Alusian State Department Inner Circle

The "Inner Circle" was a political and bureaucratic movement originating within the Empire of Alusia's Department of State.
== History ==
While the highly shadowy nature of Alusian recordkeeping on this matter makes it impossible to establish with certainty whether he founded the movement, Lavrency Beriak is widely recognized as the mastermind in bringing the movement to power through a campaign of infiltration through every facet of the Alusian civil service. The policy of the Inner Circle was first and foremost to extend itself and advance its leaders to the highest levels of power. Seeing themselves as the true guardians of Alusian state ideology, members of the Inner Circle identified their movement with the Alusian state and held the State as a transcendent entity above the individual, even the Emperor or Imperial House. This policy would ultimately culminate in the extermination of the Alusian Imperial house during the Legitimist Crisis.
While Emperor Alekai Chevik was an ally of the Inner Circle, the movement did not substantially penetrate the top brass of Alusian military command, and the military remained an effectively independent entity in Alusian political economy throughout the latter half of the 5th century. Through the long decades of the Alusian Regency, the Inner Circle's monopoly on the civil service would quietly splinter as, without an administrative genius like Beriak to keep all the plates spinning, different members of the Inner Circle would carve out administrative fiefdoms to support their differing positions on the core tenets of Alusian bureaucratic ideology. The Inner Circle appeared to have made an accommodation with Darko Korascik on the latter's accession to power, after multiple unsuccessful efforts to assassinate him.
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