Mathakate

A mathakate is a traditional Slokrathi system of government, where a dual regency of a royal couple called mathaks carry out most of their polity's decisions. While the concrete extent of the regency's powers and the distribution of powers between the royals vary between states both historically and geographically, recent Krathi states usually utilized some form of the government type both in name and practice. This is partly because of dynastic and cultural reasons, but also because the most powerful nation in recent memory, the Salkrathi mathakate, had an extremely revered legacy. As such the polity which could claim to be the true successor of the Salkrathi had exemplary legitimacy and prestige. Salkrath followed a model of the mathakate called the imperial model where the dual regency was inherited by the couple's firstborn upon either regent's death when the firstborn was at least fifteen years old.

Currently, there are no less than five mathakates on the Krathi river delta, three of which claim to be the successor of the Salkrathi. The claimants are the Skoracladth, the Ekrethi and the Sethcron while the two without a claim are the Knyslor and the Croni.