Ministry of State (Urcea)
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| Headquarters | Leochán Palace 44 State Street Urceopolis |
| Annual budget | $442.3 billion (FY 2008) |
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| Website | state.urc |
The Ministry of State, often informally called the Foreign Ministry and formally titled His Most Christian Majesty's Ministry of State, is the Purpaidá Ministry that advises the Apostolic King of Urcea and leads the nation in foreign policy issues. Equivalent to the foreign ministry of other countries, the Ministry of State is responsible for the international relations of the Apostolic Kingdom of Urcea, and negotiates treaties and agreements with foreign entities. The State Ministry is not, however, responsible for relations between Urcea and the member states of the Levantine Union, which is under the purview of the Ministry of Commerce
The Purpaidá position originated in the 16th century as the King's Secretary for Sarpedon and Crona, naturally evolving to the current Ministry by the end of the 18th century.
Office for Foreign Policymaking
Agency for Sarpedon Relations
Agency for Crona Relations
Department of National and Institutional Development
The Department of National and Institutional Development (known as the DNID) is responsible for providing assistance to developing nations in the Urcean sphere of Crona - particularly NSTA members but also Varshan - for the creation of stable democratic governmental institutions. It, along with the Agency for Cronan Economic Development (ACED), were created by the Concilium Daoni's "Democratic Investment Act of 2024", which was passed in the wake of the end of the Final War of the Deluge. The DNID works closely with ACED in all of its responsibilities in Cronan nations as the Act envisioned the strength of Cronan nations to be a "holistic mutually supporting effort involving public and economic institutions". The activities that DNID promotes in order to achieve this task are wide ranging, including collaboration with the Collegium Scientificum to provide the best scholars possible in the field of statecraft and nation-building to the Cronans, to providing materials on the philosophical underpinnings of Occidental governance, to working with the Cronan governments to identify problem areas and threats to democratic governance and working on possible resolutions. In this last juncture, DNID's "problem solving" role, collaboration with intelligence segments of the Ministry of National Security to identify foreign and domestic threats to the nascent Cronan democratic systems. The DNID also assists the Agency for Crona Relations' primary mission of establishing good relations between Urcea and Crona and the specific task of building strong relationships between NSTA members. Additionally, the DNID works collaboratively with the different branches of the Armed Forces of the Apostolic Kingdom of Urcea to provide training and equipment, where necessary, to the defense forces of NSTA members.
In addition to its primary tasks, the DNID serves as the primary body responsible for identifying possible assets and land which can be given to former slaves in Varshan and organizing the humanitarian response and political organization of freed slaves within League-occupied Varshan. The Nysdra Development Additional Appropriation Act of 2025 expanded the role of the DNID to have a primary role in statebuilding in Venua'tino in order to accelerat e the creation of new "national states".