Republic Owl / Pecпyбликa Филин / République Hibou / 共和国 ワシミミズク
Gravekeepers

So that the people may be able to visit and conmemorate their dead, the nation requires staff that mantain the graveyards, however, an association with death and the stigma that follows made it difficult to obtain a steady flow of volunteers, as a result, the job was taken on by those that have had close experiences with death and are capable of taking the mental stress of such a profession. These people are called: Gravekeepers.

The duty of a gravekeeper is simple, mantain the assigned graveyard and it's functions working, thus, a graveyard is not only a protector, but also a bureaucrat and administrator, as the graveyards have multiple functions, the staff working under a gravekeeper has also expanded to accomodate them.
The graveyard's staff is state appointed, and legally so is the gravekeeper, in practice, the gravekeeper will be selected by another gravekeeper who will train them on graveyard duties, and when the gravekeeper retires it is the trainee who will take on the office, althought, tipically, retired gravekeepers will proceed to live the rest of their lives in the graveyard and act as source of advice whenever needed, and once upon death, be taken to one of the graveyards for unclaimed corpses and be buried there. For all intents and porpouses, trainees are still referred to as gravekeepers.
The undertaker, tipically a professional medic, is tasked with the preparing of the body for burial, along with logging into a record all incoming corpses and the actions done upon them. They tipically burn out from the job relatively soon, and alcoholism is a common problem for those that remain a long time in the profession, so often it is recent graduates that take the job to gain experience or retired medics who feel they are unable to work on living people. Generally their duties include autopsy and analyzing the body for reason of death, then closing the body and leaving it in as natural as shape as is possible, and wrapping it up with paper or cloth for easier burial.
Since the undertaker will ocassionally be unable to meet the requirements of logging everything, dedicated administrators, often medics in training, will also be hired to keep track of everything that happens during the processes. The undertaker and the administrator tipically live outside of the graveyard, live-in residencies are uncommon for them.
That will tipically make up the entire staff of a graveyard, as the gravekeeper is mainly tasked with digging graves, doing the burials or observing them depending on whether the responsible family wishes to do it by themselves, and cleaning the stones or burial marks left there. Mantainance of the landscape is left to the gravekeeper as well, so gardeners will ocassionally be hired to remove some of the weeds and to plant flowers around.
While the graveyard keeper can hire as much staff as needed to aid in duties, it will remain low as working with the dead is a very stressful affair and doing it for long comes with social stigma.
Graveyards are state owned, meaning that gravekeepers are technically state officials, and managed by the state administration, for this reason, the gravekeepers are given special legal status to accomplish their duties, with certain restrictions placed upon them to stop them from ammasing too much power, that combined with the often questionable past from many of the gravekeepers means that they will tipically not use their legal authority much.
Among these authorities are:
-Ability to resolve legal battles if summoned by both parties or the state
-Monopoly of violence in graveyards
-Write fines
-Do arrests
-Destruction of plagues (dubios legal definition, applies to more things than you'd think) if it affects the graveyard

While the gravekeeper does not have the right to kill humans, as it is often mythologized and rumored, they do have the right to harm as long as it is non-vital and non-permanent damage. Wild animals, and living anomalies have no such defence by the law, so gravekeepers are allowed to do hunts against these.
Gravekeepers, aside from protecting the graveyard, and by their association with death, are often hired and asked by local authorities to deal with anomalies and powerful beasts, meaning that they are often "State Anomaly Resolver" by the hobby groups interested in the supernatural.
As of now, wendigos and warfs seem to be their most common extermination target as records tell, however, very few undertakers have been able to confirm their existence due to the damage their bodies will be left to, so it is often left as overgrown wolves and beasts in the records.

Of more interest to other people, is the selection process for new gravekeepers.
Candidates first present themselves either by volunteer and by offer of the state, generally, those that have had close encounters with death, and have dealt with death themselves are looked for and preferred, as such, veteran soldiers that had especially demanding actions, violent criminals in the process of reforming, experienced hunters that are starting to feel remorse, and generally people that have done impressive feats but still suffer from regrets and doubts, such as firefighters or others, are all candidates according to the state.
The state will give a list of candidates to a gravekeeper looking for a new apprentice and replacement, and will go to convince the person of interest, they have a surprisingly high rate of acceptance, as a lot of them struggle with getting jobs due to social stigma already.
While uncommon, it is not unheard of for gravekeepers to recruit multiple trainees depending on the size of the graveyard they must keep, there is no formal hierarchy for multiple gravekeepers working in a single graveyard, so it is often decided by days of rest and days of work on who will represent the graveyard.