2014 Notes: This never felt quite finished. Had there been a Traveller Chronicle 14, a later draft would have likely appeared there. What I'm looking for now is some legitimate criticism of the piece and suggestions for improving it.
Title: TERRAN REPUBLIC GOVERNMENT
“It would be easy, I
suppose, to at first glance think of the Terran Republic as just another
dictatorship. Despite Reformation
Coalition propaganda to the contrary this is simply not true. While certainly not a democratic government,
it at all times holds the interests and well being of its people to be most
important--this much it has common with the Regency and I think that it needs
to be recognized.”
Bandan Vezina
Regency
Ambassador to the Terran Republic
45-1212
IE
“I wonder how many
governments in Terran history have been called “People’s Republic” or some
similar such nonsense. How many claimed
to be democratic, like the Solomani Confederation, but weren’t. What’s really important is how well a
government serves its people, not whether or not that government won a regular
popularity contest. If a government is
doing its job properly, there should be no need for such wastes of the people’s
money. Politicians trying to win
popularity contests will do anything, say anything to get the masses to trust
them, then will do what’s best for their own career or their bank account, not
what’s best for the common good. Earth
doesn’t need that kind of government. We
need a government that will always be responsive to the common citizen and make
it possible for them to earn a paycheck and have good standard of living. That’s all people really want--a government
that will make the maglev trains run on time, keep our enemies at bay, and
allow them to be free to pursue their lives as they see fit.”
Daniel Dahnara
Comments
made during a debate
concerning
the Terran Republic Constitution
202-1161
IE
“Where is your
democracy? This is your democracy. If we fail you, take the government from us
using this.”
Daniel
Dahnara
In
response to a question from a male
spectatorduring
a speech in North America,
Danielgrabbed
a gauss rifle from a security
guardat
a rally and threw it to him while
saying theabove
quote. The stunt was so
popular, herepeated several more times
during his tour.
240-1162
IE
BACKGROUND
ORIGINS
By the time of the New Era, there had been
nearly 10,000 years of recorded history on Terra. For the first 6,000 or so years of that,
humanity existed as a collection of separate, often hostile national cultures
and subcultures which competed for land, resources and power amongst
themselves. It is possible, indeed
likely given the history of the Solomani Confederation, that this would have
continued unabated into the stars, save for the presence of the Vilani Imperium
or as it is also known, the First Imperium.
While conflict with the First Imperium
finally brought a true world government to Terra, it also brought social
changes as well. Over the centuries people
thought less and less of themselves as Americans, French, Chinese or whatever
and instead thought of themselves as simplyTerrans. The resulting “megaculture”
borrowed from all of the major national cultures that had come before, and put
an end to the petty bickering and infighting that had taken place over the
previous thousands of years. Even old
racial, ethnic and political barriers ceased to have meaning after a time.
Not everyone was happy with this turn of
events, however, and many millions of people who wished to keep their ethnic heritage “pure” or those who longed for the “good old days” left Terra in
search of worlds where they could continue as before without the pressure to
conform to the norms of the larger Terran megaculture--much of the former
Solomani Confederation was colonized by such peoples.
Terra thus remained united, even after the
fall of the Second Imperium, the Long Night, and into the Third Imperium. It was during the later stages of the era of
the Third Imperium that new cracks began to appear in Terran unity. These were not so much cultural as they were
ideological and lead to the Terran Civil War.
FOUNDING OF THE REPUBLIC
The current government structure of the
Republic was the brainchild of Daniel Dahnara, son of Gabree-el, who served as
General Services Minister (1155-57), Justice Minister (1157-61) and briefly as
Prime Minister (1161-62) of the Eastern Coalition before being assassinated in
1162 at the opening ceremonies for the Temple of the Faith in Jerusalem. He was a leading advocate of Terran
unification and traveled extensively promoting his concept of a strong
centralized civil service form of government, one that was efficient and
responsive to the people’s needs.
After his death, two people took up the
cause of promoting Terran unity and Daniel’s plan for a world government:
Gabree-el Dahnara, his mother, who was serving at the time as a minister
without portfolio in the Eastern Coalition cabinet, in addition to her
spiritual duties as leader of the Gabreelist faith; and Louis Beauchamp, who
worked with Daniel in the General Services Ministry and later served as his
assistant at the Justice Ministry before succeeding him as Justice Minister
(1161-62) and Prime Minister (1162-1164). While both worked in concert, each employed different methods in
achieving their goal. Gabree-el made her
appeals directly to the people, giving sermons and generally using the faith as
a tool to promote the concept of unification. She also met publicly with a number of popular figures, including
Edward Lahtinen, leader of the Sentient Rights Movement. Beauchamp, on the other hand, preferred to
work behind the scenes, negotiating with various national leaders through out
Terra, and carrying on a kind of quiet diplomacy which proved very successful,
particularly after the incident involving the capture and execution of former
Solomani Party leader Tomas Evers in late in 1163.
Gabree-el and Beauchamp’s hard work
finally paid off on 365-1164 when the Treaty of Miami created the Terran
Republic. A five year transition period
was declared, and Louis Beauchamp was named the Republic’s first Prime Minister
on the first day of 1165.
The first three years of Beauchamp’s
administration were rather turbulent. Soon after the Republic was declared, the leaders of Prometheus
petitioned for admission. Not even
completely set up for world rule, the Republic had to rapidly transition itself
into an interstellar government. Late in
1166, a revolt led by mercenary troops (many of whom had become unemployed when
the world government was declared) had to be put down in Brazil. An extremely bloody affair, it led to the
outlawing of organized mercenary and paramilitary forces on Terra, a ban that
stands to this day. In 1167, contact was
made for the first time with Kagkan merchants at Barnard. Initially claiming ownership to all
uninhabited worlds in the Sol subsector (including Barnard), the Kagukans were
soon forced to recant most of their claims in the face of the Republic’s navy. It was also about this time that various exploration/re-contact
expeditions were sent out to some of the other neighboring worlds. Accompanied by Gabreelist priest, these
expeditions were not always welcomed, and were soon escorted by contingents of
marines, who participated in the overthrow of a number of TEDs (technologically
elevated dictators) and Virus controlled governments over a period of years
(the so-called Conquistador Era).
In 1175, Beauchamp instigated a number
of reforms to the civil service system of the Republic. The reforms streamlined the rapidly growing
bureaucracy, made it easier to dismiss incompetent employees, and eliminated
much of the duplication of effort that had started taking place. Beauchamp’s reforms also institutionalized
Gabree-el’s role in the Terran Republic government, creating the Ministry of
Religious Affairs, which she headed until her death in 1196. Reforms of the civil service similar to those
conducted by Beauchamp have been carried out by the Prime Minister of the
Republic every tens years since. The
most massive of these reforms was conducted in 1195, and involved the elimination or reassignment
of some 500,000 government employees.
Beauchamp finally resigned as Prime
Minister in 1184, after nearly 20 years in office. He was succeeded by Bradley W. Dasovich, who
had served previously as the Treasury Minister. Known for his frugality in that post, he became infamous for his reforms
of 1185, which slashed funding to the AH&C (Arts, Humanities, and Cultural
Affairs) Ministry and reduced the Navy Ministry’s budget by fully one-third
across the board. On the other hand, he
was also instrumental inproviding funding for infrastructure rebuilding
projects throughout the Republic, and also created the Redevelopment Ministry,
which was instrumental in raising the technological level of a number of worlds
within the Republic.
Dasovich served as Prime Minister for ten
years before he resigned in 1194. His
resignation has been the subject of some controversy, as it is known that
Shoshanna, Gabree-el’s granddaughter and Priestess of the Faith in all but name
by this time, disliked Dasovich and wanted the Republic’s government to be
taken in another direction. Whatever the
circumstances, Dasovich left government quietly, and was soon recalled to serve
as the head of the General Accounting and Auditing Ministry (GAAM) as the
result of the reforms of 1195.
Dasovich was succeeded in the role of
Prime Minister by Jorge Alee Dahnara, grandson of Gabree-el and Shoshanna’s
brother. Jorge had served previously as an
officer in the Terran Republic Marines, and had rose rapidly through the civil
service ranks to become the head of the Security Intelligence Ministry in
1191. A leading proponent of Terran
Republic expansion and exploration, his first act as Prime Minister, was to
insist on and received approval from the Executive Council for a doubling of
the Navy Ministry’s budget as part of his 1195 reforms of the Republic’s civil
service. Smaller but substanial
increases in the budgets of the other branches of the military soon followed,
as well as increases in the budget of the Ministry of Research, Science and Technology, and the
Security Intelligence Ministry.
Recent History
In 1196, a Terran military outpost was
constructed on Arrukir, partly to act as
a base of operations for expansion into the Atria (Banasdan) subsector (the
public reason), and to act as a base of operations for Terran Republic
operatives in the Vega subsector (the covert reason). These operations continue in 1202. Ironically it is the policy on expansion into
the Atria subsector that is the most controversial within the Executive
Council, as the goal of the Vegan operations, preventing the Vegans from
becoming a threat to the Republic, is well defined and agreed upon by all the
members of the Executive Council. Three
of the Executive Council members have expressed their desire to see the
Republic’s resources spent on rimward expansion, rather than on pushing deeper
into former Imperial space. In
particular they point to the worlds of the Near Bootean Cluster, which they
fear may fall into Dingir League hands if the Republic becomes too preoccupied
coreward. For his part, Jorge Dahnara
wants to continue the Atria subsector operations as they provide an excellent
cover for the ongoing operation in the Vega subsector.
Terran Republic expansion into the Dingir
subsector, and suspicions about Terran intervention in the Vega subsector
precipitated a confrontation between the Dingirian and Terran vessels in 1201
at Meshan. The resulting Quasi War
(1201) consisted of several inconclusive
engagements, but was ended before full scale war broke out. Gabreelist officials were believed to have
participated in the negotiations which concluded with both the Dingir League and
Terran Republic renouncing any other expansion in the disputed region of the
subsector. Tensions between the Dingir
League and the Terran Republic remain high, but they are at least below the
level of military conflict.
A large scale intervention was begun in
1198 on behalf of friendly Lagashian Gabreelists in their efforts to seize
control of their world from its indigenous rulers. Unlike previous “Conquistador” type
operations in the past, the various national rulers on Lagash were not TEDs or
Virus infected computers, but humans who could count on a large reserve of high
tech relic technology, plus some additional mid-tech military equipment which
had been built with relic industrial equipment. After some four bloody years, and a commitment of over 300,000 Terran
Republic Marines to continuous operations (a figure which strained the
logistical support capabilities of the Terran Republic Navy to the breaking
point on several occasions), Lagash has been secured with the exception of a
few trouble spots where guerillas have taken to the wilderness. It is expected that all resistance will cease
before the end of the year.
ORGANIZATION AND STRUCTURE
THE MINISTRIES
While there are a large number of
ministries within the Terran Republic government, they all fit into three broad categories: Major Ministries, Subordinate Ministries, and Independent
Ministries. Major Ministries are generally umbrella
organizations, which include a number of subordinate ministries within their
organization. All Major Ministries have
a seat on the Executive Council.
Subordinate Ministries are usually (though
not always) referred to as Departments to avoid confusion with the Major and
Independent Ministries, though their Executive Councils are made up of
individuals who hold the title of Minister. Subordinate Ministries are those ministries whose activities fall under
the direct control of one of the Major or Independent Ministries. Some, such as the Department of Judges within
the Justice Ministry are self-contained organizations, with little or no administrative
interaction with other Subordinate Ministries within its major ministry, while
others such as the Education Department regularly coordinates its activities
with the Health, Employment, and Family Services Departments under the Human
Services Ministry.
Independent Ministries are those
ministries whose activities fall outside the privy of the Major Ministries, but
do not have a seat on the Executive Council. An example of an independent ministry would be the Postal Ministry
(described below). Some Independent
Ministries are extremely powerful and influential, such as the GAAM (General
Accounting and Audit Ministry, whose power can sometimes only be overridden by
the Executive Council itself. Others,
such as the Archives and Records Ministry are not particularly powerful or influential, but serve a vital purpose or function within the Republic’s
governmental structure.
Major Ministries
Agriculture
Foreign Affairs
Finance
Defense
Justice
Human Services
Trade &
Commerce
Industry
Important Subordinate Ministries
(Departments)
Department of
Revenue (Finance)
Department of
Customs (Finance)
Department of
Securities & Exchange (Finance)
Army Ministry
(Defense)
Navy Ministry
(Defense)
Marine Ministry
(Defense)
Department of
Veteran’s Affairs (Defense)
Department of
Investigation (Justice)
Department of
Judges (Justice)
Department of
Health (Human Services)
Department of
Education (Human Services)
Department of
Employment (Human Services)
Department of
Family Services (Human Services)
Department of Senior
Services (Human Services)
Department of
Consumer Affairs (Human Services)
Redevelopment
Ministry (RS&T)
Department of
Space & Aeronautical Research (RS&T)
Department of
Worker Safety (Labor)
Significant Independent Ministries
Archives and
Records
Transport
Civil Defense and
Diaster Recovery
Environment
Labor
Postal
General Accounting
and Audit
Research, Science
and Technology
Communications and
Information Technology
Arts, Humanities,
and Cultural Affairs
Personnel
Management
General Services
Security Intelligence
Immigration and
Ethnic Affairs
Title: TERRAN REPUBLIC GOVERNMENT
“It would be easy, I
suppose, to at first glance think of the Terran Republic as just another
dictatorship. Despite Reformation
Coalition propaganda to the contrary this is simply not true. While certainly not a democratic government,
it at all times holds the interests and well being of its people to be most
important--this much it has common with the Regency and I think that it needs
to be recognized.”
Bandan Vezina
Regency
Ambassador to the Terran Republic
45-1212
IE
“I wonder how many
governments in Terran history have been called “People’s Republic” or some
similar such nonsense. How many claimed
to be democratic, like the Solomani Confederation, but weren’t. What’s really important is how well a
government serves its people, not whether or not that government won a regular
popularity contest. If a government is
doing its job properly, there should be no need for such wastes of the people’s
money. Politicians trying to win
popularity contests will do anything, say anything to get the masses to trust
them, then will do what’s best for their own career or their bank account, not
what’s best for the common good. Earth
doesn’t need that kind of government. We
need a government that will always be responsive to the common citizen and make
it possible for them to earn a paycheck and have good standard of living. That’s all people really want--a government
that will make the maglev trains run on time, keep our enemies at bay, and
allow them to be free to pursue their lives as they see fit.”
Daniel Dahnara
Comments
made during a debate
concerning
the Terran Republic Constitution
202-1161
IE
“Where is your
democracy? This is your democracy. If we fail you, take the government from us
using this.”
Daniel
Dahnara
In
response to a question from a male
spectatorduring
a speech in North America,
Danielgrabbed
a gauss rifle from a security
guardat
a rally and threw it to him while
saying theabove
quote. The stunt was so
popular, herepeated several more times
during his tour.
240-1162
IE
BACKGROUND
ORIGINS
By the time of the New Era, there had been
nearly 10,000 years of recorded history on Terra. For the first 6,000 or so years of that,
humanity existed as a collection of separate, often hostile national cultures
and subcultures which competed for land, resources and power amongst
themselves. It is possible, indeed
likely given the history of the Solomani Confederation, that this would have
continued unabated into the stars, save for the presence of the Vilani Imperium
or as it is also known, the First Imperium.
While conflict with the First Imperium
finally brought a true world government to Terra, it also brought social
changes as well. Over the centuries people
thought less and less of themselves as Americans, French, Chinese or whatever
and instead thought of themselves as simplyTerrans. The resulting “megaculture”
borrowed from all of the major national cultures that had come before, and put
an end to the petty bickering and infighting that had taken place over the
previous thousands of years. Even old
racial, ethnic and political barriers ceased to have meaning after a time.
Not everyone was happy with this turn of
events, however, and many millions of people who wished to keep their ethnic heritage “pure” or those who longed for the “good old days” left Terra in
search of worlds where they could continue as before without the pressure to
conform to the norms of the larger Terran megaculture--much of the former
Solomani Confederation was colonized by such peoples.
Terra thus remained united, even after the
fall of the Second Imperium, the Long Night, and into the Third Imperium. It was during the later stages of the era of
the Third Imperium that new cracks began to appear in Terran unity. These were not so much cultural as they were
ideological and lead to the Terran Civil War.
FOUNDING OF THE REPUBLIC
The current government structure of the
Republic was the brainchild of Daniel Dahnara, son of Gabree-el, who served as
General Services Minister (1155-57), Justice Minister (1157-61) and briefly as
Prime Minister (1161-62) of the Eastern Coalition before being assassinated in
1162 at the opening ceremonies for the Temple of the Faith in Jerusalem. He was a leading advocate of Terran
unification and traveled extensively promoting his concept of a strong
centralized civil service form of government, one that was efficient and
responsive to the people’s needs.
After his death, two people took up the
cause of promoting Terran unity and Daniel’s plan for a world government:
Gabree-el Dahnara, his mother, who was serving at the time as a minister
without portfolio in the Eastern Coalition cabinet, in addition to her
spiritual duties as leader of the Gabreelist faith; and Louis Beauchamp, who
worked with Daniel in the General Services Ministry and later served as his
assistant at the Justice Ministry before succeeding him as Justice Minister
(1161-62) and Prime Minister (1162-1164). While both worked in concert, each employed different methods in
achieving their goal. Gabree-el made her
appeals directly to the people, giving sermons and generally using the faith as
a tool to promote the concept of unification. She also met publicly with a number of popular figures, including
Edward Lahtinen, leader of the Sentient Rights Movement. Beauchamp, on the other hand, preferred to
work behind the scenes, negotiating with various national leaders through out
Terra, and carrying on a kind of quiet diplomacy which proved very successful,
particularly after the incident involving the capture and execution of former
Solomani Party leader Tomas Evers in late in 1163.
Gabree-el and Beauchamp’s hard work
finally paid off on 365-1164 when the Treaty of Miami created the Terran
Republic. A five year transition period
was declared, and Louis Beauchamp was named the Republic’s first Prime Minister
on the first day of 1165.
The first three years of Beauchamp’s
administration were rather turbulent. Soon after the Republic was declared, the leaders of Prometheus
petitioned for admission. Not even
completely set up for world rule, the Republic had to rapidly transition itself
into an interstellar government. Late in
1166, a revolt led by mercenary troops (many of whom had become unemployed when
the world government was declared) had to be put down in Brazil. An extremely bloody affair, it led to the
outlawing of organized mercenary and paramilitary forces on Terra, a ban that
stands to this day. In 1167, contact was
made for the first time with Kagkan merchants at Barnard. Initially claiming ownership to all
uninhabited worlds in the Sol subsector (including Barnard), the Kagukans were
soon forced to recant most of their claims in the face of the Republic’s navy. It was also about this time that various exploration/re-contact
expeditions were sent out to some of the other neighboring worlds. Accompanied by Gabreelist priest, these
expeditions were not always welcomed, and were soon escorted by contingents of
marines, who participated in the overthrow of a number of TEDs (technologically
elevated dictators) and Virus controlled governments over a period of years
(the so-called Conquistador Era).
In 1175, Beauchamp instigated a number
of reforms to the civil service system of the Republic. The reforms streamlined the rapidly growing
bureaucracy, made it easier to dismiss incompetent employees, and eliminated
much of the duplication of effort that had started taking place. Beauchamp’s reforms also institutionalized
Gabree-el’s role in the Terran Republic government, creating the Ministry of
Religious Affairs, which she headed until her death in 1196. Reforms of the civil service similar to those
conducted by Beauchamp have been carried out by the Prime Minister of the
Republic every tens years since. The
most massive of these reforms was conducted in 1195, and involved the elimination or reassignment
of some 500,000 government employees.
Beauchamp finally resigned as Prime
Minister in 1184, after nearly 20 years in office. He was succeeded by Bradley W. Dasovich, who
had served previously as the Treasury Minister. Known for his frugality in that post, he became infamous for his reforms
of 1185, which slashed funding to the AH&C (Arts, Humanities, and Cultural
Affairs) Ministry and reduced the Navy Ministry’s budget by fully one-third
across the board. On the other hand, he
was also instrumental inproviding funding for infrastructure rebuilding
projects throughout the Republic, and also created the Redevelopment Ministry,
which was instrumental in raising the technological level of a number of worlds
within the Republic.
Dasovich served as Prime Minister for ten
years before he resigned in 1194. His
resignation has been the subject of some controversy, as it is known that
Shoshanna, Gabree-el’s granddaughter and Priestess of the Faith in all but name
by this time, disliked Dasovich and wanted the Republic’s government to be
taken in another direction. Whatever the
circumstances, Dasovich left government quietly, and was soon recalled to serve
as the head of the General Accounting and Auditing Ministry (GAAM) as the
result of the reforms of 1195.
Dasovich was succeeded in the role of
Prime Minister by Jorge Alee Dahnara, grandson of Gabree-el and Shoshanna’s
brother. Jorge had served previously as an
officer in the Terran Republic Marines, and had rose rapidly through the civil
service ranks to become the head of the Security Intelligence Ministry in
1191. A leading proponent of Terran
Republic expansion and exploration, his first act as Prime Minister, was to
insist on and received approval from the Executive Council for a doubling of
the Navy Ministry’s budget as part of his 1195 reforms of the Republic’s civil
service. Smaller but substanial
increases in the budgets of the other branches of the military soon followed,
as well as increases in the budget of the Ministry of Research, Science and Technology, and the
Security Intelligence Ministry.
Recent History
In 1196, a Terran military outpost was
constructed on Arrukir, partly to act as
a base of operations for expansion into the Atria (Banasdan) subsector (the
public reason), and to act as a base of operations for Terran Republic
operatives in the Vega subsector (the covert reason). These operations continue in 1202. Ironically it is the policy on expansion into
the Atria subsector that is the most controversial within the Executive
Council, as the goal of the Vegan operations, preventing the Vegans from
becoming a threat to the Republic, is well defined and agreed upon by all the
members of the Executive Council. Three
of the Executive Council members have expressed their desire to see the
Republic’s resources spent on rimward expansion, rather than on pushing deeper
into former Imperial space. In
particular they point to the worlds of the Near Bootean Cluster, which they
fear may fall into Dingir League hands if the Republic becomes too preoccupied
coreward. For his part, Jorge Dahnara
wants to continue the Atria subsector operations as they provide an excellent
cover for the ongoing operation in the Vega subsector.
Terran Republic expansion into the Dingir
subsector, and suspicions about Terran intervention in the Vega subsector
precipitated a confrontation between the Dingirian and Terran vessels in 1201
at Meshan. The resulting Quasi War
(1201) consisted of several inconclusive
engagements, but was ended before full scale war broke out. Gabreelist officials were believed to have
participated in the negotiations which concluded with both the Dingir League and
Terran Republic renouncing any other expansion in the disputed region of the
subsector. Tensions between the Dingir
League and the Terran Republic remain high, but they are at least below the
level of military conflict.
A large scale intervention was begun in
1198 on behalf of friendly Lagashian Gabreelists in their efforts to seize
control of their world from its indigenous rulers. Unlike previous “Conquistador” type
operations in the past, the various national rulers on Lagash were not TEDs or
Virus infected computers, but humans who could count on a large reserve of high
tech relic technology, plus some additional mid-tech military equipment which
had been built with relic industrial equipment. After some four bloody years, and a commitment of over 300,000 Terran
Republic Marines to continuous operations (a figure which strained the
logistical support capabilities of the Terran Republic Navy to the breaking
point on several occasions), Lagash has been secured with the exception of a
few trouble spots where guerillas have taken to the wilderness. It is expected that all resistance will cease
before the end of the year.
ORGANIZATION AND STRUCTURE
THE MINISTRIES
While there are a large number of
ministries within the Terran Republic government, they all fit into three broad categories: Major Ministries, Subordinate Ministries, and Independent
Ministries. Major Ministries are generally umbrella
organizations, which include a number of subordinate ministries within their
organization. All Major Ministries have
a seat on the Executive Council.
Subordinate Ministries are usually (though
not always) referred to as Departments to avoid confusion with the Major and
Independent Ministries, though their Executive Councils are made up of
individuals who hold the title of Minister. Subordinate Ministries are those ministries whose activities fall under
the direct control of one of the Major or Independent Ministries. Some, such as the Department of Judges within
the Justice Ministry are self-contained organizations, with little or no administrative
interaction with other Subordinate Ministries within its major ministry, while
others such as the Education Department regularly coordinates its activities
with the Health, Employment, and Family Services Departments under the Human
Services Ministry.
Independent Ministries are those
ministries whose activities fall outside the privy of the Major Ministries, but
do not have a seat on the Executive Council. An example of an independent ministry would be the Postal Ministry
(described below). Some Independent
Ministries are extremely powerful and influential, such as the GAAM (General
Accounting and Audit Ministry, whose power can sometimes only be overridden by
the Executive Council itself. Others,
such as the Archives and Records Ministry are not particularly powerful or influential, but serve a vital purpose or function within the Republic’s
governmental structure.
Major Ministries
Agriculture
Foreign Affairs
Finance
Defense
Justice
Human Services
Trade &
Commerce
Industry
Important Subordinate Ministries
(Departments)
Department of
Revenue (Finance)
Department of
Customs (Finance)
Department of
Securities & Exchange (Finance)
Army Ministry
(Defense)
Navy Ministry
(Defense)
Marine Ministry
(Defense)
Department of
Veteran’s Affairs (Defense)
Department of
Investigation (Justice)
Department of
Judges (Justice)
Department of
Health (Human Services)
Department of
Education (Human Services)
Department of
Employment (Human Services)
Department of
Family Services (Human Services)
Department of Senior
Services (Human Services)
Department of
Consumer Affairs (Human Services)
Redevelopment
Ministry (RS&T)
Department of
Space & Aeronautical Research (RS&T)
Department of
Worker Safety (Labor)
Significant Independent Ministries
Archives and
Records
Transport
Civil Defense and
Diaster Recovery
Environment
Labor
Postal
General Accounting
and Audit
Research, Science
and Technology
Communications and
Information Technology
Arts, Humanities,
and Cultural Affairs
Personnel
Management
General Services
Security Intelligence
Immigration and
Ethnic Affairs