Crown Pornographer (Kouralia)

The Crown Pornographer is a senior official under the Chancery of Culture, Arts & Sports of the Kouralian government. The post is held by an Adjutant Clerk, meaning the office-holder is a politically-neutral career administrator of the Central Government bureaucratic service, the Crown Adjutant Clerk Corps. The post is responsible for overseeing the small staff of the Kouralian Pornography Office which is part of a Justiciable Department. The Crown Pornographer is also reported-to by the heads of the Pornographic Licensing Office and the Inspectorate of Pornography.

Responsibilities

The Responsibilities of the Crown Pornographer include the day-to-day running of the Pornography Office within the Chancery of Culture, Arts & Sports. They are responsible for executing the Cultural and Media strategy of the of Culture, Arts & Sports insofar as it relates to the Pornography industry. They also oversee the activities of the Director of Pornographic Licensing and the Director of Pornographic Inspection. This includes working with the Assistant Chancellor of Visual Arts to produce the Crown Pornographic Regulations which are a form of secondary legislation produced on the authority of a Justiciar where Primary Statute allows for it. These establish the regulatory requirements unique to pornographic media production as well as precisely defining the classifications of Indecent Images.

Pornography itself is defined as Still or Moving Images, Pseudo-Images, or Artistic Images. Moving Images are naturally videos, while Pseudo-Images are those made by computer-graphics or otherwise which appears to be a photograph. Artistic Images are those with no basis in photography or a real-world image, such as hentai. Pornography is defined as being either Personally or Commercially Produced, and either Personally or Commercially Published. The main difference between Commercial Production or Publishing is whether money is involved.

Subordinate Offices

Pornographic Licensing Office

The Licenses issued by the Pornographic Licensing Offices are required to either Commercially Produce or Commercially Publish Pornography within the meaning of the Crown Pornographic Regulations. A named indiviual, present on-set whilst any sexual activity is being captured, must hold a Commercial Pornographic Production License, and they are personally responsible for compliance with the Regulations. Any company responsible for Commercially Publishing pornography is required to have a full-time Designated Pornographic Supervisor (DPS) who is again personally responsible for compliance with the regulations. Any person whose acting role in Commercially Produced pornography involves sexual activity with another also requires a Pornographic License. All licenseholders are personally responsible for remaining compliant with the Regulations insofar as they relate to their activity within the production or publishing of pornography, with further liability attracted on the part of the officers of any involved company or the corporation itself, depending on the nature of any infraction.

Pornographic licenses are fixed-term, and require payment of a processing fee as well as submission of supporting documents. A Pornographic Actor's License typically lasts for six months and requires a negative STD test result from an approved provider, taken within 14 days of the application.

Inspectorate of Pornography

The Inspectorate of Pornography is a typical, if niche, example of law enforcement Regulatory Inspectorates. Their work theoretically encompasses any and all offences relating to the production or publishing of Indecent Images or of Pornography that is non-compliant with the Crown Pornographic Regulations. This ranges from holding national responsibility for classifying indecent images, being the official reporting gateway for ISPs and other internet businesses who identify and remove indecent images from their websites, carrying out on-the-spot inspections of pornographic industry sets, and preparing files for the Crown Prosecutor's Office in cases of criminal offences.

The Inspectorate of Pornography is also able to issue Pornography Exclusion Notices which have the effect of suspending an individual or business' Pornography License, and from prohibiting that person or any person connected with that person or business from applying for another such license or participating in the production or publishing of pornography in an unlicensed role for the duration of the order. The legal test for a court to issue a full Pornography Exclusion Order is to the criminal standard of proof, but a Pornography Exclusion Notice issued by the Inspectorate of Pornography can be issued alongside an Interim Pornography Exclusion Order for the length of the Inspectorate's investigation into regulatory infractions.

Auxesya Byraþyuryn
Secretary-General of Pornography Incumbent
Assumed Office	2019
Justiciar	Kessya Mirellys Justicial-Chancellor of Culture, Arts & Sports
Predecessor	Sir Dyræl Eyrean
Personal Details
Born	27 April 1969, Yarræn Kouralia

Incumbent

The incumbent Crown Pornographer is Auxesya Byraþyuryn, a career Adjutant Clerk of 27 years service. Born and educated in Yarræn in the Kouralian Farlands in 1969, she read Classical History at the University of Kurton with a Masters specialising in Classical Kouralian society's preservation of art and heritage. She began her career as a Policy Officer for the Immigration & Deportation section of the Department of National Security under the New Republic. As a Superintending Policy Officer she transferred to the Department of Agriculture, Industry, and Environment where she worked on environmental reform prior to and during the Millennial War. Following the Millennial War she was appointed as Private Secretary to the Interim-National Environment Secretary before occupying a number of other roles at Superintending and Directorial level across a variety of Government Departments.

In 2019 she was promoted from Director of Arts Exhibition within the Chancery of Culture, Arts & Sports to the post of Crown Pornographer. Her tenure has been marked by streamlining of the Crown Pornographic Regulations as well as the processes by which foreign content producers can apply for and receive short-term licenses. This has been credited by the Chancery of Trade & Enterprise with increasing foreign involvement in producing erotic media within the Crown Union.

Registered Title

As with most Adjutant Clerks, there is a difference between the so-called 'Reporting Title' and the 'Registered Title' of the position. The Reporting Title is a shorter contraction of the longer title that is recorded on the Clerk Registry - the Registered Title. The Reporting Title of Crown Pornographer is always used orally, and is used in most written correspondence too. The Registered Title of the post is the Secretary-General of Pornography, which grades them alongside Director-Generals of Non-Justiciable Dapertments or Independent Executive Departments, or alongside Under-Prefects of the Watch.