Overheard in the Ministry of State and Outlands:
“So, what does ‘serious leader’ mean over there?”
“‘Willing to kill people he doesn’t like, ergo respectable. Or at least safer to respect in public.'”
“Ah. The usual, then.”
runér
At the dawn of the Empire, its system of runér titles was labyrinthine: each of the five original signatories of the Imperial Charter possessed different systems of government with different positions, ranks, and titles of office attached thereto, as did those nations which joined shortly thereafter, all with their own
Ministry of State and Outlands
I've been feeling moderately like crud all month (possibly weather, plague, lingering COVID, acute state of paranoia brought on by not being a native-spawned American in the US these days, that sort of thing) and not been getting much done. So have some little worldbuilding snacklets that I
Ministry of State and Outlands
satrapy (n.): A foreign polity, for whatever reason, temporarily operating with the advice and under the supervision of an Imperial satrap (typically, an officer of the Ministry of State and Outlands of prefectural or higher rank) but not under military occupation; a relationship one step closer than a client-state. The
trope-a-day
Realpolitik: The Ministry of State and Outlands would love to be able to pursue such interests as the Empire has (which generally excludes its private interests, who tend to pursue their own foreign policies) with this much ideology-free pragmatism, but since the Empire is a strongly ideological libertist-technepraxic state, they