About entities
An entity can be anything.
Physically, an entity is an internally hosted webpage, or a link to an external website that can be owned by anyone (i.e. citizens, companies, the government, parties, party branches, or other entities) and can be created for any legal purpose. Like companies, entities can have a single owner or multiple owners. Ownership in entities can be transferred or sold.
Please note the difference between the owners and the manager of an entity. The entity is technically maintained by its manager, who is not necessarily the owner. The manager can be any citizen, appointed by the owners of the entity. When any of the owners is a company or an organization, the manager or president of that owner acts in the name of the owner. (I.e. in case of government owned entities, the president of the republic appoints the manager of the entity.)
Since entities can be created by anyone, they have no official status by default. Government owned entities receive their official status by the president linking them in to the government home page.
Examples for possible entities:
- The government (i.e. the president) could create an entity owned by The Government of Titulia, named Ministry of Silly Walks. With this, the president has created a new ministry with its own webpage. The ministry receives its official status when the president places a link to it on the government home page. The owner of the entity is the Government of Titulia, therefore the president of the republic acts in the name of the owner to appoint a manager of this entity. In this case, the president might want to appoint the Minister of Silly Walks to manager of the entity. From then on, the minister will technically maintain the website of this ministry, until this or the next president decides to replace him.
IMPORTANT: By appointing a new government official, the newly appointed official will not automatically become the manager of any entity. The president will have to separately appoint the new minister to manager of the ministry entity.
- Now that there is a Ministry of Silly Walks, and this entity is managed by the Minister, the minister might want to create a National Archive of Silly Walks. The minister can go ahead and create a new entity, named National Archive of Silly Walks, owned by the Ministry of Silly Walks. From now on, the manager of the National Archive of Silly Walks will always be appointed by the manager of the owner entity, i.e. the Ministry of Silly Walks, whoever is in that position at the time.
- Similarly to the above, the government might want to create webpages for the embassies owned directly, or indirectly through a Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
- The government might want to create entities to host the webpages of laws or collection of laws. E.g., the government might want to create an entity named Tort Law. This website would host the text of the law, maintained by anyone the president saw fit to appoint to manager.