Imperial Cabinet

Type
 Founded

The **Imperial Cabinet of the Libirachi Empire**, also known simply as the **Imperial Cabinet** or **Cabinet**, is the *de-jure* governing body of the Libirachi Empire, as well as the Libirachi National Congress, and consists of the highest ranking politicians in the nation.

Members of the cabinet are appointed upon the president's request after receiving assent from the emperor; as such, cabinet members serve purely at the pleasure of the president and can be removed from office in a reshuffle or altogether sacked mid-term. Cabinets are formed either after a presidential election, the start of a new congress or the start of a premiership, and last until it is either dissolved by the emperor or a new cabinet is appointed. Congress is able to impeach and remove members of cabinet that it deems to have shown contempt of the government or negligence in their role, although this power has never been used, with the president instead removing any offending figures before congress has the opportunity to vote on an impeachment.

As the presidium body of the Libirachi National Congress, the Imperial Cabinet is responsible for dictating the legislative agenda of congress and presents congress with bills and legislation to implement - as such, ministers in the cabinet are required to be members of congress, although the president is not. Since the initiation of the cabinet, Nathan Jackson is the only president not to serve in congress consecutively.

Technically, the Imperial Cabinet is subject to motions of confidence from within the Libirachi National Congress, although in actual practice this is unlikely to occur thanks to the *de-facto* government domination of the legislature - however in 2033, the National Congress passed a motion of no-confidence in the government of President Damien Salamander after he had been detained by forces of the Commission for the Preservation of the New Order, which resulted in a snap presidential election being held to confirm a successor.

Since the 2019 Libirachi Coup d'état and the formation of the Fox Dynasty, presidential power to form a cabinet has been limited due to the required assent from the emperor to inaugurate the cabinet; the extent of this relationship was tried in the 2030-33 Libirachi Constitutional Crisis when President Damien Salamander resisted Empress Penny Fox's decree and inaugurated the Damien Salamander III Cabinet in the summer of 2030 without consent for several members, leading to a split between the two and ultimately the COMPNOR takeover of government in the 2033 Libirachi Coup d'état.

## Membership

The Cabinet currently consists of the:

* **Emperor of the Libirachi Empire** (ex-officio Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces)
* **President of the Libirachi Empire**
* Grand Moff
* Grand General
* Grand Admiral
* Defence Secretary
* Education Secretary
* Attorney General
* Finance Secretary
* Foreign Secretary
* Secretary of State
* Health Secretary
* Minister for Propaganda
* Minister for State Security
* Minister for Space
* President of the Imperial Privy Council
* Chairman of the Libirachi National Congress
* Chairman of the Commission for the Preservation of the New Order