries, hereditary and a few meritocratic appointments. They serve for life and are nominated at a stockholder meeting in Rio, only for 'preferred stockholders,' and the actual voting takes place with Common A shares (and up, obviously). This bears no similarities, except in political theory, to the nominal convention that takes place a few months (depending on the state) before the next session of the Upper House to nominate/vote on the Senators which inhabit those houses. This is more of mixture of elected officials, and corporate appointees.
Addition: The current king, born Pedro Carlos of Orléans-Braganza, is not to be confused with Pedro II (sometimes referred to by foriegn globalists as Pedro IV).
