Imperial Bureaucracy

The Imperial Bureaucracy consisted of the many governmental agencies, departments and ministries of the Galactic Empire. Each Imperial organization had authority over a specific subject matter throughout the galaxy. The Emperor's advisors and COMPNOR played a major role in overseeing and controlling the massive bureaucracy.

At the sector level of government, each Moff had authority over their sector-wide bureaucracies; yet these sector bureaucracies also answered to the Imperial Bureaucracy (Ministers and other senior government administrators and bureaucrats). Moffs were, at times, known to remold the local bureaucracies, including the sector-wide government, planetary governments (through governors) and even more localized governments, making them more "agreeable" to the Moff's personal objectives while still adhering to Imperial standards.

Before the rise of the Empire, many Republic ministries and agencies that made up the General Ministry were responsible to the Galactic Senate and scrutinized by its many committees. However, that all changed after Palpatine declared the New Order and reorganized the Republic into the first Galactic Empire. Under the Empire, the Republic ministries reported to the Emperor, his Grand Vizier, and his top advisors (through the Imperial Ruling Council), with COMPNOR and the ISB closing observing their bureaucratic functions.

Agencies and Organizations of the Imperial Bureaucracy
There were countless agencies, bureaus, departments, and ministries that made up the Imperial Bureaucracy, including, but not limited to, the following:


 * Imperial Board of Culture
 * Bureau of Ships and Services
 * Imperial Customs
 * Imperial Department for Epidemic Prevention
 * Imperial Biological Welfare Division
 * Imperial Colonization Board
 * Imperial Trade and Commerce Authority
 * Office of Budgetary Control
 * Imperial Office of Criminal Investigations
 * Ministry of Energy
 * Imperial Propaganda Bureau
 * Imperial Records Office
 * Imperial Taxation Bureau
 * Space ministry
 * Imperial Xenodetic Survey department

And many more agencies (see Imperial Organizations category below).