Incorporated Areas of Vekllei

Part of the government series of articles.

Incorporated areas are sovereign subdivisions within Vekllei republics with defined borders and autonomous governance. Incorporation means these settlements have legal autonomy within their borders and can negotiate directly with superior bodies for investment and trade. The borders of incorporated areas are defined by literal geographic features – walls, berms, rivers, forests or canals – that distinguish them physically from their neighbours. Vekllei has two types of incorporated areas.

• Metropolises are contiguous urban areas comprising a city and its suburbs, divided internally into departments that function as neighbourhoods with defined borders and populations.
• Municipalities are incorporated settlements with sovereignty within their borders, operating as the basic unit of Vekllei localism and the foundation of municipal industry.

Incorporation grants these areas substantial powers within the cascading federal structure. They maintain their own assemblies, elect representatives to republican parliaments and engage in economic activity through municipal corporations. The precise boundaries matter in Vekllei law because incorporated status determines governance structures, economic capacity and legal jurisdiction. A person living within incorporated borders falls under municipal or metropolitan authority, while those in unincorporated areas remain subject to direct republican or federal administration.