After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World - Chapter 156

r 156: Territorial Offices
Chapter 156: Territorial Offices
Althea stared at the invitation with satisfaction. For these people, she only needed to wait if they accepted it or not. Hopefully, it was the former. Anyway, the terms she gave were very fair.

In the future, she would also be assigning elders for the offices without one. It was just that the said Terran ‘super experts’ had not yet arrived in her territory, so she could only assign officers for now.

The Offices she decided to build were the basic ones needed to manage a town-level territory (in Terran, anyway, as aboriginal territories seemed to have different governing structures).

One was the Office of Construction and Public Works which would not only be handling the ‘manual’ construction within the territory, but also the maintenance of infrastructure, parks, and utilities.

For now, the head officer position would be held by Oslo, as well as the other architects and engineers—many of whom he took in as apprentices.

Next was the Office of Public Safety would be in charge of the territory’s military might.

They would be maintaining law and order inside the territory. They would also serve as the main components of guarding the land from exterior threats. Rowan and Drake would be the primary officers for this.

In the future, she would also be developing its functions in emergencies such as fires and disasters. In fact, Rowan was already telling them about the historical climate disasters that they could be facing and were already making some preparations for it.

She was relieved to know the design of the buildings should be able to handle the extreme temperatures, provided people didn’t leave the houses much.

They would have to spend a lot of wood to maintain the warming (for cold temperatures) for each building though.

On the flip side, in case of hot weather, they would have to develop ways to fan and distribute cold air should it get too hot.

They had done as much as they could to provide enough passive ventilation and air circulation in each building. They used various established techniques like thermal siphoning, air tunnels, and others.

But they would need to do more if they didn’t want to suffer too much.

They also added provisions for wind catchers around the territory, which could be added if the temperature got too hot. (These would be in the scope of the Public Works group to judge and maintain).

For now, she wasn’t making an Office for Urban Planning, because she was doing this easily on her own with the help of the system. She’d establish one when she expanded a bit more, probably when the territory upgraded to town.

There would also be the Office of Finance and Economic Development, which would handle financial management like budgeting and taxation. However, thanks to the system, the data was presented to her directly in a straightforward manner.

For this Office, they would focus more on determining the proper pricing, determining the market trends, determining good investment opportunities, and so on.

Ansel had a knack for this, and she hoped to reserve the position for him. Anyway, with her current population, she could handle these matters by herself.

The Office of Health and Human Services focused on the health and social welfare of the territory. The Offices would be held by Lily, Betty, and Sheila. On paper, this department would have a partnership with her company, wherein the officers would determine which medicine would need to be stocked.

The Office of Education would in the future be managing the schools and other educational facilities in the territory.

For now, because there were no children, the focus would be on adult classes such as basic survival. She also planned to launch an indigenous lingua franca class, wherein the Terrans would be exposed to the Xeno language.

After all, although they could understand spoken language, written language was out of their range. What if the indigenous had good books that could be helpful to them?

The officer assigned here was a woman named Rosalind, a dean in one of Eden’s prestigious universities.

As for why she didn’t title Rosalind an Elder despite her very obvious experience, it was because she wasn’t green-tagged.

As discussed with Elder Mathilda, Althea made the requirement for the Elder either green-named or of a certain occupation (sealed by the system), without exceptions. It wasn’t like non-green experts couldn’t develop the title and/or the occupation with time.

At worst, it would give inspiration for the Officers to work harder in their trades. Perhaps this requirement would inspire the people to work more integrally, attempting to trigger occupation for their own promotions.

Moving on, she shifted to the Office of Agriculture and Production, with Elder Gru, which would be handling the agricultural and agricultural products aspect of the territory.

Finally, there was the Office of Internal and External Affairs, also known as the Office of Communications and Public Relations.

It would be the platform for people to voice their concerns as well as handle their social needs.

Because of the system, plenty of the tedious work in all the department was forgone, so she could assign more jobs to them.

For this department, judiciary work was also included.

Their function would just be as Mathilda mentioned before. These people would also double as officers under the Justice Department. Anyway, she could use the territory system to kick out unsightly individuals.

This was very cool and she kind of wanted to use it…

Anyway, the function of the so-called justice department would just be to investigate and determine inside stories for more gray-area disputes. For the actual more stringent Justice System, she decided to leave it entirely to the ‘system’.

This was because in many cases, it was better to have no face to complain or beg for mercy with.

Of course, even if this was the case, the function of the justice department was no less important than the others, because humans were complicated creatures.

And… she had never believed in automation of everything.

What’s the point of a society without a huge dabble of the Human touch?

She looked at her initial list with satisfaction. When her village became a town, then the Elders would become Ministers and the Offices would turn into Departments. All her staff would enjoy very good benefits as well, adding pride and prestige to the job.

All these people would help the territory improve in various facets and help create a wonderful land together with their own hands.

Let them help in the building of the territory with their own hands and in this way, they would love it even more. This was something to aim for.

After all, a land loved by the people was the richest of them all.