Five Star Committee

The Five Star Committee is the board of directors for the Korrukkan state-owned conglomerate 'West Pahadan Rail and Automata Arms.' It serves as the advisory council to Chief Executive Officer Zhang Xieren, who sits on the board himself, and is currently chaired by Liang Yating, Viceroy of Yokomatsunai. The board constantly contains five members, known as the Five Viceroys, who control the five most important cities under West Pahadan Rail's dominion.

The Committee Members
The Five Star Committee currently, and has always, contained five members. Its task is outlined by the phrase  'Council to the Commandant is Council for the Company', whereby their use is as a regulatory and advisory board for the otherwise absolutist Chief Executive Officer.

Its current members consist of:
 * Zhang Xieren, Viceroy of Nakashigawa and Chief Executive Officer of WPRAA.
 * Liang Yating, Chair of the Committee, Viceroy of Yokomatsunai and Director of Human Resources at WPRAA.
 * Ryo In-Sook, Viceroyress of Shinmoto and Director of Rail Construction at WPRAA
 * Jūkōsen Nyūton, Viceroy of Shizua and Director of Shipyards and Maritime Commerce at WPRAA
 * Khuril Ashigh, Viceroy of Kengawa and Director of Security at WPRAA.

Symbolism
The Emblem of the Five Star Committee combines the historic civil colours of the five largest cities in the territory directly controled by WPR. Nakashigawa's red, Yokomatsunai's white, Shinmoto's gold, Shizua's blue and Kengawa's white.

These colours have become associated symbols for the Viceroys who govern the cities directly for the corporation and members of the board will sometimes colloquially be referred to by their colour.

The Union of Patriots for the Preservation of the Korrukkan State
Unbeknownst to nearly everyone within West Pahadan Rail and Automata Arms, and the world at large, the Five Star Committee is actually a front for a conspiratorial clique known as '''The Union of Patriots for the Preservation of the Korukkan State. '''Whilst not anti-monarchist in any sense of the word, the Union is concerned with the longevity of the Korrukkan state. Zhang Xieren, co-founder of the group alongside Liang Yating, was able to use his influence in West Pahadan Rail to erode all not within the group out of the original Five Star Committee.

This secretive society aims to use its monetary and investment influence within West Pahadan Rail not to fulfil the wishes of the Imperial Throne, but rather to build up from an unconstrained position, to strike down at those who control Korrukkan ports and to reverse the injustices imposed on the Clockwork Empire as a result of the Great War.

Its ideological positions can be roughly described as: constitutional monarchist, nationalistic and republican.