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The upper palace serves as the principal workplace and seat of power for the Imperator. It contains seven major wings (artuli), each serving a dedicated function for the Imperator's many roles. Each wing may contain anywhere from a few to a dozen or more rooms.

Artulus I is dedicated for formal dances, large receptions, press conferences, ceremonies, concerts, and banquets. The Press Briefing Room is also here. It is the largest of all of the seven wings and is the only wing that the public press is allowed to visit freely. Artulus II is used for smaller receptions and teas. During a state dinner, guests are served cocktails in one of the three parlors in this wing before the Imperator, his wife, and a visiting head of state descend the Grand Staircase for dinner.

Artulus III contains the Office of the Imperium and serves as the heart of executive power in Caphiria. Here, the Prime Minister of Caphiria leads the various Ministries of Caphiria and various non-magisterial officials. This wing also contains the Imperator's personal and private offices, the Imperial Study, and offices for his many assistants and delegates. The Situation Room is also located here. Artulus IV contains the Private and Personal Dining Rooms, used for smaller, more private meals than those served in Artulus I. In addition to the two dining rooms, the Imperator has his own personal kitchen with a dumbwaiter connected to the main kitchen on the ground floor. It also has a broad hallway for receiving lines and serves as a connector to various public and private rooms.

Artulus V contains various rooms such as a reception room for foreign ambassadors to present their credentials, the Portraits room where all of the portraits of past Imperators are, the Library, the Curation room, the Treasury Rooms, which contains a valuable collection of secular and ecclesiastical treasures covering over a thousand years of Caphiric and Latin history, and about a dozen more rooms. Artulus VI includes the Room of Records, the correspondence office, the calligraphy office, the Imperial Theater, treaty room, and Map Room.

The final wing, Artulus VII contains an assortment of rooms and amenities such as the Linen Room, Music Room, Sun Room, Gym, public theater, and public library. This wing also has ten full guest suites and 8 bedrooms for any staff or guests to use. There are also four sitting rooms and studies, as well as having an underground bunker to be used in emergencies. This wing also contains additional office space for miscellaneous use.

The lower complex was designed to be the living quarters of the Imperator, containing magnificent rooms and decorations that reflected not only the power and wealth of the Imperator, but his own personal taste as well. Originally guests would have been welcomed with great ceremony in the Lower Ataceris’s two-storey Marble Hall. The walls’ structuring has been borrowed from the architecture of triumphal arches while war trophies and prisoners allude to Caesar Magnus Magnus’s successes as an imperial commander. By contrast, the oval shaped plaster medallions showing scenes from the life of Apollo recall the Imperator’s aesthetic interests. The ceiling fresco depicts Apollo in a sun chariot. Caesar Magnus Magnus is represented as a nude hero as Mercury announces gifts from the pope honoring the his achievements within the civil war. This would lead into the Marble Gallery, unraveling the rest of the complex.