Regency of Algiers
The Regency of Algiers has evolved a distinctive governmental form: a dey elected by the military's janissary corps, an aga commanding the land forces, and a divan of senior officers who together constitute both the cabinet and the parliament of the state. This is not a dynasty — the dey answers to the corps that made him, and a dey who loses the confidence of the odjak rarely lasts out the season — but it is a stable system of its kind, producing an administratively capable corsair-military state that punches well above its population in naval and commercial projection. We have codified this arrangement as the constitutional form of the Regency, accepting the instability of military succession in exchange for an army that governs itself and a treasury fed by the sea.
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