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== Fan Works ==
* In ''[[Aeon Natum Engel]]'' and its rewrite ''[[Aeon Entelechy Evangelion]]'' has a such efficient State Sec that it makes the state sec of the source material, Cthulhu Tech, look downright lazy. It also makes the "Everything is falling apart" scenario from the latter's sourcebooks impossible.
* In the ''[[Daria]]'' [[Fanfic]] [[Expanded Universe]], look no further than the organization known as [https://web.archive.org/web/20120507124252/http://www.dariawiki.org/wiki/index.php?title=DELPHI DELPHI], with the [[Pretentious Latin Motto|motto]] ''Praemonitus, praemunitus'' ("''Forewarned is forearmed''"). If your favorite [[Espionage Tropes|spy shtick]] hasn't been yet used by or about DELPHI - ''just you wait...''
* In ''[[Star Crossed]]'', it is revealed that [[Secret Police|Section 31]] actually has a powerful fleet of warships... ''real'' warships, not the normal Federation universal purpose vessels. They get a few shots at the invaders, but generally suffer rather badly from the [[Worf Effect]]. Also a bad case of [[What the Hell, Hero?]].
* True to the games,''[[Tiberium Wars]]'' portrays the Brotherhood of Nod's [[Warrior Monk|Black Hand]] as this. They're a separate army that operates under its own command structure, answering only to Kane. One of the [[Fictional Document|GDI intelligence reports]] states that Black Hand units are dispatched to troubled areas with civil unrest to reestablish order, among other things, and Black Hand officers of significantly lower rank are able to overrule high-ranking Nod officers.
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** The Havenite [[State Sec]] in [[Honor Harrington]] at first glance looks [[Exclusively Evil]]. Later we learn that it is more complicated then that. The [[State Sec]] "human resources" tend to separate people into jobs they are suited for. Those that enjoy beating on people end up as concentration camp guards where they can do so to their hearts content. While the ones that end up as field agents are the ones that would have done the same job for a conventional state and behave as [[Worthy Opponent|Worthy Opponents]] to Manticore. Ship's political officers rather often sympathize more with the service then the revolutionary government and end up going native in the navy.
**They were the follow-on to [[Secret Police|''Internal Security'']], the previous regime's [[Secret Police]], after that regime was [[Stuff Blowing Up|overthrown]]. The Legislaturists were not as well organized though, and used multiple services, including the ''Mental Hygiene Police''. State Sec is also a [[Reign of Terror|Committee of Public Safety Reference]]
* In ''[[Belisarius Series]]'' the Malwa have several of these. One is mainly a [[Religion of Evil|Hindu version of the Spanish Inquisition]] taken beyond what the [[Up to Eleven|real one]] was like. It is primarily priests for conducting
**To make sure that [[No Celebrities Were Harmed|no real-life religion was specifically insulted]] the Malwa based their constructed religion on an obscure piece of Hindu Mythology that would be ignored by most Hindus let alone non-Hindus. Rather as if a European tyrant had considered the Teutonic Knights as the essence of Christianity only probably even worse.
* ''[[The Culture]]'' has Contact and Special Circumstances, which typically serve as its diplomatic and secret service organizations, serve a military role during wartime.
* ''[[Vorkosigan Saga]]'' - The Barrayaran Ministry of Political Education. Emperor Ezar's right hand during much of his rule, they thought themselves to be the power behind the throne, until Ezar made them one of the scapegoats for the failed Escobaran invasion. His ''left'' hand, ''Imperial Security'', is a much more constrained organization wholly dedicated to the continuation of the Barrayaran Imperium, but also bound in what they can do by Barrayaran tradition.
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* In ''[[Prototype (video game)|Prototype]]'', we have the poster child(ren) for [[Evil Army]], Blackwatch, a black-ops style organization that may or may not have authority superseding that of the President. Their stated purpose is to prevent the spread of bioweapon infection (specifically Redlight and Blacklight), but given that every other person in their group is a [[Sociopathic Soldier]], they're using the [[Semper Fi|USMC]] as [[Cannon Fodder]], and they ''[[Nuke'Em|have a plan to nuke Manhattan if they think they're losing]]'', they're more clearly this trope.
* In the ''[[Crusader: No Remorse|Crusader]]'' games, SecCart (Security Cartel) handles defense and security for all [[Mega Corp|WEC]] facilities and personnel. Given the corporate-fascist nature of the game's setting, this means they also handle police, intelligence, and so on.
* ''[[Vega Strike]]'' has [http://wiki.vega-strike.org/Faction:Homeland_Security Homeland Security] (subtle) in theoretically "exist for internal policing and control, especially in cases crossing between the jurisdictional boundaries of member states of the [[The Federation|Confederation]]". Their [[Welcome to Corneria|chat lines]] include "Wrong-thinkers are everywhere, keep a lookout, friend" and (almost verbatim) [[Move Along, Nothing to See Here]]. On our side of the [[Fourth Wall]], it exists to feed [[Black Comedy]] with its unsubtle creepines, especially [[Secret Police|IntelSec]]. Consider [
* [[Final Fantasy VII|Shinra's]] Turks exist in a weird realm between this, normal [[Secret Police]], and [[The Men in Black]], with a pinch of ninja. A Turk operation with SOLDIER muscle thrown in resembles this particularly. That they are the long semi-secret arm of an electric company means they have certain freedom from responsibility vis-a-vis the public and international community that more standard governments do not enjoy, so their structure is somewhat unusual to reflect this.
* In ''[[The Elder Scrolls]]'' series, about the timeframe of ''[[The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim]]'', the Aldmeri Dominion is ruled by a faction known as the Thalmor, who maintain their [[A Nazi by Any Other Name|Nazi-style fascist government]] by having their own special military branch. Thalmor troops are directly responsible for maintaining the ban on worshipping the god Talos within the Empire of Tamriel and have the legal right to do so thanks to a rather lopsided peace treaty between the Empire and the Dominion signed after a massive war between them.
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