Goodness, now you're just not making any sense! They do not lack political authority! My homeland is a theocracy, as I have said. The church is the government, and the government is the church. A high-ranking member of the clergy is a high-ranking member of the government, and the head of the clergy is the Divine Emperor of Rausten.

Of course, I'm well aware that other nations do things very differently. I have travelled with and fought alongside clergy members from Frelia and from Grado, and I would never suggest that they are any less spiritual than their equivalents in Rausten. Why in heaven's name do you even need to ask such a question?