As is tradition, every Minister of Regional Affairs is free to organize their staff and advisers as they see fit, according to their specific needs and the people available. What follows is a brief explanation of how I have organised the Ministry leadership and an introduction to the ranking structure adapted loosely from the SPSF. This structure is based on my strong belief that RA is a service based ministry and its goals are to promote and build community.

Structure
Minister: elected representative of the people; coordinates projects and reports progress to the cabinet as well as the region at large. 
Deputy Minister: the second in command, main adviser to the Minister and the one who helps oversee the execution of all projects.
Advisory Council: a body of advisers appointed by the Minister, who discuss the progress of Ministry projects and new ways of making the ministry more active and engaged, as well as provide guidance to directors for particular departments and train new members. 

The following ranks can be earned through specific contributions to the ministry over a length of time. As we are testing this system out this term, like the SPSF system, it will undergo changes as needed to be viable. 

Lead Developer - A member of the MoRA Team who leads (co-designs, co-develops and co-manages) at least 5 successful RA projects over one or more RA terms and can help train lower ranks. Lead Developers may become the manager of a specific department and really bring their vision to life for that department.
Consultant - A member of the MoRA Team who has taken lead on and managed 3 successful RA projects to completion during the past two terms.
Associate - A member of the MoRA Team who has supported 3 successful RA projects to completion (or 10 assignments) during the current term.
Artist - A member of MoRA who creates a series of quality graphics, logos, flags or other requested items for TSP and takes requests on an ongoing basis.
Intern - A member of the MoRA Team who contributes to at least 1 assignment every RA cycle (2-3 weeks).

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What are examples of assignments? 

Writing an article for the Southern Journal (that is published) is an assignment.  Hosting for a event block (usually a few hours) is an assignment.  Creating a logo or graphics for an RA production is an assignment. Assignments must be completed successfully (as in be of use and in use) to count. 

What are examples of projects? 

A project is one edition of the Southern Journal (so to take lead on and develop a journalism project would mean requesting\assigning articles, working with proofreaders to edit\revise, and then publishing and promoting the completed issue through RMB\Discord\forums).

Another example of a project is event planning such as the Interregional Olympic Games. In this case event planning is really tough work and requires dedication and an investment of time so ranking up for this would include this into consideration.  What distinguishes successful events (a decent amount of participation and activity) from vanity projects (ones where there is bare minimum participation or no one cares) is the amount of effort and preparation.

Just for the Interregional Olympic Games (TSP's first big event of the term, out of three such planned ones) the following was required and completed:

Planning Stage: Planning and managing events and activities, timings\schedules, hosts or co-hosts and partners, sending invitations to invited allies, friends, and others and following up with regional leaders, getting a sense of expected activity and interests and adjusting planned activities and doing research.

Development Stage: Working with partners to describe and develop activities (how they will work out or look this could be how points will be tracked, creating a quiz and testing it), creating and organizing a server for the event and organizing masks and roles, following up with teams\partner\participant questions and suggestions, doing research such as compiling questions for trivia and fact-checking.

Publicity Stage: This stage often runs concurrently with other stages and includes advertising regionally and interregionally (RMB, dispatch, Discord, forums, and working with MoFa to have ambassadors post invite information as well, also sending out DMs or TGs to individuals and regional leaders).

Hosting Stage: This stage requires time commitment (being live\active\engaged) for the majority of the event as a host, running activities, tracking scores\points for participation, arranging for judges for particular events, reminding judges\event participants of deadlines, altering things and being able to improvise events based on gauging the needs of the audience.

Post-Event Stage: Communicating event happenings to the region and across venues, connecting with participants and making connections for the region as well as future events, also discussing what worked well and what could be improved with co-hosts for the next event.

Therefore, a member who actively participates in multiple stages of an event will earn lead or support rankings. 

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My belief is that stagnancy, apathy, and incompetence are the biggest threats to regional cultural development and this structure makes it clear which members are contributing and how and rewards active engagement. 

Finally, my goal is to help develop RA leadership that will create a healthy and active community regionally and interregionally!

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