Räich State Council

The Räich State Council (ᚱᚴᛁᚭᛊᛊᛏᚨᚨᛏᛊᛡᚨᚨᛑ Räichsstaatsraad), also called the Supreme State Council (ᛟᛒᛂᛡᛊᛏᛂᛡ ᛋᛏᚨᚨᛏᛊᛡᚨᚨᛑ Oberster Staatsraad), is the chief  of the Zusian Empire, consisting of the Chancellor of Zusea and the various State Secretaries of the executive offices. The State Council is an informal body wholly responsible to the Chancellor, and the secretaries serve at his pleasure; the Chancellor, in turn, serves at the pleasure of the Zusian Basilikar and the Räichstag.

The Constitution of Zusea describes the Chancellor as the chief deputy of the Basilikar, who appoints him from amongst the members of the Räichstag to administer the executive branch. The rest of the executive (the offices and secretaries) therefore depends on the powers of the Chancellor and Basilikar, and are not mentioned in the Constitution; consequently, the Räichstag is only legally empowered to dismiss the Chancellor himself, and not individual secretaries. This organization is reflected in history: the State Council originated as the chief advisory board to the Chancellor.

The Räichstag can remove any sitting Chancellor with a by simple majority, and thereby dissolve the State Council. The Basilikar is constitutionally required to appoint a new Chancellor within ninety days of a vacancy. These procedures are part of the balanced in the Zusian government, as the constitutional framers had wanted a mechanism to force the Basilikar to negotiate with the Räichstag during political crises, and vice-versa. However, after two different Chancellors are dismissed by the same legislative session, the Basilikar can ask the Guardian Court of Zusea to dissolve the Räichstag, triggering a snap election within sixty days. The Basilikar can also ask the Court to declare a legislative, which allows him to appoint a Chancellor and govern without a constituted Räichstag, and even to propose emergency acts which only require the assent of the Court to become law. The Court is, however, not bound to follow the Basilikar's request in either case, and moreover, all emergency acts are invalidated upon the election of a new session of the Räichstag.

While the Chancellor must be a member of the Räichstag (aside from during a state of emergency), the secretaries can be any Zusian citizen. Nonetheless, the secretaries are usually drawn from either the Räichstag or the Räich Offices themselves.