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* [[Cold-Blooded Torture]]: The player has three different levels of torture. The highest level is even officially classified as "torture" and a person won't last more than a few days of it at a time.
* [[Destination Defenestration]]: Mr Garcia will literally remove the player from office if the player starts drawing too much attention to the existence of their Department.
* [[Industrialized Evil]]: And how. This is the point of the game. The [[Aesop]] of the game is that order doesn't equal peace or law. The [[State Sec|Department]] routinely wages illegal war in private by "[reducing] acts of unmitigated cruelty into bloodless, arms-length bureaucratic functions", which, according to reviews, is a fundamentally boring way to fight. The game is spent staring at reports, picking through menus, and pressing the space-bar to sign orders. The player character has a name and is assumed to be male, but otherwise is just some [[Featureless Protagonist]] staring at [[Deadly Euphemism]]s and signing orders. The most stylish thing that happens in the game, other than suspects, is changing the decor from Traditional to Modern.
* [[Jerkass]]: The Prime Minister. Most of the time, he'll use the meetings to scold the player either for bad press or attracting too much attention. If the player is lucky and crafty, the PM may have nothing to yell about, but even then his commendations will be flat "you did ok"-type, with empty promises of a possible knighthood. His approval ratings being above 49% on target dates is the player character's job, and even a single failure is never an option. The game is unwinnable, because the Prime Minister's approval ratings are about 62% on a very good target date, but are often about 44%. The PM's term in office and approval ratings are just fundamentally lackluster.
* [[Make It Look Like an Accident]]: The "removal" teams tend to do this, which is probably the reason why they need much more planning time than the more direct heavy assault squads.
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