Bureau of Natural Resources
The Illuminatia Bureau of Natural Resources (BNR) is an agency of the Illuminatian government responsible for preserving the natural integrity of Neonisi, Illuminatia's planetary home. The BNR is concerned with the conservation of both the organic and mineral elements of Illuminatia's geologic, aquatic, atmospheric, and living environment. Through its constituent agencies, the BNR monitors human impact on the environment and regulates the activities that might interfere with or degrade the environment.
The BNR entrusts the protection of the flora and fauna of Illuminatia to the Office of Ecosystem Conservation (OEC). The BNR manages preservation of bodies of water, aquifers, and other water supplies through its Office of Aquatic Resources (OAR). Safeguarding of the air and the atmosphere occurs through the Office of Atmospheric Conservation (OAC). Conservation of the minerals, soil, and other structures of Illuminatia's geology takes place through the Office of Mineral Resources (OMR). Preservation of the natural integrity of the landscape and the terrain in general is accomplished through the Office of Landscape and Terrain (OLT). Finally, the Office of Resource Extraction (ORE) specifically manages the mining, quarrying, and other removal activities of organic and inorganic features of the natural environment. The Office of Resource Reclamation (ORR) ensures a minimized need for human intervention in the natural environment through maximizing the recycling and reuse of naturally-derived materials so that additional extraction of resources might not be necessary.
The BNR not only controls the extraction and trade of natural resources obtained from the planet but preserves the natural integrity of the environment. Through the ORE, the BNR collects revenue from natural resource extraction efforts.
The natural resources contained within Neonisi are understood to be a finite resource and therefore are considered to be property of the people collectively, and as a result are managed by of the Illuminatian government under democratic processes derived from the people collectively. The BNR as an agency was democratically determined to operate as a partial technocracy to ensure the most environmentally responsible decisions are carried out despite the forces of democracy.
Revenue collected from industrial operations benefiting from the responsible extraction and manipulation of natural resources accounts for a significant proportion of the income funding the operations of the Illuminatian government and its public services. These funds directly benefit the people of Illuminatia by virtue of being property of the people collectively.
Resource extraction
- See article: Office of Resource Extraction
Accounting for extracted natural resources throughout the lifecycle of the raw material as it is incorporated into end products and as it subsequently changes hands is a highly documented pedantic process. The value, quantity, and makeup of the material in a product, whether consumer goods or bulk raw material, is recorded in association with information regarding possession at every transaction into a public database administered by the BNR.
Natural resources derived from Neonisi are never considered personal property under ownership of any individual regardless of whether the resources are in the form of raw materials or finished consumer products. Natural resources are merely considered under possession of an individual but ultimately of belonging to the people of Illuminatia. This philosophy extends to land itself, which also cannot be owned or wholly purchased, per se—only occupied.