Zitravgrad wrote:"Hello, comrades. It is rather nice to see this office set up, but I am going to declare here... We, uhh, have been waiting so long that we forgot what we wanted to ask. But here is one (or more) question."
Greetings, Rustem A. Lyasin & Christov K. Pereverzev, of Zitravgrad,"We appreciate the inquiry, regardless if it was the intended question or not. We did take some time to create the office with most of the Foreign Affairs Ministry being devoted to other work at the time, although we do apologise for any inconvenience."
Zitravgrad wrote:"How is the state of tourism in the Black Party? Your nation has some notoriety when it comes to law enforcement (but so do we, to be honest). Is there any old building people should definitely see in your nation? Also, how many police are there per capita? For example, we have 1 police officer per 24 civilians."- Rustem Alesnarovich Lyasin, Director of the Internal Affairs Commissariat"
"The state of tourism is quite poor, in all honesty. We've clocked 71,000 overnights during 1955, and the 1960 census doesn't look much better, but the Council cannot say it is all to bad, as we receive generally positive reviews despite the low tourism rate. We're ranked 28th in Europe, which is somewhere just below half. You can read more about the tourism numbers
here. Some buildings that seem to be stark tourist attractions are the Krospovian Cathedral and the Royal City Tower, the latter actually a dedication to a foreign nation. One should also visit Royal City, which is widely considered the "Hub" of The Black Party. It contains a number of cultural attractions, hosts the largest sports stadium that we have, and is headquarters to
'Police Street'; main offices of the National Police. "
"Regarding the police force, I suppose it wouldn't be too far off to refer to the SSP as
'notorious'. We have approximately 410,000 uniformed policemen, but that doesn't include auxiliaries with police jurisdiction, or the newly formed
Shock Students. Taking the confirmed number, and performing some quick maths (Incorrectly), amounts that to
about 1% of the total population, or
approximately 980 policemen per 100,000 people."
Zitravgrad wrote:"Greetings. As my work partner has said... we have already forgot what to ask and made up new questions from scratch. So... this is a non-serious question. Take it and answer it as you will. Do secret police use the same code of laws to the normal police? Or do they have the liberty to use... methods normally restricted by law?"- Christov Kirillovich Pereverzev, Director of the Oprichnina
"Greetings, allow me to introduce myself as
Flandern S. Staff Office and representative of the SSP."
"The Secret Police are indeed limited to the same code of laws that applies to the conventional, uniformed police, because the
Secret State Police is the uniformed police. All emergencies services of any sort are centralized under the SSP, giving the SSP Staff Officer ranks the ability to command and divide responsibilities, operations, code of conduct, etc... between a number of police divisions. For example, a Police-Fire Brigade may be limited to laws set forth by the SSP, but a special operations detachment of the Police may be exempt. This is why the Secret State Police are often simply referred to as the "State Police" or the "National Police", because it encompasses the entirety of the Partizani police force. The only legal authority over the Secret Police is the Capital City Police, which vanguards the Capital City and the governing bodies of The Black Party."
"The Black Party's judiciary system is also subordinate and cooperative to that of the Secret State Police, but please don't let it stop the
Oprichnina from acknowledging that we are in no way hesitant to hold our own accountable."
Regards,
~ The Ministry of Economics & The Secret State Police, The Black Party