Government of Zacapican

The Government of Zacapican (Nahuatl: 𐐓𐐯𐐷𐐰𐐿𐐰𐑌𐐰𐑊𐐨𐑆𐐻𐑊𐐨 𐐞𐐰𐐿𐐰𐐹𐐨𐐷𐐬𐐻𐑊, Teyacanaliztli Zacapiyotl) is the administrative component of the Zacapine state which is contained within the executive branch of the federal government headed by the Tepachoani. The Tepachoani is the supreme chief of the administration, followed by the Chief Secretary (Huei Amatlacuilo) who is the second deputy of the Tepachoani after the Vice Tepachoani who supervises the legislature. The Chief Secretary takes on various duties in supervising the cabinet and the many ministries of the state, termed Secretariats (Amatlacuiloyan). The Secretary of each of these ministerial organs must supervise a variety of subordinate agencies and at times state-owned calpolli entities in the realization of their duties. Budgetary and jurisdictional disputes between agencies and Secretariats are the concern of the Chief Secretary, whose primary function is to maintain cohesion within the government on behalf of the Tepachoani freeing them from many of the petty aspects of leadership needed to keep the government operational at the highest levels, allowing the supreme chief to focus on decision making and policy.

The overall headquarters of the government is in the capital city of Quitzapatzaro. Within the capital itself, the Tepachoani and their staff reside in the formal seat of government in the Huei Tecpanchan. Meetings of the cabinet and major decisions involving the Secretariats are typical made in this building, or relayed through its staff if the Tepachoani is elsewhere. Each of the Secretariats have their own separate headquarter buildings for their respective organizations across the capital city, mostly centered in the old Mictlahuic quadrant of the city. However, this geographic focus does not apply to the myriad subordinate agencies within each Secretariat which have their own headquarters all across the country, with many of them being established in large population centers like Angatahuaca or in locales relevant to their area of responsibility, such as the location of the Zacapine Authority of Outer Space Affairs or Cenyacanaliztli Cualantme Citlalli Zacapiyotl in Tzopilopan, the birthplace and primary nerve center of the Zacapine space exploration initiative.

The Secretariats

Foreign Affairs

• Tlecopatl Tepachtitlantli Cetliliztli Tlatoloyancacopa - Mission to the Union of Unions
• Tlecopatl Tepachtitlantli Huecoatlaca - Mission to the Forum of Nations
• Tlecopatl Tepachtitlantli Centlaloyan Nohuiyanyo Cemanahuayotl auh Norumyotl - Mission to the Common Congress of Oxidentale and Norumbia

Public Safety

• Tlecopatl Tlatlaniliztli Macaxoc - Investigative Office for Major Crimes
  • Tlamotqui Tentlapoa Inayatecatl Cuilonpampa - Fugitive Investigation Force
• Cenyacanaliztli Poyon auh Atzintli - Drugs and Alcohol Authority
• Cualtiya Ellaci Tlatequipanoque Zacapiyotl - Zacapine Disaster Amelioration Service
• Tlecopatl Iyanayotl Icpaltitlan Tlaaquini - Witness Protection Office

Interior

• Tlecopatl Tlapouhtme Cepan Tlacatlatocayomeyotl - United Republics Office of Statistics, responsible for the collection of data and the creation of official statistics for the public benefit and for the use of policymakers in the government and the Necentlatiloyan. It interfaces with subordinate offices gathering data within the other Secretariats, including the scientific survey offices of the Science Secretariat.
  • Tlecopatl Huilanoni Tepohualli - Subordinate Office of the Census

Agriculture

• Cenyacanaliztli Cualantme Hueayotl - Maritime Affairs Authority. This organ of the Agriculture Secretariat is the main supervisory organ for the Zacapine fishing industry and all of its facets. It is responsible for establishing and enforcing the standards for fishing vessels and their maintenance, rules regarding the operation of these vessels and the conduct of fishermen at sea, and the curtailment of overfishing. The CCH conducts inspections of fishing vessels, becoming involved in investigations into maritime disasters and incidents involving such vessels, and also conducts surveys of marine life specifically to ascertain the state of the fisheries and regulate fishing in certain parts of Zacapine waters accordingly. Its responsibilities with regards to the safety of fishing vessels overlaps with the duties of the Office of Maritime Safety under the Secretariat of Transportation, while its conduct of marine life surveys and assessments of the fisheries overlaps with the United Republics Oceanographic Survey under the Secretariat of Science and Technology.

Transportation

• Cenyacanaliztli Tepozotme auh Camatecoame - Trains and Railways Authority
• Cenyacanaliztli Hueotli Cepan Tlacatlatocayomeyotl - United Republics Highway Authority
• Tetlamamaquiliztli Cualantme Ilhuicatl - Aviation Affairs Administration
• Tlecopatl Oyantlacacoca Hueyatl - Office of Maritime Safety

Public Works

• Tetlamamaquiliztli Otme, Panahuazme auh Atenamime - Roads, Bridges and Dams Administration, headquartered in Tenamicalli. It is responsible for enforcing the the construction and maintenance of roadways, embankments, retaining walls, road and rail bridges, as well as various dams and dikes. It was created under the auspices of the Xolotecate era as the main organ through which the central government could directly fund and oversee the construction of many kinds of public infrastructure that would be vital to the modernization of the country. Over time, parts of the TOPA's original responsibilities would be delegated to other organs of other Secretariats. The United Republics Highway Authority would assume control of the highway system and is now independent responsible for maintaining and expanding those roads, while the rest of the Zacapine interrepublican and inter-city road network would remain under the auspices of the TOPA. Control of Zacapican's hydroelectric dams is now shared between the TOPA which look after the physical integrity and maintenance of the dams while officers of the Secretariat of Energy control the generation and power supply aspects of the dams' operation.
• Cenyacanaliztli Callime Cepan Tlacatlatocayomeyotl - United Republics Housing Authority, serving as one of the central pillars of the modern Calpolli system responsible for the construction and management of residential buildings across the country. The Housing Authority is particularly fundamental to the function of Zacapine urban zones, in which the overwhelming majority of the apartment buildings and other residential structures were built under the auspices of the Housing Authority. Apartment buildings are seldom built on their own in Zacapican, and are usually part of holistic altepetlianca development in which several buildings are arranged to provide sheltered internal courtyards and green spaces and are built together with community centers, temples, schools, clinics and shops to meet the daily needs of the residents. An atlepetlianca is typically built by the Housing Authority at the specific request of an expanding calpolli entity, and is handed over to the management of that calpolli once completed. In the case of calpolli collapse, the property returns to the control of the Housing Authority, which must then oversee the reassignment, repurposing or demolition of the structures. Very few residential buildings remain under the active management of the Housing Authority at any once time. The organization is also responsible for assigning housing units upon request to foreigners who must pay an elevated fee to the unit, to homeless citizens or refugees who are to be housed at the expense of the state, or to state employees who are not housed through a calpolli organization. It is headquartered in the capital, Quitzapatzaro.
• Tlecopatl Huilanoni Calpohualli - Subordinate Office of the Urban Survey. The Urban Survey is responsible for assessing the state of buildings, city streets and physical features of the cityscape and built environments of the United Republics. It is embedded within the Transportation Secretariat, but operates closely in connection with the Office of Statistics of the Interior Secretariat.

Science and Technology

• Tetlamamaquiliztli Neyeyecoliztli Tlayolteohuilli Tlaxelolizme - Experimental Design Divisions Administration, the umbrella organization which oversees the operations of the state funded NTT design and engineering bureaus. The TNTT is considered the central organ of the technological portion of the Secretariat's purview as it is the heart of the Zacapine engineering establishment and has been credited as the main driver of technological development and innovation in the Zacapine system.
• Cenyacanaliztli Cualantme Citlalli Zacapiyotl - Zacapine Authority of Outer Space Affairs, which was created to replace the Mixpetzoaliztli Citlalli Zacapiyotl (MCZ) national space agency when it was reformed into the modern United Space Exploration Authority, a supranational agency overseen by both Zacapican and Pulacan. The CCCZ administers the Zacapine portion of this bi-national space exploration initiative, employing the scientists and engineers, maintaining the launch facilities and specialized production centers, and operating the training facilities vital to the function of the United Space Exploration Authority on the Zacapine side. While it is formally a part of the Secretariat of Science and Technology and the Zacapine national government, it is in practice subordinated to the Union of Unions, the bi-national organization which operates the space program. Although much of the infrastructure under the control of the CCCZ has moved to Angatahuaca over the years, the seat of the organization remains in the old MCZ headquarters in Tzopilopan.
• Ilhuica Atl Cuatotonilia Cepan Tlacatlatocayomeyotl - United Republics Oceanographic Survey
• Tlalnemachtilli Cuatotonilia Cepan Tlacatlatocayomeyotl - United Republics Geological Survey
• Ehecatl Cuatotonilia Cepan Tlacatlatocayomeyotl - United Republics Atmospheric Survey

Energy

• Cenyacanaliztli Cualantme Atomtic - Nuclear Affairs Authority, responsible for the oversight of all applications of the nuclear sciences across Zacapine industry. This originally entailed the operation and supervision of the Zacapine nuclear program and the country's many nuclear power plants. However, this would later be expanded to include all radiological technologies in Zacapican including those employed outside of the context of power generation. Specifically, the CCA's area of responsibility now includes medical radiology equipment, which previously fell under the supervision of the Hospitals and Medical Practice Authority under the Secretariat of Public Health. However, after many orphan source incidents took place in part due to negligence on the part of regulators, these responsibilities were assigned instead to the CCA with its greater expertise and focus on dealing with potentially dangerous radiological materials. It is headquartered in Quitzapatzaro.
  • Teuctlatoloyan Atomtequitlacacoca - Nuclear Safety Commission. This specialized bureau was created in the aftermath of the Zacatlilco incident as a dedicated body conducting safety inspections and audits of power plants and their reactors, as well as the transportation, waste storage and fuel processing infrastructure associated with the nuclear industry. Unlike its parent organization, it is headquartered in Angatahuaca.
• Tetlamamaquiliztli Ikpitikamatlatontli - Electric Network Administration, responsible for the function of the national power grid. This organ of the central state interfaces with the grid controllers in the nine constituent republics and the major localities within them to ensure the regular flow of electricity. The central imperative of the Administration is to ensure that supply is able to meet local demand all across the country, and therefore has the power to order generation scaled up and down at different hydroelectric dams and nuclear power plants in different locations in order to ensure the steady supply of power and to avoid overloading any one power line when transferring power from one region to another. To this end, the Administration directly controls the power transmission equipment and may secure funds to expand and build new transmission lines when needed to keep up with the growing power demands of industry in a given area. It is headquartered in Quitzapatzaro.

Public Health

• Tetlamamaquiliztli Colhuia Tecocolizcuiti - Disease Prevention Administration, headquartered in Aquillican. It is responsible for conducting medical research on the causes of illness and making recommendations and restrictions in order to prevent such illnesses from occurring. The TCT generally functions as the state's medical advisory organ by providing a publicly available resource for education on the causes of wide variety of illnesses and various means to combat them. This are not always pathogenic illnesses, and may include cancer, genetic disease or various syndromes causes by industrial pollution. The TCT directly funds medical research into these illnesses and possible treatments or cures, including one of the most well funded cancer research initiatives in the world.
• Cenyacanaliztli Tlayotequi Cocoliztli - Epidemic Containment Authority. It is the organization tasked with making and executing epidemic contingencies on behalf of the national and constituent governments. The CTC is empowered to carry out any and all measures related to containing the spread of epidemic disease, including limited and expansive quarantine measures, screening and contact tracing. To this end, the organization maintains a significant workforce of medical personnel and major facilities across the country while no epidemic condition exists, in order to present a high level of preparedness in case of an infectious outbreak in the general population. The more mundane responsibilities of the CTC include developing and distributing vaccinations for common infections diseases such as influenza. It is headquartered in Aquillican along with its sister organization the TCT.
• Cenyacanaliztli Cocoxcacalli auh Ticiotl - Hospitals and Medical Practice Authority, which serves as the oversight organization over the nation's myriad clinics, hospitals, specialized treatment centers, senior living facilities and professional in-home care providers. It operates the national medical licensing organization to certify medical practitioners and authorize them to provide their services, imposing standards of professional conduct and ethics on pain of title revocation and even criminal penalties. The Healthcare Authority also directly funds the provision of healthcare as part of the Zacapine healthcare system.

Finance

• Tetlamamaquiliztli Tlanepantla Tlatopalhuia - Central Taxation Administration, headquartered in Quitzapatzaro. The TTT is the central pillar of the Zacapine state and the primary means through which the bureaucracies of the national and constituent governments are funded. The organization is responsible for the collection of taxes and duties, the main source of revenue to the treasuries of the state. It operates an extensive bureaucracy to investigate erroneous or fraudulent tax filings, to allocate benefits and tax credits, and to increase the efficiency of tax collection. It is the only organ of the state to pay for its own operation several times over. For every Amatl given to the TTT in its annual budget, 12 Amatl are returned through more efficient and effective taxation.

Industry

The Secretariat of Industry is the main organ of the state involved in directing economic development. It has been headed since 2020 by Amatlacuilo Talen Kyekruk, one of the few Ona in the upper echelons of Zacapine government. The efforts of the Secretariat and its subordinate agencies are focused on the construction of new factories and industrial plants to affect the expansion certain sectors of the economy, as well as the supervision of existing sectors and the calpolli associations within these industries. The function of the Supervisory Office is to monitor the activities of the calpolli in that industry, to regulate the output, and to render financial assistance under certain conditions such as when the production of a particular type of machine has significant positive externalities to the wider economy.

• Tetlamamaquiliztli Tequipancoquetztia Cepan Tlacatlatocayomeyotl - United Republics Industrial Construction Administration, headquartered in Tequitinitlan. This organ of the Industry Secretariat organizes the construction of factories, plants, and other infrastructure associated with the establishment of new industrial calpolli factory-communes and the government-led expansion of industry, as opposed to the organic expansion of existing calpolli funded by their own profits. Calpolli specializing in construction are contracted directly to work for the Administration on industrial expansion projects of this type.
• Tlecopatl Tlatoyotl Tequipan Acalquetztia - Supervisory Office of the Shipbuilding Industry, headquartered in Tecolotlan. Due to the outsized role that shipbuilding plays in the local economies of several Zacapine port cities, the role of the Shipbuilding office is primarily to prevent through various means the collapse or decline of the industry both on a nationwide scale as well as within any individual locality with a major economic dependence on shipyards for employment. Where the closure of local shipyards becomes an economic inevitability, it is the responsibility of the Shipbuilding office to relocate the calpolli workers and reconsolidate the industry to mitigate the social fallout of such an occurrence.
• Tlecopatl Tlatoyotl Tequipan Tepoztotoquetztia - Supervisory Office of the Aircraft Industry, established in 1944 following the commercial success of the Aztatl Association to aid in the further expansion of the aircraft industry in Zacapican. It is headquartered in Tecolotlan, the home city of the Aztatl Association and their main aircraft manufacturing plants which account for the bulk of the aircraft industry across the country.
• Tlecopatl Tlatoyotl Tequipan Yetepozzoquetztia - Supervisory Office of the Heavy Machine Industry. The oldest supervisory office, created to direct the nascent industry of the 1920s towards the production of machines and industrial equipment for the establishment of more factories and the exponential growth of the manufacturing sector. In the modern day, the Heavy Machines office directs and subsidizes the production of equipment needed to sustain other industries in Zacapican. It also directs the modernization of this machinery to affect the perpetual modernization of the general industry across the country and prevent technological stagnation from setting in into any major industry. It is headquartered in Tequitinitlan.