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.

Ministry of Control

Chosen by Kúúlist party

potentially in charge of: information gathering/secret service? policing? regulating the other ministries? regulating industry?

Ministry of Examination

Chosen by Kúúlist party in charge of appointing ministers to the Justice and Finance Ministries

potentially in charge of: must approve candidates for certain votes? Education? looking over proposed legislation for precedent, potential impact?

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?

Potential duties: waging war foreign relations? policing? Also does intercity trains?

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?

Potential duties: tax collection port maintenence? running the trains? paying the bureaucracy allocating size of works? census? controlling licenses and mineral rights?

Ministry of Rites

Mostly the Iovist State Church (which all citizens are members of, but they can also be members of other groups?) Vote by region (Iovism has democracy in it, right?) census? putting out big social gatherings (public holidays, etc.)? maintaining national parks? certain tourism?

Ministry of Works

Vote by region Might split certain duties like the Terminian federal system? Potential Duties public works running the trains? only the regional trains? running the electric system? managing state parks?

Ministry of Personnel

traditionally assembling manpower, becomes an outpost of the labor unions Vote, by industry (each industry chooses their proportional reps, most do it by some type of votes) Do I want "home workers" (self-employed, stay at home parents) to be an "industry"? not originally, but becomes part of this? Duties include unions tourism? port maintenence? running the trains? runs only the urban trains? farming regulations? industry regulations? education? running state owned media?

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?

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.