Ministry of Arts and Culture

The Ministry of Arts and Culture of the Golden Empire was an agency of the Royal government charged with encouraging the creative and performing arts on the Empire's systems. Headed and represented on the Grand Council by the Minister of Arts and Culture, the Ministry also contracted various artists to create works on behalf or in praise of the state.

Notable work
The Ministry included the Poet Laureate of the Golden Empire; though this officer did not technically "report" to the Minister or anyone else in the government, he drew his stipend from its budget.

The Ministry of Arts and Culture subsidized scholarships to major artistic schools and universities in the Empire; citizens often competed for grants to study at the art centers of Telacia and Tyras, as well as with the metalworking masters on Iomis and at the Grand Academy of Arts and Letters, also on Telacia. Aspiring holovid makers could also apply for the few (and thus intensely competitive) subsidies for internships on Classaeria.

Aside from poetic compositions by the Poet Laureate, the Ministry could also contract artists to create pieces to honor the work of the Royal government; this also included works of art depicting the history of the Golden Empire on newly admitted member systems. Under the rule of Queen Rin Sakaros, the Ministry made a notable effort to offer such opportunities not only to famous or established artists, but also extremely promising but inexperienced "diamonds in the rough".