Talk:Grand Secretariat of Ba Sing Se/@comment-3006045-20110510013733/@comment-177.140.14.131-20130621005444

Yes. And its a government system and state ideology which purposes social and economical welfare through standardization [all people will gain the same, live the same,etc].

With additional thoughts such as anti-religion [state atheism], anti-monarchy/imperial, and against nobility, be them by peerage or by meritocratic means, such as civil service in Imperial China.

While Ba Sing Se is the total opposite of it, instead being an extremely class-oriented and hierarchical society, not that distant from the Fire Nation.

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The title Grand Secretariat would never be used by a communist nation, unless the communist ruler decides to mix western Communist ideology with Ming dynasty imperial system, or whatever pleases him LOL.

The title grand secretariat was actually a title created by the First Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuan Zhang (otherwise known as Hongwu), the title was given to the chief of the ministries, was a very important bureaucratic position in which he would screen many documents for the Emperor, and helping him in bureaucracy on his reach.

The thing is, screening stuff and all gave them great power and knowledge of the emperor's edits, and stuff, so if you couple child ruler [Kuei at the time he became ruler] with ambitious Grand Secretariat... I think Long Feng is the result, and a puppet-king on the other side.

Formerly, the title was "Grand Chancellor", with similar funcion [the most famous chancellor in China is probably warlord Cao Cao of the three kingdoms]