Executive College

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Rektārkax Vekturxóstrev
Federal Executive College
Government emblem
Overview
StateKiravian Federacy
LeaderSecretary-General
Appointed byPrime Executive
Responsible toPrime Executive
HeadquartersTárilavnuv Gate
Kartika
Websitehttps://www.xudra.āri.kr/

The Federal Executive College (Coscivian: Rektārkax Vekturxóstrev) is the chief executive body and national cabinet of the Kiravian Federacy. Appointed and led by the Prime Executive, the Executive College acts as the organisational conduit through which the administration discharges the responsibilities of the Government of the Kiravian Federacy, directs the professional civil bureaucracy, formulates policy within the scope of the executive power, and coördinates inter-agency responses to national issues. It is the highest forum in the executive branch for policy deliberation and resolution.

As the Kiravian federal government is a fully presidential system, the Executive College is not independent of the Prime Executive (all of its members are appointed and dismissible by the PE), and its institutional powers, though extant, are limited (see below). Resolutions of the college can only bind the Prime Executure in the context of reserve powers (see further below). This contrasts with the executive colleges (and analogous bodies) of many Kiravian states and territories, which exercise substantial power as collegial institutions in their own right, and may also have some degree of independence from the Chief Executive/Governor. As such, nearly all cabinet votes are advisory in nature (so that the PE may gauge support for a measure among his administration), relate to internal business, or merely pro forma. Practicality, convention, and custom underpin the importance and political role of the Executive College more than constitutional authority, and its manner of business has evolved under different administrations. Nonetheless, the constitution specifies categories of official acts that must be confirmed or countersigned by the Secretary-General of the Executive College in addition to the Prime Executive, or for which the College (to include the PE) is the designated authority, rather than the PE himself.

Composition and Powers

Constitutional basis + Reserve powers Eligibility for appointment. Confirmation process.

Three members of the College - the Prime Executive, Second Executive, and Reserve Executive - are elected. Eligibility for all three offices and the nomination/election process therefor is governed by Chapter II, Article I of the Constitution.

The offices of Secretary-General, Attorney-General, Chief State Executive, Chief Defence Executive, Chief Territorial Executive, and Chief Maritime Executive are also established by the Constitution (Chapter II, Article II). These officers are appointed by the Prime Executive, subject to confirmation by the Stanora.

Most of the other offices are established by Acts of the Stanora, appointed by the Prime Executive, subject to confirmation by the Stanora.

The Prime Executive may independently name additional officers to the College without confirmation by the Stanora and assign them official duties by Collegial Ordinance, but these officers cannot vote on Collegial business unless confirmed.

Things the College can do as a body:

  • Submit legislative proposals to the Stanora
  • Draft a budget and present the same to the Stanora
  • Make appointments to federal public corporations and federally-chartered QUANGOs
  • Suspend the charters of internal territories and overseas territories, dependencies, and other federal subjects lacking domestic autonomy
  • Exercise the legal rights of the Government of the Kiravian Federacy in regard to civil lawsuits, state private property, and (wholly or partly) state-owned enterprises
  • Declare and rescind martial law on the territory of the Federacy or the external special themes (Sydona and the Melian Isles)
  • Formally demarcate the relative jurisdictions of subordinate agencies and specify the delegation and allocation of general executive powers among the same, within legislative parameters.

Emergency and reserve powers:

  • Coup the Prime Executive
  • If the Stanora is unable to function, the College may temporarily assume its powers.

Decrees

The Executive College can issue several types of decrees with the force of law.

  • Collegial Decrees create primary legislation in areas permitted by the Constitution. They are enacted "on behalf of the Emperor" and authenticated with the State Seal.
  • Collegial Ordinances mostly create secondary legislation. They are enacted "in the name of the Emperor" and bear the State Seal.
  • Collegiate Ordinances are enacted "in service to the Emperor" and bear the Government Seal.
  • Collegial Orders create regulations. They are enacted "in service to the Emperor" and bear the Government Seal.

Members


Officer Duties Subordinate Agencies
Prime Executive Head of government
Chairman of the College.
Second Executive Constitutional successor to the Prime Executive
Chair of the College in PE's absence
Secretary-General
Steward of Tárilavn Gate
Chief administrator of the executive branch
Charge of official business of the College
Custodian of the Government Seal
Concurrently Chief Executive for Exchequer & Management (by convention)
  • Government Provisions Administration
  • Bureau of Personnel Management
Attorney-General Legal representative of the Federacy
Attorney and chief litigator for the administration
Not a public prosecutor.
  • Litigation Office
  • Legislative Review Office
Emergency Backup Executive Successor of last resort to the Prime Executive
Coördinator for continuity of government planning
  • Operational Continuity Office
  • Commission on Long-term Planning


Executive Policy Remit Subordinate Agencies
State
Keeper of the State Seal
Dean of Torrigen Hall
Foreign policy and Diplomacy
Consular affairs
International organisations
Cultural exchange
Foreign intelligence
Coscivian minorities and Overseas Kiravians
Ceremony and protocol
Defence
Captain of the Citadel
Armed forces
Strategic planning
Military intelligence
Security
Dean of the Dreaded Ibykia
State and internal security
Domestic security
Border security
Counter-terrorism
Cybersecurity and Biosecurity
Territorial
Dean of the Tholos
Environmental policy
Law enforcement
Public Lands
Forest policy
Urom affairs
Geodesy
Intergovernmental affairs
  • Federal Police
  • Ecological Integrity Agency
  • Urom Administration
  • Federal Forestry Service
  • Federal Park Service
  • Federal Pasture Administration
  • Bureau of Federal Estates
  • Federal Fish & Game Agency
  • Cartographic & Geological Bureau
  • Water Control & Reclamation Office
  • Federal Aviation Authority
Agriculture
Dean of the Florîd Palace
Agricultural policy
Food policy
Veterinary policy
Weights & Measures
Rural development
  • Common Agricultural Fund
  • Agricultural Support Service
  • Food Quality & Supply Administration
  • Bureau of Weights & Measures
  • Bureau of Rural Development
  • Federal Livestock Commission
  • Agricultural Property Office
  • Anti-Cannabis Police
Maritime & Insular Affairs
First Grandee of the Sea or some shit
Marine policy
Insular policy
Civil navigation
Fisheries policy
Territorial waters
Blue economy
Oceanography
Meteorology


  • Merchant Marine Authority
    • Navigation Commission
    • Maritime Police
    • Shipping Registry


  • Oceanographic Service
  • Federal Weather Service
  • Bureau of Seamen's Affairs
  • Bureau of Fisheries
  • Lighthouse Board
  • Bureau of Insurance, Wrecks, and Salvage


  • Insular Affairs Bureau
    • Micronesian Authority
    • Submerged Reefs & Shoals Office
    • Guano Mines Office
    • Volcanic Islands Insurance Corporation


  • Kiravian Waters Authority
    • Territorial Sea Bureau
    • Contiguous Zone Bureau
    • Exclusive Economic Zone Bureau
    • Continental Shelf Bureau


  • Marine Biological Laboratories
  • Anti-Whaling Agency
Overseas Development Colonisation
Human Capital Transfer
Colonial and indigenous trade
Colonial infrastructure
Human development
International development aid
  • Overseas Development Bank
  • Enterprise Division
    • Brace & Rail Initiative
    • International Projects Promotion Office
  • Endeavour Division
    • Human Capital Transfer Administration
    • Housing & Structural Development Administration
    • Pluricontinental Investment Agency
  • Horizon Division
    • Kiravian Agency for International Development
    • Cronan Health Service
    • Tropical Medicine Service
    • Human Development Planning Commission
  • Convergence Division
    • Advanced Convergence Office
    • Inner-Phase Convergence Office
    • Middle-Phase Convergence Office
    • Expansion-Phase Office
Overseas Governance Colonial policy
Good governance and capacity-building
Colonial civil service
Colonial government auditing
Colonial law enforcement
  • Institutional Development Bureau
  • Overseas Public Accounting Bureau
  • Inter-Imperial Affairs Office
  • Cronan Rangers Service
Common Market Interstate trade policy
Competition law
Consumer protection
Transportation policy
  • Interstate Commerce Commission
  • Chemical-Weapon & Drug Precursor Control Office
  • Inland Navigation Authority
  • Federal Railways Board
Industry & Commerce Industrial policy
Trade policy
  • Macroëconomics & Planning Bureau
  • Bureau of Trade Relations
    • Urceo-Levantine Office
    • Kilikas Sea Office
    • Caphirian Office
    • Cartadanian Office
    • Cape-Farpoint Office
    • Alstin & Colonies Office
    • Sarpedon-Ixnay Office
    • Audonian-Punthic Office
    • Polynesian-South Cronan Office
  • Bureau of Commerce
    • Trade Licence Office
    • Trademark & Design Protection Office
  • Kiravian Patent Office
  • Bureau of Science & Technology
  • Bureau of Industry
    • Iron & Steel Office
    • Nonferrous Metallurgy Office
    • Chemical Industry Office
    • Distilleries Office
    • Pulp & Paper Office
    • Construction Elements & Bulk Materials Office
    • Nano-, Ultralight, and Advanced Materials Office
    • Robotics Office
    • Offshore Assembly Office
    • Tool & Die Office
    • Automotive Office
    • Non-Alcoholic Beverage Office
Finance, Investment, and Capital Markets
Development & Regional Balance Development policy
Regional policy
Decentralisation
Ethnic development
Distributed Economy Small and Medium enterprise
Micro-enterprise
Coöperativisation
Social enterprise
Labour, Human Capital, and Social Affairs Social policy
Labour policy
Education policy
Migration policy and Naturalisation
Demography
  • Social Insurance Administration
  • Census Bureau
  • Bureau of Employment Statistics
  • Migration Authority
  • Courts of Naturalisation
  • Physical force Irish Republicanism
  • Meta-Accreditation Commission
  • Federal University at Kartika
  • Bureau of Literacy
Signals, Wiring, and Digital Development
  • Telecommunications Regulatory Commission
  • Kiravian Internet Research Agency
  • Kiravian Internet Organisation
  • Coscivian Internet Initiative
  • Rural Broadband Commission
Culture, Heritage, and Civil Society Cultural policy
Coscivian traditional culture
Cultural counter-hegemony
Civil society promotion
  • Federal Archives
  • Corcoran Institution
  • Commission on Standard Kiravic
  • Council on Kiravian Religious Life
  • Academy of Coscivian Philology
  • Academy of Shaftonist Studies
  • Bureau of Antiquities & Field Archæology
  • Brehon Law Institute
Energy & Civil Research Energy policy
Atomic policy
Science policy
Space policy?
  • Federal Energy Administration
    • Oil & Gas Office
    • Coal Office
    • Peat & Biomass Development Office
  • Atomic Power Authority
Exchequer & Management
(Held by the Secretary-General)
Fiscal policy
The Justiciary
  • Federal Courts Administration
  • Federal Bailiffs Service
  • College of Federal Prosecutors
  • Federal Correctional & Custodial Service
  • Anti-Corruption Shit
Public Health
  • Healthcare Finance Commission
  • Countercontagion Agency
  • Pharmaceutical Regulatory Administration
  • Federal Biomedical Institute
  • Federal Institute on Senescence & Geriatrics
Polar Affairs Arctic policy
Antarctic policy
  • Kiravian Arctic & Antarctic Research Agency
  • Arctic Icebreaker Fleet
  • Commission on Magnetic Pole Reversal


A Note on Titles

The early Executive College did not resemble most modern cabinets in that its portfolios were not necessarily tied to a particular policy area (e.g. defence, finance). Rather, the first few Prime Executives of the Federal Period appointed individuals they trusted to the Executive College and assigned responsibility for subordinate agencies more or less arbitrarily. Slightly later on, there developed a custom of assigning Chief Executives responsibility for certain buildings in Kartika, and Chief Executives were charged with issuing orders to and collecting reports from whichever bureaux were housed in their buildings, regardless of what those bureaux did. As the federal bureaucracy matured, there eventually developed a closer correlation between agencies' functions, their office locations, and their responsible Chief Executive. However, many of the policy secretariats remained quite broad in scope, and Chief Executives continued to be addressed by titles such as Steward of Torrigen Gate and Captain of the Citadel. Some such titles, most notably Dean of the Tholos, persisted even after the Collegian in question no longer worked in their titular building.

The traditional titles were scrapped by the Socialist Party once it entered government, and were replaced with the title of Linaren ("Minister") and straightforward functional epithets typical of modern Western cabinets (Minister of Defence, Minister of the Sea). The Federalist government-in-exile on Æonara, though operating an ocean away from the titular buildings, initially held steadfastly to the traditional titles as symbols of its commitment to retaking the mainland. However, as the structure of the Executive College and underlying bureaucracy changed in adaptation to local conditions on Æonara, many of the traditional titles fell into abeyance or came to coexist with standardised functional titles like *Chief State Executive* in everyday use. After the Federalist return to power in Great Kirav was realised, the new style titles were made standard by PE Kólsylvar, and PE Rénkédar issued a memorandum relegating the traditional titles to ceremonial uses only. According to A.R. Ellagikuv, Secretary-General under Kólsylvar at the time of the switch, the change in style was meant to clarify equality in rank among members of the College, project a modern, professional, and technocratic image to the foreign press, and help citizens better understand their government, as polling showed that many mainland Kiravians who had lived under socialism were unfamiliar with the traditional titles. PE Candrin, during his third term, rescinded the Rénkédar memorandum, and has encouraged the supplemental use of the traditional titles, though the modern titles remain standard in most contexts.

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