Part of the government series of articles.
The mandatory services are the four services of the Commonwealth common to the federal government and the republics. They are constituted by mandate of the Mandatory Ecclesia, since only the chamber of republic delegates can bind the republics to receive federal officers into their own governments. A new mandatory service requires an equal vote of the chamber.
Mandatory Services
- Commonwealth Administrative Service – administration, 1966
- Commonwealth Armed Forces – the military, 1966
- Commonwealth Police Service – policing, 1966
- Commonwealth Judicial Service – the republic and circuit magistracy, 1984
The Administrative Service, the Armed Forces and the Police Service were constituted in 1966 under the Constitutional Settlement commission of State Secretary Einar Magnússon. Most of the small republics had no administrative class of their own after the war, and accepted federal officers into their governments on condition that they could choose among them. The Judicial Service was constituted in 1984 under the Republic Legal Standards commission.
Officers of a mandatory service are recruited and trained federally and allotted to a republic cadre, where they spend most of their careers with periods of deputation to the federal government. Small neighbouring republics share a joint cadre. The Armed Forces raise their members instead through republic Components, and each republic keeps a Guards regiment in which servicemen hold a reserve affiliation once active service ends. Federalising and external territories have no republic government to receive officers, and are served instead by a Territories cadre kept by each mandatory service, which posts officers to Annobon, Java and the International Arctic Territories.