Sarpor's conversion to a republic

Political event

The young Republic arose not twenty years ago through a nearly bloodless revolution. Upon his father’s death, the final emperor Vothis II Rakkad issued a decree that would, nominally at least, curtail his power and distribute it between elected representatives from each city and town. Each has influence proportional to the approximate number of citizens they represent. It has not escaped international notice that the chosen representatives are wealthy, usually noble, and often indebted to the emperor, or that this development came after massive pressure for more local power in the reaches of the Empire; nevertheless, Vothis succeeded in calming the protests without actually sacrificing much of his influence.