Jhoutigari

The Jhoutigari, whose name translates from Saza into 'Homeland Keepers' are the spine which supports the proud statue of the ValuSelu Pact. They exist in every settlement of every Pact world, where they are responsible for its construction, maintenance, and defense.

The bulk of the Jhoutigari are conscripts following the orders of the enlisted chain of command. Work is assigned according to capability, ranging from paperwork and inventory to battlefield deployment and extermination. Conscription begins the first of the month after a citizen's twentieth birthday, lasts eighteen months, and recurrs every ten years with twelve month deployments.

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Type

Civil Services

Parent Organization

The ValuSelu Pact

Subsidiary Organizations

• Ecological Revival Office
• Gishani Marshall's Office

Location

Mothelkan

Related Ranks & Titles

• Jhoutigari Marshal

Notable Members

• Uker'ra the Starer

Welcome to your first term of public service

A Guide to Your 18-Month Foundational Service and All Future Decennial Duties

Citizenship practiced, not merely inherited. Every person participates in the preservation of our society through structured service beginning the first of the month after their 20th birthday and recurring every 10 years after. These obligations are staggered to ensure stable staffing, uninterrupted governance, and equitable contribution.

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Your first term lasts 18 months:

• 6 months of foundational civic education and universal training
• 12 months of assigned branch service

All later terms last 12 months.

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The Four Pillars of Foundational Training

You will complete instruction in the following:

Civic Literacy

The structure and operations of the government, including the chain of command and the succession of power in extenuating circumstances. The rights, obligations, and channels of petition and voting.

Infrastructure and Utilities

Identification of critical infrastructure and public utilities, especially how to operate emergency equipment such as fire suppression, aid stations, and utility vehicles.

Crisis Readiness

Hazard recognition; storm readiness; first aid; CPR; Search and Rescue; Evacuation Routes; Local Disaster Contingencies

Military & Thaumaturgic Drills

Military Formations and Drills; Squad Dynamics; Discipline; Lethal Weapon Handling; Nonlethal Weapon Handling; Thaumaturgic Identification and Safety

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Completion certifies you as a fully qualified civil asset.

Assignment Structure

Placement depends on aptitude, demographic and need. Our aim is to align the strengths and needs of each age group with the needs of the state.

20-Year Cohort - Initiate

• Field Support
• Municipal labor and public works
• Line infantry and battlefield logistics
• Administrative apprenticeships

30-Year Cohort - Trained

• Administrative billets
• Technical support
• Supervisory roles for Initiates

40-Year Cohort - Adept

• Civic continuity, instruction, and oversight
• Inspection
• Asset Management

50-Year Cohort - Senior

• Advisory positions
• Curation and Recordkeeping
• Somatic Rituals
• Gentle-duty municipal tasks

The Branches You May Serve

Assignments draw from five major clusters:

• Civil Service & Governance: For those with strong organizational or analytic skills.
• Infrastructure & Municipal Operations: For those suited to construction, maintenance, utilities, or disaster response.
• Armed & Psiolic Forces: For those with physical aptitude, discipline, or magical capability.
• Technical Directorates: For those capable in engineering, research, or arcane sciences.
• Security & Internal Order: For those with investigative or regulatory strengths.

Each branch is essential. None is expendable.

Upon Completion of Service

You receive:

• Voting rights
• A lifetime citizenship ledger marking fulfilled duty
• Priority access to certain civil benefits
• Eligibility for specialist enlistment (voluntary, compensated)
• Recognition as a stabilizing participant in national continuity

Your Role

The people serve the state; the state serves the people. Your labor maintains the continuity upon which liberty and safety depend. Take pride in your duty.

Report to your assigned Orientation Center by the first of the month following your birthday. Send exemptions and retirement requests to the intake office.

Failure to report may result in the loss of services or citizenship.

— Issued by the Ministry of Service and Continuity

Structure

1. Armed Forces

• 1.1 Ground Army

  Remit: Territorial defense, expeditionary warfare, internal security, monster hunting and extermination.

  Composition:

  • Conscripts: Line infantry, logistics battalions, engineering corps, garrison units.
  • Specialists: Armor crews, artillery fire-control, drone operators, thaumaturgic deployment teams, medics.

  Sub-branches:

  • Infantry Corps: Mass-trained conscripts rotating by age-cohort.
  • Armored Corps: Small, technical specialist cadre.
  • Artillery & Thaumaturgic Fire Support: often long-term enlisted.
  • Combat Engineers: Conscript-heavy with specialist oversight.
  • Internal Security Corps: Mostly conscripts; command roles are professionalized.
• 1.2 Thaumaturgic Forces

  Purpose: Magical warfare, counter-magic, ritual infrastructure, teleportation, weather control, barrier maintenance, sigil logistics.

  Composition: Primarily enlisted specialists due to long training requirements.

  Subbranches:

  • Battle-Mages: Offensive spellcasters.
  • Aegis Corps: Shield and warding specialists.
  • Thaumaturgic Logistics: Teleportation relays, leyline construction, enchantment upkeep.
  • Recon: Scrying, divination, spectral surveillance.
  • Scrubbers: Echo/daemon cleanup; conscripts unsuited due to burnout.



• 1.3 Navy

  Purpose: Blue-water control, trade protection, undersea threat response, megafauna deterrence.

  
  
  

  Composition:

  • Conscript-heavy: Deck crews, basic sailors, port labor.
  • Enlisted specialists: Submersible crews, navigation officers, arcane hull technicians.
  
  
  

  Subbranches:

  • Surface Fleet: Line ships, escorts, carriers.
  • Submersible Fleet: Elite, technical.
  • Maritime Logistics Command: Merchant-marine conscripts.
  • Hydromancy Section: Tide manipulation, weather forecasting, underwater wards.



• 1.4 Aerospace / Space Force

  Purpose: Atmospheric defense, orbital infrastructure, asteroid monitoring, anti-mage artillery platforms, orbital logistics.

  
  
  

  Composition: Nearly all enlisted specialists; conscripts used for bulk maintenance and construction.

  
  
  

  Subbranches:

  • Orbital Defense Command
  • Drop Trooper Brigades (mixed conscript/specialist)
  • Pilot Corps (specialist)
  • Astral Navigation Bureau (spell-assisted trajectory and relay work)
  • Space Construction Corps (conscript-heavy with specialist engineering oversight)



• 1.5 Monster-Hunting Corps

  Purpose: Anti-megafauna warfare, daemon suppression, hazardous-environment response, frontier protection.

  
  
  

  Composition:

  • Elite enlisted: Hunters, magi, fieldcraft experts.
  • Conscript auxiliaries: Spotters, shield lines, spear crews, artillery loaders.
  
  
  

  Subbranches:

  • Urban Threat Response
  • Frontier Beast Brigades
  • Exobiology / Megafauna Study Units
  • Containment & Extraction Teams

2. CIVIL GOVERNANCE & STATE SERVICE

• 2.1 Civil Service Corps

  Purpose: Administration, clerical work, census, taxation, judicial recordkeeping.

  
  
  

  Composition: Conscript-heavy; specialists in legal, diplomatic, and economic offices.

  
  
  

  Subbranches:

  • Bureau of Records
  • Revenue & Census Office
  • Judicial Processing Corps
  • Diplomatic Support Corps (specialist-heavy)
  
  
  

  Note: Quality varies unless specialist supervisors remain stable.




• 2.2 City Maintenance & Municipal Operations

  Purpose: Infrastructure, sanitation, utilities, transit, construction, emergency response.

  
  
  

  Composition:

  • Conscript-heavy: Street cleaning, public works, utility inspection.
  • Enlisted specialists: Engineers, water-table mages, grid technicians.
  
  
  

  Subbranches:

  • Structural Maintenance Corps
  • Transit Operations Corps
  • Sanitation Brigades
  • Utilities Division (energy, water, arcane grid)
  • Disaster Response Teams (mixed)



• 2.3 Medical & Social Services Corps

  Purpose: Hospitals, eldercare, childcare, rehabilitation, public health campaigns.

  
  
  

  Composition:

  • Enlisted specialists: Doctors, sorcerer-healers, mental health workers.
  • Conscript assistants: Orderlies, transport, basic-care staff.
  
  
  

  Risk: Low-skill conscripts require strict oversight in sensitive care environments.

3. TECHNICAL & SUPPORT INFRASTRUCTURE

• 3.1 Engineering Corps

  Purpose: Construction, roads, bridges, military fortifications, arcane infrastructure.

  
  
  

  Composition: Heavy conscript labor; specialist designers and arcane engineers.

  
  
  

  Subbranches:

  • Combat Engineering
  • Arcane Structural Engineering
  • Civil Megaproject Divisions
  • Mining & Resource Extraction Units



• 3.2 Scientific & Research Directorate

  Purpose: R&D for technology, magic, medicine, weaponry, and monster biology.

  
  
  

  Composition: Almost all specialists; conscripts serve as support aides.

  
  
  

  Subbranches:

  • Magitech Laboratories
  • Biological Warfare/Defense Division
  • Arcano-Energy Research
  • Monster Ecology Division



• 3.3 Logistics Command

  Purpose: Supply, warehousing, transport, convoy and portal-hub operations.

  
  
  

  Composition: Conscript-heavy.

  
  
  

  Subbranches:

  • Quartermaster Corps
  • Transportation Corps
  • Supply Protection Brigades
  • Arcane Storage Units

4. SECURITY & INTERNAL ORDER

• 4.1 National Guard / Home Defense

  Purpose: Domestic crisis response, local defense, disaster relief.

  Composition: Conscript-heavy with stable leadership.




• 4.2 Constabulary & Public Safety Corps

  Purpose: Law enforcement, patrol, crowd control.

  Composition: Mostly specialists; conscript auxiliaries supplement manpower.

  
  
  

  Subbranches:

  • Urban Patrols
  • Rural Constabulary
  • Forensics & Scrying Labs
  • Mounted/Aerial Units



• 4.3 Border & Customs Authority

  Purpose: Immigration control, anti-smuggling, monster threat screening.

  Composition: Mixed.

  
  
  

  Subbranches:

  • Checkpoint Command
  • Wild Border Rangers
  • Arcane Contraband Detection

5. SPECIAL PROGRAMS

• 5.1 Cultural & Education Corps

  Purpose: Public education, propaganda, literacy and cultural outreach.

  
  
  

  Composition:

  • Conscript-heavy: Teachers’ aides, cultural workers.
  • Specialists: Pedagogues, media staff.



• 5.2 Interstellar / Planar Expansion Corps

  Purpose: Colonization, terraforming, portal expansion, settlement engineering.

  Composition: Specialist-heavy.

• 5.3 Soul & Meta Management Authority

  Purpose: Echo remediation, soul trauma triage, daemon containment, magic safety.

  
  
  

  Composition: Highly specialist; conscripts limited to low-risk sanitation tasks.

  
  
  

  Subbranches:

  • Echo Remediation Teams
  • Soul Triage Clinics
  • Daemon Containment Units
  • Public Meta Education

Exemptions

Jhoutigari has service exemptions for inventors and the disabled

Once you go from conscript to enlistee, you are more likely to get shipped off to a colony, as they know they have you for a longer contract.

Each tour provides additional benefits such as housing preference

Each tour as an enlistee (~4 years) provides an exemption to a single conscription service and gives you their benefits. If you serve from 20 to 36, you



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