Border Worlds Confederation/secret

Although the Border Worlds Authority is nominally a sovereign government, the Imperial Colonial Office appoints advisors to BWA chief administrators (ministers) and a chief administrator who knows what's good for him heeds the advice he is given.

Individual Border Worlds likewise have Imperial advisors, though their number and authority vary with local conditions.

Although Sacnoth outnumber all other Border Worlds combined, the Imperium does not want the Border Worlds to turn into a Sacnoth Empire, so Sacnoth is forced to share in the government of the Border Worlds on a roughly equal basis with Durendal, Excalibur, Hofud, and Tyrfing. Sacnoth puts up with this because the Imperium has struck a deal with the large corporations and business interests of Sacnoth. In return for preferential trade arrangements, the industrialists use their influence to keep the Sacnoth government quiescent.