The Fury

The Fury
Motto	Stability, Prosperity, Progress
Formation	1.I.1702
Type	Unicameral ducal legislature
Location	Drakorda, Duchy of Modan
Membership	Representatives
Speaker	Tinker Sprocket

The Fury is the unicameral legislature of the Duchy of Modan. Reestablished by a new constitution following its liquidation by the State Committee to Review Ongoing Threats and Urgent Matters, the Fury has been consistently controlled through the 00s by the Modanese Inclusive Liberation Front.

Function

The Fury is composed of 400 representatives elected from districts of equal population. The Fury selects a Steering Committee, which often, but not necessarily, also serves as the leadership for the ducal government.

A Speaker of the Fury is appointed by the Steering Committee to serve as the Fury's presiding officer. Tinker Sprocket was approved by unanimous vote to return as Speaker of the Fury, following his resignation in protest in 1691 AN.

Current Composition

Fury of 1714 AN

Party Initials	Party	Leader(s)	Ideology	Colour	Seats
MILF	Modanese Inclusive Liberation Front	Sophus Cordelier Elliot Notchel	Social Progressivism, Anti-Supremacy Draconianism, Big Tent	Magenta	213 / 450
MfM	MILF for Modan	Meson Outener	Inclusive Draconian Pride, Pro-Raspur Pact, Forced Assimilation of Thanatos & Shimmerspring	Maroon	123 / 450
DPP	Draconic People's Party	Haze Vachery	Draconian Supremacist, Anti-Integration	Purple	59 / 450
LPP	Laqi People's Party	Malle Barandal	Laqi Rights	Yellow	21 / 450
BBP	Benacian Bagelcratican Party	Francis X. Cross	Social Progressivism, pro-Natopian, Free Trade, Anti-Draconian Supremacy	Green	19 / 450
SPF	Shimmerspring Patriotic Front	Jair Dingle	Shimmerspringer Rights	Blue	15 / 450

With the 1714 Elections concluded, MILF retained its status for the third election in a row as the dominant party. For the first time, however, they were forced to form a coalition government. Within days of the election results being announced, MILF and the Bagelcratican representatives met with the High Commissioner for the Ducal Throne to receive his blessing to form a government. The High Commissioner, John Hilding, initially questioned the coalition's razor-thin majority within the Fury, but accepted the representatives' answer to why they did not seek to include the Laqi and Shimmerspringer parties.

Another new feature of this sitting of The Fury was the presence of the first MILF split-off party, who called themselves MILF for Modan. Their predominant body of supporters came from the extreme ends of the previous Fury's debate over the integration of the Western Territories, and their split from MILF proper indicated their dissatisfaction with the manner in which those territories would slowly be integrated over time. Their campaign pledge was to extend an inclusive form of Draconian Culture into Shimmerspring and Thanatos, arguing that integrating these territories without assimilating their populations into Modan's core culture was dangerous. Their appeal marked the final disappearance of several of the old now-marginal parties that had lingered from the Drak-Modanian Period, as the remainder of MfM's political platform was filled in with material taken from those political factions.

MILF would spend the next few years attempting to expand their coalition with LPP and SPF, but these two parties, while willing to add their votes to specific legislation concerning the Western Territories integration process, were unwilling to sign onto the coalition itself. Ultimately, it was BBP who was able to exploit this weakness to the fullest extent.

History of the Fury

Fury of 1708 AN

Fury of 1708 AN

Party Initials	Party	Leader(s)	Ideology	Colour	Seats
MILF (P)	Modanese Inclusive Liberation Front (Partitionist)	Sophus Cordelier	Anti-Supremacy Draconianism, Big Tent, Anti-Western Territories Integration	Magenta	164 / 400
MILF (I)	Modanese Inclusive Liberation Front (Integrationist)	Elliot Notchel	Anti-Supremacy Draconianism, Big Tent, Social Progressivism, Pro-Western Territories Integration	Magenta	132 / 400
DPP	Draconic People's Party	Haze Vachery	Draconian Supremacist, Anti-Shirerithian Integration	Purple	61 / 400
BBP	Benacian Bagelcratican Party		Social Progressivism, pro-Natopian, Free Trade, Anti-Draconian Supremacy	Green	12 / 400
MPU	Modani People's Union		Nationalism & Humanism, Conservatism, Populist, Pro-Raspur Pact, Pro-Benacian Union	Red	12 / 400
SP	Solidarity Party		Centrism	Blue	9 / 400
ATM	Agrarians & Tradespeople for Modan		Social Conservatism, Draconian Pride, Rural Concerns	Yellow	7 / 400
BfB	Benacia for Benacians	Boghos Aygul	Reactionary, Anti-Raspur Pact, Anti-Natopian, Anti-Shirerithian, High Tariffs, Isolationism	Maroon	3 / 400

As the Fury of 1702 drew to a close, it was clear that MILF was suffering from its own success. As a big-tent party, it struggled to fulfill its mandate of upholding the interests of the broad spectrum of political opinion that had sided against the Drak-Modani State in 1699. Unexpectedly, the defining fracture within MILF came from the administration of the so-called Western Territories, i.e. Thanatos, Shimmerspring, and portions of So Sara, which Shireroth had annexed following the Port Esther Summit. These territories were placed under the administrative jurisdiction of the Duchy of Modan.

The MILF coalition government failed to reach consensus on whether to integrate the Western Territories into the Duchy of Modan as fifth demesnes, or whether to govern the Western Territory as a protectorate and without giving it equal status as the majority population of Modan or representation in The Fury.

Entering the campaign period for the Fury of 1708, the two factions officially operated as a single party, yet often saw competing MILF candidates for the same local constituency. The Partitionist Faction, led by Party Leader Sophus Cordelier, made an appeal for keeping the Western Territories distinct from Modan proper, due to their distinct culture, undeveloped war-torn economy, and the chaos that would ensue if its population were allowed to relocate en masse to the freer, richer Modan proper. The Integrationists Faction, led by previously-unremarkable Representative Elliot Notchel from Twoggle, advocated for embracing the bold opportunity to redouble MILF's liberatory potential by flooding the Western Territories with Modanese labor, Modanese funds, and Modanese culture to radically transform the Western Territories into a model demesnes for the new Modan.

In the end, the MILF domination of The Fury expanded rather than contracted, at the cost of now having two MILFs, each with parallel party structures and pretending as if they remained a single party. Cordelier and Notchel went so far as to release a joint statement, titled "MILF is Love" about why, despite the differences on this one issue, the two wings will remain part of a single party to show how the politics of MILF can transcend the old ways. Detractors suggested that MILF didn't officiate their split due to the amount of bad blood it would cause, and that the lack of viable coalition partners meant that their only choice was to form a majority coalition with one another.

The two factions spent the better part of two years working out a compromise package for the limited integration of the Western Territories: the Fury of 1714 would be expanded to 450 seats, with 50 seats allocated to the Western Territories until a proper census could establish the correct apportionment, a robust economic recovery package to rebuild and modernize the cities of Malokati, Mortis Mercatoria, and Jugensk but nowhere else, and the retention of the internal passport system until the Western Territories had become fully integrated as a demesnes.

By the opening of the campaign period for electing the Fury of 1714, the Partitionist/Integrationist division within MILF had all-but-healed, though an unholy alliance had formed between more extreme members of both factions to produce the self-described "MILFs for Modan". During the MILF party convention in 1713, MILF (M) attempted to launch a highly-disciplined takeover of the party and its platform. When they failed, they loudly proclaimed their departure from MILF to form their own party, MILFs for Modan (MfM) under Meson Outener, a firebrand Representative from Bajkir.

Fury of 1702 AN

Fury of 1702 AN

Party Initials	Party	Leader(s)	Ideology	Colour	Seats
MILF	Modanese Inclusive Liberation Front	Sophus Cordelier	Anti-Supremacy Draconianism, Big Tent, Social Progressivism, Pro-Shirerithian Integration	Magenta	269 / 400
DPP	Draconic People's Party	Haze Vachery	Draconian Supremacist, Anti-Shirerithian Integration	Purple	81 / 400
BBP	Benacian Bagelcratican Party		Social Progressivism, pro-Natopian, Free Trade, Anti-Draconian Supremacy	Green	19 / 400
MPU	Modani People's Union		Nationalism & Humanism, Conservatism, Populist, Pro-Raspur Pact, Pro-Benacian Union	Red	13 / 400
ATM	Agrarians & Tradespeople for Modan		Social Conservatism, Draconian Pride, Rural Concerns	Yellow	9 / 400
SP	Solidarity Party		Centrism	Blue	5 / 400
BfB	Benacia for Benacians	Boghos Aygul	Reactionary, Anti-Raspur Pact, Anti-Natopian, Anti-Shirerithian, High Tariffs, Isolationism	Maroon	4 / 400

Despite overwhelming approval, MILF chose to form a national coalition, seeking representation in the Fury's Steering Committee from each party that had qualified for seats therein. All agreed except for the Draconic People's Party, a hastily-created political party that reflected the interests of hardliners from the previous regime.

By 1704 AN, the national coalition had begun showing signs of fracturing, including a major fracture within MILF itself, on the question of integration of Shimmerspring, Thanatos, and So-Sara into the Duchy of Modan, as well as the overall direction for Modan following the first two years of reconstruction under the watchful eye of the Golden Mango Throne. The minor members of the national coalition exploited the factionalism within MILF for their own benefit, hoping to see a return of good fortune in the 1708 Fury Elections after MILF fell apart.

Drak-Modani Fury

During the period of Draconian Supremacy, the Fury was composed of 400 representatives, with four token representatives elected from the Straight Protection Zones. It selected two co-chancellors to serve as the country's head of government and as the Fury's presiding officer, though this role was often delegated to a Speaker of the Fury.

Tinker Sprocket was Speaker of the Fury from 1672 until 23.VI.1691, when he resigned in protest against the legislative and parliamentarian abuses he felt that the Committee for United Modani Solidarity was perpetrating against himself and The Fury. On 24.VI.1691 Lia Gelashvili, a Committee loyalist and regional director, was appointed as the Speaker of the Fury.

During the 1699 Drak-Modani attempted coup d'état, a large portion of the Fury's membership was killed and their bodies hurriedly disposed of, once it became clear that they would not support the coup. The revelation of their fate helped galvanize opposition to the coup regime, leading to a series of bloody engagements in the streets of Drakorda.

The final Fury under Draconian Supremacy was governed by a coalition of the Solidarity Party and the Modani People's Union, called Committee for United Modani Solidarity.