Oh my god I realized how slow my vocal delivery is so pleaseeee do yourself a favor and play this on 1.5x speed! Also, by the way, iudex is just Latin for judge. Didn't want to keep saying chief justice all over and over again. Thanks for your time!
I don't think anywhere else has any separation of legislative, judicial and executive, and neither do they have a division within the executive of police, prosecutorial service and jury. So why would Fontaine be different? As far as I can see Jean probably does it all. Keqing has a story where she is an undercover detective, then arrests, prosecutes, judges and sentences. Ningguang is said to do more legislation in Liyue but this may be purely because she likes making up rules - look how complicated she made Liyue Millenial. In Inazuma there's a division but it's by sphere of interest not type of government function. I assume that each commission can act as police, prosecution, judge and jury as well as legislature within their sphere of influence. So if you break the laws about shrines or blacksmiths I guess the Kamisato ninja are after you. Having said that the main police force appears to be Kujo clan and it seems to lend out manpower during festivals to the Kamisatos. So there's some wriggle room. Sumeru has a distinct police force but it doesn't have the power to arrest the head of government even theoretically. So yeah. My guess is the Iudex in Fontaine also writes the laws. But at least - and quite different from the other nations - Fontaine appears to have an independent "person" deciding on guilt or innocence (jury) in the Oratrice, and also it seems to decide on the sentence in the case of being found guilty which is usually a judge's job. Does this mean the Iudex retains the part of the job where someone decides what the current law actually says? Does Neuvilette tell the Oratrice what the law says? That seems weird since the jury is a legal specialist in this case. Maybe all he does is control the proceeding of the trials (saying who can speak, deciding what evidence is admissible and deciding if someone needs to be ejected or held in contempt, etc). Inazuma's system is probably the best since it does have a balance of power. It's a shame most players come away with precisely the opposite impression. In Mondstadt this exist between the Knights, the Church and the Guilds. In Liyue the balance is between which rich families get their people on the Qixing and corruption (partiality) seems expected once the appointment is made. For example Keqing's family is in real estate so they made her the representative in charge of real estate. Ninguang passes a law which only helps herself avoid taxes. Sumeru is just an absolute tyranny. Mondstadt only works because it's such a small town and the dictator (Jean) happens to be so nice, while the god is absent entirely. In Inazuma the system works despite all sorts of people in it being corrupt, because it has a system in place to take into account the possibility of corruption. The heads of two of the three clans go corrupt and the system manages to correct through a combination of the regional independence of Watatsumi, the independence of the Narukami priestess, the third clan head's loyalty and the loyalty of the second in command of the Kujos. As a system it has far fewer points of failure than the others. But then since the whole story is about a severe stress test of government maybe we see the parts of the system that we don't bother seeing in other nations. Well... we don't really know much about the other four members of the Qixing so maybe they would be able to step in and correct things if Ninguang and Keqing decided to go bad. But since they appear to be semi-secret, I'm not sure how that would work. "Hey we're four members of the Qixing and we need you Millelith to arrest Ningguang". Plus the adepti would be no use.
Oh my god I realized how slow my vocal delivery is so pleaseeee do yourself a favor and play this on 1.5x speed!
Also, by the way, iudex is just Latin for judge. Didn't want to keep saying chief justice all over and over again. Thanks for your time!
I don't think anywhere else has any separation of legislative, judicial and executive, and neither do they have a division within the executive of police, prosecutorial service and jury. So why would Fontaine be different? As far as I can see Jean probably does it all. Keqing has a story where she is an undercover detective, then arrests, prosecutes, judges and sentences. Ningguang is said to do more legislation in Liyue but this may be purely because she likes making up rules - look how complicated she made Liyue Millenial. In Inazuma there's a division but it's by sphere of interest not type of government function. I assume that each commission can act as police, prosecution, judge and jury as well as legislature within their sphere of influence. So if you break the laws about shrines or blacksmiths I guess the Kamisato ninja are after you. Having said that the main police force appears to be Kujo clan and it seems to lend out manpower during festivals to the Kamisatos. So there's some wriggle room. Sumeru has a distinct police force but it doesn't have the power to arrest the head of government even theoretically.
So yeah. My guess is the Iudex in Fontaine also writes the laws.
But at least - and quite different from the other nations - Fontaine appears to have an independent "person" deciding on guilt or innocence (jury) in the Oratrice, and also it seems to decide on the sentence in the case of being found guilty which is usually a judge's job. Does this mean the Iudex retains the part of the job where someone decides what the current law actually says? Does Neuvilette tell the Oratrice what the law says? That seems weird since the jury is a legal specialist in this case. Maybe all he does is control the proceeding of the trials (saying who can speak, deciding what evidence is admissible and deciding if someone needs to be ejected or held in contempt, etc).
Inazuma's system is probably the best since it does have a balance of power. It's a shame most players come away with precisely the opposite impression. In Mondstadt this exist between the Knights, the Church and the Guilds. In Liyue the balance is between which rich families get their people on the Qixing and corruption (partiality) seems expected once the appointment is made. For example Keqing's family is in real estate so they made her the representative in charge of real estate. Ninguang passes a law which only helps herself avoid taxes. Sumeru is just an absolute tyranny.
Mondstadt only works because it's such a small town and the dictator (Jean) happens to be so nice, while the god is absent entirely.
In Inazuma the system works despite all sorts of people in it being corrupt, because it has a system in place to take into account the possibility of corruption. The heads of two of the three clans go corrupt and the system manages to correct through a combination of the regional independence of Watatsumi, the independence of the Narukami priestess, the third clan head's loyalty and the loyalty of the second in command of the Kujos. As a system it has far fewer points of failure than the others. But then since the whole story is about a severe stress test of government maybe we see the parts of the system that we don't bother seeing in other nations.
Well... we don't really know much about the other four members of the Qixing so maybe they would be able to step in and correct things if Ninguang and Keqing decided to go bad. But since they appear to be semi-secret, I'm not sure how that would work. "Hey we're four members of the Qixing and we need you Millelith to arrest Ningguang". Plus the adepti would be no use.
"treating a trial as an Opera"