The Ministry

The present government of Britannia under Prime Minister Sir Alured Marchmont, acting in the King's name. It is not a harmonious cabinet: Marchmont depends on Vane for money, Mortaine for military obedience, Thornycroft for foreign policy, Rooke for domestic warning and Bale for legality.

Named with it

• Sir Alured Marchmont · Prime Minister
• Lord Chancellor Thomas Edward Bale
• Lord Treasurer Nathaniel Vane
• Sir Edmund Rooke · Home Secretary
• Sir Julian Thornycroft · Foreign Secretary
• Duke Stephen Mortaine · Secretary of State for War
• Lord Admiral Henry · First Lord of the Admiralty
• Sir Matthew Wetherall · Minister of Works and Communications

Ties

• serves the Crown
• depends on the House of Commons for supply
• includes the Treasury, Home Office, War Office and Admiralty

At the table

There is more strength in the ministry than appears, and for the very reason that it appears weaker than it is, it is less loved than a grander ministry would be. A King may dismiss it. He must then find another that can draw supply, which is the money voted to government, from the same hard landscape.