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The Imperial Goetic Government in Exile, formally the Provisional Government of the Goetic Empire, is a partially recognized Goetic based in Alvastadt, Alva. Prior to 1925, it was the governing body of the Goetic Empire. Since then, it has remained in exile amongst the Goetic diaspora as an advocacy group promoting support for Goetic democracy and a restoration of the Halle family to the Goetic throne. As of 2022, the Provisional Government is the oldest existing government in exile.

Formation
With the fall of Königstadt (modern-day Oberlandscheid) in mid-1924 to communist revolutionaries and the capture and execution of Frederick IV, the Goetic government was thrown into disarray. Former Crown Prince and now Emperor Adalbert II, the remainder of the imperial family, and various government officials were in the process of fleeing to or had fled to Alva via ship. With no stable government to represent the Goetic Empire, provisions were taken to set up an emergency government nominally headed by Adalbert but in reality by military officials in order to expedite the evacuation process and to coordinate remaining loyalist forces in their last stand. In a radio address on the 1st of September, 1924, Field Marshal Frank Aschenbrener declared the formation of the Provisional Government, with himself as interim Chancellor.

Waning influence (1925-1959)
The fall of Abenrode to communist forces in June 1925 marked the last time loyalist boots would be on Goetic ground. Almost immediately, the Provisional Government set up a new base of operations in Alvastadt. The massive influx of vehemently anti-communist Goetic refugees from the war gave the Provisional Government leeway to influence local affairs, forcing the local colonial administration to bend the knee to their orders. Surviving elements of the Imperial Goetic Army and Navy began to integrate their Alvak counterparts, leading to a form of mixed leadership within the two organizations. Despite having overarching control over local affairs by the end of 1925, protests regarding the complete formal takeover of the colonial administration by the Provisional Government by Ansgar Preisner, then the Governor of Lower Alva, revealed the cracks and tension between the Provisional Government and the Lower Alva administration. In response to his protests, the Provisional Government abolished the role of Governor and created the role of Minister-President in its place, appointing staunch loyalist Johann Latzke to fill the seat.

The attempted 1926 Whiteshirt coup by Lower Alvak right-wing populists highlighted the divide between the native Goetic refugee population and the Alvak colonial population. As a result, martial law was extended indefinitely. With hopes of the newly created Socialist Republic of Goetia collapsing in on itself fading away, the Provisional Government loosened restrictions on the Lower Alvak administration, allowing limited self-government. Despite harsh leadership, the Provisional Government slowly lost ground to the Lower Alva administration through the death of Aschenbrener in 1936 and the appointment of a weaker successor, Cristoph Leitgeb. The 1930s marked a period of intensified infighting in the Lower Alvak dictatorship between three factions: the old guard, consisting of military and political officials that had served prior to the fall of Imperial Goetia, the ultranationalists, comprised of young patriotic officers, and the moderates, consisting of formerly republican-aligned military and political officials who had fled alongside loyalists. In 1941, the old and frail Leitgeb was silently removed from power by ultranationalist elements of the Reichswehr led by Oskar Arendt.

With Arendt in power, the Provisional Government's role as a figurehead expanded while its actual powers diminished. Following the 1945 Act of Union, the Provisional Government theoretically held dominion over all of united Alva; in reality, it was subordinate to Arendt's government. After Arendt's popularity hit rock bottom after the disastrous results of Alva's entry into the Great Kesh War in 1956, he was promptly couped out by the revitalized moderate faction of the Reichswehr in May of 1958. With Alva now under the leadership of Maximillian Höss and his moderates, the skeletonized Provisional Government was given room to breathe. Guidelines regarding the special relationship between the Provisional Government and Alva were negotiated, resulting in the 1959 Wepper-Höss Agreement.

"Rump government" (1959-1980)
As Alva focused on rebuilding itself and improving its economic situation, there was little the Provisional Government could do in matters of its own affairs. It oversaw the negotiation of cession and handover of Singaradscha to East Ramay in 1961 and 1966 respectively, where it gained the moniker of a "rump government"; as one analyst put it, so little of its capacity to govern remained that it could barely be called an actual "government in exile".

Despite its hardships, the Provisional Government began taking up more roles within and outside of Alva: it was allowed to maintain a small infantry detachment consisting of Goetic Alvaks, issued unique identity cards to Alvak citizens of Goetic ancestry, became a signatory to several treaties, and managed to acquire or retain recognition from several countries.