Vitan Council

The Vitan Council is the governing body of Vita.

Overview
The Vitan Council (commonly abbreviated as VC) is the sole governing body of the ecumenopolis, Vita. It consists of 10 councilors who each individually hold equal amounts of power. The council was formed in the later years of Vita when 10 different tribes who natively inhabited the planet merged together to form one large tribal council, now known as the Elder Council (EC). which was an early form of the modern Vitan Council. The Elder Council was different from the VC in many ways, the primary reason being the elections of councilors. Each councilor in the EC would be from one of ten tribes. The councilors were not elected, but rather they would succeed their father through patriarchal succession, who were the councilors before them. Eventually this form of elections ended, being replaced by the modern publicly-held elections where anyone with any nationality or species could be elected if they gathered enough votes.