Fiction:Valian Empire/ImpTrAu

The Valian Imperial Transit Authority, or ValImpTrAu for short, is a branch of the Valian Seceretariat, responsible for the registration, tracking, licensing and taxation of all official interstellar transports operating in the Valian Empire. Originally a small division of the Empire's lower bureaucratic echelons, it grew massively as older systems crumbled and taxing private trade became the most profitable source of income in the galaxy.

The ValImpTrAu not only taxes and licenses all outgoing and incoming cargo at all inter-Province boundaries, it is also responsible for the maintenance of all official spacetravel-related archives and databases, including the Imperial World Registry as well as galaxy-wide star charts.