Union Executive Council
| Current: Cabinet of Maxim K. Tyroll and Véranil Kontic | |
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| Type | Advisory body |
| Headquarters | Council Room, The Citadel, Saint Vera, D.F. |
| Employees | 18 members:
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| Key document |
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The Chancellor appoints what secretaries and officers whom advise him on foreign and constitutional policy, as well as organizing these respective departments. The First Secretary, who is chosen by the Chancellor from the party or coalition in power within the Assembly of the People, appoints their own secretaries or commissioners for the purpose of the domestic running of the state. Together the cabinets of both the Chancellor and First Secretary form the Executive Council of the Florencian Republics.
Executive ministries are typically organized as either departments or commissions. Departments are the primary arm of federal bureaucracy and are focused on specific areas, whereas commissions are less numerous and deal with several aspects of governance. For instance the Department of Agriculture establishes farming guidelines and works with farming cooperatives to ensure the Republics can be feed. While the State Planning Commission is responsible for the establishing the three year plans along with the management and regulation of the greater economy within the Florencian Republics.
Most federal departments work with or through the similarly managed and organized constituent republican governments' departments to implement policy and run the state. Due to the nature of federalism, several Executive Council departments act officially in an advisory and overseeing role to establish guidelines for the republics to meet.
Cabinet of the Chancellor
- Department of Foreign Affairs
Union ministry primarily concerned with advising the Chancellor and leading the country in foreign policy issues. Representing the Florencian Republics on the world stage and negotiating treaties and agreements with foreign and allied polities.
- Department of War
The majority of the Union military establishment is organized under this department. It is tasked with coordinating and supervising all aspects of the Union and constituent republican governments with regards to the defense of the Motherland. The civilian head of this department is the Secretary of War, who is the chief adviser to the Executive Council on matters of national security. The Secretary of War is not the official head of the Department of War, which is officially administered by the National Defense Committee, which includes several other cabinet members in addition to directors and representatives outside of the Executive Council. The operational authority of the Department of War is granted to the Stavka, the chairman of the Stavka being the most senior ranking officer within the Union Defense Forces.
- Department of Justice
The Department of Justice is tasked (somewhat) with the enforcement of Union law and principally the administration of justice in the criminal and civil system. Firstly the department represents the federal state in legal matters (Union Attorneys) and secondarily is tasked with several miscellaneous matter justice matters not covered by the Commission for Security and Order. Those being the All-Union Corrections Agency, the federal penitentiary system meant to rehabilitate criminals who have committed crimes not against the people, the enforcement of prohibited items or substances though the Contraband Enforcement Agency, and enforcing the will of the courts through the Union Marshals Service. The department is headed by the Attorney-General.
Cabinet of the First Secretary
- Department of Labor
The Ministry of Labor was separated from the SPC and is responsible for ensuring worker's safety and benefits across the UFSR. It is the federal organ that actively meets with workers' unions to ensure fair wages, work hours, and prevent workplace hazards. Also uphold and regulates workplace democracy throughout the lower industries. Levies regulations and mandates that effect many small scale capitalist businesses, cooperatives, and industries within the Union.
- Department of Finance
The Ministry of Finance is responsible for advising fiscal policy, managing national finances, and collecting the social dividend—that being the tax payed out from the surplus value of economic enterprises. It's a flexible system allowing for rates to be set progressively and allows for deductions or credit applied to what industries may have less of an economic margin. The bulk of Union revenue comes from the social dividend.
- Department of the Interior
The Ministry of the Interior is unique to Florencia. It deals with the conservation and management of Union land, natural resources, wildlife, as well as tribal affairs. The All-Union National Parks system is also run by the Ministry of the Interior, which maintains and conserves the natural beauty of Florencia's flora and fauna for all persons to enjoy.
- Department of Communication
Ministry level position within the cabinet responsible for providing quality postal, telephone, and internet service at a good price to all Florencian citizens throughout the whole of the Union. Such services are provided by the nationalized corporations that are the Union Postal and Package Service (UPPS) and Union Telegraph and Telephone (UTT), which also provides internet connectivity to the masses.
- Department of Manufacturing
- Department of Light Industry
- Department of Construction
- Department of Agriculture
Responsible for creating and executing federal laws and guidelines in regards to farming, agriculture, forestry, and food. The Ministry of Agriculture works with farmer cooperatives and private ranchers to promote livestock and agricultural trade.
- Department for the Commonwealth
This ministry ties together all the agencies concerned with health, education, and social services in order to ensure the promotion of the health, safety and standard of living among the Florencian people. This agency runs the All-Union Universal Healthcare Program, the social security net, and sets guidelines for constituent republican run public schools that provide primary, secondary, and tertiary education. Also spearheads public work programs and contracts with local construction companies to build the foundations of the Union.
- Department of Energy
The responsibilities of this committee include the energy-related research, energy conversation, the safe disposal of hazardous nuclear material, the maintenance and construction of nuclear reactors, and the supervision and regulation of wind, solar, coal, oil, and gas state owned corporations or worker cooperatives.
- Department of Transportation
Concerned with the development and management of the national transportation system, as well as ensuring it's efficiency for public usage and the national defense. This includes the nationalized rail and air industry as well as the management of the privatized urban public bus and trolley system. Also establishes safe guidelines and encourages safe motor habits.
- State Planning Commission
- Commission for Security and Order
Independent Agencies
- All-Union Central Bank
- National Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Union Space and Aeronautics Agency