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Crown & government

The Crown

Also called Crown · Westminster · the throne · Crown government · the realm's offices · Crown offices

The summit authority of Britannia: it gives seal, charter, high warrant, levy and high judgement, stands over the armed realm and the Great Houses, and is the name in which the ministries act. It rules through layered arrangements rather than direct command, tolerating local lords, councils and customs it cannot replace.

The royal government at Westminster, whose reach in the High South runs through requisition, the seven-year line licence, the assizes, the archbishop's appointment and the never-used power to withdraw guild recognition. It keeps fewer officers in the belt than in any comparable region. The realm's sovereign government, working in London through ministries, treasuries, registries, customs boards, seal chambers and superior courts. It stands above the city's civic government and uses London without deriving its authority from it.

Named with it

Ties

  • headed by the Royal House
  • acts through the Ministry and the great offices of state
  • stands over the House of Lords and House of Commons
  • legal head of the British Church (through the King)
  • declares seasons through the Royal Ministry of Survey, Roads, and Provision
  • the island Church answers Westminster promptly
  • above the Mayoralty of London in constitutional order
  • collects many church tithes through Crown-recognised channels

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The Crown denounces private war yet tolerates rough local powers and may regularise successful mercenary captains after the fact. Some feral approaches are formally sealed by Crown order. Much of the south's politics lies in the gap between Crown paper and local condition. It will ratify a company's success and disown a failure with equal speed. Collegium priority puts Crown work first. Crown and guild papers separate held water from claimed country. Londoners meet it through waiting, refusal and sudden permission; its officials are less loved but more feared than civic ones, and it arrives very fast when it wants something. Since the restored consecration of the monarchy to Saint George, that name is charged in court culture.