System: State (Government)

View: System Name and Class

Name:  State (Government)

Based on: Human Activity System (HAS)

State: a nation or territory considered as an organized political community under one government.

NOTE:  The State (Government) also relates to the Society as a system. These systems will be harmonized at some point.

Depending upon the scope of the System-of-Interest, the state may represent:

  • United Nations or other global international organizations
  • Nations or groups of Nations
  • Regions
  • City-Regions
  • Neighborhoods

Management System Standards are available to help local and national governments address sustainability:

ISO 37101 Sustainable Development in Communities

Along with others in the ISO 371xx Series: 

  • ISO 37105 Descriptive framework for cities and communities

  • ISO 37106 Guidance on establishing smart city operating models for sustainable communities

  • ISO 37120 Indicators for city services and quality of life

View: System Purpose

State: a nation or territory considered as an organized political community under one government.

The purpose of the State (Government) depends upon the type of government that has been formed. Typical democratic governments have the following purpose:

  • Represent the needs of the people living in a nation or nation state
  • Manage the shared resources for this people living in the area.
  • Handle emergencies
  • Provide shared services for the people
  • Government (governance representing the people (democracy, etc).
  • Civil Service / Civil Servants (tax collectors, licensing, statistics, benefits, etc).
    • Taxes collected locally and allocated upwards.
  • Establish markets: establish market rules and enforcement

    ECONP_004. Deregulation of the Economic System

    ECONP_006. Fair Share of Tax

  • Determine split between market and commons for infrastructure services
  • Establish mechanisms for deployment of development activities (e.g. where to place a manufacturing plant and develop associated skills)
    • This is also important from moving from an extractive trade to a developmental trade arrangement.
    • This also relates to where the design and innovation are done and how shared.
  • Establish rule of law, courts and legal system based upon the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhereGoal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all agesGoal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for allGoal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girlsGoal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for allGoal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for allGoal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovationGoal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countriesGoal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainableGoal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns
Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts*Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable developmentGoal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity lossGoal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levelsGoal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development

View: System Properties

Systemic Measurable Variables

  • Culture supporting the people in the area
  • Governance and rule of law
  • Needs of people represented to higher / wider government.

Systemic Capabilities or Functions

The capabilities or functions the system provides.

Policies about the delivery of:

  • Human Activity Infrastructure Services
  • Pension and Social Security
  • Legal, judicial courts, enforcement and prisons.
  • National Protection: Military, Trade, Foreign Aid, etc
  • Establishment and management of Markets and Common Resources
  • Taxation and subsidies
  • International Trade.

Government Departments for the delivery of government services:

 

System States

The various defined states that the system-of-interestcan be in.

  • Architectural states
  • Transformational States
  • Operational States
View: System Stakeholders and Concerns

Stakeholders will be unique to the specific system

View: System Environment (Context)
  • Environment will be unique to the specific system.
View: System Structure (Pattern of Organization)
  • Citizens
  • The representatives of the people (Governance)
  • Public Services: (Registration, Regulation, Education, Trade, Welfare, Health Care, Parks, Land use, Infrastructure, legal, prisons, waste, water, environment, etc)
  • Emergency Services: (Fire, Police, Security, Ambulance, Military, Environment, etc)
View: System Behavior (Structural Changes)

Configuration / Scenario:

Describes any configuration / scenario attributes for a specific system-of-interest. This may not be appropriate for all system descriptions (e.g. patterns or abstract systems).

Cyclical (Repeating / Regular) Processes

Routine operational processes to maintain the system

Provides support to deliver the capabilities or functions of the system.

Development Life Cycle Processes

How this system is created, developed, used and released.

Describes the processes for major developmental changes.

References

The following references support this type of system-of-interest.