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Directives

D1: Information Technology

Date Reference Applicability Subject Text
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D2: Logistics

Date Reference Applicability Subject Text
1673.III.09 1673_D2_001
  • General Inspectorate
    • Inspectorate of the Commissariat
  • Political Relations Bureau
  • Military-Industrial Relations Bureau
  • Civil Executive
    • Commissioner of Services
    • Commissioner of Works
Rationing With effect from 01.IV.1673 rationing of essential foodstuffs and strategic materials to be introduced in the Unified Governorates.

Rationing of foodstuffs will be implemented in tiers:


  1. Basic Ration:– milk, eggs, meat, butter, margarine, edible oil, tea, cheese, sugar, jam. Available via weekly allocations to all citizens in amounts determined by availability.
    1. Children's Supplementary Ration:– milk, fruit, cod liver oil. Supplementary daily ration issued to children under the age of seven.
    2. Protected Persons Ration: Set at three-quarters of the level of the available Basic Ration. Allocated via weekly allocations, apportioned for issue daily by Protected Persons Camp administration. Meat and alcohol-free version of Field & Industrial Service Ration to be issued as a daily supplementary ration for those Protected Persons engaged in useful service at the direction of higher authority.
  2. Government & Guild Service Ration:– bread, eggs, meat, butter, margarine, edible oil, coffee, cheese, sugar, jam. Supplementary weekly ration available to employees of Benacia Command, Black Legions, and the Civil Executive, or else to workers employed by companies affiliated to guilds recognised by Benacia Command.
  3. Field & Industrial Service Ration:– bread, water-biscuit, processed meat, coffee or tea, sugar, salt, rum. Supplementary daily ration issued to personnel engaged in intensive or arduous labours. Distributed directly to recipients in situ via appropriate means.
  4. Higher Government & Guild Service Ration:– Breakfast - bacon and tomatoes, bread, jam, and cocoa. Lunch - wintergleam pudding, roast pork or lamb, potatoes, bread and jam. Tea - bread and jam. Supper - ox-tail soup, roast beef, whisky and soda, leeks, rice pudding, coffee. Supplementary daily ration available to Government, Guild, Political, and Corporate management cadres - regimental officers or above. Available via workplace catering facilities.

Schedule I listing foodstuffs controlled for rationing purposes appended to directive. Fish, potatoes, and vegetables will remain outside of purview of rationing for so long as commercially viable stocks remain available. Penalties for violations of directive appended as Schedule II.

1675.VII.10 1675_D2_001
  • Military-Industrial Relations Bureau
  • Civil Executive
Rothaven Container Port Kerularios & Company granted a licence to operate the container port at Rothaven in Lachmeren for five years from date of commencement. Fee set at a 4% flat rate tariff levied on all goods transiting the port. Stringent reminders attend that a licence to operate a commercial port in no way entails the right to establish an independent security service, levy tolls, or appoint governors.

D3: Manpower

Date Reference Applicability Subject Text
1672.XIV.24 1672_D3_001
  • Circuit of Benacia
  • Civil Executive
  • Severnaya Gubernya
Recruitment Severnaya Gubernya (formerly Republic of Mishalan) to provide contribution of 67,200 volunteers at the expense of the Governorate, to serve for a period of twelve years in the service of the Black Legions.
1672.XV.29 1672_D3_002
  • Circuit of Benacia
  • General Inspectorate
  • Central Banner Group
  • Maritime Forces
Labour Service – Rothaven All carpenters, shipwrights, metal workers, and maritime engineers by profession, not presently engaged in the active service of Benacia Command, the Black Legions, or the ESB Group, shall, unless they can present a letter of exemption signed by a magister and counter-signed by the Governor of their Governorate of residence, be recruited to provide fifteen months of service commencing from the 15th day of the first month of 1673. The Circuit of Benacia, along with its subordinate Governorates, shall be responsible for the identification of the aforementioned persons. The General Inspectorate shall have responsibility for collecting those persons selected for Labour Service, their registration and training, and their conveyance hence to the port of Rothaven. Central Banner Group of Benacia Command shall have responsibility for the construction of their places of habitation and for all matters pertaining to their security therein. The Maritime Forces of the Black Legions shall have responsibility for the construction of their places of work and for all matters pertaining to the security of the site and the workforce housed therein.
1673.III.11 1673_D3_001
Regulation of Sports All sporting activities, whether by individuals, groups of individuals in free association, or incorporated entities, shall come under the purview and authority of the Directorate of Manpower. A Bureau of Sports, subordinate to the Directorate of Manpower, shall be established for this purpose. The Bureau's controlling council shall comprise of a Deputy-Director for Sport, appointed by the Director of Manpower, joined by two Assistant Deputy-Directors appointed by the Commissioner of Services and the Arandur of the Nationalist & Humanist Party respectively. All matters pertaining to the supervision of sporting matters shall be delegated to the Bureau of Sport - which shall enjoy complete autonomy in this regard. The Bureau of Sport may draw funds and personnel from Benacia Command, the Civil Executive, and the Nationalist & Humanist Party, subject to the oversight of the Board of the General Staff.
1686.IX.14 1686_D3_001
  • Directorate of Manpower
  • Civil Executive (Commissioner of Services)
  • Political Directorate
Register of Rehabilitated Persons, limitations on employment Any person convicted of an offence resulting assignment to the Biological Remediation Service, or who is registered as a resident of a paradise district, or who has refused or abjured the Covenant, or who has at any time been initiated into the Guild of the Lotus, shall be prohibited absolutely from enlisting in the Black Legions or any of its ancillary agencies, from employment with the Civil Executive or any of its ancillary agencies, or from employment in any form by Circuit, Governorate, or Bailiwick authorities. A register shall be kept of such persons by the Bureau of Reeducation & Rehabilitation Services. This register shall be circulated to all corporations operating within the Unified Governorates by the Bureau of Reeducation & Rehabilitation Services for their information and awareness.

D4: Planning

Date Reference Applicability Subject Text
1672.XIII.05 1672_D4_001
  • Central Banner Group
    • Uihmanz Mishalan
Fall Hengist Deployment of forces for the undertaking of securing Mishalan against bandits and lawlessness.
1672.XV.29 1672_D4_002
  • Central Banner Group
  • Maritime Forces
Fall Marinell Maritime Forces (Rothaven) to construct and launch x560 vessels of uniform dimensions (length 57 m x beam 15.80 m x draught 8.76 m) utilising non-strategic materials, namely wood, with quantities of aluminium, copper, and steel utilised to be kept to an absolute minimum. Vessels to be constructed to house four-Stroke Marine Diesel Engine System and fuel for 2,500 km of independent sailing without refuelling. Vessels to require no more than forty persons to operate and to be capable of carrying a complement of one-hundred and twenty persons plus stores. All work in this regard to be completed by no later than the fifteenth month of 1673.

D5: Operations

Date Reference Applicability Subject Text
1672.XIII.05 1672_D5_001
  • Central Banner Group
    • Uihmanz Mishalan
Unternehmen Horsa Deployment of forces for the undertaking of securing Mishalan against bandits and lawlessness.
1684.XII.02 1684_D5_001
  • Central Banner Group
Unternehmen Paukenschlag
By Order of the Command Executive of Benacia Command, the Magister with paramount command over the allied forces, including the Black Legions, within the Central Banner Group Area of Operations is authorised to use all necessary and appropriate force against those organisations or persons he determines planned, authorised, committed, or aided the present seditious rebellion that has gripped the Circuit of Jadid Khaz Modan, or else that harboured such organisations or persons, in order to prevent any future acts of treachery, sedition, or armed rebellion by such organisations or persons.

D6: Military Intelligence

Date Reference Applicability Subject Text
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D7: Political

Date Reference Applicability Subject Summary
1671.XIV.12 1671_D7_004
  • Territorial Administration Bureau
  • Military-Industrial Relations Bureau
  • Political Relations Bureau
  • Civil Executive
Assertion of Right All Natural Resources become the exclusive property of the Community of the Realm, administered by Benacia Command.
1672.X.06 1672_D7_001
  • Territorial Administration Bureau
  • Military-Industrial Relations Bureau
  • Civil Executive
  • State of Lywall
&zeter Dyes Company Licensed Operator Doctor Johannes Dreesbach of Merensk is appointed Licensed Operator of the &zeter Dyes Company for the period of five years, inclusive of and commencing from the present date. A fee of 1,543,811 Natopian has been paid. The applicant had previously signed the Covenant of the Prince of Modan.
1672.XII.08 1672_D7_002
  • Territorial Administration Bureau
  • Political Relations Bureau
  • Civil Executive
Religious Observances Eight-fold manifestations of the Highest Divinity defined, regulations on matters of obedience & faith, forming a Covenant between the Community of the Realm and the Unified Governorates of Benacia, non-enforcement of Imperial Decree 852.
1672.XIV.23 1672_D7_003
  • Territorial Administration Bureau
  • Political Relations Bureau
  • Civil Executive
Reorganisation of Governorates With liberation of Southern Mishalan, and the capitulation of Imperial remnant in Central Banner Group area of operations, reorganisation of Unified Governorates of Benacia to be implemented in 1673. Governorates to be:
  • Gloomburg
  • Lachmeren
  • Litel
  • Lywall
  • New Blackstone
  • Severnaya Gubernya
  • Siyacha
Occupation government to continue on Isle of Benacia and Sabatini Island until further notice.
1672.XV.25 1672_D7_004 Civil Executive Ex officio rank of members Unless, by virtue of service or appointment, they hold a superior rank in the Black Legions, executive members of the Civil Executive shall, effective upon the date of their appointment, receive the rank of Ahmst Bræþstranin (Senior Tribune) with all associated entitlements and obligations.
1672.XV.32 1672_D7_005
  • Territorial Administration Bureau
  • Military-Industrial Relations Bureau
  • Civil Executive
  • Circuit of Benacia
Red Bear LLC into public ownership With effect from this order, all properties, infrastructure, capital goods, finished goods, and intellectual property associated with the company known as Red Bear LLC, shall become the exclusive property of the Community of the Realm, administered by Benacia Command. The company shall be restructured as the Mishalan Arsenal and fully integrated into the Allied Production Matrix.
1673.I.03 1673_D7_001
  • Territorial Administration Bureau
  • Civil Executive
  • Circuit of Benacia
  • Circuit of Jadid Khaz Modan
  • Governorate of New Blackstone
Recognised Guilds Letters of Authority and Recognition have been granted to the following entities:
  • Guild of Aldermen
  • Guild of Academicians
  • Guild of Mercers & Factors
  • Guild of Artificers
  • Guild of Apothecaries
  • Guild of Artisans
  • Guild of the Lotus
  • Guild of Service

All entities and persons not presently engaged in the service of the Benacia Command, the Black Legions, or the Civil Executive of the Unified Governorates of Benacia, must register with one of the authorised guilds by the last day of the present year for be liable for compulsory service to the Civil Executive for a set term of five years.

1673.I.04 1673_D7_002
  • Territorial Administration Bureau
  • Political Relations Bureau
  • Civil Executive
Recognised Political Parties With effect from the promulgation of the Directive, the following political parties are recognised and authorised to conduct activities in the public sphere:
  • Nationalist & Humanist Party
  • Coalition 1660

The Directive will remain in effect until the promulgation of a new Charter of Coordination.

1673.I.04 1673_D7_003
  • Territorial Administration Bureau
  • Civil Executive
  • Circuit of Benacia
  • Circuit of Jadid Khaz Modan
  • Governorate of New Blackstone
Suspension of Custodial / Capital Sentences – Biological Remediation Service All persons found guilty of criminal offences by courts established in the Unified Governorates of Benacia shall have the tariff of their sentences of incarceration and or execution suspended in favour of a period of an equivalent duration in the Biological Remediation Service at the direction and discretion of the Commissioner of Works (Civil Executive).

The Biological Remediation Service is tasked with the eradication of all traces of Deep-Singer genetically modified biota in the following Governorates:

  • Gloomburg
  • Lachmeren
  • Litel
  • Lywall
  • Siyacha

Unsatisfactory performance, including all attempts at evasion of work and or absconding, on the part of persons assigned to the Biological Remediation Service many result, at the discretion of the Commissioner of Works, in the return of the said individuals to the rehabilitation services to complete the full tariff of their original sentence.

Where an individual who has been transferred to the Biological Remediation Service was previously sentenced to death, the sentence shall be held in abeyance for a period of twenty-five (25) years after which, unless the individual receives a letter of commendation and request for honourable discharge from the Commissioner of Works, the individual will be returned to the rehabilitation services for the completion of the original sentence.

1674.IV.23 1674_D7_001
  • Political Relations Bureau
  • Territorial Administration Bureau
  • Civil Executive
Treaty of Amity and Cooperation between Sanama and the UGB "With immediate effect from the date of publication of this directive, the provisions contained within the articles of the Treaty of Amity and Cooperation between the Democratic Federation of Sanama and the Unified Governorates of Benacia shall be held to be in effect and enjoy the full force of law. All agencies of the Territorial Administration Bureau and the Civil Executive are to ensure conformity with the provisions of the treaty across the entirety of the Unified Governorates of Benacia."
1676.XIV.12 1676_D7_001
  • Political Relations Bureau
  • Territorial Administration Bureau
  • Civil Executive
Coordination and Harmonisation of Marriage, and Reproductive Function in the Context of Societal Obligation The Directive on Marriage, Reproductive Function, and Societal Obligation, constituted, in the main, of a re-statement of the core provisions of Imperial Decree 865 albeit one updated to take account of the changed circumstances of the modern era.
  • Age of Obligation set at sixteen years of age
  • Marital pairings to be nominated upon the attainment of the Age of Obligation by bailiwick-level Board of Control with input of parents, health workers, and concerned guilds to which parents are enrolled.
  • Marriages to be endorsed and officiated over by Church, Party, and State representatives of Tribunal rank.
  • Marriage rights restricted to male and female couples capable of reproduction
  • Barren marriages to be annulled at their tenth anniversary
  • Childlessness Tax levied upon all residents without offspring by their thirtieth year
  • Absolute prohibition placed upon the termination of viable fetuses / mandatory termination of defective and non-viable offspring
  • Children born out of wedlock mandated as wards of the state, earmarked for future service
1678.XII.21 1678_D7_002
  • Political Relations Bureau
  • Territorial Administration Bureau
  • Civil Executive
A New Issuance of the Covenant The Covenant, an instrument first promulgated by the Prince of Modan in 1663 AN, was the means by which the very souls of the citizens of the Unified Governorates of Benacia were bound by blood and sacred oaths to the standards of the Black Legions. Following tradition, the Covenant is re-issued at the commencement of each new reign, locally upon the conquest of a new province, or else nationally upon the occasion of the commencement of a new tribulation. The conflict with the new empire of Francia and the level of mobilisation necessitated for Benacia to confront the northern interlopers constituted such an occasion whereupon the Command Executive felt justified in rededicating the people to the holy cause of Benacian unity and final victory. The Directive was notable both on account of maintaining the obligations towards the old Imperial Cult thus preserving, however notionally, the vestigial standing of the Kaisership, and also for discretely removing the last remnant of the once voluminous official strictures concerning the state-mandated persecution of Ketherism - thereby marking the definitive conclusion of the long process of detente with Kalgachia which had begun with the Slavegate Convention.
1684.XII.02 1684_D5_001
  • Circuit of Jadid Khaz Modan
Unternehmen Paukenschlag
The present rebellion, recently instigated by a coordinated conspiracy amongst the islanders of Florencia, the Iridian Isles and the Isle of Benacia, is not only a revolt against the lawful authority instituted for the restitution of order throughout Benacia by the Declaration of Merensk but also it is an affront to the Covenant sworn and attested by all citizens under the sovereignty of the Unified Governorates. Such a repudiation of the harmonious society and the coordinated state, as guaranteed by the Declaration of Merensk, the Constitution of Drakorda, and the Covenant, can only be considered an act of wanton sacrilege against the sacred majesty of the Szodan, the Kaiser, and the Gods.

Accordingly the lives of all persons are forfeit, be they man, woman, or child, who has participated in the presently ongoing act of seditious rebellion, who has supported it or advanced its preparation, who has had knowledge of the same and not divulged it to the lawful authorities in sufficient time so as to prevent it, or who has allowed to manifestations of this rebellion to occur in their locality. The penalty of death is levelled upon all of these treacherous islanders and may only be averted by prompt and unconditional surrender to the commanders of the Black Legions, by renewing their adherence to the Covenant in writing with their own blood, and through the presenting of a severed head belonging to a traitor who has been more tardy in their surrender.

The property of any slain traitor and their immediate kin shall be made forfeit to the state and may be gifted in recompense to any loyal islander who has re-entered the rolls of the Covenanted by offering up the aforementioned tokens of submission.

1687.V.02 1687_D5_001
  • Political Relations Bureau
  • Territorial Administration Bureau
  • Civil Executive
Cannibalism and related matters
Any person who willingly, out of necessity, desire, religious obligation, or the perceived pressure of his peers, consumes any portion of human flesh for any purpose whatsoever shall be guilty of an offence and put to death.

It must be understood that no mitigating circumstances shall ever be considered and that any person confronted with the choice of performing the act of cannibalism or perishing miserably through hunger must instead make honourable preparations for their own death.

It may be permissible to inflict collective punishment upon a cannibal's kinship group and or community if it is discovered that they have been complicit in either the commissioning of the crime or in its concealment.

In those parts of the Iridian Isles known to practice cannibalism on religious and or cultural grounds, a special military tribunal shall be established to oversee the eradication of such populations as are engaged in such behaviour.

For the avoidance of doubt, it shall not be considered an offence to consume the flesh of a non-human sentient being, even where that sentience might be shown to extend to sapience, provided that the creature in question is neither subject to the especial protection of the state nor considered the property of another citizen, public body, or corporation, unless or until the positive assent of the aforementioned owner is obtained or the protection revoked by the lawful bestowing authority.