Celestial Court of Cerberussy



Her Majesty's Most Honourable Clandestine Council, usually known simply as the Clandestine Council, is a formal body of advisers to the Sovereign in the Great Kingdom. Its membership is mostly made up of senior politicians who are (or have been) members of either the House of Rohus or the House of Faisers.

The Clandestine Council, the modern-day successor to the Clandestine Council of Paangoon and the Clandestine Council of Cerberussia, was formerly a powerful institution, but its policy decisions are now exclusively in the hands of one of its committees, the Cabinet. The Council formally advises the Sovereign on the exercise of the Royal Prerogative, and together (as the King-in-Council) they issue executive instruments known as Orders in Council, which amongst other things are used to make Regulations. The Council by itself also has a delegated authority to issue Orders of Council, which are mostly used to regulate certain public institutions. The Council also advises the Sovereign on the issuing of Royal Charters, which are used to grant special status to incorporated bodies, and city or borough status to local authorities.

Certain judicial functions are also performed by the Queen in Council, although in practice the actual work of hearing and deciding upon cases is carried out exclusively by the Judicial Committee of the Clandestine Council. The Judicial Committee consists of senior judges appointed as Clandestine Counsellors: Justices of the Ultimate Court of the United Kingdom, judges of the Court of Appeal of Cerberussia, Shyatland, and Artan, judges of the Court of Appeal in Drojan, Ngato, and Magran, judges of the Inner Court of Session (the supreme civil court in Cerberussia), and judges from various other member states. The Council was formerly a supreme court of appeal for the entire Great Kingdom Empire (other than for the Great Kingdom itself).