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The People's Media Agency/人民媒社/인민미디어대행사/ピープルズメディアエージェンシー/Агентство народных СМИ

FEUSSR Government reforms to go ahead

KUM CITY — The Executive Committee of the Supreme Soviet is beginning to take steps to drastically reform the FEUSSR's government to transform the FEUSSR's government ‎operations as a means to improve its services. The country will launch a full-scale restructuring ‎program that would come into effect next year (Year 5), with a new system of government agencies and departments to be brought into the fold to ensure that more aspects of public life can receive government guarantees.

The current government is comprised of the legislative, executive, and judicial branches. The legislative and judicial branches (as the Ministry of Investigations, Corrections, and Narcotics Protection) will be unaffected by the restructuring, as is the People's Defense Force. The remaining 6 Ministries (Education, Agriculture, Health, Works, Posts and Communications, Revenues), and their constituent departments, will be reformed into more efficient counterparts, while the addition of new government bodies will occur to ensure that no areas are neglected.

The new restructuring initiative will lead to the following modifications:

People's Ombudsman Commission: an independent body that oversees civil service appointments and discipline. It is tasked with ensuring fairness in hiring and disciplinary practices. It also investigates complaints against public organisations and government bodies, and is empowered to initiate investigations into issues of potentially wide public interest and concern on its own initative. Unlike the Censorate, it does not investigate matters pertaining to legal proceedings, personnel matters, and commercial transactions.

Ministry of the Environment

Department of Environmental Infrastructure: plans, develops, and manages waste disposal facilities. It is also responsible for implementing programmes to reduce waste generation.
Department of Environmental Policy and Planning: it reviews the environmental implications of public and private policies, engages with the environmental impact assessment process, and creates environmental policies in the field of air, water, and soil management.
Department of Environmental Enforcement: it enforces laws surrounding various forms of pollution and businesses' compliance with the DEPP's environmental obligations.
Department of Conservation: it is responsible for formulating nature conservation policy and implementing it.


Ministry of Agriculture

Department of Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services
Department of Forestries: administers and manages forest/woodland areas, oversees the forestry industry.
Department of Fisheries: administers the country's fisheries, manages migratory birds, oversees the fishing industry, and restores economically significant fisheries.
Department of Rural Development: government department responsible for the development and welfare activities in rural areas by facilitating sustainable and inclusive growth through a poverty alleviation, a rural social safety net, rural infrastructural development, rural house-building, and the provision of rural opportunities.
Department of Food Hygiene: responsible for food inspection, safe food standards, and issuing food safety licences for eating establishments.
Department of Animal and Plant Health: oversees clinical trials for veterinary medications and narcotics, coordinates animal welfare policies across the country, and performs research on animal and plants. The DAPH also provides certification and licensing for professionals of the veterinary sciences.
Department of Animal and Plant Health Inspection: replaced with Department of Animal and Plant Health.
Department of Agricultural Policy: disbanded
Department of Agricultural Research: disbanded

Ministry of Works

Department of Energy: responsibilities include formulating domestic energy policy, energy conservation, energy-related research, radioactive waste disposal, and domestic energy production.
Department of Housing: the provider of public housing for the people of the FEUSSR. It constructs and maintains affordable and low-rent housing, engages in slum clearance, and assists with the Department of Rural Development to construct housing in rural areas. It also carries out zoning for urban planning purposes.
Department of State Resources: responsible for the regulation, management, preservation, and controlled exploitation of natural resources. It also provides surveying and mapping data for public use.
Department of Aviation: the civil aviation authority of the FEUSSR that provides air traffic control services to all aircraft operating within the FEUSSR's Flight Information Region. It has a secondary duty of overseeing the management of the country's international airports. It also maintains a team of investigators who are tasked with investigating aviation accidents and incidents.
Department of Roadways: responsible for developing the FEUSSR's road and railway network, plus road maintenance.
Department of Canals: the government department responsible for overseeing transport flows through the Grand Canal. It maintains segments of the canal, ensures that transport is safe in that regard, and performs cleanup operations if needed. It is furthermore tasked with restoring transportation up to Tai'an from Tsining, while also restoring water flow to enhance travel on that front.
Department of Maritime Protections: it is responsible for maintaining safety in ports across the FEUSSR, monitors shipping traffic in the FEUSSR's waters, and maintains shipping registries for the country. It also conducts investigations of marine accidents, coordinates search and rescue operations in the waters around the FEUSSR, ensures that ships are in compliance with international and marine laws, and runs state-owned shipyards on behalf of the government.
Department of Environmental Hygiene: body responsible for refuse collection, street cleaning, and public building cleansing. It also licenses and oversees the operation of facilities such as wet markets, public toilets, slaughterhouses, refuse collection points, cemeteries, crematoriums, and columbariums.
Department of Transit: replaced with Department of Aviation, Department of Roadways, Department of Canals, and Department of Maritime Protections.

Ministry of Health

Department of Health and Human Services: replaced with Department of Health, Department of Community Assistance, Department of Developmental Disabilities, and Department of Mental Health.
Department of Health: the body responsible for formulating healthcare policies and the provision of public healthcare services for the FEUSSR.
Department of Developmental Disabilities: provides community and residential services to patients with developmental disabilities.
Department of Mental Health: provides community and residential services to persons with mental health issues or disabilities. It manages the public's psychology/psychiatry healthcare divisions, serving as the lead federal agency for research on mental disorders by supporting research on the understanding and treatment of mental illnesses through basic and clinical research forms.
Department of Hospital and Clinic Management: responsible for the construction, management, and administration of the FEUSSR's network of public hospitals and clinics. It also coordinates divisional program planning and performance management for public medical staff, and oversees security measures to protect public medical facilities, staff, patients, and visitors.
Department of Medical Resources: a body overseeing the stockpiling, acquisition, and domestic manufacturing of medical resources such as surgical instruments, oxygen cylinders, pharmaceuticals, and so on.
People's Union for Medical Workers (PUMW): worker's union for the FEUSSR's medical workers.

Ministry of Posts and Communications

Department of Telecommunications: a statutory body that licenses and regulates the broadcasting and telecommunications industries in the FEUSSR, it is authorized to investigate complaints made regarding programme content, issue warnings and fines, and suspend operating licenses for various media platforms. It partakes in government-sponsored R&D for telecommunications technologies, plans the deployment and rollout of telecommunications infrastructure such as 5G or 6G in the future, and upholds net neutrality.
Department of Technical Services: a policy body responsible for creating policies on innovation, technological development, startups/entrepreneurial businesses, and digital/data/information technologies.
People's Ocean and Weather Service: a scientific agency that focuses on the conditions of the oceans, major waterways, and the atmosphere. It provides meteorological and geophysical services to meet the needs of the public, warns of dangerous weather, charts and surveys waterways, and conducts research to improve the FEUSSR's understanding and stewardship of the environment.
People's Postal Service: provides postal service for the FEUSSR.
People's Publishing Authority: a state-run publisher in the FEUSSR that publishes local literature, novels, newspapers, magazines and books in foreign languages. It is also charged as the Federal government's public relations office, serving as the link between the government and the media.
People's National Ocean Service: merged into People's Ocean and Weather Service.
People's National Weather Service: merged into People's Ocean and Weather Service.
Department of Environmental Services: replaced by the Ministry of the Environment.
Department of Environmental Research: replaced by the Ministry of the Environment.


Ministry of Human Services

Department of Labour: aims to foster harmonious labour relations through promoting fair employment practices, offers services to mediate labour disputes, sets wage and working standards, and manages unemployment benefits. It also organises vocational training through a network of adult vocational courses and/or institutions for re-employment services.
Department of Welfare: provides welfare services to the community and manages the FEUSSR's social security fund.
Department of Community Assistance: a healthcare body which maintains an armed body to contain domestic violence, facilitates child protective, rehabilitation, and counselling services, as well as the overseeing of prenatal, child, maternal, and sexual healthcare and welfare.
Department of Industrial Safety: a regulatory agency to inspect and examine workplaces, thereby bringing safe and healthy working conditions for workers by setting and enforcing occupational safety standards.


Ministry of Revenues

Department of Economic Development: public sector organisation tasked with promoting development of the FEUSSR's economy through regulating and forming policies related to socioeconomic and business development, and handling the FEUSSR's economic planning.
Department of Exports and Imports: responsible for formulating policy on foreign trade, export and import regulations, foreign direct investments, and negotiating multilateral trade agreements.
Department of Intellectual Property: the central authority in intellectual property protection in the FEUSSR. It grants patents for the registration of new designs, handles trademarks and protected designs, and educates the public about existing IP rights.
Department of Market Safety: governmental authority that regulates fair market competition, monopolies, drug safety, and enhances consumer welfare so that consumers are empowered to protect themselves.

Ministry of Education

Department of Elementary and Secondary Education: broken down into Department of Elementary Education and the Department of Secondary Education.
Department of Elementary Education: responsible for governing primary and early childhood educational institutions.
Department of Secondary Education: responsible for governing secondary educational institutions.
Department of Higher Education: responsible for governing tertiary educational institutions.
Office of Federal Student Aid: disburses student aid on a federal level to domestic, disadvantaged, and international students.
Quality Education Office: statutory body that manages quality assurance of all programmes at the undergraduate levels and above offered by the FEUSSR's universities.
University Grants Office: advisory council that provides suggestions to the Ministry on the needs of the FEUSSR's higher education institutions in academic research and funding for new projects.