State Bureau of Entertainment and Recreation

  

State Bureau of Entertainment and Recreation

Seat of the State Bureau of Entertainment and Recreation, located in the suburb of Margaritaville outside of Tampa .
Agency overview
Formed	March 14, 1962 (1962-03-14)
Jurisdiction	United Commonwealth
Headquarters	Margaritaville, Tampa, Florida, A.R.C., U.C.
Motto	"Our goal is the happiness of all mankind"
Employees	98,091
Annual budget	$2.36 billion (2019)
Agency executive	Cindy Whitmore, Bureau Chief of Entertainment and Recreation
Parent department	People's Commissariat for Culture
Parent agency	Commissariat for Leisure
Map
Prefectures where the State Bureau of Entertainment and Recreation operates.

The State Bureau of Entertainment and Recreation (SBER) is a division of the Commissariat for Leisure, a commissariat of the People's Commissariat for Culture. It controls the holiday resorts, lodging facilities and other recreational landholdings of the Continentalist Party not designated as a national park or preserve. It also regulates the resorts controlled by the nation's labor unions, ensuring the fair use of the properties to the union's members. It is one of the largest maintainers of land within the country and is considered a central part of many Continental's lives, with 3 in 4 citizens utilizing its resort system within their lifetime. It also maintains a large portfolio of houses in the countryside, with the homes rotating among the citizenry throughout the year. Most of these homes were built in the 1960s as bungalows and is similar to that the dacha in Russia. In addition to its landholdings it also operates three cruise ships from the Port of Miami that transports citizens throughout the Continental territories in the Continental Sea.

Established in 1962 by General Secretary Rupert Gardner and the 24th Congress of the Continentalist Party of the United Commonwealth, it was formed with the assistance of the labor unions to reign in and regulate the increasingly popular concept of vacation timeshares. After Great War II, a construction boom along the Continental Gulf allowed for a dramatic increase in vacationers in the region. As the country turned from entertainment to leisure in the postwar regime the Continentalist government sought to provide for the desires of its citizens, building resorts and hotels to accommodate the increasing demand. This change in leisure resulted in the development of the once empty coastal lands of on the Gulf and along the Atlantic, spurring the tourist economy of the Okaloosan states and Florida. Nearly 500 resorts and hotels were constructed on the coasts of the nation between 1962 and 1972, with labor unions constructing nearly another 500. Resorts built by specific unions are exclusive to their members. The Continental Laborers' Union (CLU) maintains nearly 45% of the resorts and is the largest union partnered with the Bureau.

With a budget of $2.3 billion dollars and a landholdings worth nearly $450 billion dollars, its governing mandate demands that it operate at the pleasure of the working class inline with Landonist theory of building a socialist society, allowing for every citizens an equal opportunity to enjoy a holiday. It does not provide financial subsidies to international clients, who are charged full price for their stay. Regardless, because of its iconic legacy status among the international community, it is favored against private lodges in the country. In accordance with its charter, the bureau is unable to operate north of the Mason-Dixon line. All 98,000 of its workers belong to the Union of Lodgers, Hospitality and Culinary Workers (UL-HCW), its current Bureau Chief is Cindy Whitmore.

History

Continental family in 1963 belonging to a carpenter's labor union in Chattanooga preparing to depart for a union resort associated with SBER in Florescendia.

Facilities

Hotels

The Zhou Xinyue Worker's Resort in Miami was the first building completed during the initial phase, and remains one of the most popular destinations, with the commons retaining its 60s aesthetic.

The Tampa Continental Laborer's Resort, completed in 1983 is located in St. Pete Beach, Florida. The resort is one of the various properties maintained by the Continental Laborers' Union who provides timeshares to its members year round for their affiliation to the labor union.

See Also

• Continental Dream
• Tourism in the United Commonwealth
• Culture of the United Commonwealth