Okhrana

The Okhrana or Department for Protecting the Public Security and Order is the domestic security agency of Osorra, albeit it informally acts as the national Gendarmerie and is thought to be a "secret police". De jure it should function under the authority of the Tsar but with the Tsar's departure the Okhrana exists in a state of flux, passing between different factions vying for power. Klava is believed to be the true overseer of the Okhrana and is believed to allow this flux in order to secure her position and the position of her broader clan vis a vis other powerful business clans and the broader military elite. This flux is also thought to be due to the Okhrana's constant attempts to "rebrand" itself. This flux has given the Okhrana a reputation of inconsistency, redirecting its attention to different political factions at whim. . Within the Okhrana there exists factions vying for power, and in some cases departments have internally skirmished. This does not detract from the brutality of the Okhrana which has among the most invasive mass surveillance programs in Anterra, regularly arresting intellectuals or protestors, extrajudicial executions and has deployed excessive force for minor provocations. The Okhrana is also known to cooperate with foreign governments in the Beskonechnaya Noch and has created massive incarceration complexes in many areas in collaboration with local police. The Okhrana has infiltrated many organizations and removes many avenues of civil participation. Some have justified that the Okhrana justifies its power based on a type of anxiety developed by the large Osorrai middle class, where the instability of much of the country convinces them to fund vast apparatuses of state repression to keep their communities safe - moving the war elsewhere.

The organization was founded as the replacement to Authority for Securing the State after the Communist transition. It was created due to the mass breakout of protests in the September Riots, as many national police forces and the domestic intelligence service were merged into one organization. The newly created Okhrana would go on to kill a classified number of protestors vowing "full force" in the Arnica Square Incident. The force would go on to infiltrate various revolutionary organs and many leading Osorrai dissidents were assassinated. The organization also convinced the Tsar to sign the Stability Order which restricted political society creation to property owners. The agency grew in tandem with Sosya and created a sophisticated mass surveillance apparatus.