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On paper, it's run by Maria and her cult, but in actuality, most power is concentrated into BESPA, who were the turncoat Federation garrison of Side 2 and the Strategic Naval Research Institute, a former Federation research lab looking into newtypes and mobile suit development. The ultimate power is the Jupiter Empire, and Zanscare could be said to be their client state. Even the prime minister of Zanscare was a subject of the Jovian emperor.