The civil service is a collective term for a sector of government composed mainly of career civil service personnel hired rather than appointed or elected, whose institutional tenure typically survives transitions of political leadership. A civil service official, also known as a public servant or public employee, is a person employed in the public sector by a government department or agency for public sector undertakings. Civil servants work for central and state governments, and answer to the government, not a political party.
Imperial Civil Service Examination hall with 7500 cells in Guangdong, 1873
Emperor Wen of Sui (r. 581–604), who established the first civil service examination system in China; a painting by the chancellor and artist Yan Liben (600–673).
Charles Trevelyan, an architect of Her Majesty's Civil Service, established in 1855 on his recommendations.
The Crown broadly represents the state in all its aspects within the jurisprudence of the Commonwealth realms and their subdivisions. The term can be used to refer to the office of the monarch or the monarchy as institutions; to the rule of law; or to the functions of executive, legislative, and judicial governance and the civil service.
Rideau Hall in Ottawa, Ontario, held in perpetuity by the Canadian monarch, presently Charles III
Balmoral Castle in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, the privately owned property of Charles III
King Charles III (wearing the Imperial State Crown), the living embodiment of the state/crown in each of the Commonwealth realms
The mace of the Parliament of Queensland, symbolising the power of the Australian Crown-in-Parliament
