Now, this is just a suggestion, and im not expecting it to be taken sereously...
But i'm sure you're all aware of the fact we have too many ranks and not enough members. I'd say the active member count would probably be around 20, at most if not spot on, and there are over 50 ranks; not including the National Archist party and the "other" category, however.
Now, i know all these new ministries and ranks that have been invented are pretty cool, and people worked hard on them, but are -all- of them really necessary?
It could be an idea to merge some of them. See, it seems to me that the biggest ministry is that of Arcane Arts. What we could do, is to chop up this ministry and feed it off to the other branches. So, with the Ministry of Naval Defence you would have a branch for the melee guys, and a branch for the water and wind elementalist mage guys. Then, for the MoD, you'd have the combatters and the Earth/Fire-using branches.
The ministry of Information is also quite big, and this could be shortened and fused with the ministry of Religion since they're both related to text, history, information, and all that jazz (plus they aren't linked to anything else, really -_-).
This suggestion could shorten our rank scheme out, making it a little more realistic and feasible. In reality, there are few ranks, with a few people at the top and many people filling up the lower ranks. If we have less ranks, it would be more RP-like and would be an incentive to do more work and more RPing since with some ranks being chopped off, other ranks will have to do their old job and so people will have more to do RP-wise.
Tell me what you think of my unoriginal and unhelpful idea
Now, back to doing the first of three english essays that i had to email in today X_X