Ministries of the Mostly Harmless Alliance

The Harmless Revoloution
The Ministry of the Mostly Harmless Alliance shall consist of five appointed Ministers, each responsible for one of five key areas of alliance operations; War, Economics, Communications, Diplomacy, and Members. The Ministers shall each be empowered by the Triumvirate to organize, manage, and improve their Ministry for the betterment of the alliance. In addition, the Ministry shall act as a recommendatory body to the Triumvirate to assist in discussions and decisions based on alliance operations. The Ministries shall be nicknamed in the following manner;
 * Ministry of Destructor Fleets (War)
 * Ministry of Towels (Economics)
 * Ministry of Bad Poetry (Communications)
 * Ministry of Babel Fish (Diplomacy)
 * Ministry of Hitchhikers (Members)

Ministry of Babel Fish (Diplomacy)
The Ministry will include the Office of Diplomacy, Embassy Row, Open Diplomatic Chat, the Red Telephone, and Diplomat Training. The Minister is responsible for the management and appointment of Diplomats, the moderation and surveillance of Embassy Row, Open Diplomatic Chat, and The Red Telephone for diplomatic correspondence, and the facilitation of special diplomatic meetings as instructed by the Triumvirs. The Minister shall ensure potential Diplomats are appropriately trained to handle diplomatic duties. The Minister shall contribute to all discussions relating to Foreign Affairs and diplomatic issues.

Ministry of Bad Poetry (Communications
The Ministry will include the departments of the Harmless Intelligence Agency, Public Relations, Morale, Records, Recruitment, Senate Voting, and IRC management. The Minister will be responsible for the facilitation of an organized and inter-connected Team to run each of these areas. Each department within the Ministry shall use and depend on each other, as well as connecting to other Ministries within the alliance. The Minister must therefore appropriately manage all the levels of communication occurring within the alliance by managing and creating communications projects, organizing the Communications teams, liaisons with other Ministries, and reporting to the Triumvirs on the progress of the Ministry. This ministry is key to internal and external relations.

Ministry of Destructor Fleets (War and Defence)
he Ministry covers the MHA's Destructor Fleet Headquarters, War Room, and the Applications and Training forums for the management and defense of our members. The Minister is responsible for overseeing each Legion, the traineeship of Legion Commanders, and will attend to any issue of attention.

Ministry of Hitch Hikers (Members)
The Ministry will include the Departments of the Mostly Harmless Academy, Member Services Desk, Bio Checking and Ghost Hunting. The purpose of this Ministry is to provide assistance and information to our Members, including our new and young Hitchhikers. It will provide training and education for new members, an Information Kiosk on the forums for all members, ensuring all MHA members are flying the appropriate Alliance Affiliation and flag, and the identification of ghosts. This Ministry is essential for ensuring members can find information and alliance resources on the forums and receive the best advice possible. Ghost hunting and bio-checking will be necessary to ensure the protection of the alliance and all her registered members.

Ministry of Towels (Economy)
The Ministry will include the MHA Bank, Tech Center, Audit, and Trade center forums. The Minister will organize and facilitate aid chains, loans, donations, reparation payments, tech dealing, nation resource trading, auditing of MHA nations, the MHA bank nations, and any factor effecting the economy of the MHA and her nations.

Trivia

 * The longest serving Minister was John Rocker, who was in charge of the Ministry of Babel Fish for 9 Months (April 08-December 08). The shortest time being less then a month which happened on two seperate occassions. (Keishii, Minister of Destructor Fleets - October 08 and Blepo, Minister of Babel Fish - December 08)
 * Keishii is the only person to reclaim the same Minister spot twice. (January 08- March 08 then again in October) although Genzod left the Ministry of Bad poetry to take over the Minister of Towels in April 08)
 * The Average length of a Ministers run in the Mostly Harmless alliance is 2 Months and 3 weeks