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* [[Tremredare]] - The capital city of the [[Western Dominance]].{{map ref|final empire 1021|the Final Empire (1021)}}
The Final Empire is ruled by the [[Lord Ruler]]. This man is a fullborn, a full feruchemist and a mistborn.{{book ref|mb1|38}} Some [[Skaa]] view him as eternal, like the sun and the mists.{{book ref|mb1|1}} The Lord Ruler has a lot of influence on the culture of both nobles and Skaa.
The Lord Ruler plays a large role in Steel Ministry doctrine. They view him as a god, calling him the ‘sliver of infinity’.{{book ref|mb1|8}} He is revered for saving the world from the deepness.{{book ref |mb2|56}}
▲=== Military ===
He has absolute authority in the Final Empire. It must be noted however that he doesn’t make many decisions himself, instead letting the various cantons of the [[Steel Ministry]] rule.
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The noble houses effectively rule the empire, although they are policed heavily by the Steel Ministry. The houses control imperial trade and also enslave the majority of the Empire’s Skaa population.{{book ref|mb1|6}}
Most noblemen are provincial lords, owning plantations that produce food or other products.{{book ref|mb1|prologue}} Most of these lords seem to live on their plantations, although a lot of them also live in nearby cities, controlling their plantations from a distance away.
==== Great Houses ====
The Great Houses are the most prominent noble families in the Final Empire, notable for their ability to build a keep and maintain a high-profile presence in Luthadel.{{book ref|mb1|2}} This is made difficult by the Lord Ruler's keep tax.{{book ref|mb1|24}} Country nobility resent the Great Houses for their control of the canal systems.{{book ref|mb1|23}} The Great Houses get to buy a monthly stipend of atium, one of the main ways that the Lord Ruler controls them.{{book ref|mb1|13}}
A major house war between the Great Houses tends to happen every couple of centuries or so.{{book ref|mb1|6}} House Wars are primarily political.{{book ref|mb1|24}} The last House War was devastating.{{book ref|mb1|6}}
▲=== Government ===
{{for|Steel Ministry}}
The Steel Ministry and its obligators are the main bureaucracy for the Final Empire.{{book ref|mb1|1}} Despite officially being a religious institution,
The structure of Dominances, in [[Vin]]'s time, involves provincial lords each with command of, and responsibility for, their own skaa. This organization has been in place for two hundred years and grants the nobility greater freedom than previous systems. The [[Lord Ruler]] seems to be uncomfortable with this and counteracts it with increased obligator activity {{book ref|mb1|18}}.▼
One of the functions of the Ministry is to witness a myriad of contracts and agreements, even something as simple as promise to come to a game of [[shelldry]].{{book ref|mb1|23}} The nobility pay the [[Lord Ruler]] for their services in a manner similar to that of renting [[skaa]].{{book ref|mb1|prologue}} As the authority in bureaucratic matters, any mercantile contracts, divorces, weddings, land purchases, inheritances, or any other important dealings could only be authorized by obligators. If one of the Ministry’s members hasn't witnessed an event or sealed a document, it might as well not have happened or have been written.{{book ref|mb1|23}}
=== Economy ===▼
The Ministry is split up into multiple cantons. These Cantons are responsible for their own area, for example finances or orthodoxy. The known Cantons are:
▲=== Atium control ===
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* Canton of Finance
* Canton of Resource
* Canton of Inquisition
* Canton of Orthodoxy
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=== Administrative Districts ===
▲The
The ten dominances are:{{map ref|final empire 1021|the Final Empire (1021)}}
{{columns|
* [[Central Dominance]]
* [[Northern Dominance]]
* [[Western Dominance]]
* [[Eastern Dominance]]
* [[Southern Dominance]]
* [[Crescent Dominance]]
* [[Farmost Dominance]]
* [[Southern Islands]]
* [[Remote Dominance]]
* The [[Terris Dominance]]
}}
[[Luthadel]] is the capital city of the Final Empire.{{book ref|mb1|2}} It is located in the [[Dominance|central dominance]], southwest of [[lake Luthadel]] and east of [[lake Tyrian]].{{map ref|final empire 1021|the Final Empire (1021)}}
[[Luthadel]] is the economic center of the Empire. Many [[Noble]] Houses, including the Great Houses, are located in [[Luthadel]].{{book ref|mb1|2}} As these Houses control the trade routes and canals, as well as much of the actual trade itself, Luthadel is very important for the Empire’s trade and welfare.{{book ref|mb1|6}}
Luthadel is also the seat of the Lord Ruler. This upon itself makes it very important to the people’s culture.{{book ref|mb1|34}} Luthadel is also located at the magnetic North Pole. This makes all compasses point toward it.{{wob ref|8042}}
== Notes ==
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