To reduce system startup times and general overhead, use non-persistent session beans rather than entity beans (which automatically maintain state information) whenever possible.

Citizens, state, enterprises and non-profit-making organizations are all benefit relatives of environmental resources and have the possibility to be the environmental accounting entity.

General Assembly where they hold observer status as an 'entity', and if they get a two-thirds majority approval - which is likely - upgrade to 'non-member state' observer.