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==Government== | ==Government== | ||
The East Arctic Mandate is an {{wp|administrative state}} governed by Kiravian federal agencies and appointees. | The East Arctic Mandate is an {{wp|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 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. | There is no legislative body, though there are vague plans to convene a consultative council without lawmaking powers sometime in the near future. | ||
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 [[Æonara]] and [[Atrassica]]. | |||
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 addressing system|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. | |||
The native population of the East Arctic Mandate hold the status of [[Kiravian_nationality_law#Kiravian-protected_persons|Kiravian-protected persons]]. | |||
===Local Governance=== | ===Local Governance=== | ||
The East Arctic Mandate is divided into six ''deneþuriguv'', translatable as “bailiwicks” or “magisterial districts” | 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 [[Household registration in the Kiravian Federacy|civil registration]] are generally left to their own devices, with Kiravian authorities governing them (when necessary) indirectly through tribal leaders as intermediaries. | |||
[[File:Antarctic Great Wall Station 2010 - panoramio.jpg|thumb|Main Administation Building, Port Sidhrabān]] | [[File:Antarctic Great Wall Station 2010 - panoramio.jpg|thumb|Main Administation Building, Port Sidhrabān]] | ||
==Society & Culture== | ==Society & 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. | 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. | ||