What is Your Nation's Most Well Known "Secret"?

[Rhodevus]

What secret in your nation is the most well known?

In Rhodevus, the Imperial Palace, AKA the main government building, senate as well as home to the reigning monarch to filled with secret tunnels and hidden entrance-ways. The tunnel complex was built during the mid-1800s before the fall of the Rhodeve Empire to be used for the emperor to escape in case of siege. Since then, the tunnels have become well documented. So much so, that various maps of sections can be found online. Some sections of this "secret" tunnel are now open for the public to wander through, but the main sections, connecting to the monarch's bedroom are sealed and only allowed to be used by the monarch herself as well as certain trusted individuals.
An well known entrance-way into the tunnel system, is a painting of the first President of the Empire. Beside the picture there is an intricate security system which, once accessed will open the painting's doorway (as well as the 3 ton steel wall behind it) to allow entrance. Beside the panel, there is a plaque reading Security Entrance to the Monarch's Main Chambers.

So nations of NS, what secrets does your nation have that are now very well known?

[The Gamindustrian Union]

-Anyone can see the goddesses in their lacy unmentionables (Persona 4TW!), especially in their human form, and the goddesses, save Noire and maybe Uni, won't mind.
-Anonydeath is gay.

[Philytumin]

Philytumin has plenty of secrets, but the one everyone seems to know (even with the government trying to cover it up), is the existence of near workable "Iron-man" style military suits. They had been in the works for about 5 years now, and kept secret very well for about half that time. Even though the government does not say if the rumours of their creation are true, everyone seems to know exactly what is going on with the machines; some going so far as to even making fake videos about their creation.

[Verdiga]

A company is researching into superheavy tanks as support units or mobile fortresses, rather than assault units.

[Catifornia]

We secretly have been planning to nuke The Communist State[background=][/background] of Nevadog

[Blakullar]

Our current head-of-government, Grand Curator Prokhor Stahlrim, has had two sex changes - from male-to-female and back again - both occurring in 2146. The excuse he gave when confronted by a furious OTAN (the nation's AI head-of-state) over the matter was "I wanted to finally see what having titties would be like".

Another qualifier for the Mechanocracy's most well-known 'secret' pertains to a rumoured sexual relationship between the famously-stolid Mecharussian intelligence chief General Elena Trotskaya and her second-in-command, Colonel Victor Golovkin. The exact level of intimacy between the two is hotly-debated - both refuse to comment on the matter and appear to have gone to great lengths to stifle the debate.

[Fatatatutti]

It is a well-known secret that Fatatatutians have no secrets. Our Intelligence service sells grab bags of secrets in the gift shop. It is also a well-known secret that the secrets we give away for free are mostly lies.

[Grouai]

If the Bank feels Threatened, the Core Council can vote on sending Assassins to kill off Another Bank Head, then Investors of the Grouai Bank buy the Entire Bank and its Resources, acting like foreign investors, then merge it with the Grouai Bank, and the Chairman of the Grouai Bank becomes Head of that said Bank

[Union of American Democrats III]

In the 1800s there was a nail shortage so we had to use Dildos instead

[Cinnoth]

That Cinnrons have very high infidelity rates, and though pose as proper and formal, likely have several lovers on the side, and have developed a sort of "don't ask don't tell" way about it, a man may have his wife who he loves but chances are he might hooking up with the secretary and that nice girl from down the street, while the wife is sleeping with the mail man while her husband is at work, but also means have strong healthy population growth.

[Kractero]

The nation's below and above me are actually my colonies.

[Messeren]

We have declared our independence.

[Skyviolia]

We don't keep secrets.

[Kokotov]

In Kokotov the most well known secret would have to be that the genetically engineered Empress suffers from near debilitating mental issues. The government tries to keep it out of the light of day by censoring the media that features her however, her occasional breakdowns cause enough disruption that no amount of censoring could keep it from being known.

[The Republic of American Freedom]

We keep Aliens in Area 51.

[Skarten]

We Are Damn Fan-FictioN Weapons Makers That Have 1 thousen Words As an Reason of Why You have so many Tech.

[Imperium Sidhicum]

Back before the Age of War, such an open secret was the superdreadnought program. The superdreadnoughts were meant to be war-winning superweapons of great secrecy. However, keeping secret something the size of a major city that takes the entire yearly industrial output of a forge world to build did turn out to be somewhat difficult. Eventually the Naval Command just gave up on their efforts to keep the superdreadnoughts a secret, and took the direct opposite approach of blaring out the news of upcoming super-warships and their capabilities on the media instead. A nominally-secret weapon of mass destruction became a widely-known weapon of deterrence instead.

Not that these colossi deterred the Age of War very much anyway.

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A more sinister open secret is the Sidh penchant for genocide on troublesome conquered worlds. Although they have no qualms about massacring entire populations if it serves their empire, Sidhae still recognize the importance of public opinion and do not wish to provide their enemies with any more propaganda material than is absolutely unavoidable. Hence, purges of rebellious settlements and entire colonies are normally kept discreet, and discussing such actions in public is a taboo. Eventually, though, someone does notice a few million humans going missing, and it doesn't take a degree in rocket science to put together two and two, and connect military deployments, massive shipments of plasma furnaces or bioreactors, and barren worlds suddenly producing a surplus of protein bars with mass disappearances of the local human resistence.

[Maichuko]

We've been arming rebels in the People's democratic republic of Kantustan . even though we've never been caught and supply them with old cold war weapons of both american and soviet manufacture.

[Fatatatutti]

We keep Aliens in Area 51.

We only have eleven Areas.

[Seventh Oblivion]

A secret underground facility has been collecting information on citizens ever since the country was founded.

[Anollasia]

We don't keep secrets.

This.

[Aterria]

We have lasers pointed at our own capital.

[The Victory Corporation]

While the Victory Corporation officially denies all knowledge of and involvement in such things, it is well known by many that the Victory Corporation regularly involves itself in scientific projects, sometimes of morally dubious origin or intent. While safeguards are put in place and secrecy is kept very well, what few accidents have occurred are enough for anyone with open eyes and ears to know that some truly horrifying things take place in underground labs placed around the Victory Corporation.

[Zhouran]

"Secrecy? Our nation's secret? We are not America. We don't have dog-shit bureaucrats who have their asses on their chairs and do nothing but breath air and spend taxpayers' money on shit that can't even remain secret for long. If the yanks wanna check on their citizens maybe they should follow us Zhouranese and install surveillance within every homes in the name of national security."

- Senior Marshal Kang Yingyong

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It's not secret that the Greater Zhouranese Federation spies on its own people, in fact, they are happy to boast about it. While the federation does have numerous secrets, the stratocratic government claims that they are more open and transparent than America, which Kang claims is run by "limp-dick politicians who like to leak national secrets through emails."

However, a well known "secret" (not really a secret) from the federation is that thousands of poor people from the slums of Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, and Myanmar are sent to Manchuria and Inner Mongolia in the Chinese Autonomous Region to work in underground mines. These poor people, from 18 to 40 years of age, are known to work in slave-like and conditions. Also, the rate of death is pretty high for them due to their lack of knowledge in mining. The only reason why these people are picked to work in mines is so that they can be used to plant explosives inside caves and clear out any debris to allow miners to continue mining.

[Ism]

Ism's leaders meet in a "secret" fortress far beneath Mt. Khas. All Ismites learn of its existence after being conscripted into the armed forces, though the exact location of it and routes to it are still classified.