Bureaucracy of the Grand Duchy of Marlheim

The government of the Grand Duchy of Marlheim is, by design, three parallel bureaucracies, which overlap each other's functions at almost every level.

For example, every Navy ship has members of the MINITOL Secret Police - overt and covert - as well as members of GRYMOV's PURBUR (Purity Bureau) aboard to look for signs of disloyalty, mutiny, and incipient defection. This trifurcation of authority exists at every level of every bureaucracy, civil and military.

GOVBOD

The "GOVBOD" is the supreme ruling council. It consists of:

• The "Grand Duke" - since 586, a member of the Zdarlak clan.
• The Supreme Marshal of the MARLAR (Marlheim Army)
• The Secretary of the MINITOL (Ministery of Tolerance), the Secret Police
• The Premiere of the GRYMOV (Grzyadsh Movement).

GRYMOV (The Grzyadsh Movement)

The Grzyadsh Movement bears resemblance both to a political party and a state-secular religion. It consists of many smaller sub-bureaucracies.

• GRANCONG - the Grand Congress - a hierarchical body of 12,000 Movement representatives that gathers annually in the "PALGRANCONG" (Palace of the Grand Congress) to enthusiastically approve the GOVBOD's plans with a thin veneer of legislative legitimacy.
• INFOBUR - the "Information Bureau", the state propaganda ministry. INFOBUR surrounds Marlheim citizens with the government's official stances, information and, for want of a better term, orders via means crude (omnipresent loudspeakers and projection screens in most public places) to deeply subtle (INFOBUR is rumored to have expended much research into subliminal messaging via the government's main infostreams - the only infostreams in the Duchy).
• PURBUR - The "Purity Bureau" - the Party's espionage agency. PURBUR operates via two main avenues:
  • Marlheim "citizens" are strongly urged to report "impurity" to the PURBUR - and strongly santioned for any perceived reluctance to do so. Keeping track of the denunciations from citizens keeps a large part of the PURBUR bureaucracy busy.
  • PURBUR has overt representatives in every Army/Navy unit of company/patrol craft strength or greater.
  • PURBUR also runs agents througout the Army and the MINITOL looking for evidence of disloyalty - real, perceived, manufactured or purely of convenience.
• BORFOR - the "Border Forces", patrol the Dutchy's borders. BORFOR owns a large fleet of patrol and surveillance ships that observe comings and goings along the border.
  • CUSTFOR - the "Customs Force" - is a subdivision of BORFOR, in charge of security at the Marlheim and Pendang starports.
• SECFOR - the "Security Force", a large ground and naval force directly responsible for defending the Capitol complex in Marlheim. This force includes a large fleet of obsolete battleships.

MARLAR (Army of the Grand Duchy of Marlheim)

The MARLAR includes all branches of service.

• MARLARGRO - Marlheim Army Ground Forces, the Ground, Planetary Defense, Air and Wet Naval Forces are an immense, integrated force totalling over 64 million troops of all echelons.
• MARLARSTAR - Marlheim Army Star Force is, by standards of nations with eight billion "citizens", an immense force.

MINITOL (The "Ministry of Tolerance" Secret Police)

The MINITOL is in charge of all intelligence, foreign and domestic (and doesn't, as a matter of doctrine, distinguish between the two; indeed, "All Enemies Are Enemies" is the bureau motto.

• MINTEL, or External Intelligence, runs agents outside Marlheim. Their operations in Duncinae and Caledon have been seemingly less than successful - indeed, many have been turned into double-agents by the local intel services. Their luck has been better in Carillan and Imperial territory.
• MINISEC, or Ministry of Security, handes internal intelligence. Its divisions include:
  • MINICIV - Ministry of Civilization. Its agents spy on the non-military apparatus of the bureaucracy - the GRYMOV's propaganda and political operations, and the general civilian populace.
  • MINIMIL, the Military Ministry, which runs agents in all military units in both the MARLAR and the GRYMOV. These officers include both overt "Loyalty Officers" and undercover agents reporting on morale, loyalty and personal facts that can be used in other contingencies.
  • MINICOMM, or the Commerce Ministry, which spies on foreign (and, for that matter, domestic) business contacts operating with the Dutchy.
    • MINIVICE, the "Vice Ministry", operates the vice industries at the Pendang and Marlheim up-ports. MINIVICE operates
      • a synthetic drug laborator (whose products are also the source of much external hard revenue)
      • breweries and distilleries (famous for really awful liquor)
      • A full array of prostitution services, from barflies to expensive out-calls, trained to the highest standards of the profession at MINIVICE's academy.
• MINISTAB - the "Ministry of the Constabulary" is the "civil" police force throughout the entire Dutchy. Everything from beat cops to riot police are controlled by MINISTAB.
• MINIJUST - "Ministry of Justice", MINISEC's interrogation, incarceration and "disposal" operation. "Judges" essentially interrogate prisoners (there is really no "indictment" or "trial" phase, unless GRYMOV's PROPBUR needs one). MINIJUST runs immense penal colonies, especially on Emmaline. It also "disappears" people, very routinely, with nothing remotely recognizable as "due process" even to an Imperial citizen.
• MINIFIELD - The Field Ministry includes an elite force of several divisions of "Security Police" whose mission is to defend the Capitol in conjunction with, and against, some combination of the MARLAR and GRYMOV troops.

Rank Structure

Note that GRYMOV paramilitary forces uses same ranks as in MARLAR

Imperial Rank Equivalent	MARLAR (Ground/Naval)	Scope (Ground / Naval)	MINITOL	Scope	GRYMOV Political		Scope
E1	Soldier	- -	Patrolman	-	Member
E2	Senior Soldier	- -	Senior Patrolman	-	Senior Member
E3	Leader or Technician	Section (14 soldiers) -	Leading Patrolman	"Foreman" for patrols	Block Captain		Leads block
E4	Lance Leader or Senior Technician	Lance (7 Sections) -	Patrol Leader	Administrator for Patrolmen	-
E5	Leader Major / Technican Major	Assists Standard Commander -	Brigadier	Senior Administrator for "Patrol" in a given area.	-
O1	Lieutenant 3rd Class	Assists Lance Commander -	Junior Investigator	Interrogator, or officer for "Lance". Frequently also undercover operative in political or military unit.	Precinct Captain		Leads precinct
O2	Lieutenant 2nd Class	Lance (7 Sections) Specialist (Pilot, Gunner, Engineer, etc)	Investigator	Case investigator	Deputy City/Area Captain
O3	Lieutenant 1st Class	Assists Standard Commander / Shipboard Department	Senior Investigator	Director of "investigations" for city/area, or for Standard	City/Area Captain		Leads city or area / junior manager of bureau
O4	Junior Colonel	Standard / Patrol Craft	Curate	Director of Branch for a district - or Field Force)	Depty District Captain		/ junior manager of bureau
O5	Colonel	Assist command of Field Force / Screen Craft	District Curate	Director of Branch for District - or a Corps	District Captain		Lead district / junior manager of bureau
O6	Senior Colonel	Field Force / Ship of the Line	Regional Curate	Director of branch for region - or for an Army	Region Captain		Lead Region - system director at Bureau
O7	Lieutenant General	Assist Army commander / Ship Division	Procurator	Director of branch/sub-branch in major locale	Member of GRANCONG		-
O8	Major General	Army / Squadron	Procurator General	Director of major locale (system)	Deputy Chief of Bureau		-
O9	Colonel General	Front / Fleet	Department Procurator	Directors of departments of sub-branches	Chief of Bureau		-
O10	General	Staff / Staff	Department Director	Directors of sub-branches (MINICIV, MINIMIL, etc)	Doctrinaire of Bureau		-
O11	Field Marshal	Ground forces in Direction / Naval forces in Direction	Branch Director	Director of branches (MINITEL, MINISEC, etc)	Marshal Doctrinaire		-
O12	Chief Field Marshal	All forces in Direction /	Deputy Marshal Procurator	Deputies to the Chief	Vice Premiere		-
O13	Commandant	Commander of all forces, member of GOVBOD	Secretary	Chief executive of MINITOL, member of GOVBOD	Premiere		Chief executive of GRYMOV, member of GOVBOD
O14	Grand Field Marshal	Honorific granted members of GOVBOD regardless of branch -	Marshal Procurator Major	Honorific granted members of GOVBOD regardless of branch	Deputy of the GRYMOV		Honorific granted members of GOVBOD regardless of branch
O15	Field Marshal of the Realm	Honorific granted the Grand Duchess -	Protector of the Duchy	Honorific granted the Grand Duchess	Secretary General of the GRYMOV		Honorific granted the Grand Duchess

This list of sources was used by the Traveller Wiki Editorial Team and individual contributors to compose this article. Copyrighted material is used under license from Far Future Enterprises or by permission of the author. The page history lists all of the contributions.

• User:Mitchberg