Thallian Government

## Type of Government

Thallian government is a **dictatorship**. The Queen is the one who rules and her word is the law. The power is in the hand of the family, who name themselves with a pretentious title.

Below the Queen is the Royal Advisor, who is also female. She is in charge of the **House of Elders**, which are 19 women and 2 men who are advisors to the Queen. They are *non-binding strategic advisors* who help the Queen, but, in the end, the decision falls on the Queen.

Below the Royal Advisor is the **Prime Minister**, who is in charge of the Government and all the **Ministers** in the smaller departments. Once a week, the Royal Advisor, the Prime Minister, and the Ministers meet to discuss and then the Prime Minister and Royal Advisor meets with the Queen to bring advice and update her with what is happening in her Kingdom.

There are **13** departments within the Thallian Government:

1. Department of Education
2. Department of Business, Economy, and Communication
3. Department of Employment and Work
4. Department of Art and Culture
5. Department of Environment, Climate, and Food
6. Department of Travel and Transportation
7. Department of Health and Security
8. Department of Law and Justice
9. Department of Affairs (internal and foreign)
10. Department of Finance
11. Department of Magical and Mundane Maladies
12. Department of Flora and Fauna, and the
13. Department of Balance (Villains, Heroes, and Guardians - there are much less people in the heroes and guardians, which is why Thallian is considered “dark” territory).

There is a Minister for each of the departments and each of these smaller groups have their own sub-departments, their own rules, and number of people.

**Current Queen:** **Vivienne Scarlette**

## **Home Affairs**

Each of the 13 departments are in charge of monitoring there respective affairs and reporting them to the Queen at the weekly meetings so that she may make decisions being fully informed as to the goings-on in the kingdom.

## **Constitutional Development**

Each of the 13 departments is responsible for creating the laws surrounding their department. Final reading, as always, of any rule wishing to be passed into law must always be approved by the Queen before it can be made so.

## **Finance**

The currency utilized, when not bartering with exports, is the standard Platinum, Gold, Silver, Copper. Most of the revenue in the kingdom comes from the mass quantities of food and technology exported either by selling or leasing, to other kingdoms.

## **Foreign Affairs**

Foreign affairs between Thallian and the other kingdoms have always been more strained than most inter-kingdom relations due to the generally more brusque manner Thallian chooses to employ to deal with trade and other matters. Since Thallian as a whole can generally be a bit pushy about what they want and who they deal with when speaking with other kingdoms (they prefer to deal with other women and as such dealing with male leaders and advisors tends to require an extra effort).

Thallian tends to try to run any diplomatic encounter as the kingdom is run: by dictatorship. As such it is not uncommon for them to attempt to bully a dignitary into taking their side and doing what they want. However, while they do enjoy being able to steamroll over a dignitary to dictate the terms of trade, or other agreements and meetings they do respect the dignitary who remains steadfast and refuses to be pushed around. When it comes to male dignitaries from other kingdoms they are most impressed when they remain logical and think with their head over their emotions. Emotional wellbeing of another kingdom (or even their own) is far down the list of what they feel is important in inter-kingdom relations.

## **Intelligence**

The intelligence network of Thallian is almost exclusively run in the underground network of spies, thieves and other villains. This underground network brings news to the queen in the form of secret notes and magical means. It is not unheard of for a Thallian citizen (even a child) to be used to infiltrate the other kingdoms to bring back valuable secrets. Generally the spies will not steal anything from the kingdoms however. Their missions reside upon the passing of information only, to aid the Queen in making decisions for the good of the kingdom.

## **Labor**

Much of the hard labour force in Thallian comes from those who commit petty crimes. However, the labour force in general is made up of every citizen in some way. The citizens of Thallian take pride in their work and strive to complete tasks in as efficient a way as possible.

## **Welfare and Population Development**

The welfare of the people has always been very gender-biased towards females. Couples seeking to have a child will always hope to have female children. Yes, males are still well cared for and treated with some semblance of human decency but it is the female children that usually receive the highest praise and advantages - both from their parents and from the government and its departments.

To give birth to a female child is to bring great honour to the family. And if that female child goes on to hold a high ranking position, the family is handsomely rewarded for its contribution to the strengthening of Thallian ties. In fact, it is not uncommon when a female child displays powers or magic for their use to be sold for government use. That is not to say the child is sold - they still remain under the care of their parents; go to school etc. But that they are free for the government, or queen directly even, to utilize as they/she sees fit.

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