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Realizing the negative impact of having a Secret Police, the KFS instead calls this the Social Security Service. The SSS is responsible for the enforcement of Free State law as well as supervising the rehabilitation or punishment of any offenders. It is comprised of three major components.

The First Directorate consists of five divisions: The Special Surveillance Unit is responsible for domestic surveillance of the KFS population. This is accomplished through the use of block wardens and undercover agents as well as monitoring of telephone and radio communications and the use of security cameras set up in all public areas. The Threat Analysis and Assessment Unit is responsible for the analysis of all incoming data as well as providing the Committee of Five with estimates on potential actions. The Retention and Holding Unit is responsible for the kidnapping and imprisonment of dissidents until their trials. The Interrogation Unit is responsible for the forcible extraction of information from dissidents. The Special Means Unit is responsible for assassinations of, and assaults on dissidents, it also controls the Provocateur Squads. These elite operatives dress in the distinctive uniforms (or lack of them) of the Free State's enemies, potential enemies, and unsuspecting soon-to-be enemies and performs acts of terrorism against Free State citizens. This gives the propagandists their teeth and makes the most repressive police regulation tolerable, and even demanded by the general population. It is this pack of thugs that keep the Free State recruiting stations filled with willing volunteers.

The Provocateur Squads deliberately stir up the carefully cultivated hatreds within the civilian populations by a fiendishly and carefully planned program of revolting atrocities carefully calculated to keep the citizen's wraith firmly focused upon the enemy without and ignorant of the puppet masters from within who pull the strings of the Free State. They conduct brutal murders, rape and socially wrenching sabotage and then use these acts as cover for the elimination of the Free State's enemies.

The Second Directorate is responsible for the psychological manipulation of the population of the KFS. It includes such units as the Media Control Unit (radio, TV, movies, library and print media). The Youth Organization Unit (Boy and Girl Scouts and the Social Security Service Youth Athletic League). The Religious Advisory Board and the Social Services Bureau (handling of pensions, social assistance and food stamps). This Directorate is truly a masterpiece of the propagandist's art. It allows the Free State to play upon the susceptibilities, fears, aspirations and hidden hopes of the population and to guide them along the path chosen by the Committee of Five.

The Third Directorate is responsible for the maintenance of public order within the Free State and it has all the traditional trappings of a police force, a fire department and an ambulance service. This is the most visible component of the SSS and the manipulators of the Second Directorate spare no effort in reminding the population of the courage, dedication and sacrifice of the Third's Directorate's Public Security Officers, they are considered to be "everyday heroes who willingly sacrifice themselves for their fellow citizens."

Surprisingly, the SSS recruits from every walk of life and is the only Free State organization where minorities may rise to the highest levels. The only criterion for the SSS is total loyalty to the regime.

NOTE: this material is based on Twilight 2000's New America....what can I say, they make wonderful villains...no matter the game!