Administrative divisions of Kleolaion

The  Administrative divisions of Kleolaion has four main layers: kingdom, region, counties and cities. Each has the ability to influence policies and laws in its own domain. Kleolaion has 4 kingdoms, 17 regions, # counties, and # cities.

After the Diakóptes-Ypostiriktés Act of 1872 and the creation of four kingdoms, Kleolaion transformed from a unitary state to a federacy state, with each kingdom having a varying degree of autonomy, with Magra considered to be the most autonomous. The Constitution of Kleolaion guarantees each kingdom a certain amount of autonomy; however, the kingdom of Iasassa has a special clause after the Kleolaikos-Kanakan war in 1972 where civil defence and army command are managed by Kleolaion instead of Iasassa.

Kingdoms
The kingdoms are the first level of government in Kleolaion, created in 1872 by the Diakóptes-Ypostiriktés Act, which was based loosely on major ethnicities. Each kingdom has its own and is run by its parliament, headed by a prime minister. Members of parliament from each kingdom are also members of parliament in the national parliament. Elections for kingdoms' parliament seats are handed out to parties based on the voting share they received during the election.

Regions
Regions are the second level of government and are made up of several counties. Each region is administrated by a magistrate appointed by the national parliament. Each magistrate serves a term of 6 years and up to 4 terms and has full nobility rights. The magistrate can set up agendas for counties within their region and solve issues between counties, the magistrate has the authority to also solve issues between cities, however, it is rarely exercised. Regions' borders are based on historical borders with slight modifications based on ethnicities and geographic features. There are several famous regions in Kleolaion

County
A county is the third level of government and is made up of several cities and/or Gis. Each county is headed by a council made up of mayors of cities and prefects of gis within the county. Counties receive agendas from the regional magistrates. A county often focuses on the growth of cities and gis within it, infrastructure and maintaining the utilities inside of it. There are county-level civil defences such as county police; however ultimate authority fall down to cities and gis police unless they are going against the magistrate.

City
A city in Kleolaion administration means an area which consists of towns and villages and is headed by a city which acts as the ultimate authority in the area and is the fourth level of government. City council authority extends to the area's towns and villages and must provide them with various services such as civil defence. Some cities allow villages and towns to have their own mayor and council and delegate some of the work locally.

KEZA cities
KEZA cities are a special type of city in Iasassa that was created after the initial signing of Kanakan Economic Zone Agreement to distinguish them from cities that were not included in the KEZA signing. However, since KEZA extended to the entirety of Kleolaion, KEZA cities took a different role tax rate wise, moreover, KEZA cities are known to accept the Ventoran standard as well as other neighbouring currencies alongside the Kleolaikos argyrokherion.

Gi
Gi (also known as Land) is an area which is not controlled by any city and it is equivalent in the administration level to a city and is governed by a prefect that is appointed by the magistrate and serves for 12 years each term up to two terms. A gi is often larger in area than a city.

Command
Commands are a special type of administrative division used only in times of war to coordinate the civil administrative side with military administration seamlessly as they are the same in the military side of things. Commands were created in the 1600s, with the integration of Iasassa, as it became increasingly difficult to protect Kleolaion because of the distance between east and west. There are three commands; Central, West and East.

History
Kleolaion's administrative division went through several changes ever since the creation of the Kleolaikos union, moving away from depending on the nobility and focusing on centralisation instead. Before the inception of the Kleolaikos union, the Kyriarchía states were heavily dependent (to varying degrees) on nobles, city-states and tributaries to exert influence through them. Eastern Kyriarchía states were heavily dependent on the nobility while the western Kyriarchía states were depending more on tributaries and city-states.

Kleolaikos union
The early period of the Kleolaikos union did not have a unified method of administration as the west and east were very different in how they handled their subjects. As such, the union faced multiple problems with intersubject relationships and obligations.

During the late period of the Kleolaikos union, the three kingdoms started to centralise their power, weakening nobles and city-states alike by appointing prefects and magistrates to handle almost all of the administration of the territory. Moreover, internal borders were redrawn and reorganised for administrative purposes which left many nobles and cities disgruntled and helped contribute to the fall of the union, such as the Sátha Ústi Independence war.

Kleolaion kingdom
With the establishment of the Kingdom of Kleolaion, there was more emphasis on depending on large and powerful vassals, however, the royal family still maintained a large family estate, army and control. With time Kleolaion shifted power from landed nobles to titled nobles, and by 1797, there were no longer any landed nobles; this helped with administrative reorganisation and redrawing borders to regions which are used until this day.