SVC-009 / Specialist intake
Charter a new habitat community
Decision owner: Territorial Affairs Commission
TERcommissionUnion-wide competence
Regional delivery with local democratic authority
Territorial Affairs is the administrative bridge between the Union's common guarantees and the places where people actually use public services. It oversees regional interfaces, charter support, remote-service equalisation, civic addressing and Earth orbital operations. It does not own the planets or replace local elected councils.
Choose your route
Office output: Accession compact
People and households
SVC-002 / Competent referral
Register a birth in a habitat
Decision owner: Citizenship & Mobility Commission
SVC-003 / Competent referral
Reunite a family across regions
Decision owner: Citizenship & Mobility Commission
SVC-004 / Competent referral
Replace a lost travel credential
Decision owner: Citizenship & Mobility Commission
Companies and cooperatives
SVC-009 / Specialist intake
Charter a new habitat community
Decision owner: Territorial Affairs Commission
SVC-045 / Competent referral
Request public records
Decision owner: Archives, Libraries & Memory Commission
SVC-041 / Competent referral
Obtain legal aid remotely
Decision owner: Justice & Legal Cooperation Commission
Research and civic organisations
SVC-009 / Specialist intake
Charter a new habitat community
Decision owner: Territorial Affairs Commission
SVC-045 / Competent referral
Request public records
Decision owner: Archives, Libraries & Memory Commission
SVC-041 / Competent referral
Obtain legal aid remotely
Decision owner: Justice & Legal Cooperation Commission
Public administrations
SVC-009 / Specialist intake
Charter a new habitat community
Decision owner: Territorial Affairs Commission
INT-021 / Specialist intake
Ratify a regional accession compact
Decision owner: Territorial Affairs Commission
SVC-002 / Competent referral
Register a birth in a habitat
Decision owner: Citizenship & Mobility Commission
SVC-003 / Competent referral
Reunite a family across regions
Decision owner: Citizenship & Mobility Commission
Charters, equalisation and mobile public offices
Its work includes negotiating accession compacts, mediating boundaries, registering new habitats, supporting mobile public offices and coordinating service gaps across districts. The registry distinguishes residential communities, protected research sites, robotic mission areas and transit jurisdictions. That distinction changes the available services and the authority of a receiving office.
The powers we hold and the powers we refer
Territorial Affairs owns geographic coordination. Technical standards and independent findings remain with specialist institutions. Earth Orbit Command and Earth-Moon Operations have defined operational responsibilities inside the portfolio; neither can legislate for the Moon merely because it coordinates a shared route.
A case in practice
Illustrative case / TER
A new free-space habitat needs a civic charter, a stable address and a utility covenant. Territorial Affairs coordinates the competence map; Democratic Governance Commission supports ratification, Housing & Habitat Commission reviews resident protections and Infrastructure & Public Works Commission records structural responsibility. The resulting record shows which office owns each decision, rather than issuing one ambiguous all-purpose permit.
Responsibilities and programmes
Regional Charters
Regional Charters brings together accession compacts, boundary mediation and charter review.
Explore this programme →Local Government Support
Local Government Support brings together municipal capacity, cooperative settlement governance and rural and remote services.
Explore this programme →Territorial Equalization
Territorial Equalization brings together needs assessment, remote-service grants and local fiscal capacity.
Explore this programme →Frontier Administration
Frontier Administration brings together provisional charters, mobile public services and new habitat registration.
Explore this programme →Earth Orbit Command
Leads earth orbit command for territorial affairs; coordinates the listed specialist offices and publishes reasoned decisions.
Explore this programme →Civic Addressing
Civic Addressing brings together habitat address register, postal routing and jurisdiction lookup.
Explore this programme →Solar Energy & Inner Heliosphere
The Sun, solar observation orbits and proposed energy-collection infrastructure. No surface settlement.
Explore this programme →Mercury Administration
Mercury, polar resource sites, terminator routes and orbital industry.
Explore this programme →Venus Administration
Venus orbital operations and speculative atmospheric habitats; surface work remains robotic unless later capability changes.
Explore this programme →Earth Administration
Earth and its near-space public infrastructure; existing nations and communities retain local powers.
Explore this programme →Lunar Administration
The Moon, lunar orbit and settlements. Lunar civic autonomy is distinct from shared Earth-Moon transport operations.
Explore this programme →Mars Administration
Mars, its orbit and Phobos/Deimos. Enclosed settlement is established within this fictional future; planetary transformation remains conditional.
Explore this programme →Main Belt Commonwealth
Asteroid communities and working habitats across the main belt; Ceres has its own local district.
Explore this programme →Jovian System Administration
Jupiter orbital habitats, its moons and radiation-managed transport. Jupiter has no solid surface settlement.
Explore this programme →Saturnian System Administration
Saturn orbital infrastructure, rings and moon communities; sensitive sites have independent science protections.
Explore this programme →Uranian System Administration
Uranus orbital habitats and its moon network; gas/ice giant surface settlement is not proposed.
Explore this programme →Neptunian System Administration
Neptune orbital operations, Triton and other moon missions; long delays shape local decision powers.
Explore this programme →Pluto-Charon Administration
Pluto, Charon and their smaller moons, with locally autonomous ice-world communities.
Explore this programme →Kuiper Belt Administration
Distributed trans-Neptunian settlements and robotic science; named districts are future administrative service areas.
Explore this programme →Scattered Disk Administration
Eris/Dysnomia and other scattered-disk missions and habitats, with sparse mobile public services.
Explore this programme →Cometary & Oort Missions Authority
Comet missions, proposed distant reservoirs and itinerant work crews. Oort Cloud administration is a speculative future mission zone.
Explore this programme →Lagrange Habitats Administration
Artificial settlements around stable operational points and free-space habitats; these are communities, not sovereign celestial bodies.
Explore this programme →Trojan Communities Administration
Trojan asteroid settlements and missions, including the Jovian leading and trailing swarms.
Explore this programme →Interplanetary Corridors Authority
Transit vessels, gateway stations and civil services between regional jurisdictions; route jurisdiction never replaces a passenger home jurisdiction.
Explore this programme →Where our powers stop
Owns geographic service delivery; specialist commissions set Union-wide standards.
Public records and accountability
TER/REGRecords and reasoned determinations
TER/CONTACTAnnual service plan; public decisions; performance and expenditure report.
Contact the competent office
Accessible assistance, evidence alternatives, institutional handoffs and review.