Government

For the current Cabinet, see Second Plätschisch Cabinet

The Government of Talossa is formed after each general election, at intervals of around eight months. After the election, the political party or coalition of parties holding a majority of seats in the newly elected Cosa organizes a new administration, recommending to the King a particular person for the office of Seneschal, or Prime Minister.

Members of the Government abide by a Code of Conduct. The Code of Conduct was first introduced in 2018 during the Third Da Schir Cabinet and has been upheld ever since.

Cabinet

The Seneschal appoints a Cabinet of ministers to enact various functions specified in the Organic Law and in the Lexhatx. On some occasions, new Seneschals have left some of the offices vacant, or permitted the incumbents to retain their positions.

The composition of the Cabinet has changed over time. During the 6th Cosa, the first modern Cabinet consisted of the Prime Minister (Ian von Metairia), his Deputy and the Ministers of STUFF, Defense (Weston Erni) and Foreign Affairs (William Renzi). In 1999, under Tamorán dal Navâ, the Immigration Minister was recorded by 25RZ19 as also being part of the Cabinet, as it was created sometime in 1997, and the Minister of Micronational Affairs and Culture Minister also attended Cabinet without being statutory posts.

The post of Attorney-General became a regular feature from the following First Pope Cabinet, from where on the Cabinet took its more or less final shape for some years as consisting of the Prime Minister, his Deputy, and the Ministers of Foreign Affairs, Culture, Immigration, Defence and STUFF, the Attorney-General, in addition to number of "also attending" positions which varied over the years.

An expansion of the Cabinet happened in 2005, when the Finance Ministry was created and solidified from the duties of the Burgermeister and the President of the Royal Bank and Post, and in 2007, when the Home Affairs Ministry was created, bringing the number of full Cabinet posts to 10.

Those between 2007 and 2009 remain the largest Cabinets to date by number of actual appointees, with later Prime Ministers typically choosing to combine certain portfolios. Indeed, the Cabinet was ultimately reduced by statute to 8 full members in 2014 by the merger of Home, Immigration and Defense into the Interior Ministry.

Recent years have seen an uptick in the number of Cabinet posts: Defense was made a full Cabinet post again in 2019, and Immigration followed in 2022, while Interior was disestabilished. Finally, the Ministry of STUFF was split up, its technical duties given to a new Ministry of Technology much reminiscent of the early-cybercit era Telecommunications Ministry.

Composition

The Government is formed by the following Ministries, whose heads form the Cabinet:

Ministry	Head	Job	Creation or first mention	First recorded holder
Office of the Seneschal	Seneschal (Prime Minister)	Head of government, oversight of executive projects	1985	Ián von Metáiriâ
	Distain (Deputy Prime Minister)	Deputy to the Seneschal (whatever job is delegated)	1985	Brook Pànetâ
Ministry of Culture	Culture Minister	Promotion of Talossan culture	1999 (first mention, not full member)	Tomas Gariçeir
Ministry of Defence	Defence Minister	Oversight of the defence of the Kingdom	1987 (abol. 2014, reest. 2019)	Weston Erni
Ministry of Finance	Finance Minister	Setting and implementing economic policies, requesting and receiving disbursals from the Treasury	2005 (modern form)	Javier Gold
Ministry of Foreign Affairs	Foreign Minister	Conduction of diplomatic relations with other entities	1983	Robert Murphy
Ministry of Immigration	Immigration Minister	Oversight of immigration and provincial affairs	2022 (modern form)	Ián Plätschisch
Ministry of Justice	Attorney-General	Legal advice and representation for the Government	1999 (modern form)	Matt Dabrowski
Ministry of STUFF	Minister of STUFF	Advertising Talossa to non-citizens, management of state media assets	1987	Ben Madison?
Ministry of Technology	Minister of Technology	Administering Talossa's websites, domain names and social media	2022	Miestra Schiva

Former positions

Some positions that are no longer of Cabinet level, or that no longer exist, include the following. Some were fully fledged positions, others were only created as sinecuraes for a certain person; this former misuse of Cabinet positions is evident from the provisions of Lexhatx D.1, some of whose language dates to the late 1990s.

• Minister of Home Affairs - Created in 2007, merged into the Ministry of the Interior in 2014
• Ministry of the Interior - Created in 2014, disestablished in 2022
• Minister of Wargaming - Often used in the King Ben Era; duties mostly absorbed in the Culture Ministry, then in the Culture Secretary
• Minister of Law Reform - Secondary title for the Attorney-General in 2011
• Women's Affairs Minister - Given to Maureen O'Hara in 2005
• Minister of Propaganda - Appointed in 1999-2002
• Minister of Administrative Affairs
• Minister of Internal Affairs
• Minister to the Provinces
• Minister of Silly Walks - Created for Brook Paneta in the first 2000s.
• Minister for Micronational Affairs - Non-statutory office closed by the Semi-Permeable Wall Act in 1999.
• Minister of Telecommunications - Created by 20RZ3 in 1995 to oversee Talossa's "computer revolution".
• Minister for Internal Security - Created in 1993 to oversee Talossa's security force, la Sigürità, later renamed into "Law and Order Minister".
• Ministry of Native American Affairs - Created in 1990 for Jack Schneider in response to a racial attack in the Greater Talossan Area.
• Minister of Athletics - Created in 1984 for Harry Wozniak, later given to Andrew Wozniak.

Full list of appointees

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