Vehmic Court

The Vehmic Court is a fraternal organisation of foreign rulers to assist the Karno-Ruthenian Monarch in subjects related to the maintenance of the monarchy in Karnia-Ruthenia. The name is inspired by the Vehmic court, the "proto-vigilante" tribunal system of Westphalia in Germany active during the later Middle Ages with seat in Dortmund, with proceedings sometimes secret and with a peak of activity during the 14th to 15th centuries and finally abolished by order of Jérôme Bonaparte, King of Westphalia, in 1811.

Etimology
The word vëme first appears in the Middle High German literature of the 13th century as a noun with the meaning of "punishment". However, Jacob Grimm thought that the word is identical in origin to a homophonous word for the raising of pigs on forest pastures (Hutewald), just as the more familiar German Zucht can mean both breeding and discipline. Grimm considers the spelling with h unetymological in spite of its early occurrence in some 13th century documents, and hypothesizes a "lost root" "fëmen", connecting with Old Norse fimr and conjecturing a Gothic "fiman, fam, fêmun?". The origin still uncertain.

Origin
The first conception of a special court, inspired by the College of Electors of the Holy Roman Empire dates back to November 2022, after conversations regarding the succession to the Karno-Ruthenian Throne. At that time, Oscar I didn't had any natural heir, just Archduchess Alice, his adopted daughter. Wishing to avoid any potential succession crisis despite havinf other members of the dynasty, the Vehmic Court was established to be a consultive foreign organisation to, in practice, grant recognition to possible rights of sucession for Archduchess Alice if Oscar I remains childless.

Membership and procedure
The decisions was to be secret, although the subjects were of higher relevance and eventually dropped into popular attention and interest. Any micronational ruler "with at least a fillet of royal blood" and of good character could become a member appointed by the Emperor-King. The first rulers invited to be part of the Vehmic Court were:


 * QuintaVelhaFlag.png His Majesty, the King of Quinta Velha ;
 * Mauricia.png His Majesty, the Stadhouder of Mauritia ;
 * Flag_of_Ebenthal.png His Majesty, the King of Ebenthal ;