Principal counsels and ceremonial departments
The Principal Counsels (列卿, rjat-khrjang) are the Themiclesian emperor's highest-ranking advisors apart from the chancellor and vice chancellor(s). As a characteristic, they and their departments are all based in the capital city and receive a salary of 2,000 bushels. Despite their high rank, the development of politics around the Inner Court, particularly the Council of Correspondence, has deprived them and the chancellor and vice chancellor(s) of policy authority during the 4th century. Some retain a degree of official function today but are for the most part ceremonial.
List of principal counsels
President of Tribunes
The tribunes are a group of officers in Themiclesia primarily concerned with the maintenance of law and order amongst the Civil Service. They possess the power to investigate independently, but the President is considered the most senior of the tribunes and has the additional power to request assistance from other government agencies.
Inner Administrator
The Inner Administrator (内史, nups-srje) manages the finances of the gwians-kwal (縣官), the region directly administered by the government, as opposed to those under feudal titles.
Great Exchequer
The Great Exchequer (邦大內, prong-dais-nups) is the official responsible for overseeing the collection of agricultural revenues in the form of grains. The Inner Administrator, who controls household records, which is the basis of taxation, issues taxation quotas to local authorities and the Great Exchequer; local authorities submit the revenues to the Great Exchequer, which checks that the amount and quality matches with the dictates of the Inner Administrator. Though subordinate to him, the Great Exchequer in practice has independent access to the Emperor, to prevent collusion with other officials. The Great Exchequer is named in opposition to the Minor Exchequer, which receives other revenues.
Minor Exchequer
The Minor Exchequer (邦少內, prong-stjawh-nups) is the official responsible for overseeing the collection of revenues other than grains. The early Themiclesian state collected two principal forms of revenue, grains from farmland (termed the "male" product) but also textiles from households (the "female" product). Additionally, local bodies were responsible for submitting a number of peculiar products according to the needs of the court; these could be non-staple agricultural products, aquatic products, game and/or their products, mineral extracts, precious and base metals, or other things or a combination of them. Later, a poll tax was added, collected in the form of money (bronze coins), assessed on each person but still collected from the household as a unit. As with agricultural revenue, the Inner Administrator issued quotas for collection and instructed the Minor Exchequer to receive and scrutinize the deliveries.
Great Counsel
奉常
Marshal of Justice
廷尉
Marshal of the Capital
中尉
Marshal of Guards
衛尉
Master of Embassies
大行
Master of Associated States
屬邦
Marshal of the Corridor
郎中令
President of the Privy Council
中大夫令
Master of the Horse
大僕
Master of the Ancestry
宗正