Department of State

Original Department of State Seal

Current Seal of the Department of State

The Department of State, more commonly abbreviated as the (DoS), is the successor to the Department of City Relations (Defunct). It has the additional responsibility for carrying out Stratham's foreign policy, approving news and political organizations, handling elections, and auditing of Departments and Cities/Towns. The Department of State was officially created by Parliament on November 25, 2021 with the proposal by Member of Parliament Topte.

History

Dustygate Scandal

The Dustygate Scandal was a scandal that took place when Prime Minister Poemhunter nominated ThomasBlinders to the position of Minister of State. In this position, ThomasBlinders used his authority as Minister of State to push his personal vendetta against then Justice Minister, TedhastingsAC_12. This vendetta was fullfilled when an Audit of the Justice Department was initiated and concluded that the Minister showed "significant bias toward friends". The findings of this report were not particularly disputed amongst the community.

Below shows the full report from ThomasBlinders.

Today a report was conducted by DoS officials into a complaint issued by an individual through the newly introduced EPS system. This individual said that they felt uncomfortable and discriminated against in the DoJ. For anonymity, we will be keeping things confidential, but the scenario will be shared.

The DoS has discovered that management in the DoJ, specifically the DoJ minister, has shown significant bias toward friends. Recent information was gathered that prove the Minister of the DoJ has re-hired two former members of the DoJ, both friends with the DoJ Minister, and given one of them Deputy Minister, and the other Sergeant. This reveals that the Minister is heavily biassed towards his friends, friends that had only recently resigned with some levels of disgrace. Why is this minister rehiring 2 formerly disgraced officers back into management?

This is further manifested through the Minister's treatment of an Officer of the DoJ. This officer was wrongfully given an infraction point for asking fair questions to the Minister. This incident shows that the management of the DoJ treat Officers they don’t personally like unfairly compared to those they like. The discussion that led to this officer's infraction point disturbed investigators, with the reason for the infraction being:

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In response to this, Parliament initiated a Vote of No Confidence against the Justice Minister in a vote of 6:0. Koalition in his position as owner, exercised his constitutional right to veto the VoNC due to the fact that Parliament held no hearing for this VoNC. It was also discovered by Koalition that ThomasBlinders was actually the alternate account of a former banned player, Dusty_3. Subsequently, ThomasBlinders was banned. [2]

Following the ban, Parliament voted once again to initiate a VoNC with a hearing that resulted in the removal of Minister TedHastings_AC12. The vote amongst the MPs was 6:2. [3]

On July 3, 2022 the Prime Minister was banned from the server mysteriously by the Staff team leaving many confused.

Notable Actions

The Department of State under the leadership of Minister ThomasBlinders acquired the City of Palm Bay on behalf of the Government on June 17, 2022.

On May 9, 2022, Prime Minister Cherub54321 removed Minister of Agriculture, I_Want_Cookiez from his Cabinet in response to a DoA Audit completed by the State Department. Massive public scrutiny was given to the Prime Minister in response to this and multiple players questioned the intentions of the Prime Minister and reasoning for the removal. The Prime Minister ignored questions for days and ultimately on May 13, 2022, resigned from the position.

List of Ministers

1. stinkycow (September 26, 2021 - November 24, 2021)
2. Tracefais (November 24, 2021 - February 1, 2022)
3. Koalition (February 1, 2022 - March 12, 2022)
4. Intercepticon (March 13, 2022 - April 4, 2022)
5. poemhunter (April 7, 2022 - June 10, 2022)
6. ThomasBlinders (June 10, 2022 - June 25, 2022)
7. LilSumoVert (June 28, 2022 - September 23, 2022)
8. Koalition (October 11, 2022 - December 28, 2022)
9. poemhunter (December 28, 2022 - January 10, 2023)
10. LilSumoVert (January 11, 2023 - March 18, 2023)
11. poemhunter (March 22, 2023 - April 30, 2023)
12. Tracefais (May 10, 2023 - July 11, 2023)
13. poemhunter (July 11, 2023 - December 10, 2023)
14. Ryan_88 (December 10, 2023 - Incumbent)