Cabinet of Kilmark–Killarney

The Cabinet of the Common Realm, informally known as the United Cabinet or the Cabinet of Kilmark–Killarney, is the common executive government of Kilmark–Killarney, a sovereign state and dual monarchy in maritime Western Europe consisting of the Kingdom of Kilmark and Kingdom of Killarney. The two kingdoms were first united in a personal union in 1447 when Andrew the Steadfast, King of Killarney since 1433, inherited the throne of Kilmark following the abrupt death of his paternal aunt, the childless Queen Mary II. For the next four-and-a-half centuries, the two kingdoms remained completely separate in virtually all official, legal, cultural and economic matters, including maintaining their own respective militaries and foreign policies, with the single exception of their being ruled by the same monarch.

In 1910, the personal union was transformed into a real union when King Andrew IX directed the Parliament of Kilmark and Parliament of Killarney to simultaneously pass the Realm Defence Act, which unified the armies and navies of the two kingdoms into a single army and navy, abolishing the two respective war and naval ministries and replacing them with a new single defence ministry, led by a minister appointed to a cabinet which would be directly answerable to the monarch of Kilmark–Killarney via the newly established office of Lieutenant-Governor, as opposed to the two cabinets of the two kingdoms, each led by a prime minister and answerable to their respective parliament, and which retained authority over all internal matters. The Realm Defence Act also abolished the two kingdoms' respective foreign ministries, which were replaced with a new common foreign ministry also answerable to the new cabinet. Slowly thereafter the new cabinet began to take on further common responsibilities, established legally by various royal decrees often backed by twin acts of the two parliaments.

As of 2021, the United Cabinet oversees seven cabinet officials, none of whom have counterparts in the national cabinets of the two kingdoms, the latter continuing to handle the great majority of (especially domestic) government responsibilities. These seven cabinet officials are:

While the cabinets of the two kingdoms are each chaired by a prime minister who is nominated by the respective kingdom's parliament and only ceremonially appointed by the monarch, the Cabinet of the Common Realm is chaired by the Lieutenant-Governor, the de facto head of government at the common realm level, who unlike the prime ministers is directly appointed by the monarch and who in turn nominates individuals for the seven positions in the United Cabinet, to be formally appointed by the monarch. As such, while the national governments of the two kingdoms are democratically chosen, the United Cabinet is not, essentially rendering the monarch an autocratic ruler as far as concerns the responsibilities of the United Cabinet, especially considering the absence of a common parliament or constitution.