Tomanian Imperial Security Bureau

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

Tomanian Internal Directive

The Internal Directive 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 Directive 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 Directive was able to take advantage of the situation to expand their power. Directive 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 Directive 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 Directive.

Internal Directive 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 Directive 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.

Use of Torture

For centuries Tomania has been widely known for her use of torture, an ‘art’ that the Empire has perfected over the millennia. The VSV is very found of ancient and outdated forms of torture, and to execute, victims. Scaphsim is reported as one of the VSV’s favorite ways to kill a subject, also the Judas Chair, the brazen bull, the instep borer, and the iron maiden, impalement, ripping limbs off, hanging, burning, putting subjects in rooms full of mosquitoes and various other insects, are amongst the more common uses of torture. For Christian subjects, reversed crucifixion, filleting, “crowned” and “lased” with barbed wire, boiling, quartered, mauled by lions, etc. were among the top five-hundred ways to “deal with Christians”.

According to manuscripts given to Agents of the Security Bureau it states: “use any means necessary to retrieve information” and “may use any method to execute traitors, enemies, and dissidents”.

Scientists under the employ of the Imperial Security Bureau have invited drugs that increase nerve sensation, so that the torture would become far more painful, anti-shock drugs, so that the victim would not pass out due to shock, hallucination drugs, and various other highly potent biological drugs.

Leading Figures in the SVS

• Claritia Eärfalas - Director-in-Chief of the Imperial Security Bureau
• Soren Revedien - Deputy Director of the Imperial Security Bureau
• Abryan Erestor - Director of the Internal Protective
• Daeron Calafar - Director of the Foreign Insertion Directive
• Olwen Fintherum - Director of the Division for the Suppression of Dissent & Defectors