The Ministries Above

While the Bureaucracy After is better known, there also exist bureaucracies in the Worlds Above and Below. The spirit bureaucracy is collectively dubbed the Ministries Above. Spirits are associated with the Heavenly Bureaucracy according to their domains of influence, with spirits of more concrete earthly entities such as cabbage spirits only loosely affiliated with their Ministry (e.g., the Ministry of Agriculture), while spirits of more abstract processes or events such as thunder spirits or medical spirits tend to be more tightly incorporated into their respective Ministries.