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Mobius, or officially the Mobian Confederation is an article that's currently under construction. Go away.

Government and politics
The politics of Mobius take place in a framework of a semi-constitutional monarchy, or as the constitutional spells it out, an "indivisible, secular, democratic, and social Monarchy". Political scientists to this day have a hard time classifying the nation's political system.

Monarchy
Mobius' head of state is officially its king. The current and so far its only king since the country's formation in 1976 is Myles. Unusually for a country with a strong democratic tradition, the monarch wields considerable authority which allows them to bypass the parliament by submitting referenda directly to the Mobian people or even outright dissolve parliament and force a new election. The monarch can also sign certain decrees, appoint civil servants and judges, ratify treaties, and act as commander-in-chief of the armed forces. The monarch is also unique in that they are elected directly with universal suffrage for life, though the candidacy pool is limited to direct descendants of the first monarch which further blurs the line between monarchy and republic.

Legislation
The Jesston State Hall is bicameral, with the House of Congress acting as the lower house and the House of Peers acting as the upper house. The monarch typically appoints the prime minister as head of government from the ranks of the parliament, although the constitution gives the monarch the power to appoint a non-parliamentarian as prime minister. This measure was added as a precaution against whatever bullshit legislator may try to pull. Legislators are given immunity for as long as they are in office, preventing them from being arrested or convicted of crimes during their tenure.

The House of Peers has the honour of being one of the last remaining aristocratic upper houses in the world as well as one of the few remaining democracies in Europe to have members of the clergy as amongst their members. These aforementioned clergy members, known as Peers Spiritual, serve no other purpose than to essentially make a mockery out of the state's secular nature. On the flip side, the Peers Temporal consist of members of the nobility and commoners who were given permission from the monarch to run for a seat in the House of Peers. This legislative house is elected by the regional upper houses who are allotted seven peers each, totaling to 133 Peers Temporal with the Peers Spiritual totaling to 10 members.

The voting system is compulsory, with those who fail to vote facing a moderate fine unless excused.

Parties
Mobius has a bunch of political parties, although not many of them get to have any major impact on the country's politics. This has been especially apparent ever since the late 1990s.

The Mobian Justice Party (MJP), the party of former Prime Minister Rosemary Prower, represents the moderate right-wing interests and is currently the official opposition. While the party was once a big-tent right-wing party, democratic party that supports capitalism with a welfare state while being socially conservative.

On the other end of the spectrum is the current ruling party, the People's Democratic Party (PDP). Despite its roots in the formerly fascist Social Alliance, the PDP is an outright centre-left party that holds a variety of ideologies from social democracy to progressive radical liberalism. Currently, the party is focusing on transitioning the economy to a social corporatist system similar to that in the Nordic countries while promoting the use of nuclear power.

On the further fringes are Yes We Can! (YWC), which strangely supports the continuation of the monarchy despite being a left-wing Titoist party, and the growing United Front (UF), a far-right populist, nationalist, climate science denying, and anti-immigrant group of reactionaries.

And then there's the supposedly market-liberal Mobian Liberal Democrats (MLD). While being very prominent in the early years of the nation, even briefly holding premiership, their popularity had dwindled to the point of being just another populist shitshow, though lately due to the United Front's rather strange views of the Russo-Ukraine conflict the more moderate supporters of the UF have begun to turn to the MLD. This party advocates for a much less regulated laissez-faire market in contrast to Mobius' current system of social market economy.