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== House Avellar and "House" McKenna ==
House Avellar is the noble house that has largely held the title of President of the Parliament for centuries, and typically has had to spend its time trying to keep the Alliance's immediate neighbors from setting everything on fire for the mere crime of looking at them funny, leading to all sorts of unfit and useless rulers that systematically weakened an already ailing state. Only very recently has House Avellar managed to get its act together through the "Long Road" economic project.

Since their transition to a hybrid government and the introduction of Clan Snow Raven's social structure in their nobility, they have ironically become more like a typical Inner Sphere state, given their addiction to realpolitik. The McKenna Bloodname (which is also distantly related to the founder of the Terran Hegemony) has also been given plenty of power to defend the nation's interests, acquitting themselves wonderfully to their new pet project of slowly building and strengthening the Alliance, while also pitting the Combine and the Federated Suns against each other with varied success, always able to avoid detection.