Government of Zaizung

The Zaizung government is structured into the 8 traditional ministries of the pre-Olboros Qonklese system. These are the Ministries of Control, Examination, Justice, War, Finance, Rites, Works, and Personnel. The Central Committee is made up of the 8 heads of the ministries along with a "first among equals" chancellor elected on a 5? year term. The chancellor is mostly there to break ties and greet foreign dignitaries, but retains few powers outside of presiding over the Central Committee. The ministries of Control and Examination are explicity kúúlist, but the other 6 are all open to every citizen, and the ones that are democratic allow all parties to run candidates.

Zaizung did not adopt the 5 Mè system of modern Qonklaks. The 1902 Zaizung Republic was setting up a government before the 1903 Qonklese Republic, and the post-GEW government was set up by the Helsonians, and with memories of fascist Qonk occupation in everyone's minds.

Because it was a revival of a system that hadn't been in use in Industrial times, there are plenty of weird quirks of where modern departments would go.

The 8 Ministries

Ministry of Control

Chosen by Kúúlist party

This ministry is both for regulating other ministries and gathering information, both domestically, and spying abroad. They also are responsible for visas, passports, overseeing elections, and immigration.

Ministry of Examination

Chosen by Kúúlist party

In charge of appointing ministers to the Justice and Finance Ministries. They also administer tests that all candidates for elections must pass.

Because of their nature giving standardized tests, in the Kúúlist era, a small program to help poorer students study for tests became the basis for the ministry of education. Only some education?

This also administers licenses for various industries, but not mineral resources or driver's licenses.

Examination also has the honor of looking over legislation for potential impact and precident and how it fits with other laws.

Ministry of Justice

Members chosen by the Ministry of Examination

in charge of running the law courts

potentially in charge of reviewing foreign treaties?

Ministry of War

Does this just have the military's hierarchy?

This ministry not only is in charge of the military, but also foreign relations and reviewing treaties.

Because of various historical factors, all intercity travel by land is here, including the intercity rail network (but not regional or urban rail). And, driver's licenses.

Potential duties: policing?

Ministry of Finance

Chosen by Examination. Potentially except for top minister, who is a nationwide vote? maybe each region gets a vote to fill half, and examination fills other half? Could be exam to get lower roles, vote to advance?

This ministry does tax collection and all port-related industries. It also is in charge of welfare and paying government employees.

Because all other ministries rely on it to allocate resources, this is an extremely important ministry to make anyting work

Potential duties: census? some government industries?

Ministry of Rites

Vote by region

Mostly the Iovist State Church (which all citizens are members of, but they can also be members of other groups?). Because of Iovism's focus on Muhe in the wilderness, this ministry has evolved to also oversee resource management and the national parks. It is also responsible for large social gatherings, not just public holidays, but also international exhibitions that take place in Zaizung and things like that.

Ministry of Works

Vote by region

Might split certain duties like the Terminian federal system?

This ministry is in charge of public works, both building and maintenance. This includes utilities such as the electrical system and urban waste removal. While it does not operate any trains, it is responsible for the maintenance of all track.

Ministry of Personnel

traditionally assembling manpower, becomes an outpost of the labor unions

This chamber gives each industry or union a proportional number of representatives. Most unions use a vote to choose their representatives

As part of the reforms of the 1970s, the Zaizung government recognized a union for illegal street food vendors, making this quasi-legal status where getting a government approved union card meant that illegal street food vendors could not be prosecuted if they had it.

In 1991, "Home workers" got to also be a union for representation. Because of a growing number of women were entering the workforce, the Conservative Party was losing its already small representation in this chamber. This was tied with a new scheme to pay stay-at-home mothers to raise the next generation of Zaizungese, for various nationalistic reasons.

Duties are varied, including regulating industry and putting together large scale farming initiatives. It is also responsible for certain education? Also, it operates urban and regional transit systems.

Duties include tourism? running state owned media? running the census? grain distribution programs?

Council of Nine

Consists of the Chancellor and the heads of the 8 Ministries

reviews laws that a ministry proposed more foregin treaties?

Legislative Process

Any ministry can propose legislation First, it goes through an internal review in its own ministry Then, it is proposed to the Council of Nine Then, it goes through ministries for review? Then it is voted on by each ministry needs review from 6 of the 8? does the council of 9 have veto power? All ministries can propose legislation within their own domain, but can challenge laws in other domains for inconsistency. For fundamental laws (applicable to multiple ministries, especially to establish one consistant system through all ministries) things look different.

Government Locations

The original 1902 Republic was based in the traditional Northern Capital, using the older national central church and building a gorgeous new supreme court building. After the GEW, the Helsonians moved the capital to the new Southern Capital, including a new council chambers and new supreme court. They had a new building for the Ministry of Rights but it kept performing a lot of them in the national church in the northern capital. After the Helsonian army pulled out in the 1960s, the ministry of rites decided to move its whole operation back to the old national central church, and using their building for some smaller parts of the ministry and donating it as overflow space to the other 7 ministries.

In the 1970s, the government was thinking of demolishing the barely used old northern capital supreme court building and putting in a modern kuulist building instead, and public outcry saved it. The activists were so strongly on board with preservation that they convinced the minsitry of justice to move back to the more spacious and luxurious old supreme court building. This angered the highlands, which didn't have any ministry headquartered there, even though the north and the south did, so the ?? ministry was placed in a new headquarters there.