Minister for Occupied Territories (Libirachi Empire)

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The **Minister of State for Protectorate Territories**, formerly known as the **Minister of State for Occupied Territories**, is a senior ministerial position within the Libirachi cabinet as the head of the Department of Administered Territories; between 2021 and 2041, the department was a part of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, but was moved to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs following the independence of the Libirachi Administrative Zone in August 2041.

Following the outbreak of the Has Wars in 2020 against Bovido Has, the Fox Dynasty mobilised the entire military potential of the nation towards defeating the Bovido regime. Within 13 months of the start of the conflict, Libirachi forces occupied the Bovido capital Makassar and annexed the territories of Bovido Has and its remnants over the following year. In order to administer the territories, President Xi Jimping established the Department for Administered Territories within the Ministry of Internal Affairs and appointed interior minister Spencer Davis to the new position of minister of state for occupied territories on May 17, 2021; additionally, the administrative province of the Administrative Zone of Acquired Bovido Territories was formed on the same day as an autonomous region of the Fox Dynasty controlled by the Department for Administered Territories. In 2023, newly appointed president Damien Salamander enacted reforms to establish the office of secretary of state, with the minister for occupied territories becoming formally subservient to the new secretary.

Between 2030 and 2041, the position of minister for occupied territories was held by members of the Imperial Army Political Corps as the Libirachi government sought to depoliticise the Administrative Zone and instead bring it under increased authoritarian governance; for the duration of the zone's existence, the minister for occupied territories was also concurrently the governor of the region, and from 2030 to 2034 and from 2035 to 2041, the minister was also concurrently the military administrator of the region, bringing together all three legally established positions of power in the zone into one figure.

After nearly twenty years of existence, the Administrative Zone was formally disbanded on August 17, 2041 following the passing of the *Administrative Zone Dissolution Act of 2041*. Alongside the dissolution of the zone, the role of governor was abolished, whilst minister Ngo Xuan was removed from office on the same day, with control over the Department of Administered Territories briefly returning to the secretary of state. On August 20, 2041, the position of minister of state for occupied territories was reconfigured as minister of state for protectorate territories; under the new title, the minister gained responsibilities for influencing the governments of Libirachi puppet states in Africa, Asia, and eastern Europe - however, the office's influence in Libirachi commonwealth nations was limited by the simultaneous creation of a minister for the commonwealth. With the restructuring of the office, the Department of Administered Territories was moved from the Ministry of Internal Affairs to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

## See Also

* Secretary of State (Libirachi Empire)
* Foreign Secretary (Libirachi Empire)
* Libirachi Administrative Zone