Imperial Court of Mesogeia
The Imperial Court of Mesogeia refers to the institution comprising the domestic, military, and religious entourage of the Emperor of Mesogeia, which supports both the reigning sovereign and the members of the Imperial Family.
Organisation
The basic administrative structure of the Imperial court has existed in its present form largely unchanged for the close to a thousand years. The Imperial court is presently divided into six main departments, these include: the Department of the Imperial Chancellory, Department of the Grand Praepositus, the Office of Megas Primicerius, the Office of the Imperial Fortune, the Office of the Gynaikeion, and the Office of the Ektomiai, the Office of the Imperial Stables, and the Imperial Hunt.
Department of the Imperial Chancellory
The Department of the Imperial Chancellory is overseen by the Grand Magister who functions as a kind of Imperial Chancellor for the Emperor. The Imperial Chancellory consists of three bureaus, they include:
- Clerical Bureau, responsible for drafting official documents on the Emperor's behalf, as well as oversight of the Imperial Archives
- Correspondence Bureau, responsible for receiving and answering official correspondence to the Emperor both winin the empire and from foreign nations. It also handles the Imperial translation service when dealing with foreign nations.
- Legal Bureau, which is responsible for dealing with petitions and appeals received by the Emperor from lower courts
- Arrangement Bureau, handles administrative matters that occur when the Emperor is not in the capital.
Office of the Imperial Fortune
The Office of the Imperial Fortune is possibly one of the largest and most influential departments of the Imperial Court being responsible for administrative, financial, and personnel matters in some form. The Office of the Imperial Fortune is subdivided into five sections, which are repsonsible for a host of functions, these five sections are the Office of the Exchequer, the Accounting Department, the Administrative Office the Court Services Office, and the Military Household.
These five departments are responsible for various agencies including the Payments Office, Department of Imperial Travels, Department of Uniforms, Department of Buldings Maintenance, The Telegraph Office, the Ecclesiastical Household, Court Physician Bureau, Salon Services, Imperial Pharmacy, Imperial Nymphaeum Park Agency, and the Imperial Buildings Management, Court Utilities, Imperial Theatres Bureau, and the Imperial Gardens.