State affiliated clandestine organisations in YN

[Crysuko]

Secret police. Unethical labs. wonderweapons research. All sorts of things that are kept quiet and off the books lest it at best tarnish our reputation, and at worst provoke international intervention. Most nations are sure to have them, what are yours?

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I'll start.
Name of Organisation: Anomaly Research and Containment Section (ARCS)
Type: Illegal/anomalous research
Brief description: Since the schism event, anomalous events and in some rare cases places, objects and even people. It is the job of ARCS to safely contain and research these anomalies. Some of the research performed may not meet the ethics standards of most, and it is best for public security and safety if anomalies and those who contain them be kept under wraps.
Size (In manpower and resources): 3500 personnel spread over 30 sites. Can be expanded if necessary.
Level of secrecy: (From completely unknown to the public, to broken veil): ARCS isn't directly known or speculated about, but an anomaly research section is often rumoured about by conspiracy theorists, paranormal enthusiasts and self styled experts of the schism event and it's lingering effects.

[Easykeep]

Name: easyironkeep
Type: ungoodkeeping
Detail: To iron out ungoodactors and ungoodlaborers, easykeep formed a keep to build and yarn ungoodkeeps.
Size:
- 1,200,000 ironkeepers at 800 ungoodkeeps
- 11,000,000 ungoodparters
Secrecy: petagood

[Batea del Nord]

Name of Organisation: LND translated as Defense National League
Type: Paramilitary
Brief description: The National Defence League was formed after our independence war. Is a voluntary military national defence organisation, which acts in the area of government of the Ministry of Defence. The Defence League possesses arms and engages in military exercises. The main goal of the Defence League is, on the basis of the citizens’ free will and initiative, to enhance the readiness of the nation to defend its independence and its constitutional order, including in the event of military threat.

The Defence League plays an important role in supporting the civil structures. Its members aid in putting out wildfires, volunteer as assistant police members, and ensure safety at various events. Units, consisting of voluntary members of the Defence League. A difference of the military, Gendarmerie and national guard is not deployed abroad. But takes part in military exercises in our country with foreign militaries.

Size (In manpower and resources): around 25000 if we included the women and youth wings similar to boy scouts.
The uniform and graduations are the same as in the military with a green beret with their emblem a wolf with a sword and shield. The military is highly westernized while the defense league until recently had Warsaw pact equipment is being phased out to western equipment (standard of the military).
The defense league has no heavy artillery (but yes mortars, ATGMs and MANPADs) or armor. Nor air or sea elements (except drones) they have all terrain 4x4, pickups and trucks

Level of secrecy: (From completely unknown to the public, to broken veil): None as it often adverted to attract volunteers and their members take part in military exercises with friendly foreign militaries. And their professional commanders are Gazetted. While the non professional leaders are elected by their peers.

[Free Transhumanists]

Name of Organisation: Inquisition Office of the Union

Type: Secret police, specialized extraction of designated targets

Brief description: Long arm of many times failing law in our nation. This organization was created in order to ensure internal security and public safety. It is often a force used in most important and delicate security matters of the state, or as a last instance of gradually increasing problems. Name might evoke interpretations of medieval religious forces back on the old Earth, well this organization is fairly different and name with such aggressive rhetoric is mainly used as a power symbol. organizations aims to pacify terrorists, criminals (gangs), enemy agents and undercover forces etc.

Size (In manpower and resources): 25 000 000

Level of secrecy: (From completely unknown to the public, to broken veil): Organization is widely known, yet rarely seen. Often when someone sees them, it is because they want to be seen. Organization works mostly in form of blitz operations with very specific and long planned target.

[Golyna]

Name of Organisation: Department 57 (aka "The Company")
Type: Secret Weapons Manufacturer
Brief description: The Company was founded in 1947 as a private entity that manufactured aircraft. In the 1950s, The Company was bought by the Golynan Defense Force and had its headquarters moved to Hanger 57 at Joint Base Lakland near Callahan(hence department 57). Department 57 is a maker of secret weapons such as aircraft, bombs, and WMDs, inducing being the only domestic maker of Napalm(not known to the public). Their operations are hard to come by as freedom of information about them is limited.
Size (In manpower and resources): ~150 employees and $1,000,000,000 in funding
Level of secrecy: Known, but not well. Department 57 operations are kept well under wraps

[Ozeanreisende]

Name of Organisation: OIA (Ozeanreisende intelligance agency)
Type: super spy agency (yes like james bond)
Brief description: they like to spy on countries that Ozeanreisende think are SUSSY, they can infiltrate and eliminate dangerous objects however they are supposed to try not to kill people instead using sleeping smoke guns
Size (In manpower and resources): large like 100,000 spies and a budget of 20,000,000,000$ a year
Level of secrecy: (From completely unknown to the public, to broken veil): very known and the government wants everyone to know because then everyone can feel save that their nation has super spies like in the movies protecting them from outside threats
Note: the OIA only operates outside the country, the police and SWAT handle inside threats (sometimes even the military but that's only if police are streched thin)

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Name of Organisation: ORDL (Ozeanreisende research and development labratories)
Type: (humane) science experiments and tech research like they literally bring FT to MT partially
Brief description: they research things for the country to use but it really exists because i like star wars, halo and other things and i think its cool to have spartans wandering around or astromech droids on planes (and also all the cool space stuff)
Size (In manpower and resources): 10,000 employees 30,000,000,000
Level of secrecy: (From completely unknown to the public, to broken veil): unknown

[Japuile]

Name of Organisation:Grand Ducal Guard
Type:Secret Police
Brief description:The Grand Duke's Guard was one of the small prints in the Ducco System, which were supposed to guarantee the stability not only of the grand ducal family itself, but also the stability of the state itself. The structure is divided into two parts, agents and guards. Rangers specialize in protection, escort, and escape, as the agents are in charge of gathering, compiling, analyzing, and reporting information to the Grand Duke. If there is enough evidence that the man is a threat to the state, and not just a "screamer", he will surely be assigned to disappear sooner or later.
Size (In manpower and resources):Small in numbers (200), but quite well-equipped (million dollars a year).
Level of secrecy: (From completely unknown to the public, to broken veil): Everyone knows about their official site, politicians and criminals about the less official one.

[Greater Marine]

Name of organisation: DIRECT ( Department of Internal Research and Experimentation for Combat Technology)

Type of organisation: Millitary research division, conducting experiments that otherwise would be unethical, politically dangerous, or pose a threat to national security if made public.

Description: DIRECT was founded in 1940 to research cutting-edge, experimental weapons and technology which could give the allies a strategic advantage in WW2. Initially, it operated with 500 people out of an air force base 20km south of Eldorado. In the cold war, the size of the organisation increased ten-fold, and much cutting edge research took place. Examples of DIRECT work include the pioneering development of guided missile technology in the 1940s, the development of nuclear reactors in December 1941 (the world's first), the first Marinian nuclear weapons in 1952, and a super-soldier program which ran from 1942 to 1951, and 1980-2008, before reaching operability in 2019 with Lieutenant S. Charleson being the first to enter frontline service. A nuclear fusion program is currently ongoing, and a laser-based CIWS for ships is "nearing completion".

There have also been experiments into genetic engineering in humans, human cloning and cryogenic storage of people. However, none of this is publicly known.

Size: 2000 people work officialy for DIRECT. However, the actual number is rumoured to be much higher, at roughly 15,000. It has 3 main research facilities, and several ones set up within other millitary facilities, universities and several secret ones. Funding is unknown, but possibly billions of Marinian Dollars.

Level of secrecy: Many people believe it exists, but only top millitary command have any concrete facts about it.

[Independent Republic of Boldonia]

Name of Organisation: Organization of Multiversal Security (OMS)
Type: Joint Espianoge and Intellegence Organization
Brief description: Joint organization between several western nations (including but not limited to The United States, The United Kingdom, Germany, France, Japan, South Korea, and several others). Observes and conducts espianoge several multiversal nations deemed a threat to Boldonia's and strategically removes their ability to become a threat.
Size (In manpower and resources):
6,500 Employees Total
500 Agents in Foreign Soil
Level of secrecy: (From completely unknown to the public, to broken veil): Only a unit commonly employed by the OMS is publicly known, the Multiversal Hazard Zone Unit (MHZU) of the IRBMF. Outside of that the organization is not publicly owned with only the highest agents of each countries intellegence agencies being aware of its existence.

[Vallermoore]

Name of Organisation:Vallermoorian Secret Service (VSS)
Type:Spies/secret police
Brief description: Colloqually known as the Men in Black, the VSS is responsible for spying on other nations, and for kiddnapping those who have committed crimes against Vallermoore or it's people but can't be extradited as the other country does not want to do so or legally can't or both, or killing them if kiddnapping them is impossible.
Size (In manpower and resources): 100 human agents, 100 Changeling agents, 50 sapient pony agents, 50 staff for wages ect. Resourses-several million Chingchings.
Level of secrecy: (From completely unknown to the public, to broken veil): The Vallermoorian public know it exists, and occasionaly hear in the news of the occasional forced rendition, but they don't know the details.

[Aldina]

Name of Organisation: Intelligence Ministry of the National People's Council (nicknamed "the Dovecote")
Type: Joint intelligence service
Brief description: Aldina's central intelligence apparatus was originally meant to act as a hub for coordination between various other civilian and military intelligence organizations, most of which it has since absorbed. The Ministry now carries out intelligence and counterintelligence operations both foreign and domestic.
Size (In manpower and resources): ~5000 publicly declared employees. Unknown number of undeclared employees.
Level of secrecy: (From completely unknown to the public, to broken veil): Their existence and purpose are public knowledge, but the particulars of their operations are various flavors of classified.

[Thermodolia]

Name: Thermodolian Secret Service
Type: Intelligence agency
Detail: The TSS is the main intelligence service of Thermodolia and adept at creating double agents in intelligence organizations across the world and at signals intelligence
Size: Classified, estimated to have around 41,456 employees (not counting people on their payroll but not officially employees) and 10 billion Therma budget
Secrecy: High (Thermodolians know it exists but not much else)

Name: Thermodolian Enforcement Directorate
Type: Counter-intelligence/terror agency/anti-corruption police
Detail: The TED is a constitutionally established agency that handles investigations into corruption, hunts down double agents, moles, and spies that are within Thermodolia, and runs counter terror operations.

The TED legally has access to all intelligence and top secret information (including the most top secret) in all of Thermodolia. The agency also is legally allowed to plant agents across the government/society in order to fulfill their constitutional duty. These plants are only known to the agency itself
Size: Classified, estimated to have around 89,576 employees and about 20 billion Therma budget
Secrecy: High

[Camp Hebron]

Name of Organisation: National Security Bureau
Type: Foreign intelligence, counter-terrorism.
Brief description: Responsible for gathering intelligence on foreign entities, the N.S.B. acts as an agency that provides needed intel to the Hebronian government in order to conduct military or espionage operations, keeping deployed units such as Mobile Task Force units safer and more knowledgeable with the information they gather. The N.S.B. also serves as a major counter-terrorism organization of the country, working with the Central Investigation Bureau to handle internal terrorist threats but also working in the international community to take down terrorist organizations and international crime rings.
Size (In manpower and resources): Around seven thousand field agents, additional two thousand clerical agents.
Level of secrecy: (From completely unknown to the public, to broken veil): Public, the civilian population and international community knows it exists though various N.S.B. operations are classified and most field agents take steps to prevent identification as an operative.

Name of Organisation: Paranormal and Extraterrestrial Containment Foundation
Type: Anomalous intelligence, research, containment.
Brief description: Tasked with located and containing entities that are paranormal, supernatural, or extraterrestrial, the P.E.F.C. is responsible for keeping the civilian population of Camp Hebron secure against threats that could cause hysteria and prove too anomalous for other agencies to handle. They maintain various facilities across the country, where they conduct research on captured anomalies in order to find ways to neutralize them or even use them as weapons against other anomalies.
Size (In manpower and resources): Around four thousand agents.
Level of secrecy: (From completely unknown to the public, to broken veil): Mostly unknown, various public files do exist but are usually missed by the vast majority of civilians and hold no pertinent information. The existence and purpose of the P.E.C.F. is known amongst a decent portion of the civilian population, mostly in rural areas where they are more commonly sighted, though their existence has also been questioned.

[Plewnidminster]

Name of Organisation: the Secret Intelligence Service
Type: intelligence service.
Brief description:
Operates overseas, can be licensed to kill, do break-ins etcetera.
Most personnel are elite educated former military officers.
Size (In manpower and resources): manpower is classified, resources are £9 billion in annual budget.
Level of secrecy: (From completely unknown to the public, to broken veil):
People know it exists and it’s legal basis, that’s it.

Name of Organisation: the Security Service
Type:
Internal security/ intelligence agency.
Brief description:
Authorise to tap phones, search buildings etcetera but cannot make arrests, forwards evidence to Special Branch.
Remit includes countering terrorism, espionage, subversion of the parliamentary system or monarchy, serious crime (including, but not limited to, organised crime and hate groups) and “industrial conspiracy”.
Mostly former police detectives ranked Inspector and above.
Size (In manpower and resources): £10.25 billion annual budget, manpower classified
Level of secrecy: (From completely unknown to the public, to broken veil):
People know it exists and it’s legal basis


Name of Organisation: Intelligence Communications Headquarters
Type: cyber-intelligence, communications for the police and armed forces
Brief description:
Mostly composed of a diverse group of people with postgraduate degrees, many of whom served as Intelligence Corps or Naval Warfare Intelligence officers.
Size (In manpower and resources):
Manpower is classified, resources are £10.3 billion
Level of secrecy: (From completely unknown to the public, to broken veil):
Less secretive than the other intelligence organisations, still highly secretive.

Name of Organisation: Special Branch
Type: police service.
Brief description:
Responsible for policing related to espionage, terrorism, war crimes, crimes against humanity.
Licensed to kill in some cases.
Size (In manpower and resources):
£9.8 billion
Level of secrecy: (From completely unknown to the public, to broken veil):
Not much but details of operations can be exempt
from FOI laws and this power is used more often than the Uniformed Police.


Name of Organisation:
Special Commandos Corps
Type:
Military commando
Brief description:
Their role includes Commando operations
Special reconnaissance
Manoeuvre Warfare
Parliamentary protection (Since 2020)
Royal protection.
All pass 2 year vetting and a strenuous six month selection, all must have served at least three years in the military.
Size (In manpower and resources):
Both classified.
Level of secrecy: (From completely unknown to the public, to broken veil):
Highly secretive.

Name of Organisation:
Anti-Narcotics Command
Type:
CID command
Brief description:
Highly selective, members can receive licenses to kill, conduct break-ins etcetera in certain neighbourhoods.
Size (In manpower and resources):
£3 billion
Level of secrecy: (From completely unknown to the public, to broken veil):
Highly secretive.

Name of Organisation:
Human Exploitation and Organised Crime Command
Type:
Anti-trafficking and vice unit
Brief description:
Members can be licensed to kill or conduct break-ins anywhere in the country.
Size (In manpower and resources):
manpower classified, resources are £4 billion
Level of secrecy: (From completely unknown to the public, to broken veil):
Highly secretive.

[United cacti of Estaban]

Name of Organization: Kakios Comprehensive Defense Project
Type: Weapon development and defense (specifically anti-missile systems)
Brief description: The Kakios Comprehensive Defense Project was created in late 2021 as a joint venture of the Estabanian Army, the Intelligence and Reconnaissance Brigades, and the Royal Estabanian Air Corps. Originally a small plan to modernize the UCE's air defense and anti-ICBM capabilities, the project later grew into a large, comprehensive regiment made to adequately respond to and defend the UCE from any large scale, airborne assault. This shift in priorities was mostly due to the escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian war and the seeming increase in global tensions. The program has developed multiple clandestine anti-ICBM and anti-missile sites throughout the country, and has created a slew of new monitoring, warning, and response technologies.
During the Autumn 2022 meeting of the Cactus Union, the program was expanded to cover the whole of the Cactus Union, although building for these expansions will not start until 2024.
Size (In manpower and resources): The Kakios Project employs some of the highest caliber scientists and defense experts in the Cactus Union, and has a generous budget, along with being provided almost any materials they ask for.
Level of secrecy: (From completely unknown to the public, to broken veil): The public knows of the program as a simple air defense and disaster response modernization program, while only government officials, some scientists, and high ranking members of the military know of its full extent.

[Great American United States]

Aside from well-known organizations that conduct clandestine activity such as the CIA and FBI…

The U.S. government operates several front organizations to promote U.S. unionism in territories such as Sonora, Cuba and Quebec. These organizations have conducted several violent attacks on separatist leaders.

[Ahvazia]

Ahvazias main clandestine organization is its intelligence service.

It is known as the National Intelligence and Security Agency.

[Republica Federal de Catalunya]

Name of Organisation: Coltell teams (status: disbanded)[s
Type: death squads formed by special forces operatives and foreign intelligence agencies.
Brief description: during the lead years 1970-1985 there was a rise of political violence paired with economic crisis. Radical left and right wing launched various terrorist attacks. Partly the Government knew that those right wing and left wing organizations had friends and safe havens abroad. That would deny any extradition for prosecution. Like Stasi and SD helped red flag terrorist groups, also they had links with Bader Meihorff, IRA or Bandere Rosse, PLO, etc and right wing groups had safe havens in francoist Spain and had support of emigrees residing in Spain. So Coltell teams did some high profile assassinations of leaders of those groups.
Those Coltell teams did with help of friendly intelligence groups as BND, CIA, Mi6 or Mossad helped track those radicals and collaborated or closed the eyes with others dark activities (kidon teams). Also when straight for the founding of those radical groups and worked with infiltrates and confidants. Their greatest successes were the boarding of a yatch carrying Lybian weapons for red flag in 1978 by the UIM commandos and the murder of far right leader Juan Vila in his house in Madrid in 1980.
Size (In manpower and resources): secret never more than 50 at a time or more than 100 in total.
Level of secrecy: (From completely unknown to the public, to broken veil): broken veil.
The 21 known victims of those groups. Have been accounted to the 110 official terrorism victims of the lead years, so their relatives and survivors received the same support as their violence victims. In 1987 journalist Xavier Vinader first unveiled the Government implication in the murder of Juan Vila.
The Government gave public acknowledgment of Coltell teams activities and made a public apology. But did not prosecute no one as the Coltells received official orders of the Presidents: Coll i Alentorn, Tarradelles and Pujol. Presidents have immunity while on office.

[Nova Universo]

Name of Organisation: External Intelligence and Investigation Team
Type: Intelligence agency, investigation agency
Brief description: It is a government office tasked with collecting and analysing information of interest to the Union of Nova Universo. It also investigates external judicial cases which involve the Union or its residents. It concentrates its efforts into human, imaging, signals and open-source intelligence, and has a supplementary remit of defending the Union against external threats.
Size (In manpower and resources): 2500 employees, NUV 250 Mio and 25 operational centres around the world.
Level of secrecy: (From completely unknown to the public, to broken veil): Somewhat known. MI6, CIA, BND and Supo acknowledges the existence of EIIT as a non-hostile group. FSB, MSS and VAJA classifies EIIT as an enemy group. Skilled researchers know that it exists and of its past operations. The general public does not know much of the Team other than its existence.

[Iraqi Arab Republic]

Name of Organisation: General Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs
Type: Intelligence agency
Brief description: Tasked with monitoring internal and international intelligence, also functions as secret police.
Size (In manpower and resources): 12,000 employees

[Exarkyon]

Name of Organisation: Intelligence Organization of Exarkyon
Type: Intelligence organization
Brief description: Does all kinds of clandestine stuff, mostly espionage and counter-espionage; it's activities on civilians are greatly restricted but not forbidden entirely
Size (In manpower and resources): ~20k people, a cut of military funding
Level of secrecy: (From completely unknown to the public, to broken veil): Known to exist, but people think it is MUCH smaller than it really is; most think Exarkyon is totally devoid of effective intelligence

Despite its job, the Intel Organization is held to a high moral standard and forbidden to perform egregiously immoral actions. Most people would be comfortable with the things it does to a degree.

The Intel Organization has some trained assassins to be used in wartime against enemy commanders, not against political targets. They have never been used and are officially a part of the military (though their actual jobs are only known to themselves and their superiors).

[Oronia]

The United Realms has several agencies that engage in clandestine and covert operations. Forming the United Realms Intelligence Community, they are known to the public, although their exact manpower/employment is unknown.

Name of Organization: Institute of Aberrational Studies (Spanish: Instituto de Estudios Aberrantes, IEA)
Type: Secret police/research & containment facility
Brief description: The predecessor of the IEA was the Imperial Order of the Epunamun, a group of machis (shamans) that were sent to handle serious threats within the Empire of Komkiñepu. The IEA was created in 1831 after the occurrence of one of the first recorded "aberrations" since the establishment of the then-Kingdom of Oronia. The IEA has two main divisions: the Detection and Containment Division, which is tasked with the detection, investigation, containment, and termination in extreme cases, of reported or suspected aberrations; and the Research Division, which is tasked with the study of such aberrations, as well as training for sentient aberrations.
Size (in manpower and resources): There are about 4,000 personnel assigned to its 12 facilities. The IEA is primarily funded by private donations, and its director is appointed by the Crown.
Level of secrecy: (From completely unknown to the public, to broken veil): The IEA is not known to the public; there are some conspiracy theorists who have successfully identified its operations, but they have always been dismissed or ignored.