Majles-e Suren

This article is for the parliament of Suren. For other similarly-named entities, see Majlis (disambiguation).

The wholly appointed legislature of the Suren Confederacy. Operates solely at the pleasure and sufferance of the Surenšāh.

By longstanding convention, all acts of the Majles-e Suren are passed unanimously.

Sessions of the Majles are recorded by...

Sessions of the Majlis held during the reign of the Surenšāh Dāryuš of the Suren, Son of the Lord Shahrukh, Blessings of Zurvan Upon their Eternal Names

1^st Session (1687–1690)

This session was declared to be accursed. Its members and its records have been expunged from the historical memory. The deeds that occurred in this time are not to be spoken of under the most severe penalty of familial extermination.

2^nd Session (1690–1694 AN)

This session was notable for voting monies necessary for the waging of the conflict against Zeed and for the introduction of the one-party N&H system into the Confederation.

• 1690 Special Enabling Act
• 1690 Raspur Pact (Visiting Forces) Act
• 1690 Succession Act
• 1690 Amnesty Act
• 1690 Royal Household Reorganisation Act
• 1690 Royal Pensions Act
• 1690 Capitulations Act
• 1690 Honourable Company (Extraterritoriality) Act
• 1690 Coordinated State Act
• 1691 Act for the Preservation of Babkhan Ancestry
• 1691 Act for the Human Supremacy
• 1691 Act for the Preservation of Ancestral Lineages
• 1692 Act for the Definition and Regulation of Loyal Subjects
• 1692 Ancestral Lineage (Health Inspection Authority) Act
• 1692 Harmonious Society Act
• 1693 Act of Obligations
• 1693 Act on Inheritances
• 1693 Act for the Regulation and Transfer of Title

Sessions of the Majlis held during the reign of the Surenšāhbanu Mitradokht of the Suren, Daughter of the Lord Shahrukh, Blessings of Zurvan Upon their Eternal Names

1^st Session (1695–1699 AN)

The majority of the Majles legislative output during the 1695-1699 session revolved around providing support to the war effort. The first session held during the reign of the Shahbanu saw the Majles take an increasing role in the promulgation of legislation for the Confederacy. In spite of this, the Acts of the Majles remained inferior in status to the Farman decrees promulgated by the Royal Court. Indeed, to enter into effect, legislation passed by the Majles had still to receive a Farman of Endorsement from the Shahbanu, although these would become increasingly proforma as the years progressed. Key laws passed during this period included the following:

• 1695 Treachery Act
• 1695 Panopticon Reorganisation Act
• 1695 Mobilisation Act
• 1695 Euran Salvation Bonds Act
• 1696 Internment Act
• 1696 Act for the Enhancement and Preservation of the Hereditary National Lineages
• 1696 Euran Salvation Bonds (Amicable Grant) Act
• 1696 Civil Service Restoration Act
• 1696 Irrigation Canals & Qanats (Repairs and Expansion) Act
• 1696 Regulation of Territorial Waters Act
• 1696 Regulation of Sovereign Air Space & Air Defence Identification Zone Act
• 1696 Collective Reprisals and Retaliation Act
• 1696 Sanitation Restoration (Surenshahr) Act
• 1696 Utilities (Electrical and Water) Act
• 1696 Satrapan Utility Companies (Board of Governance) Act
• 1697 Act for the Establishment of a National Income Tax
• 1697 Act for the Certification of Euran Ancestry
• 1697 Ruthenian Caste Shame & Exclusion Act
• 1697 Euran Nationality Law
• 1697 National Education Act
• 1697 Impressment Act
• 1698 Kul Recruitment Act
• 1698 Overseas Volunteers Act

2^nd Session (1699–1703 AN)

The termination of the Third Euran War with the 1701 Armistice of Alduria City finally allowed for the cessation of some of the many onerous obligations imposed on the Confederation by that conflict. For the Surenid the spoils of war had fallen somewhat short of their more fervent imaginings, comprising chiefly of the Ghur Republic and the city of Zartosht. The Raspur Pact-Occupied Zeed was rapidly becoming a Constancian led affair, nonetheless there were few amongst the Surenid who were, at this juncture, willing to advocate openly confronting the Trans-Euran Command in the immediate aftermath of such a costly victory. Instead the Majles focused its attention on more immediate and pragmatic concerns.

Key laws passed in this period included the following:

• 1701 Repeal of Wartime Measures Act
• 1701 Act for the Relief of the Ghurid Poor
• 1701 Resettlement of Veterans (Kapavia) Act
• 1701 Settlement of Arrears (Deferral) Act
• 1701 Amicable Loan Act
• 1701 Act for the Easement of the Confinement of Debtors
• 1701 Tarrs Asylum (Declarations of Fealty) Act
• 1701 Irrigation Repairs Act
• 1702 Annulment of Debt Amnesties Act
• 1702 Amicable Loan Act
• 1702 Financial Measures Act
• 1702 Euran Salvation Bonds (Adjustments) Act
• 1702 Act for the Relief of Destitute Veterans
• 1702 Act for the Removal of Vagabonds, Idlers, and Ne'er-do-wells from Surenshahr
• 1702 Act for the Reform of the Rural Militia
• 1702 Act for the Preservation of Boundary Stones and Fences
• 1702 General Amnesty (Debtors) Act
• 1702 Trucial Islands Famine Relief Act
• 1703 Reform Act

3^rd Session (1703–1707 AN)

The Reform Act of 1703, passed in the previous session, had greatly enhanced the representation of the provinces in the one-party Humanist legislature. Satrapan concerns were now more effectively unto the crown and their influence enhanced in the drafting of subsequent laws and the voting of additional money bills when requested by the government. Nonetheless, all this remained on the sufferance of the Shahbanu and it remained to be seen whether any ensuing conflict of interests could be resolved in an amicable and pragmatic manner.

In 1706 AN the Majles passed a resolution supporting the reported Florian invasion of Port Balaine. The decision was felt to have been influenced by the decision of certain Florian creditors to defer for a year the repayment of interest on development loans for which the Surenid government had fallen into arrears.

The Majles was obliged to pass the Act for the Repression of Daevas in 1707 AN after the Shahbanu fell into a bout of severe ill-health reported to have been a respiratory illness. For whatever reason this illness was attributed to the influence of malicious arcana, and in consequence the Surenstan Palace was subjected to rigorous rites of purification, after the Zurvanite fashion, whilst the court and harem was terrorised by the hunt for suspected warlocks and practitioners of black magic. Obliged to demonstrate sympathy for this outbreak of royal paranoia, and to deflect suspicion from their own ranks, the Majles was quick to formulate and enact legislation mandating death for all practitioners of the supernatural arts, including diviners, fortune tellers, and the sellers of charms.

Key pieces of legislation passed during this session included the following:

• 1703 Financial Measures Act
• 1703 Pan-Euran Highway Act
• 1703 Corvée Act
• 1703 Suren Cement Corporation (Formation) Act
• 1703 Sand Excavation Works (Radiological Testing Exemptions) Act
• 1703 Sanama (Treaty of Recognition and Cooperation) Ratification Act
• 1703 Hurmu Solidarity Act
• 1704 Armed Forces (Modernisation) Act
• 1704 Naval Appropriations Act
• 1705 Parestan Joint Stock Company Act
• 1705 Vipia Joint Stock Company Act
• 1705 Razzia (International Volunteers) Act
• 1706 Road Survey Act
• 1707 Act for the Repression of Daevas and Other Malevolent Entities

4^th Session (1707–1711 AN)

• 1707 Food Standards Act
• 1707 Corvée Act
• 1707 Medical Practitioners (Registration) Act
• 1707 Armed Forces (Regulations) Act
• 1707 Agricultural Survey Act
• 1707 Radiological Survey Act
• 1707 Hydrographic Survey Act
• 1708 Taxation Relief Act
• 1708 Education (Education & Indoctrination Authority) Act
• 1708 Harmonious Society Act
• 1708 Penal Code (Revision) Act
• 1708 Act for the Establishment of Seminaries and Reformatories for Wayward Sisters and Daughters
• 1708 Aliens Act
• 1708 Consolidated Fund Act
• 1708 Cruel Treatment & Usage of Camels Act
• 1708 Schedule of Duties (Tariffs) Act
• 1708 Act for the Establishment of a Hospital Fund
• 1708 Trade Act
• 1709 Gaols Act
• 1709 Servitude Act
• 1709 Intelligence and Security Organisation of the Suren Act
• 1711 Purchase of Manumission Act
• 1711 Debtors Act

5^th Session (1711–1715 AN)

• 1711 Act for the Bank of Suren
• 1711 Fractal Banking Reserve Act
• 1711 Savings Assurance Act
• 1711 Financial Regulatory Authority Act
• 1712 Naval Requisitions Act
• 1712 Act for the Permanent Establishment of the Popular Levy
• 1713 Natal Health Act
• 1713 Navigation Act
• 1713 Act for the Rejuvenation of the Population and Support of the Family
• 1713 Act for the Registration of Animals, Children, Domestics and Foreigners
• 1714 Act for the Preservation of National Monuments
• 1714 Act for the Eradication of Spoil Heaps from Surenshahr
• 1714 Act for the Prevention of the Pollution of the Soil or Flame by Corpses and Other Impure Matter
• 1715 Treachery Act
• 1715 Act of Oblivion
• 1715 Rebellion Act

6^th Session (1716 AN–1720 AN)

• 1716 Allied Visiting Forces Act
• 1716 Provisioning and Requisitioning Act
• 1716 Morality and Probity in Public Life Act
• 1716 Act Against Corruption and Ill-Living
• 1716 Regulatory Oversight of Public Bodies Act
• 1716 Poor Relief Act
• 1716 Act of Clemency for Supplicants
• 1716 Act of Confiscation
• 1716 Caravanserai Tolls Act
• 1716 Sewers Repair Act
• 1716 Act for the Cleansing of the Streets of Surenshahr
• 1717 Act of Oblivion in Regards to Certain Traitors
• 1717 Penalties and Forfeitures Act
• 1717 Displaced Persons Act
• 1717 Kapavia Reconstruction Act
• 1717 Act for the Levying of an Amicable Grant
• 1717 Norasht Reclamation Act
• 1717 National Mobilisation Act
• 1717 Act for the Levying of a Second Amicable Grant
• 1717 International Volunteers Act
• 1717 Impressment Act
• 1717 Kul Recruitment Act
• 1717 Requisition of Essential Goods Act
• 1717 Norasht Joint Stock Company Act
• 1717 Provisioning and Requisitioning of Victuals Act
• 1717 Act for the Pursuit of Fugitives and the Impressment of Felons
• 1717 Act for the Branding of Deserters
• 1717 Dissent (Confiscation of Property) Act
• 1717 Conscientious Objectors (Impressment) Act
• 1717 Volunteer Regiments Act
• 1717 Act for the Levying of a Third Amicable Grant
• 1717 Factories Act
• 1717 Act for the Regulation of Working Time (Authorisation of the Seventy-Two Hour Working Week)
• 1717 Juvenile Enlistment (Voluntary Service) Act
• 1717 Selective Service Act
• 1718 Defence of the Realm Act
• 1718 Defence Reorganisation Act
• 1718 Act for the Regulation of the Surenid Armed Force
• 1719 Debt Administration Act
• 1719 Surenid Debt Administration Services Act
• 1719 Act for the Levying of a Fourth Amicable Grant
• 1719 Act in Regards to the Extraterritoriality of Foreign Nationals Deployed with Allied Forces
• 1720 Industrial Labour Service Act
• 1720 Port of Zinjibar (Reconstruction) Act
• 1720 Fleet Monies Act
• 1720 Act for the Protection of Sacred Sites and other Scheduled Monuments
• 1720 Act for the Relief of the Poor (Voluntary Enlistment)

7^th Session (1721 AN–1725 AN)

• 1721 Act for the Prohibition of Certain Rites
• 1721 Amnesty (Disinherited) Act
• 1721 Act of Confiscation
• 1721 Allied Forces (Bases) Act

8^th Session (1725 AN–1729 AN)

• 1729 Act of Remonstrance

9^th Session (1729 AN–1733 AN)

Act Short Name	Description	Shahbanu's Assent
1730 Riot Act	Granted authorities broad powers to suppress public unrest and protests. Allowed use of military force against rioters.	Yes
1730 Police Act	Reorganised and expanded the civil police forces across the Confederacy's satrapies under centralised command.	Yes
1730 Corvée and Impressment Act	Reaffirmed the state's powers of forced labour conscription and military impressment, especially for infrastructure projects.	Yes
1730 Press Restrictions Act	Imposed strict censorship on publishing activities, requiring permits and prohibiting criticism of the government.	No (Rejected)
1730 Judicial Reforms Act	Attempted to codify laws and overhaul the judiciary system based on Neo-Babkhan principles of justice.	No (Rejected)
1730 Provincial Taxation Act	Allowed satrapies to levy additional taxes and raise militias, subject to approval from Surenshahr.	Yes
1730 Act of Restitution for the Tears of Anāhitā	Outlined a comprehensive plan to expand extraction, refining and industrial applications of the newly discovered element Alexandrium. Established guidelines for public-private partnerships and state investment to drive economic growth around the Alexandrium industry. Aimed to leverage Alexandrium's unique properties in energy, materials science and other domains to restore the Surenid economy after years of conflict and stagnation.	Yes

The harsh 1730 Riot Act and Police Act reflected the Suren government's determination to crack down on dissent after the 1729 Grand Remonstrance and the Bitter Spring. However, the rejection of the Press Restrictions Act and Judicial Reforms Act by the Shahbanu suggested some limits to central control. The passed Corvée and Impressment Act and Provincial Taxation Act aimed to consolidate state authority over labour and revenues across the provinces.

The 1730 Act of Restitution for the Tears of Anāhitā recognised the immense potential of Alexandrium deposits found in Surenid territories like Alduria to transform the economic fortunes of the Confederacy. By encouraging domestic exploitation of this rare and valuable resource through state support, the government hoped Alexandrium could provide the engine for revitalising Suren's development.

Obtaining the Shahbanu's assent was critical, as it demonstrated the regime's commitment to an Alexandrium-centered economic revival strategy. The Act paved the way for Alexandrium's rapid emergence as a strategic national priority and key export commodity for the Suren Confederacy in the following years.