Directory on Preservation of the Family and Home
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| Formed | July 13, 1954 |
| Headquarters | Olino, Rakeo |
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| Website | Gov.DPFyH.rk |
The Directory on Preservation of the Family and Home (Rakeoian spanish – Iberic: Directorio de Preservación de la Familia y el Hogar; abbreviated: DPFyH) is a regulatory authority in the nation of Rakeo that sets standards for dietary nutrition, distribution of general population rations, and policing of acceptable family structures. DPFyH is directed by Director Alejandro García López, but remains under the jurisdiction of parent organization Directory of Industrial Matters.
The directory operates hundreds of bakeries and employs thousands of people nationally, and operates the national registries of marriage, divorce, and accepts non-ecclesiastical vows of celibacy at its offices. Due to its involvement in daily life, and its dual functions in moral and political policing of individuals and their families, it has been listed as a perpetrator of human rights abuses in Rakeo by the Rakeoian Government-in-Exile and dissident newspaper The Diaspora Dispatch.
General Mateo Sánchez García created the Directory on 13 July 1954 during the Rakeoian Civil War to address the 1954 Rakeoian famine. Its other functions were later established in 1960 by the Stratocratic Authority.
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History
1954–1960
The Directory on Preservation of the Family and Home was originally established on 13 July 1954 as the Army Central Bakery Unit by General Mateo Sánchez García to address hunger amongst the population during the 1954 Rakeoian famine within territories administered by the Stratocratic Authority with the authority to directly requisition grain from private individuals to send to bakeries run by the Stratocratic Army Core. He appointed military officer Carlos Fernández Gómez, who was already directing food logistics for the army, to attend to the organizations functions. Citizens who were subject to these requisitions were supposed to be compensated for their losses through bonds that could be later redeemed for financial gains. Most of these bonds were later discarded or forgotten at the end of the Rakeoian Civil War in 1955. At the first meeting of the Stratocratic Authority on 25 June 1956, Fernández Gómez successfully defended the organization from charges that it was a socialist institution, citing the Creeperian Catholic Bible's account of the miracle of Jesus providing bread for the crowds that followed him. Following several days of other business, on 29 June 1956, the Directory on Preservation of the Family and Home was established as one of the first directories, while being recognized with its original date of founding.
1960–1974
On 22 August 1960, the directory was moved to be a subdirectory of the new Directory of Agriculture Matters, itself under the Directory of Industrial Matters, as part of a move towards centralization of the government bureaucracy that began under Ricardo Cornelio Huerta. It was also explicitly given the function of maintaining the national marriage registry, and enforcement powers for Rakeo's marriage laws during the move, which has been academically speculated to be part of coup-proofing done as part of the Cornelio regime, counterbalancing the Directory of Internal Affairs.
On 11 March 1970, Fernández Gómez was shot and killed by a member of Island Forever, a pro-Cornelio militia, for allegedly conspiring to sabotage the year's harvest. Cornelio Huerta disavowed the rumors and the militia unit in question, but appointed Maria Colvéz Pelvo, his preferred successor, over public objections from other members of the directory who argued that it lent credence to the conspiracy theory. A further seven directory officials would be assassinated that year, who would similarly be replaced by handpicked Cornelio Huerta appointees.
1974–1999
After the 1974 Rakeoian coup d'état, Director Colvéz Pelvo was replaced by Mariana Fernández Rodríguez, a candidate put forth by the Directory of Internal Affairs in 1975. Fernández Rodríguez embarked on a project of civilianization for the directory, and as part of that process, introduced gradual price increases to the standard bread rations produced by directory bakeries, to incentivize the establishment of new privately owned bakeries, and the reintroduction of market competition in the sector. In 1990, Fernández Rodríguez appointed her successor, Lucía Sánchez Pérez, and retired. Sánchez Pérez announced in 1994 that the program of ration price increases would be continuing under her as well.
1999–Present
In 2005, students arrested during the La Junularo riots and protests were punished with a variety of penal labor sentences depending on which jursidiction they happened to be in. A number of students were assigned to work in bakeries controlled by the directory on limited wages for participation. Every five years since the year 2000, there has been a minor price increase for the standard bread ration.
Insignia
The insignia of the Directory on Preservation of the Family and Home was established in 1964 as a centeral fireplace surrounded by a square constructed from long medium-sized sticks. Prior to Creeperian colonization, these arrangements were commonly placed at the center of a home, and they remain the symbol for a household or family in the country. A simplified version became standardized in the year 2000.
In popular culture
The government newspaper Soldiers' Daily contains a section for a recipe that calls for a standard bread ration each month. Collections documenting these recipes have been published as books by the Directory, usually spanning 2 to 5 years worth of the recipes. These have been sold regularly in Rakeo since 1980, and are sold in limited quantities in Creeperopolis.
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