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The Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) is one of the most enigmatic entities operating in the Celestial Hegemony and reliable information about its structure and reach is hard to come by. What is known is that the Hegemon is in control of all matters of defense, security, and foreign policy and that a special law dictates that the head of the MOIS must be a cleric, which deepens the Hegemon's influence.

The MOIS is a secretive and secluded organization, and it has been said that “Its doors are shut tightly to the public.” The MOIS is divided into different departments, each run by a representative whose purpose was to ensure the observations of the security regulations. More than 100,000 people work within the MOIS and there is an unknown number of agents abroad.

The main duties of the MOIS are to gather intelligence in other nations, conduct counterintelligence, maintain the secret police, the MOIS military corps, guarding the state border of the Hegemony, and suppress internal resistance. The MOIS also enforces Asharan morals and promotes the Heavordist ideology with propaganda.

In 1242 the Troops for the Internal Defense of the Celestial Hegemony (a branch of the MOIS) numbered at least 200,000. These troops police and run the corrective labor camp system; conduct requisitions of food; subject political opponents to secret arrest, detention, torture and summary execution; and put down rebellions and riots by workers or civilians, and any mutiny that occurs in the army.

They are political paramilitary law enforcement/intelligence agency of the Asharan States, they have a very public presence with their officers manning checkpoints throughout the Asharn States, aiding the Asharan Police in anti-terrorism operations and crowd control, issuing passports and visas, carrying out immigration and border control duties, and patrolling the coastal waters of the Celestial Hegemony, they also monitoring the populace through informants, spies, and interception of communications. It is also rumored that the organization uses assassinations against enemies of the state that can't be arrested due to being abroad or deemed too risky to arrest.