The STUFF Decluttering Act

[Breneir Tzaracomprada]

Okay, I think I've figured it out.

The Ministry of STUFF to be reconfigured to be about "making stuff"- "the design and production of "physical embodiments of Talossanity", whether for distribution to citizens, to publicise the Kingdom to outsiders, or to sell for profit." (I prefer a PermSec to be in charge of actually making the stuff.)

A Ministry of Propaganda to be set up for "for the internal and external promotion of the Kingdom, all events therein and all things Talossan through public relations, and shall dutifully ensure that the Kingdom and its events are regularly publicised and may use any means and media available to them to achieve this. The Ministry of Propaganda shall be directly responsible for the content of one or more websites and/or social media accounts named as the 'official' website(s) and social media account(s) of the Kingdom."

A Ministry of Information to take on ensuring the availability, for all Talossans, of "information necessary for or useful to citizenship". This would mean, in concrete terms right now, La C'hronica and Infoteca.

I still think that the test taken to authorise ID cards should come under "Culture".

So we are going the route of creating more ministries rather than using the Civil Service? This seems like a change from the election message from Avant...

[Sir Lüc]

Quick note that the Royal Household, which is cited in the first amending clause, has essentially been superseded by the Royal Civil Service.

Otherwise I think the tripartition proposed by Miestra is a good starting point.

[Sir Lüc]

I for one am glad we're increasing the number of portfolios rather than axing them. It may be counterintuitive, but it adds way more flexibility to deal with fluctuating activity levels and managing individual ministers's workload.

Assuming you can find an extra Cabinet minister, and you're not just chopping one hat into two

I do not disagree but that's a separate issue. If anything, more modular ministries could help finding extra appointees, as you could hand out smaller jobs with fewer duties. In your own example, the new MinInfo would have two main tasks, each to be performed once per month, and the latter of which usually takes just a few minutes to do.