Office of the Chief of State

The Office of the Chief of State or Chief of State's Office, consisted of various aides, staff, and government organizations directly subordinate to the Chief of State of the Galactic Alliance. In this capacity, the Office served as the executive branch of the Galactic Alliance. The term was also used, though rarely so, as a description for the position and institution of the Chief of State.
The Office of the Chief of State was lead by the Chief of State with the Chief of Staff serving as an administrative assistant. Up until the Swarm War the Office was lead by the High Council under the direction of the Chief of State. However, after the conclusion of the war the High Council was discontinued and the Galactic Alliance Advisory Council became the chief advising organ of the Chief of State's Office. The Office included the Galactic Alliance bureaucracy such as the Department of Justice and the Galactic Alliance Treasury, as well as military and security forces such as the Galactic Alliance Defense Force and Galactic Alliance Security.
==Composition==
===Positions===
The Office of the Chief of State was headed by the Chief of State of the Galactic Alliance. The Chief of Staff served as an administrative assistant to the Chief of State.Fate of the Jedi: Allies
The leaders of several other organizations reported directly to the Chief of State.
*Director of Galactic Alliance IntelligenceThe New Jedi Order: The Unifying Force
*Head of Galactic Alliance SecurityFate of the Jedi: Apocalypse
*Supreme Commander
*Finance SecretaryLegacy of the Force: Sacrifice
*Security Secretary
*Minister of State
*Minister of Justice
The Jedi Grand Master and Jedi High Council served in an advisory position to the Chief of State.
===Organizations===
Ministries, departments, the military, and other organizations were organized under the Office of Chief of State.
*Advisory Council
*Department of CorrectionsFate of the Jedi: Conviction
*Department of Education
*Department of Health
*Department of Justice
**Alliance Marshals
*Department of Public Protection
**Coruscant Security ForceIt is established in Legacy of the Force: Bloodlines that the Coruscant Security Force answers to the Chief of States Office. In Legacy of the Force: Sacrifice it is established that the CSF responds to the Department of Public Protection and that they provide bodyguard protection for the Chief of State. They are temporarily relieved of this duty by the Galactic Alliance Guard. Fate of the Jedi: Backlash confirmed the CSF continued to protect the Chief of State. However other novels suggest that this duty was also performed by Galactic Alliance Security. Their official takeover of the Chief of State's security was confirmed in Vortex.
*Finance Council
*High Council Dark Nest III: The Swarm War
*Galactic Alliance Defense Force
*Galactic Alliance Guard Galaxy of Intrigue
*Galactic Alliance Intelligence Service
*Galactic Alliance Security
*Galactic Alliance Treasury
*Galactic City Authority
*Ministry of State
**Diplomatic Corps
*Reconstruction AuthorityDark Nest I: The Joiner King
*Special Operations office
**Special Missions Force 
*Public Affairs Office
===Other organizations===
*The New Jedi Order served in an advisory capacity to the Office of the Chief of State
*The Court of Justice, while a separate branch of the government, its judges could be assigned and dismissed by the Chief of State. Specifically, the Chief could establish various courts including the Court of Jedi Affairs.Fate of the Jedi: Abyss
*Various councils of the Galactic Alliance Senate, while not answerable to the Chief of State, served in advisory capacities.
==Appearances==
*Legacy of the Force: Bloodlines 
*Legacy of the Force: Sacrifice
*Legacy of the Force: Inferno
*Legacy of the Force: Revelation
*Fate of the Jedi: Outcast 
*Fate of the Jedi: Backlash 
*Fate of the Jedi: Allies 
*Fate of the Jedi: Vortex 
*Fate of the Jedi: Conviction 
*Fate of the Jedi: Ascension 
==Notes and references==
Category:Galactic Alliance organizations