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 Within the executive branch, the King enacts laws and policies upon the advice of the '''[[Procurator]]'''. The [[Procurator]], who is directly elected by the nation at large, serves in many ways as the functional Head of Government as the “right hand of the King”; he or she serves as the presiding officer over meetings of the [[Concilium Purpaidá]], has direct oversight of all its ministers and ministries. The Procurator determines the government's official program of policies that it will implement, although members of the Purpaidá are under no obligation to follow the policies. The Procurator also serves as First Lord of the Treasury, giving them the authority to create and issue Royal Budgets for the Kingdom in the name of the King that must be approved by the [[Concilium Daoni]]. The Procurator has no formal ministry under them but is responsible for the nomination of the Lord Marshal, who serves as both the military and civilian head of the [[Ministry for the Armed Services (Urcea)|Ministry for the Armed Services]]. The Procurator also serves as the Lord Regent of the Apostolic Kingdom in the event of the absence or minority of a King. Since the time of the Great Interregnum, the Procurator has also served as the Magister Militum of the [[Armed Forces of the Apostolic Kingdom of Urcea]], giving him or her effective supreme command and control over the military. Elections for the Procurator are held every five years on the first Tuesday in November, and Procurators take office on the first of January following the date of the election. There are no term limits on the office of Procurator. The Procurator may veto legislation passed by the [[Concilium Daoni]]. The Procurator is also responsible for appointment of [[Government of Urcea#Overseas%20possessions|Rectors of overseas territories]] through the person of the King, though unlike other appointments on constitutional advice the King has greater influence in the appointment of Rectors.
-The Royal Treasury is chartered by the King and functionally serves as the central organ within the national bureaucracy, coordinating with the various Ministries and other Royal organizations to implement programs and policies via budget lines and supplemental appropriations. The Royal Treasury is funded through various mechanisms which the Kingdom uses to tax, and each of the three types of subdivisions pay different kinds of taxes. As noted above, the Procurator is First Lord of the Treasury and controls broad policy directives for the Treasury, but the day to day operations of the Treasury are under the purview of the [[Chancellor and Temporary President|Chancellor of the Treasury]], although nothing precludes the Procurator and Chancellor from being the same individual.
+The Royal Treasury is chartered by the King and functionally serves as the central organ within the national bureaucracy, coordinating with the various Ministries and other Royal organizations to implement programs and policies via budget lines and supplemental appropriations. The Royal Treasury is funded through various mechanisms which the Kingdom uses to tax. As noted above, the Procurator is First Lord of the Treasury and controls broad policy directives for the Treasury, but the day to day operations of the Treasury are under the purview of the [[Chancellor and Temporary President|Chancellor of the Treasury]], although nothing precludes the Procurator and Chancellor from being the same individual.
 The [[Concilium Purpaidá]], known as the "Purpaidá", serves as a practical executive branch and Cabinet, though its original function was that of privy council. The members of the Purpaidá are members of the [[Concilium Daoni]] (known as the “Common Council”) nominated by the [[Chancellor and Temporary President]] through his or position as head of the Concilium Daoni with the exception of the [[Ministry for the Armed Services (Urcea)|Ministry for the Armed Services]] and [[Ministry for the Church in Urcea]], who have special appointment rules. The various Ministers of the Concilium serve as the head of various Ministries that are akin to executive agencies, and the national bureaucracy is organized through them. Much of the nation's national policymaking comes through the regulatory rule-making power statutorily authorized to the various Ministries of the Purpaidá; these regulations, rules, and pseudo-laws do not require Royal or Daoni assent if they have statutory basis but rather require the ''imprimatur'' of the [[Procurator]]. If a member does not follow official directives of the Procurator, called "''Treasury Orders''", the Procurator may issue a formal request to the King for an order of compliance. Members of the Purpaidá can also ask the King for arbitration in the event that the Procurator refuses to issue an imprimatur for their proposed course of action. The King may take three options: he can issue a "''Writ of Compliance''", ordering the Purpaidá member to follow the Procurator's direction; he can issue a "''Writ of Correction''", in which the Procurator must withdraw his Treasury Order, allowing the Purpaidá member to proceed on their own proposed course of action submitted to the King; or, the King can issue a "''Writ of Dismissal''", in which neither the Purpaidá member's proposal nor the policy designed by the Procurator may be followed and that an entirely new policy must be devised. [[Constitution of Urcea|Constitutionally]] speaking, the King may issue a narrowly tailored suggestion following a Writ of Dismissal, but neither the Purpaidá member nor the Procurator are under any legal obligation to follow or implement the King's suggestion, though the King's word is normally considered to be very influential and, politically speaking, the King's suggestions are rarely refused in these circumstances.
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 ''See Also: [[List of subdivisions and territories of Urcea]]''
-The federal subdivisions of Urcea take three distinct forms as defined by the Administrative Reorganization Act of 1892, a major reform implemented during the regency of [[Gréagóir FitzRex]]. Most of the country is organized into provinces, which are a basic federal unit considered constituent parts of the Kingdom. Besides the provinces, there are crownlands - lands held directly by the [[Apostolic King of Urcea]] by merit of his other titles - of which two are considered the only integral parts of the Kingdom, the [[Urceopolis (Archduchy)|Archduchy of Urceopolis]] and [[Grand Duchy of Yustona]] as defined by the [[Golden Bull of 1098]]. The remaining crownland, the [[Canaery|Electorate of Canaery]], is not integral to Urcea but enjoys pride of place as the sole remaining electorate of the mostly defunct [[Holy Levantine Empire]]. The final form of government are states, which were created for two of the most prominent [[Culture of Urcea#Minority%20Groups|minority groups]] in [[Urcea]] - the [[Gassavelian people]] and the [[Ænglish people]]. Each of the three forms of government have different representative and administrative structures.
+The federal subdivisions of Urcea take three distinct forms as defined by the Administrative Reorganization Act of 1892, a major reform implemented during the regency of [[Gréagóir FitzRex]]. Most of the country is organized into provinces, which are a basic federal unit considered constituent parts of the Kingdom. Besides the provinces, there are crownlands - lands held directly by the [[Apostolic King of Urcea]] by merit of his other titles - of which two are considered the only integral parts of the Kingdom, the [[Urceopolis (Archduchy)|Archduchy of Urceopolis]] and [[Grand Duchy of Yustona]] as defined by the [[Golden Bull of 1098]]. The remaining crownland, the [[Canaery|Electorate of Canaery]], is not integral to Urcea but enjoys pride of place as the sole remaining electorate of the mostly defunct [[Holy Levantine Empire]]. The final form of government are states, which were created for two of the most prominent [[Culture of Urcea#Minority%20Groups|minority groups]] in [[Urcea]] - the [[Gassavelian people]] and the [[Ænglish people]]. Each of the three forms of government have different representative and administrative structures. Prior to the [[Royal and Provincial Tax Act of 2020]], each of the three types of subdivisions paid a separate kind of tax to the central government, but all of these systems were replaced with a national income tax.
-A primary difference between the three types of subdivisions is the types of taxes levied from each. In the crownlands, the King directly levies Royal Dues, a type of income tax assessed at a progressive rate on individuals. In the provinces, the Provincial Due is taken; rather than a personal tax, this is taken from the total incomes of the provincial government at a flat rate throughout the Kingdom. The rate in 2026 was 25.6%. In the semi-autonomous states, citizens pay the Sovereign Income Tax; the flat tax rates of which are determined by the semi-autonomous governments at a rate no lower than 12.5%, and both [[Ænglasmarch]] and [[Gassavelia]] set their rates at such. The Provincial Due and Royal Due rates can only be raised by an act of the [[Concilium Daoni]] on the initiative of the [[Procurator]].
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