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The Department of Infrastructure and Services is dedicated to providing the underlying
support services and structures required by the people and Businesses of Utania, including:
transportation regulation and services; electricity, water and gas supplies; support to a
whole host of cultural activities, such as television, radio, the arts, sports, etc...; and
telecommunications infrastructure, regulation and services.
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With this in mind, it is easy to see that this Civil Service is one of the largest in
Utania, and would soon become unmanageable, running the two dozen or so Government companies.
Therefore, it is this Department's aim to divest the Government of the ownership of these
companies, and to instead provide a regulatory framework in which their customer service
specifications shall be determined, and then to enforce those specifications.
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The first step before these departments and companies can be sold is what the government terms
"Corporatisation", the turning of an organisation into a corporation. In many cases,
this will require serious work in restructuring and reforming the organisations, and will
require skills not currently held within those organisations.
Therefore, the President has authorised the hiring of executives from around the world
who are skilled in the organisation of companies and can provide the necessary direction and
guidance to these prospective corporations. To support this end, the President has initiated
a fund of ONE BILLION CHRISTIANA CROWNS to attract the necessary expertise and skills
from within Utania and overseas to the reorganisation of these companies.
Prospective Directors, Chief Executives, Executive Managers and Management may apply
directly to the Director of Infrastructure and Services, Mr Frankel Jurst, at the address at
the bottom of this page.
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Television One are the country's premier television service, covering with their transmission
the majority of the country. Running twenty hours a day, the station is dedicated to providing
news, current affairs, educational and documentary programming. Though least likely to be sold
by the Government, work is still required to streamline and corporatise the organisation.
The broadcaster was started in 260 by the Guwimith Dependencies Administration to
provide the Dependencies with placating entertainment. It was originally reserved for only the
major capitals, but soon expanded to include regional areas and eventually all the Dependencies.
This company is, obviously, only the Utanian portion of the company, as South Bay, Gvonj and
Begral will have their own portions.
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Started in 267, and primarily focused on entertainment programming, the Guwimith regime's
second television station in the Dependencies was a huge success. Programming is aimed at
entertainment, providing television programmes from around the world in comedy, drama and
movies. The broadcaster was, like TV1, originally aimed at just the capitals, but expanded
to the regions as well.
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Amara meaning images, Nij meaning far away, Amara-nij Utani was
the first attempt by Utani people to provide television for their own culture rather than
simply importing the television from Guwimith that TV1 and Ch2 were doing. Started by wealthy
Savaj businessman David Atoja, in Luka, March 275, it produced dozens of its own programmes
initially in the Utani language, but later in the less politically sensitive Ingallish (Utani
was banned by the Imperial Court from broadcasting). ANU was shut down several times by the
Dependencies government for anti-government (pro-Utani) messages, and eventually seized by the
Imperial Court for a small sum of money. It remained the only station transmitting in the
Mountains province of the Dependencies until the 90's, and continues to provide Utani language
and cultural programming to the remote regions of the country, a service that must continue.
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Perhaps because they were cheaper to set-up than television transmitters, allowing private
individuals to set-up their own, the Dependencies government only bothered to create one
radio broadcaster, RADIO DEPENDENCIES. Now renamed to the less sensitive Radio One, the
network of transmitters in the only nationwide broadcaster. Focused on news, parliamentary
broadcasting and sports news, Radio One requires revamping in the FM radio age.
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Radio Horn of Olives was set-up by the Dependencies government to provide propaganda to the
ships that passed through the seas to the south. It eventually became more news focused and
is the only low band transmitter in Utania. Renamed to Radio Utania, it beams its signal as
far afield as Namuria and Fort Capital to the south and New Aquitania to the south west.
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Infrastructure Departments (6) |
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The former Department of South-Eastern Electricity is the Lasanne and Nystonian electricity
generation and distribution department.
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Luka Electrical was owned by one of the nobility of the Guwimith regime, who has been deprived
of the continued ownership, and provides electricity to the city of Luka and surrounds.
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The Luka Gas Department, formerly 80% owned by the Guwimith Tsar, is now
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The Luka Gas Department, formerly 80% owned by the Guwimith Tsar, is now
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The Luka Gas Department, formerly 80% owned by the Guwimith Tsar, is now
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The Dependencies department of Water and Sanitation was the Dependencies-wide department
chartered with providing water and sanitation to the dependencies. Though now broken in four,
the Utanian branch continues to provide the same services to Utania.
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Transport Departments and Companies (4) |
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U-Rail is the recently renamed Utanian Rail company
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The old Department of Southern Roads was the southern provinces' road maintenance
and construction company
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The Department of Roads
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The Department of Roads
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Telecommunications (4) |
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The federal Utanian government have inherited from the Guwimith Tsar one hundred million shares
in the Belson Corporation, a Û43 billion food products company. The value of the shares
is approximately Û13.8 billion, and although the government received a Û1.5 billion
dividend, there will be an attempt to sell the one hundred million shares without greatly
adversely affecting the share price.
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Djea-Kopana Utani (Djea meaning sea and Kopana meaning vessel or
transport) is the Utanian government's inherited merchant naval fleet. The government now
owns
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Kopana-Aij Utani, the Utanian airliner.
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