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Nobody mentioned that we could rename our officials to represent our in-game evolution. (Don't we all just love making these Nobody remarks? ;))

Currently, we have the following names:
Chieftain
Warlord
Chief Scientist
Chief Justice
Judge Advocate
Public Defender
Governor

I think that Chieftain and Warlord need renaming.

Thoughts? Suggestions?
 
I think Khagan for the Chieftain and Khan for the Warlord.

They were the titles used by the Mongol Empire.

Khagan means Khan of Khans, whereas Khan is simply Khan. Maybe we should go for the etymological roots of the Mongol Empire. Boyan could also be warlord, as it means General, Noyan would be the equivalent to governors.

The Wikipedia article on the Mongol Empire is quite good.

We should also add in a High Priest (for religion) and rename Chief Scientist as
"Mandarin" , "Khans Engineer" or something.
 
Well I remember last term there was some discussion of changing the entire government structure to reduce the number of offices. In two terms we haven't had a single contested election (unless you count DP) and in both we had positions which had to be filled by appointment.

What I'm thinking is that with our new change to Representation, we might establish a new government system. The way I would do things would be to elect 5 governors, district representatives, whatever you want to call them. After the election of these governors the 5 governors would then publicly vote to select one of themselves as a Prime Minister who would then act in a similar role to our current chieftain.

The 4 remaining governors would then be assigned roles by this Prime Minister. He would be able to select two cabinet members ( possibly a warlord and chief scientist, possibly some other office they deem necessary) he would also appoint two of the governors to the court.

The court would still be headed and organized by a chief justice, elected separately from the governors.

This would reduce our number of officials to 6, from the current 10, hopefully resulting in a more interesting campaign cycle where officials actually have to post their intended policies in hopes of gaining votes, rather than just accepting a nomination.

If that seems to be a far too drastic reduction in office numbers, or too large of a job for some of the officials, we might also consider more governorships, possibly 6 or 7, allowing for more advisers and reducing the size of aimags that the governors would have to manage, increasing their ability to lead in advisor duties.
 
I agree we need to cut back on our number of officers and maybe even remove some. It seems like a lot of the Chieftains duties are becoming less and less, so I'm thinking we should remove the Scientist position and give those powers to the Chieftain.

Maybe cutback on the number of governors, thought not too much as we have a lot of cities. Basically, we need to organize our government structure based off of the participation level.
 
Note, I presented a law proposal for governors and warlord handling Civics.
These are the ones actually doing the research.
 
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