Originally Posted by
Sutekh
Star Trek Online suggests that Garak is at least an Ambassador, if not some sort of ruling figure / senator, on Cardassia, in the years after DS9.
Frankly, that seems kind of the last place he would want to be, more a 'power behind-the-throne' sort of person, who poses as one of the Ambassador's staff, or a Senator's aide, than the guy with the target on his head. But then again, perhaps he's seen too much of where his people's furtive past (and the Obsidian Order, specifically) has led them...