Supreme Maintenant of the Terophatic Empire

The Supreme Maintenant of the Terophatic Empire (High Secote: ⰕⰉⰓⰗⰀⰜⰍⰀⰋⰅⰃⰑ ⰂⰎⰀⰄⰟⰉⰝⰠⰔⰕⰂⰀ ⰂⰓⰠⰘⰟⰉⰊ ⰗⰅⰐⰕⰀⰓⰟⰕⰀⰓⰠ, Tirfackajego Vladyčĭstva Vrĭxyi Fentarŭtar'ĭ) is an official of the Imperial Court of Terophan responsible for the overall supervision and coordination of the empire's public works and social welfare programmes. The Supreme Maintenant is directly responsible to the Terophatic Emperor, and thus autonomous of the Imperial Treasury. In practice, however, the Treasury can exercise a suspensory veto over the Maintenant's decisions through refusing the disbursement of necessary funds, thus referring the ultimate decision on a given matter to the Emperor and his Council of Eight Chancellors. Since the Long War, an effective division of responsibilities has prevailed in the public services of the Terophatic government between the Supreme Archivist, an internalist, and the Supreme Maintenant, an externalist.

The Maintenancy is an office of relatively recent provenance, having only been established in 1915 during the regency of Vsevolod the Great on the model of similar posts in Lacre, Agamar, and Zemay. Its powers were expanded considerably in the decades preceding the end of the Long War in 1958, and during the Purity Reconstruction of the 1960s the Maintenancy assumed its current form as one of the empire's principal offices of state, taking on responsibility for the Reconstruction's extensive public works efforts. The Maintenant has also assumed certain powers over the empire's estates, primarily in ensuring that minimum standards of welfare are met in the estates' treatment of their workers, and participates in determining the construction of new Schools and the extent of the services offered at these institutions, thus involving the office in the functioning of the Scholarchy as a whole. The current Maintenant, Devriprourka, Knaze Novonarad, has been in office since 2015.