Count's office

The Count's office can be accessed via:

• the application:
  • Village > Places > Bailiwick > Count's office
• the browser:
  • Town > Bailiwick > Count's office

In the office the Count or Duke can:

Appoint

The Count / Duke may appoint a function to the 11 other council members:

• Captain
• Constable
• Judge
• Mines Superintendent
• Public Prosecutor
• Sheriff
• Sergeant
• Spokesperson
• Trade Minister

It is possible to:

• appoint functions 22 times on the day of the confirmation as new Count/Duke
• appoint 2 times on all other days

It is not possible to appoint a council member that already has a function. The council member first has to be dismissed of the function he/she holds to be appointed a new or the same function.

Note:

• In a county or duchy belonging to the royal domain only the sovereign can appoint the captain, who is then called a royal captain.
• As county elections are held by voting on lists, the council may consist of a mix of councillors from opposing lists. The Count may take advantage of the function to appoint or not to appoint functions to all potential opponents from opposing lists if he deems it useful. Since there are always 2 councillors that cannot be given a function this may create interesting roleplay possibilities to create new roles for these advisors.

Dismiss

The Count / Duke may dismiss council members of their functions.

Note:

• During the time right after an election and the 2 days until confirmation of the new Count/Duke councillors who were not reelected cannot be dismissed. The previous elected councillors do still hold the office for these 2 days, but do not show up in the Bailiwick > Council room.

Change the County options

The Count / Duke may change the options for the county/duchy to:

• force automatic maintenance of the mines and quarries
• set the minimum amount allocated each week to the army forces

Forcing automatic maintenance means all open mines of the county will be maintained automatically each day at reset. The Mines Superindentend / the Sheriff may still maintain the mines manually during the day, the option does not block them from doing so. Automatic maintenance is only possible if there is enough material (ounces of iron ore, tons of stone) in the county's inventory. If there is not sufficient material to cover the maintenance costs not all or none of the mines can be maintained automatically.

The minimum amount allocated each week to the armed forces varies from 0 to 1,000 pounds.

Appoint a new rector

The Count / Duke may appoint a character to the function of the rector of the university. He can change the rector at any time if necessary and it can be any character the Count wants to entrust with this office, it is not limited to council members only.

Manage the hiring of civil servants

The Count / Duke may approve characters that requested to work as civil servants. The approval itself is "nice to have", but does not affect the characters requesting it in any way. Without approval characters can still:

• earn state points
• work as civil servants for town halls or the county

Manage the castle's banquets (deactivated)

In the public imagination the Count/Duke and his advisors live in excessive luxury and refinement. And, of course, it is taxes that finance all this. In a word, they gorge themselves and live off the backs of the people.

Every day, the Count had to be able to distribute 20 meals served at a pure loss. (disabled) If he did not have enough food or money (to compensate for lacking meals), then the County or Duchy lost prestige. (disabled)

The county's prestige level

Prestige symbolises the greatness and reputation that each County or Duchy enjoys among its neighbours and the Kingdoms in general.

Every 10 days, the Earl or Duke has the opportunity, during celebrations, to squander a certain amount of objects and pounds for no gain whatsoever.

The magnificence of these lavish expenditures demonstrates the greatness of the province to the world.

Give money to the kingdom

The Count / Duke may transfer pounds to the Kingdom from the coffers of the County or Duchy, subject to the Sheriff's approval.

The amount of pounds that can be transferred varies from 1 pound to the entire treasury of the County/Duchy.

Manage the publication of the audits (disabled)

Audits were very useful in many circumstances (for example, to find out what a previous council had done, etc.). They could be consulted for one year after their publication. (disabled)

The Count / Duke could choose whether or not to make an audit public. (disabled)

Manage Treasury bonds

The Count / Duke may approve or reject the issuance of treasury bonds proposed by the Sheriff. Once approved they may be distributed by the Sheriff on the market in the capital of the County or Duchy.

Manage the warning threshold for councillor's expeditures

The Count / Duke may set a maximum daily limit for expenditure incurred by:

• the Sheriff: from 1 to 2,000 pounds
• the Trade Minister: from 1 to 2,000 pounds

These maximum daily limits may be exceeded by councillors. A diary event then alerts the Count: Councillor [Councillor's name] has exceeded the daily limit of XXX pounds that you set. Off with his head!

It is therefore primarily a control tool.

Steal money

The Count / Duke may steal money from the County or Duchy coffers to supplement his income:

• on the day of his election: 50 pounds
• from the tenth day of his term of office: 500 pounds

Manage the Offices giving influence

The Count / Duke has 250 influence points to distribute via titles or offices. It is not possible to create a title/office worth more than the influence points he has left to distribute, but it is possible to create 1 title/office worth all the available influence points he can distribute. Therefore a title/office can give between 20 and 250 influence points to the character receiving it.

The same office allows the Count/Duke to remove given titles and office from characters.

Approving a company for a major quest (deactivated)

The Count / Duke was able to approve companies during the great quest of the Bull of Seleucos. Treasure hunters had to be part of a company to participate and to find the treasures of the quest.

The option is no longer available in the Count's office.

Tumult

When trying to enter the office you might end up seeing the message "What a tumult! What a stir! It's impossible to make yourself heard or obeyed. Everything's going amiss!" instead of the regular office view. This is the result of the county not having state points to allow working.

It is the Sheriff's duty to hire civil servants to upkeep the state points. It is randomly possible to enter the office despite not having any state points. But since it is randomly happening it is a tiresome business to try again and again to check if the office can be accessed, and no one knows for how long the doors will be open before closing on you again.

Note:

• The option to resign is not a part of the Count's office, it can be found in the character sheet > Duties and Responsibilities.

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