[geoschmo]

You mean where you get several players all controlling different parts of a single empire?

It could be done hotseat. I would suggest that instead of having different players taking the parts of ministers, it might work better to have players control individual planets, or systems. There is a lot of overlap in responsibility between minsters.

For a PBEM or PBW game though there is no way to do this. Unless you fudge the idea a bit and have actual separate empires, but all with the same shipset. In that case it would just be another type of team game.

Geoschmo