How do the cabinets of your governments work? Are they decision-making bodies, like in parliamentary governments, or simply advisory bodies, like in the US? How many ministers/secretaries do your governments have, and what portfolios do they have? How are they selected?
In the Baldrounien government, the Unepenqaue (Cabinet) is composed of the purunou (prime minister), along with eight other ghauen (ministers):
- The anqhamae, who serves as the chief clerk of the government, and also formulates policies regarding the bureaucracy and civil service,
- The saghou, who deals with foreign affairs: diplomacy and defense; also serves as the chief ambassador of Baldroun
- The ithiemaen, who manages government finances and fiscal policies of the nation
- The taghasiue, who deals with economic affairs: commerce and business, labor, agriculture, mining, forestry, and fisheries, as well as industry,
- The qathluon, who deals with human resources: education, culture, and sport, health, and social welfare,
- The bandhae, who manages the 'interior': security of the nation, disaster prevention, risk-mitigation and relief, and enforcement of law and order,
- The odhaetre, who manages developmental affairs: housing and urban development, rural development, transportation, communications, and information, and
- The naibouno, who deals with energy, as well as managing the environment and the nation's natural resources.
The purunou, after being appointed by the Ashta (equivalent of a king), appoints all the ghauen, which traditionally should be approved by the Ashta; in practice, the Ashta rarely denies a ghauen appointment. The ghauen are allowed to delegate their responsibilities to altenghauen (deputy ministers); by custom, all ghauen but the Anqhamae appoints altenghauen.
The purunou can also appoint additional ghauen, usually to manage issues that recently have come up and become relevant. The portfolios of these ghauen, however, are dissolved when the Panepoulen (Parliament) is dissolved; if the issue is still relevant when a new Panepoulen has been elected, the new purunou must create the portfolios necessary, again, from scratch, and appoint a ghauen. The eight main ghauen are not entrenched in the constitution; they are in every iteration of the Unepenqaue because of custom.
An example of this is the ghauiese, created in 1912 (two years after independence), in order to manage the reorganization of states and other government institutions.
