Household registration in Kiravia
Household registration in Kiravia (Coscivian: Thramdastraterion) is a system of civil registration administered by the federal subjects of the Kiravian Federacy. It records data about the personal status and vital statistics of members of a household, normally defined as a married couple and their unmarried children. Kiravian citizens, metics, and resident nationals must maintain household registration in order to document and exercise the rights appropriate to their civil status. Other persons subject to Kiravian jurisdiction, including Kiravian Nationals (Overseas), Kiravian-protected persons, legally resident aliens, and "subjects of the land", do not have a thramdastraterion. Thramdastraterion records are stored and managed by the county registrar (amtrateriondur, raīoteriondur) of the county, raion, or free city containing the household's registered domicile.
| Thramdastraterion | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Type | Certified ledger |
| Issued by | Kiravian federal subjects |
| Purpose | Civil registration |
| Valid in | Kiravian Federacy Kiravian Collectivity |
| Eligibility | Kiravian nationals |
| Cost | nominal |
| Rights | Right of abode Belonger status (external territories) Unconditional work authorisation Social insurance Family tax credit |
Content
- Surname - Appears as the heading and citation title for the record.
- Family name - Many Coscivian cultures make use of “family names” (danriáma, dóntra'áma) to distinguish a specific dóntra from others sharing the same surname, which may be associated with a larger clan or higher-order kinship group.
- Registered domicile - See below.
- Names of constituent persons - Either an individual or two spouses.
- Date of marriage - Usually applicable.
- Date of registration
- Date of closure - When the record is closed due to marital dissolution, death or re-registration of all listed persons, or administrative cancellation.
- Names of dependent persons - Children and wards of the constituent persons.
- Civil status (citizen, metic, mere national) - Non-citizen spouses of Kiravian citizens and metics become metics themselves upon marriage (effective from date of registration) and are recorded as such. Non-national spouses of Kiravian nationals with household registration are given the status of M-class indefinite legal residents upon registration while their nationality petitions are processed.
- Tuva - The ethno-social group identification of the constituent persons. Children are presumed to inherit their father’s tuva affiliation. Some states have an approved list of recognised tuva, while others allow write-ins.
Household registers are printed in High Coscivian, sometimes with subtitles in the official language(s) of the recording jurisdiction. Under the Kiravian Union, household registers were printed in Kiravic, except in Sydona and the Melian Isles where Austral Coscivian and Melotic were used.
Registered domicile
Any location in the Kiravian Federacy that resolves to a valid Kiravian postal address can be chosen as a registered domicile. The location of a domicile must be at least as specific as the countyship or raion (as the records themselves are maintained by countyships) and no more specific than the townland or kontruv. Individual blocks, lots, or buildings are not specified.
The location of one’s registered domicile normally does not correspond to one’s residential address nor place of birth. Most often the chosen location has some personal significance to the registrant(s): For many Kiravians, especially Kir people and Southerners, it corresponds to their ancestral home, however defined. Other common choices are a childhood home or other past address, the place where a couple met or was married, or even a cherished vacation spot.
Still, as any place with a valid postal address may be chosen, transfer fees are nominal, and physical access to the records is rarely necessary, some Kiravians select their registered domicile for less orthodox reasons, or even at random. Prominent landmarks and villages with humorous or unusual names often have domicile registrations in great excess of their actual populations. Diaspora returnees and naturalised immigrants.
It is possible to register a domicile on the disputed island of Wintergen, which has been ruled by Burgundie since 1823 AD, although the postal maps are now quite out-of-date. The records are maintained by the government-in-exile, which is based in Valēka. Various uninhabited islets, including the disputed islet of Ortego have household registries maintained by the Bureau for Minor Outlying Island Affairs, part of the Kiravian Maritime Executive.
One's registered domicile is treated as personally identifiable information (PID) and is subject to the relevant privacy and data protection laws. It is often used as an authentication question by banks and similar institutions, as the information is less easily accessible to potential scammers than one's actual home address.
Procedures
See also: Marital and family law in Kiravia
An eligble adult Kiravian national may file a new household registration for themselves at any time, but it is most commonly done upon marriage. Both married couples and individuals may register a household, but married partners may not be registered separately as individuals. In most states, unmarried persons may remain on the register they were born into until/unless they themselves marry. Some states allow up to three generations of a dóntra to be listed on the same register.
Wards may be listed on their guardian’s register, but are accounted for separately from natural offspring.
Foundlings, as wards of the state, are registered as wards of the Emperor’s household for administrative convenience. Their registered domicile is usually the location of that province’s Emperor statue.
Divorces are noted on a household register, and records created for subsequent marriages reference previous registrations. Annulments are usually handled differently: In cases not involving children, the household register for a null marriage is destroyed. If children are present, the record is closed out but maintained to attest to their legitimacy.
Civil unions and domestic partnerships are not eligible for household registration. States that offer civil unions maintain a register of them that is superficially similar to the household register. However, these records are not transferred between federal subjects, do not include a registered domicile, and do not contain information on children or cross-references to registrations other than previous marriages/civil unions. Domestic partnerships are considered merely contractual formations and are not centrally registered in such a manner.
Kiravian nationals retain their household registration even if residing outside of the Kiravian Federacy, whether in unincorporated Kiravian possessions or abroad. Expatriates may update their registration through the nearest Kiravian consulate, which will transmit the changes to the registrar of the countyship where the person is domiciled.
Significance and Applications
The thramdastraterion is of great importance to modern Kiravian life.
Within the framework of the Federacy-Collectivity complex and thematic federalism, the location of one's registered domicile has implications for nationality law and freedom of movement. Kiravian nationals with household regitration in a province of the Federacy, those with household registration in an external province of the Collectivity, and those without household registration (regardless of where they reside) are distinct classes of nationality subject to different migration controls and issued different passports for international travel. The special status extended to the Sydonan and Melian themes allows them to impose restrictions on local household registration by migrants or prospective migrants from elsewhere in the Kiravian Collectivity, and to reserve certain privileges for those who do have local registered domicile. Similarly, in external territories of the Collectivity, where the law permits, certain rights such as right of abode, right to land, and political privileges may be reserved to those with local registered domicile.
Under the Kiravian internal passport system, Kiravians are eligible to hold a passport from either the province where they reside or the province where they have registered domicile. Resident aliens may only hold passports from the province where they reside.
Valid household registration is generally needed to access various public welfare benefits, though most coastal provinces have made provisions for Kiravian nationals without household registration and legally resident aliens to participate in some or all welfare programmes. Household registration is a requirement to receive benefits from the Social Pension Fund.
Many state constitutions require public officeholders - governors, judges, legislators, etc. - to have registered domicile in the state they serve. In resource-rich provinces with sovereign wealth funds that issue dividends, eligibility for dividends is assessed using the household registry.
Election boards consult the civil registry to verify a citizen's eligibility to vote.
Waste, fraud, and abuse
The frequency of fraudulent registrations is not definitively known, as it can be difficult to differentiate between fraudulent registrations and those that are merely erroneous or outdated. Numerous county registrars have contracted for independent audits that have returned figures as low as 0.4% and as high as 3% likely fraudulent records. The misuse and abuse of originally legitimate registrations is also known to occur, and is complicated by the fact that in some inland provinces and on urom reserves a small but non-trivial percentage of natural deaths are not registered, and therefore are not reflected in the household registry.
History
The practice of registering families and keeping written genealogical records has deep roots in Kiravian history. Like most traditional cultures, ancient Coscivians maintained oral histories of ancestral lineages. The proto-totalitarian Verticalist system of the First Empire required detailed and current demographic data on village work units to inform the labour planning and population transfers that underpinned its command economy, although these records were quantitative and anonymous in nature. The connexion between registration and citizenship rights is similarly quite old, with Coscivian polities from the Second Empire on maintaining ledgers of their fully-enfranchised citizens and their households. The Antaric Empire and the Idośok Kingdom in the Northeast attempted (with mixed success) to impose compulsory civil registration of all residents in each prefecture under their rule, but otherwise comprehensive registration of households with the state would not be put into practice until the advent of modernity. Nonetheless, records similar to the civil thramdastraterion were maintained by churches, ancestral shrines, and cemeteries. In areas where manorialism took root, manorial records related to land tenure and other obligations were kept on a household-by-household basis and contained similar information.
The current system of household registration was first introduced in the late 19th century AD in Northeast Kirav. Rapidly urbanising states like Fariva, Harma, Bissáv, and subsequently the Kaviska were the first to encounter the need to maintain centralised registries of family units. The system was gradually adopted by more and more jurisdictions across Great Kirav as modernisation progressed, but was implemented more rapidly in the overseas colonies to promote more efficient administration and control access to civil rights. Although widespread by the 1930s A.D., household registration did not become nigh-universal as it is now until the Sunderance, when both the Kiravian Union and Kiravian Remnant began to rely on thramdastraterion for all manner of administrative purposes, including the judiciary, military conscription, and economic planning.
Household registration was added to the list of Duties of the Federal Subjects by the Restoration Constitution.
Associated States
The Kiravian-associated state of Saint Kennera has a thramdastraterion registry that is fully compatible and interoperable with those of the Kiravian provinces. The neighbouring associated state of Pribraltar also has a thramdastraterion registry, but the Pribraltarian registry operates on different principles to the Kiravian system. In Pribraltar, registration is open to all legal residents, regardless of nationality and civil status. Whereas the Kiravian system prohibits multiple registration and Saint Kennera does as well for compatibility reasons, it is common for Pribraltar residents to also have household registration in Saint Kennera or a Kiravian province.
Emulating the Kiravian practice, the protectorate of Scapa established a Family Register in 21162.
See also