(02-14-2019, 10:18 PM)Kurnugia Wrote: I am curious: What kind of advisors could the cabinet need in your opinion?

That's a great question, thank you!

There isn't one answer; it depends on the ministers we have and which skills and talents can be sensibly augmented by those advisors. For example, last term we had Sandaoguo as a senior advisor. As high-profile CRS member, and the CRS Intelligence Coordinator, he was able to help us with security issues; furthermore, his deep knowledge of Foreign Affairs was helpful when we were dealing with a variety of the situations that came up last term, and he provided valuable input when we were discussing the NPO issues, whether or not and how we recognize Lazarus, etc.; Similarly, Amerion was very valuable as somebody who has been around the block in NationStates several times (including, and in particular, Lazarus) and knows how to engage a crowd. Back in my first term as Prime Minister, I had appointed Tsunamy as advisor so that he, as an age-old South Pacifican, can sanity check what the very, very young Cabinet at the time was doing.

For this term, we're still discussing who we'll be appointing, but given the heavy emphasis on integration in all of our campaign platforms, it's reasonable to predict appointments that will help us with that aspect of our work, and in turn it's reasonable to predict that we won't be making security-related appointments given that Sandaoguo is now MoFA.