Policing in Laurasia
Laurasia has a set of several independent police services that are defined by purpose. Along with this, Laurasia also uses several totalitarian forms of mass surveillance and policing such as two-way televisions, massive scale video monitoring, wire tapping, etc. This scale of policing, surveillance, and the like classifies the Totalitarian Oligarchy as a police state. This title causes strained relations between Laurasia and some within the international community. Yet, the nation refuses to change its ways.
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Civil Protection
The base level of policing is that of the Civil Protection Service (simply known as Civil Protection;or Civpro in Lausem). The CPS is active in virtually every city, town, and village within Laurasia. The CPS patrol day and night and often walk the streets to catch criminals and possibly unorthodox individuals.
The CPS maintain the mass surveillance equipment on the base level of society. They insure that each surveillance unit is maintained in perfect condition as to relay the Party’s message to the Laurasian people. They are not, however, responsible for monitoring the massive amount of surveillance equipment present in the Laurasia strata of society.
The CPS is administered under the Lawful Cooperative. Along with this administering role, the Inner Party is also present within the CPS as officers and are responsible for discipline and executive actions carried out by the Civil Protection Service.
Capital Police
In addition to the Civil Protection Service, a special branch of Civpro was formed to specifically protect and guard the Laurasian capital of Eutopia. This unit is known only as the Capital Police. They maintain law and order within Eutopia under the joint jurisidictions of the Lawful and Peacful Cooperatives. This specific jurisidiction gives them extreme amounts of executive power and the ability to perform extra-judicial justice. The Capital Police are the only law enforcement agency in Laurasia capable of summarily executing a Laurasian citizen on sight.
The Capital Police are the most feared - and most respected - enforcement unit in the entirity of the Totalitarian Oligarchy. They are comprised of the best of the best of the population. They are the most loyal, the strongest, and the most intelligent of the Laurasian breeding stock. In some cases, children are taken from the families of Civpro, Overwatch, and Constabulary officers in order to specifically train Capital Police.
It is unclear exactly how many officers are in the Capital Police.
Overwatch
The secret police of Laurasia is known as the Overwatch (a condensed form of the name Surveillance and Executive Watch Over the Totalitarian Oligarchy). The Overwatch is the eyes behind the two-way televisions and the loudspeakers that line the streets within Laurasia. The Overwatch administer the mass surveillance of the entire Oligarchy insuring that orthodoxy is upheld.
The Overwatch are also responsible for the forced disappearance and rendition of suspected thousands of political criminals and unorthodox members of society within Laurasia. Recently, the Overwatch have taken up the responsibility of persecuting 'sense offenders' - those people who are either immune to the new 'improved' version of Dystorium or refuse to take it. The Overwatch also use psychology, torture, etc. in order to suppress those who can potentially threaten the ruling authority over Laurasia.
Overwatch is often compared to the Gestapo of Nazi Germany, the KGB of the Soviet Union, and the FBI of the late United States. Including these comparisons, the international community has begun to believe that the Overwatch is one of - if not the - most oppressive, powerful, and omnipresent secret police ever to exist on earth. The Overwatch are also administered by the Lawful Cooperative. Due to this, they often work in cooperation with the Civil Protection Service in order to capture criminals of the state and either imprison them or place them up for summary destruction.
Mass surveillance
Mass surveillance within Laurasia is not often as openly seen as some expect. Massive televisions (known as Instruments; most popularly seen on the walls of the Oligarchical Palace) with two-way monitoring systems, constant home surveillance, communication surveillance, and hundreds of other techniques are used to keep constant watch on citizens of Laurasia.
This massive level of governmental surveillance has drawn criticism from Western countries around the world. Democracies and some benevolent dictatorships have often cast blame upon Laurasia for its “fascist policies which give benevolent authorities a bad name.” However, the Laurasian government has refused to cease its virtually omnipresent surveillance.
A newer version of surveillance has been added to the massive televisions and production propaganda around the country: loudspeakers. These speakers (and those within the two-way televisions) announce news, propaganda, and governmental proclamations at virtually all hours of the night. Including news and propaganda, the loudspeakers are also responsible for waking individuals for daily labor and informing them when breaks are beginning and ending. This extends to home based two-way televisions and speakers.
This amount of mass surveillance is not even present in nations such as Parthia and Roach-Busters, but it has been praised by totalitarian nations around the world.
Constabulary
The Constabulary (short for Laurasion National Military Constabulary) is - simply - the military police within Laurasia. Unlike the Overwatch and CPS, the Constabulary does not usually worry with the workings of civilian populations. Their main concern is that of the policing of the Laurasian armed forces. Yet, certain extenuating circumstances have been known to arise in which the Constabulary are responsible for the policing of civilian populations.
Usually, these extenuating circumstances often involve either ambassadorial complex security, diplomatic security detail, or occupied territory policing. As stated, the LNMC is responsible for guarding embassies and consulates around the world. Also, they serve as security forces for both foreign and domestic diplomatic officers. Including these professions, the Constabulary is also responsible for securing and policing war zones and occupied territories - insuring the safety of Laurasian military and political figures.
Unlike the CPS and Overwatch, the LNMC is administered under the Peaceful Cooperative instead of that of the Lawful Cooperative. This places the Constabulary under military jurisdiction allowing it special executive and extrajudicial powers not officially recognized (but still suspected to occur) within the other policing units.
Intervention Groups
The Intervention Groups (Integro in Lausem) are paramilitary groups operated under the joint-jurisdiction of the Lawful and Peaceful Cooperatives for the purpose of intimidating possible opponents, annihilating enemies, the removal of political opposition and enemies within occupied territories, and causing pogroms whenever the Cooperatives deem necessary.
The Integro are formed from volunteers and forces from the Laurasian Armed Forces and various other organizations and agencies. They operate at the local level - much like a community watch - in order to "protect orthodoxy, the Party, and to keep Laurasian dominance secure." They are also responsible for the detaining of enemies of the state in recently occupied territories. Integro forces generally travel with the Laurasian Army and often help in the initial conflict. After the conflict ceases and the area is under control, Integro task forces travel through the community, rounding-up anyone determined an enemy or threat to the state or order them to gather within the next week for processing. They are also charged with the temporary seizure of property within occupied territories until the Commodities Cooperative can take inventory of former enemy-owned property. The Integro often are able to do this by utilizing local Olicol supporters and men. For this reason, activities of Integro operate throughout a large pool of personnel.
According to some smuggled Integro dossiers, the Integro operatives are responsible for the deaths of over 2.5 million people - almost exclusively civilians - without judicial review and without semblance of legality.
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The Totalitarian Oligarchy of Laurasia |
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| Main article: Laurasia | ||
| Governmental information: Father, Council, Party, Cooperatives, Sections, Police, Syndicate, Resistance | ||
| Important individuals: Father, Cancer Man, Hashim Al-Farik, Robert Pacitania, Selene Seagrove, Yuri Minovsky | ||
| Cultural information: Dystorium, Lausem, Melange, Sapho Orchid | ||
| Miscellaneous: Eutopia, Free Your Hate | ||
