[i][b]Political Parties of Haven
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[i]Democratic Union Party of Haven[/i] - Haven's largest party by a slight margin, rivaled only by the Remember Australia Party (and earlier in the past 500 years, others), the DUPH stands for "social equality, justice and the freedom of belief", and, mostly - mostly - adheres to its principles. Promoting a society based on 'Self-Reliance, Liberty, and Shared Benefit', the DUPH has been charged with being overbearing and even coercive, and there were periods where it was that. Nevertheless, it has fought for the peace, prosperity, and survival of Haven for half a millennium before the liberation of Australia, and has knit the newly-freed territories together under its political and diplomatic network.

[i]Remember Australia Part[/i]y - Not everyone is pleased by Haven taking political, economic, and cultural ideas from a place as far away as Northern Syria, Northern Syria in the early 21st Century, no less. And they have a right not to be, because Haven is underneath Australia, not Rojava. The people of the Remember Australia Party have a hodgepodge of political and economic views, some merely advocating 'Democratic Confederalism with an Australian Face', others advocating for a return to indirect Democracy, and some few advocating coming back to an actual Free Market and a repeal of the rules regarding sharing property (private property is allowed in Haven, but only with a voluntary recompense to the community; if one wants both private property and not pay recompense, they get a fully-armed populace pointing their guns at them).

[i]Justice and Development Party[/i] - A widely growing party composed of expansionists, the JDP are a group who believe strongly in Haven's moral superiority over all Humans stuck in either Corporate, Plutocratic Rule or Mindless Anarchy. They believe in the expansion of Haven into the surface through force, and taking over the Corporations' dominions, something that they believe they can administer better than 'those plutocrats'.

[i]Isolation Party of Haven[/i] - Another, widely growing party composed of isolationists, the IPH are a mix of sane people who have calculated that taking the Corporations and their superior resources head-on would just get them killed, and blatant Xenophobes who believe that people from outside Haven would contaminate their culture and DNA, and that they'd be best off staying underground. Oppose the JDP bitterly, but also have animosity towards the DUPH.

[i]Federation Party of Haven[/i] - The fifth major party in Havenite Politics, the Federation Party of Haven regards themselves as the only party who realizes that the system of direct democracy will not work in an expanded Haven, and have the facts to prove it. With the liberation of Australia, the party has begun to cry out for the division of the liberated territories into a Federation, in which Haven would be First Among Equals, as well as keep its unique political system as part of said Federation. Frequently allies with the JDP and ISH whenever it is convenient and poaches the more sane members from the two parties every so often.

[i]National Union Party of Haven[/i] - A small party allied with the DUPH in the ruling coalition, they are the smallest political group in the city, but has sway in contested areas. Their main ideological difference is that Haven should lend services to people only when it's needed, not universally and all the time. Basically, selective welfare. Unpopular with areas that are only middle-class, and also divided between (relatively) rich districts who want social services abolished entirely, and (relatively) poor districts who feel that the rich can take care of themselves...