Themiclesian Civil Service
The Imperial Civil Service (官, kwar) consists of senior members of the professional, non-political bureaucracy in Themiclesian government.
Rules
By a pre-modern constitutional convention, the civil service consists of the Crown's officials who have a defined function (of broad or narrow scope) and are accountable individually to the Crown for that function. This accountability was anciently expressed through the accounting process at year end, where officials sent records of their transactions and closing balance to the Crown for review. Note that this accounting was done with the Crown, not to other officials in the civil service. It was a serious offence for any official to intervene in the accounting process without due authority.
The quality of having defined function is central to the civil service, which relies on a stable relationship between officials. Thus, the service is a group of individuals who abide by similar rules of discretion and co-operate in fixed ways, but it is very different from a government agency whose members function under its head as a monolithic organization.
Ranks
The ranks of the imperial civil service was expressed in terms of annual remuneration in kind (grain), though actual salaries have not been paid in kind for many centuries since the maturity of a money economy. This scheme was also attested at the Remurian Empire, where officials of equestrian rank were divided according to their pay as sexagenarii, centenarii, ducenarii, tricenarii etc. The amounts in kind remain in use in Themiclesia to denote relative seniority of positions, not of persons.
A number of political positions, like cabinet ministers, junior ministers, etc. are only part of the imperial civil service for salary purposes; their holders are not protected against arbitrary dismissal. On the other hand, naval and military officers were part of the imperial civil service until 1955 and 1978 respectively, when the navy and army were made independent of the civil service.
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| Rank | Salaries (adjusted 2020) |
Professional positions | Political positions |
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| 2,000 | $489,384 | Chief Justice of Themiclesia, Chief Justice of Appeals, provincial jusice | Attorney-general, President of the Privy Council, Baron-President of the Admiralty Department |
| 1,000 | $312,203 | Principal Secretary in Chancery, puisne justices, magistrate of Kien-k'ang | |
| 800 | $223,349 | Principal Secretary in Vice Chancery, magistrates of Rak, Sin, Te-lin, Pyap, and other viceregal cities | |
| 700 | Example | Principal Secretary to the Attorney-general | |
| 600 | Example | Secretaries of (Vice) Chancery divisions, principal secretaries to the | Secretaries of state |
| 500 | Example | Example | |
| 400 | Example | Example | |
| 300 | Example | Example |
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