Helman Government

About
The Council of Eight is a group of political leaders in Helman that take the role of leading the national power along with the emperor.

It was made to avoid having the monarch have complete control over all national decisions, formally turning Helman into a constitutional monarchy rather than an absolutist one. However, a large number of its members were declared to be criminals against Empress Sheila Helman and imprisoned. In reality, this was a tactic done by Prime Minister Stessel Romanov to remove supporters of Patton Misnarge and ensure that none of its members would oppose his decisions, resulting in the group being largely composed of corrupt incompetents.

Following the Helman Revolution and the reformation of the national government into a democracy, the council, whose members had all mostly perished, was dissolved.