East Arctic Mandate

East Arctic Mandate Êdrixistórulnax Ípasimdiskírēn (Kiravic)
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Mandatory Power	Kiravian Federacy
Capital	Port Sidhrabān
Largest settlement	Ōsen-Rōtelra
Population	17,241
Administratrix	Máire Cinnéad
Stanora seats	0
Official languages	Standard Coscivian
Other Languages	Chiraqi Simiut Intuit (Turbotaxican)
Postal Abbreviation	EIS

The East Arctic Mandate (Coscivian: Êdrixistórulnax Ípasimdiskírēn) is a League of Nations mandate in far northern Crona entrusted to the Kiravian Federacy. It was separated from Venua'tino in 1974.

Geography

The East Arctic Mandate borders Alpachnia to its ample south, though there is no overland road or rail route between the two territories. The Mandate's northern boundary is undefined; the north polar ice cap constitutes a de facto administrative boundary. It borders Venua'tino to its west, and faces the Albion Sea to the east. Most of the Mandate's coastline is obstructed by pack ice, and vast floes of drift ice complicate navigation for much of the year.

Governance

The East Arctic Mandate is an administrative state governed by Kiravian federal agencies and appointees. Primary responsibility for civil administration lies with the Kiravian Polar Affairs Executive, represented on the ground by an Administrator or Administratrix based in Fort Sidhrabān.

There is no legislative body, though there are vague plans to convene a consultative council without lawmaking powers sometime in the near future. Most legislation governing the Mandate is in the form of Collegial ordinances or administrative decrees.

The Mandatory Court of the East Arctic is the highest judicial body, primarily hearing cases involving the government, involving indigenous customs and usages, or elevated from the magisterial courts in each raion (see below). Appeals are to the Federal Appellate Court for the Atrassic Sector, which also has jurisdiction over Atrassica and sits there.

The Federal Post provides postal service to the mandate, which contains some of the agency's most remote facilities and difficult postings. Extension of the Kiravian postal address scheme to the Mandate is incomplete due to lack of demand. As such, door-to-door delivery is currently limited to Fort Sidhrabān and Ōson-Rōtelra, with other outposts served by office delivery only. The Mandate issues its own stamps, which are highly sought after by collectors and supplement the government's revenue.

The native population of the East Arctic Mandate hold the status of Kiravian-protected persons and are eligible for passports commensurate with this status.

Local Governance

The East Arctic Mandate is divided into six deneþuriguv, translatable as “bailiwicks” or “magisterial districts”. These include four raion into which the mandate’s territory is divided latitudinally - Tundra, Near Arctic, High Arctic, and Extreme Arctic - and two vestra (“boroughs”) - Ōsen-Rōtelra and Port Sidhrabān - which are administratively separate from the raīon surrounding them.

At the present time, indigenous denizens of the Mandate who have not voluntarily submitted to civil registration are generally left to their own devices, with Kiravian authorities governing them (when necessary) indirectly through tribal leaders as intermediaries.

Main Administation Building, Port Sidhrabān

Society and Culture

The majority of the Mandate’s seventeen thousand people are indigenous, belonging to three different ethnic groups. The Choryak people live as tundra herders and inland hunters. The Simiut are hunter-gatherers in the more northerly glaciated areas and the Intuit are marine mammal hunters living on the sea ice and adjacent coastal regions. The Simiut and Intuit are differentiated mainly by lifestyle, speaking closely-related dialects and sharing generally similar religious traditions. Almost the entire indigenous population is nomadic or semi-nomadic, living in seasonally-shifting traditional settlements.

A small but growing population of Coscivian and Celtic Kiravians live in the Mandate, almost all on a temporary basis as military and governmental personnel, scientists, and service workers. A few licenced Kiravian private vendors and missionaries also live in the Mandate.

Economy

Nomadic subsistence

Science, shady military activities, and hotel supply chains.

There is some limited commercial fishing activity in East Arctic waters under licence. Licence fees are a source of revenue.

In 1992 the SNOWPEC Executive Committee appointed a special rapporteur to conduct a preliminary assessment of East Arctic potential and produce a report complete with recommendations. On the recommendation of the special rapporteur pursuant to their 1998 report, ExCom's Exploratory Subcommittee passed an advisory resolution in favour of convening a Working Group. However, formation of the Working Group was stalled at the stakeholder consultation stage until 2014 due to concerns over deliverables despite pre-clearance. After completing a senior-level ex parte conciliation process, the finalised shortlist and project roadmap was certified and the Working Group scheduled to draft an RFP to commission an impact report by 2027 in order to evaluate an option tree for proceeding to Phase I feasibility studies by Q2 2043.

A local currency, the East Arctic lira, is issued by the (Valēka-based) Arctic Currency Board at a fixed 3:1 exchange rate to the saar. The lira does not actually circulate, and is only used to denominate postage stamp values. Legal tender proof coins and ₤2 banknotes featuring Arctic wildlife are manufactured in Kiravia and sold to collectors.

Natural Resources

It is probable that submarine natural gas deposits can be found in the Mandate's territorial and otherwise reserved waters; extensive pack ice and drift ice in those waters for much or all of the year is an impediment to commercial exploration for gas reserves, to say nothing of their exploitation.

Onshore mineral exploration has yielded some promising prospects:

Settlements

• Fort Sidhrabān- Administrative centre, military base, icebreaker base.
• Ōsen-Rōtelra - Largest Kiravian settlement, research base, and logistical hub.
• Ávixistóra (English: Blue Ice) - Support base.
• Meridia Station - Research station.
• Léonoiþansin (English: Léonoix Base) - Research station named for Arctic explorer and Kiravian naval officer Xasartur Léonoix.
• Þóaskrita (English: Cool Vibrations) - Research installation, seismic monitoring station.
• Camp 22 - Kiravian Army installation. Suspected to be a missile defence/strategic sensing base.
• Atlasova Mission - Arctic Orthodox mission.

Meridia Station

Ávixistóra

Ōsen-Rōtelra

Notable East Arctiggas

• Derek Tulugaq - Amateur cross-country skier who attempted to compete in the 2034 Winter IxLympics but did not qualify; lifelong resident of the western Tundra District.