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Register of Crown Servants
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The Crown Service is the politically neutral public administration of the Principality. Nominees for senior positions must first face a Confirmation Committee hearing at Parliament before being recommended for a warrant of office from the Princess.
The following is a publicly accessible register of all senior leaders within the public sector. The register includes Crown Servants who lead departments or ministries and are accountable to their portfolio's Cabinet Ministers, commanders of the armed forces, and managers of Crown enterprises. It closes with the Princely Observer, who stands outside the Crown Service entirely and answers to the Princess alone.
Offices of State
Warranted offices standing outside the departmental structure, each appointed for a five-year term. Nominees are submitted for examination under oath in a parliamentary committee, then recommended to the Princess for an official warrant upon a favourable report.
Officer | Office | Biography |
Amadeo Barandika (he/him) | Crown Intendant | Appointed as Crown Intendant with a unanimous endorsement from the Confirmation Committee, on the basis of three decades of blemish-free service. Moved into the role from a successful posting as Director-General of the Treasury. |
Xiana Otamendi (she/her) | Commandant of the Gendarmerie | Had a successful twenty-year career as a detective in the criminal investigation branch. Promoted to Commandant after delivering an overhaul of police training procedures to instil greater responsibility and ethics. |
Milagros Sendín (she/her) | Principality Auditor | Appointed after fifteen years at the Treasury, Sendín made headlines for tabling a report critical of San Calisto's defence procurement processes. Expected to tender a report to Parliament sometime this term on the long-term prospects of oil and gas revenue funding of social services. |
Aitor Elizondo (he/him) | Governor of the Bank of San Calisto | A central banker with extensive prior experience abroad. Generally critical of inflationary pressures arising from unpredictable oil prices. |
Directors-General
Each portfolio department is headed by a Director-General, who has been nominated by the Crown Intendant, recommended by the Confirmation Committee, and warranted by the Princess for a five-year term, renewable. A Director-General is accountable to their portfolio minister for the conduct of policy, to the Crown Intendant for the conduct and neutrality of their department's staff, and to the relevant Standing Committee for expenditure against their annual budget appropriation. Dismissal lies with the Intendant on the same grounds as any comparable appointment, the Princess revoking the warrant at the Intendant's request, and carries no direct appeal to the Supreme Court.
Officer | Department | Biography |
Feliciana Ozaeta (she/her) | Office of Crown and Cabinet | A daughter of a farming family in the interior, Ozaeta was educated in the capital and quickly rose up the ranks of the Crown Service through quiet effectiveness and relationship management. She is the only person outside of an appointed Princely Observer permitted to witness discussions between the Prime Minister and the Princess. |
Fabián Uriondo (he/him) | Department of National Security | Pioneered San Calisto's signals intelligence group over twelve years, then impressed as the Department's acting head following the previous Director's retirement. Made headlines for upending a previous tradition of 'neither confirming nor denying' by informing the Confirmation Committee that the Department does not conduct mass surveillance on Calistoan citizens. |
Higinio Belaunza (he/him) | The Treasury | An economist with prior experience with the Bank of San Calisto and several international non-governmental organisations. He has dutifully supported policies of the Neoliberal-led Coalition Government, incurring the ire of many unions and protest groups. |
Rita Sarralde (she/her) | Ministry of Foreign Affairs | Sarralde speaks four languages and spent time in six overseas postings before returning to the foreign ministry's corporate governance. Has a growing workload as the Neoliberal-led Coalition seek to implement a reemergence of San Calisto on the international stage. |
Ovidio Bustinza (he/him) | Ministry of Defence | Appointed from a previous mid-level role at the Treasury, Bustinza has faced challenges in an ineffective defence procurement system. As is customary for this posting, Bustinza has experience in policy with no military background. |
Naiara Legarreta (she/her) | Ministry of Disaster Response | Legarreta has more than a decade coordinating field emergency response in the interior. She has run the response to two cyclones and a moderate earthquake. |
Consuelo Iturbe (she/her) | Ministry of Justice | Iturbe worked twenty years across courts administration, corrections and legal aid, with a secondment to the Gendarmerie's internal affairs investigative branch. She is the champion of anti-corruption measures across the Crown Service. |
Unai Goñi (he/him) | Ministry of Immigration | Goñi spent twelve years as an immigration advisor and six on citizenship policy. Often pulled into cross-government strategy meetings involving foreign affairs, tourism and trade. |
Ander Beloqui (he/him) | Ministry of Tourism and Trade | Beloqui has worked for a decade each in trade negotiation and treaty lawmaking. Has managed a seamless transition from the protectionist isolation of past Traditionalist administrations to the current Neoliberal-led Coalition's embrace of free trade. |
Gaspar Meixide (he/him) | Crown Legal Office | A Crown Service lawyer of twenty-eight years who has advised four Attorneys-General, Meixide is the best briefed figure in the entire Crown Service across every portfolio. |
Amaia Goikoetxea (she/her) | Ministry of Energy and Resources | A reservoir engineer before the Crown Service, with twelve years as an official since, Goikoetxea is the primary interface between Ministers and the Calistoan Petroleum Corporation board chair. |
Onofre Barreiro (he/him) | Ministry of Agriculture | Barreiro has almost two decades of experience with the department, and makes a point of travelling across the interior to hear directly from farming communities. Can calm an entire room of producers clamouring for higher prices through impressive charisma, before reporting their concerns to the Minister. |
Antía Doval (she/her) | Ministry of Fisheries | Doval was an experienced lawyer who had never caught a fish, but oversaw the design and launch of the modern fishing quota system with minimal setbacks. |
Alba Recarte (they/them) | Ministry of Administration and Statistics | Over three decades Recarte went from working in small district offices, where the registry counter is often the only government building within fifty kilometres, to leading delivery of the census. Known for taking responsibility for areas with long delays, infrequent service, and the procedural failings of subordinates. |
Pilar Zumeta (she/her) | Ministry of Health | Zumeta began work as a hospital administrator at the Bay of Baluarte, having since marked twenty-five years in the department. Known for seeking equitable care options for the more remote interior settlements. |
Rocío Landeira (she/her) | Ministry of Welfare | Landeira rose from the frontline of caseload processing, before shifting into law as a springboard to corporate management of the department. She faces regular criticism for a lack of discretion on case decisions, though the rigidity follows from successive Parliaments tightening eligibility rules. |
Dr Sabela Requeixo (they/them) | Ministry of Education | Requeixo achieved a doctorate in the economics of education and spent fifteen years in institutional administration, ending as chief executive of the polytechnic sector. They joined the department as a deputy director without a day of classroom experience, and were recently promoted to Director-General. |
Íñigo Mendiluze (he/him) | Ministry of Commerce | Mendiluze spent his first decade in the Crown Service issuing the industrial licences the planned economy relied on, and has more recently begun dismantling that same system under the Neoliberal-led Coalition's Millennium Reforms. He administered both policy agendas without favour, exemplifying the political neutrality Crown Servants aspire to. |
Damián Corcuera (he/him) | Ministry of Public Works | Trained as an engineer but redeployed to back office, Corcuera assumed responsibility for the Public Works department nearly a decade ago and has been reappointed under successive governments. While not every project is delivered on budget, no completion deadlines have ever been missed for projects valued over 10 million Balu, earning him cross-party respect. |
Iker Mardaras (he/him) | Ministry of Collective Negotiations | Mardaras is a familiar face at the table between the agricultural cooperative and the union movement, having overseen mediation efforts over the last eight years. He is trusted by both sides for always providing clear and objective appraisals of collective bargaining underway to his portfolio minister. |
Nerea Bidegain (she/her) | Ministry for Climate and Environmental Protection | Bidegain manages environmental and climate policies with clear objectivity, reporting figures and trendlines without sugarcoating or catastrophising. She will provide the government of the day with a valuable long-term perspective, while dutifully implementing often short-sighted decisions made in the moment. |
Noelia Bouzas (she/her) | Ministry of Transport | Bouzas brought a wealth of operational transport knowledge to the department, spending fifteen years in its regulation without neglecting any specific mode's business case. Has sought a cross-government approach to emissions reduction within the transport sector, but this remains delayed due to competing fiscal priorities across departments. |
High Command of the Armed Forces
While all personnel swear allegiance to the Princess, the Generalissimo is ultimately in command of the armed services. Each service is headed by a Marshal, who is accountable to the Generalissimo for recruitment, training and readiness, and directly to the Minister for its conduct. To demonstrate civilian authority over the military, the Minister of Defence nominates officers for promotion to Generalissimo and Marshal, with these positions requiring a full hearing by the Confirmation Committee at Parliament and a warrant of appointment by the Princess.
Officer | Office | Biography |
Generalissimo Aurelio Bergara (he/him) | Generalissimo of the Armed Forces | Bergara served thirty-four years as a naval officer, commanding the submarine force and then the Fleet Marines, the embarked half of the Corps which boards and seizes vessels in the economic zone. He is unpopular with retired army officers, who complain that their branch has been passed over for the role of Generalissimo for successive appointment cycles, though his record remains unequalled. |
Marshal Benedita Dias (she/her) | Marshal of the Navy | Dias was the first Calistoan woman to command a naval frigate, and transferred from there to command of the Fortress Marines holding the batteries and defences of the Bay of Baluarte. That combination of sea and land experience carried her quickly through the senior ranks, and she was appointed Marshal of the Navy in 2024. |
Marshal Sixto Olabarría (he/him) | Marshal of the Army | Olabarría was identified early on as being an ideal combat engineer, enduring four rotations in the interior across a decade of hard flood seasons. Decorated for commanding the relief effort after the 2005 earthquake, he is an example of an innovative leader who rose through the ranks of an army that has not seen active conflict for two generations. |
Marshal Ainara Lizaso (she/her) | Marshal of the Air Force | Lizaso flew maritime patrol aircraft for a decade before moving into capability planning, where she wrote the case for the long-endurance uncrewed fleet that now flies most of the Principality's surveillance hours. Appointed Marshal in 2025, she is the youngest and most technically fluent of the High Command. |
The Diplomatic Service
Career officers of the Crown Service. Officers in post are listed first; the remainder are qualified for designation as heads of mission or consular officers as the Principality's network reopens. The Minister of Foreign Affairs nominates the officer to the Confirmation Committee, and the Princess issues the warrant on a favourable report.
Officer | Grade and assignment | Biography |
Bruno Larumbe (he/him) | Ambassador | Twenty-four years in the service, three of his postings missions he opened from nothing, which leaves him equally at home negotiating backroom logistics as well as high stakes trade deals. Ambassador of San Calisto to the Free State of Brovora since 5 September 2026. |
Idoia Elorriaga (she/her) | Ambassador | A highly respected figure in the Crown Service, Elorriaga has worked twenty-two years in the Foreign Ministry across advocacy, consular and treaty work, including a secondment to the international desk of the Bank of San Calisto. Elorriaga has twice been the lead drafter of monetary and settlement clauses, and has supervised more tariff schedule reviews than many diplomats will undertake in their entire careers. |
Casimiro Fontán (he/him) | Ambassador | Bio TBC |
Amaranta Vilaseca (she/her) | Consul-General | Bio TBC |
Cosme Zubiría (he/him) | Ambassador | Bio TBC |
Olalla Nogueira (she/her) | Ambassador | Bio TBC |
Anselmo Berrocal (he/him) | Consul-General | Bio TBC |
Iratxe Muñagorri (she/her) | Ambassador | Bio TBC |
Teodoro Camarasa (he/him) | Ambassador | Bio TBC |
Sabina Lousada (she/her) | Consul-General | Bio TBC |
Efrén Balaguer (he/him) | Ambassador | Bio TBC |
Casilda Irurzun (she/her) | Ambassador | Bio TBC |
Genaro Tejeda (he/him) | Consul | Bio TBC |
Nekane Salvatierra (she/her) | Ambassador | Bio TBC |
Alexis Cendán (they/them) | Consul-General | Bio TBC |
National Agricultural Cooperative
The National Agricultural Cooperative buys, stores and markets the greater part of Calistoan produce at the guaranteed national price, and is the largest single employer in the interior. It is governed by a Council of Delegates elected by its producer members and its regional workforces, which appoints the President. The Crown holds the controlling interest; the President is an employee of the cooperative and not a warranted Crown Servant.
Officer | Office | Biography |
Rosenda Múgica (she/her) | President | Múgica has been with the cooperative for twenty-five years, starting work at a district office in the western interior before rising to regional administrator and now the national administration. She treats the guaranteed price as an obligation owed to each and every farm rather than a policy instrument of the Government of the day. |
Board of the Calistoan Petroleum Corporation
Calistoan Petroleum Corporation, the state hydrocarbon corporation, extracts, refines and exports Calistoan oil and holds the strategic petroleum reserve. Directors are appointed by the Minister of Resources for three-year terms, save the seat elected by the corporation's own employees under its founding Act; the Administrator and the Chief Financial Officer are appointed by the board and sit on it by virtue of their office. No member of the board is a warranted Crown Servant or holds Crown Service tenure; the corporation's accounts are audited by the Principality Auditor and laid before Parliament.
Officer | Seat | Biography |
Herminia Oyarzun (she/her) | Chair | Bio TBC |
Gervasio Antelo (he/him) | Administrator | Bio TBC |
Lourdes Etxaniz (she/her) | Chief Financial Officer | Bio TBC |
Begoña Ansorena (she/her) | Director, Exploration and Production | Bio TBC |
Prudencio Galdós (he/him) | Director, Refining | Bio TBC |
Amancio Lezama (he/him) | Director, Workforce | Bio TBC |
Casiano Ribadulla (he/him) | Director, Contracts | Bio TBC |
The Princely Observer
A personal representative of the Princess, appointed under her personal prerogative and held at her pleasure. The Observer is entitled to attend all Cabinet meetings, sittings of Parliament, and proceedings of the courts. The Observer holds no ministerial portfolio, tenders no advice, and takes no part in any decision.
The office rests on three principles:
Direct appointment, as the Princess chooses an Observer at her own initiative and for as long as she wishes, with no recommendation or confirmation process for the role;
princely accountability, given the Observer answers to the Princess alone and to no Minister, Parliament, court, or the Crown Intendant; and
complete access, with the Observer being furnished with any information of state they require, without exception, restriction or delay.
Officer | Office | Appointed |
No appointment in force | Princely Observer | Vacant |
