Tomanian Imperial Security Bureau

"All suspects are guilty, otherwise they shouldn't be suspects." - Director Eärfalas

The Imperial Security Bureau( Quenya: Varnassë Sambë Valanieva) or simply VSV, is the main body of Tomanian securtiy and operating as a standard intelligence agency, the VSV works in conjunction to the Imperial Committee for the Preservation of a Pure Tomanian Society and for Cultural Cleansing, charged with maintaining morale and loyalty among members of military , Party members, and civilians.

The VSV stations moles among the officers of all capital ships in the Imperial Navy and amongst the leaders of the Imperial Army; their duty is to report on any possibly treasonous activities or sentiments present among others of the ship's crew (especially the commander), and to execute them if they act upon them. The VSV serve more of a police function than Imperial Intelligence, with a more public presence. VSV operatives are not afraid of identifying themselves as VSV agents. The VSV Central Office is a mammoth complex in Imladris. All communication and coordination is handled through the Central Office. The VSV also is responsible for wiping out any memories of the Ardatoamni.

Commission of Operations

The Commission of Operations is responsible for passing on the directions of the Central Office directly to the Provincial Officer for each of the various VSV branches. All coordination between the different branches within a province, or between Bureau resources in separate provinces, are dictated by the Commission of Operations.

Surveillance

Surveillance was the largest branch of the VSV, with nearly 35 percent of all personnel in the Bureau.

Surveillance was tasked with uncovering people or activities that are aimed at the State, or in aiding foreign nations, or that may obstruct the Empire's plans. Many of Surveillance's targets are later turned over to Investigations for more thorough action.

Investigations

Investigations is the skillfully superior branch of the Imperial Security Bureau, when compared to Surveillance. Agents of Investigations are generally in direct communication with the Internal Protectorate.

Interrogation

If a subject caught by Investigations is suspected of still hiding the information the VSV wants to know, the subject is shipped off to the Interrogation branch. The information they uncover is sent to Investigations. The subject, however, disappears and no one outside Interrogation is really willing to find out just what happened to them.

Tomanian Internal Protective

The Internal Protective branch is the group responsible for watching the Imperial Committee for the Preservation of a Pure Tomanian Society and for Cultural Cleansing, another example of multiple layers of control and authority overlapping one another in Tomania.

It is unknown whether or not the Internal Protective division has the authority to monitor the High Consul, though it is known that they do not consider the High Consul to be above suspicion.

According to the Imperial Security Bureau, they believe that Imperial Committee for the Preservation of a Pure Tomanian Society and for Cultural Cleansing’s ambiguity in regards to rules and procedures for policing its own members, Internal Protective was able to take advantage of the situation to expand their power. Protective agents are isolated from the rest of the Committee for Pure Tomania and has thus developed their own jargon and their own interpretation of the Order of the New Age. Other branches of the Committee for Pure Tomania has complained about the autonomy of the Internal Protective and their actions, but neither Elrohir Cúthalion nor Lord Hedikai have yet made attempts to stop it, as they apparently support the work of the Internal Protective.

Internal Protective calls their field agents "anari," while they call their investigative staff "eleni." The division also has developed their own collection of terms to differentiate between the ways they conduct a specific investigation.

To "audit" is to conduct an investigation in which the target and everyone around him knows the investigation is being conducted.

"Finesse" is conducting an investigation by asking the target's help in rooting out other traitors in the hopes they will give away incriminating evidence in their eagerness to point the finger at others.

"Scattering" is the method of grabbing someone whom you have no evidence of foul play of, and then observing the behavior of the person's associates to see if any of these react in suspicious ways.

"Crustbusting" is the method of harassing a suspect in the hopes he will do something criminal.

"Cultivation" is the method of allowing a suspect with only minor wrongdoing to proceed unhindered so agents would catch the suspect and any associates in a larger crime, and "irrigation" was covertly staging events so a "cultivated" suspect would have a greater opportunity to commit a larger crime.

Finally, to "Forim" is to set a suspect up in a no-win situation in which he must commit a crime. The Internal Protective agent will then promise to forgive the crime if the suspect did a few favors; favors which inevitably causes the suspect to commit some other crime.

Division for the Suppression of Dissent & Defectors

One of the VSV’s chief preoccupations is the suppression of unorthodox beliefs, the persecution of the Tomanian dissidents and defectors, and the containment of their opinions The VSV also tracked down writers who published their work anonymously abroad.

If a Tomanian were to dissent the government would have their family arrested and executed. Also, in 1990, Hedikai declared that along with the family of the dissident another thousand random people would also be executed. The Bureau of Lottery was established for this purpose. The idea behind this is that if someone wanted to defect and had no family to leave behind, or he got his family out with him, one thousand innocent people would be killed for his one action. To say the least there have only been two defectors in since 1990. One in 1990, believing that the Marduuk party would not have one thousand random citizens executed, and the other because he did not believe the Marduuk would do it again.

Tomanian Foreign Directive

The Foreign Directive is responsible for all agents acting outside of Tomania.