The Polye are governed by an intricate network of overlapping jurisdictions, each with carefully outlines roles as outlined in the Treaty of Kirovograd, and the Kirovograd Charter. As not all jurisdictions - particularly Kirovograd itself, as well as the Soviet-governed cities of Kiev, Chernobyl, Kaniv, etc. - are self-sufficient in food, a system is put in place to ensure that every city, town, and hamlet is afforded a portion of the harvest every year.

The harvest is collected by rural peasants, typically governed over by the Cossacks. A percentage of the food is reserved for the Assembly, which sends government officials to oversee the harvest, and ensure that the proper amount of food is being reserved for the Assembly.

The officials then report the quantity of grain to the Assembly, which then calculates, to the best of its ability, where the food needs to go. The excess, held by the Cossacks, is free to be sold, usually to towns that are under-delivered by the Assembly, or to the Concerns, to be sold abroad. In order to facilitate this, incentives are usually given to the Cossacks - in the form of a stipend - to produce a certain quantity of food.

The Kirovograd Assembly has been taking note of the rapid expansion of the Cossack Hosts, and finds itself wondering why it is paying for a stipend, for regions that are, as of right now, producing an enormous surplus of food. Rather than subsidizing the profits of Dushka, the Assembly has seen fit to end the subsidies to food production, while still collecting their due.