Republican Secret Service

The Republican Secret Service, also known as the RSS, was the secret service of the Amarillian state, mostly during the first Republic of Amarillo.



General history
The Republican Secret Service was created on the 8 august 2021 by Mayor of Puerto Amarillo (not called Chancellor yet) Salazar Van Den Green and President Soronaca Trichechi (not yet called Aulian de Porphyropolis, not being married to Delta and Porphyropolis not being founded). While Green divided the RSS in several departments, each with specific fields of competence, this division had little to no impact on how the RSS actually operated.

The RSS conducted several operations for the first Republic of Amarillo, especially regarding the "state-sponsored squatter settlements". In less formal operations, it also served to gather intelligence for the republic, and to establish projects regarding foreign affairs, as well as to foil rebellious plans.

The organisation, which had not seen any activity for quite some time even before that, was completely abandonned after the Amarillian Civil war and the establishment of the Kingdom of Amarillo. It was however never dissolved and continued to be an Amarillian institution with a confused and shady status. Despite being a public institution, it had never been officially created, its existence had been kept completely secret from the public, most ministers and, after it had stopped being used, even to most presidents/prime ministers.

While the military status of the organisation was never made clear, Soronaca, as leader of the military and as the only former member of the RSS still in an official position, de facto became, after its abandonment, the leader of the RSS. He continued to lead the remains of the organisation afterwards, when he became king, when he became emperor, and even after he abdicated. At that time, though, leading the organisation was mostly just managing its archives, and sometimes giving some people access to them : it was not a very time consuming nor important job.

As it was controlled by Soronaca, after the second civil war and Amarillo's division into two, the RSS, despite still being called Republican Secret Service, became an organisation serving the independent Kingdom of Amarillo. It was even put out of its neglect, and participated in the establishment of a Nidaros Special trade centered around Porphyropolis in summer 2023.

Finally, in the last month of Eldham, in march 2024, the RSS carried out one last operation, closer to its original purpose. In a joint operation of the Kingdom of Amarillo, Zie Western Drakaes, and the Republic of Amarillo (which was part of Drakaes), the RSS organised the three countries' actions during the diplomatic crisis with Pasifa and, to a lesser extent, their relations with Valreach.

State sponsored squatter settlements
The state-sponsored squatter settlements were three settlements built by the Republic of Amarillo on foreign soil. The goal of these operations was, at a time where Amarillo only controlled its capital, Puerto Amarillo, and Onumozaki, to build settlements in inactive or decadent countries. The settlement's inhabitants, secretly led by Amarillo, would have to either take over the country and then make it join the Republic, or to manage to become independent from it and join the republic with the biggest chunk of territory possible given the town's location and size. These plans, theorized by Salazar Van Den Green, were mostly to have mining colonies, but also simply to have more room for new citizens, as the Republic's population was constantly expanding.

Operation Mondragon
The first state-sponsored settlement built by Amarillo was Mondragon. Established in Kolossnafel, the settlement was abandonned and the operation cancelled when Kolossnafel joined the USSE.

Without almost anyone knowing, as the operation was still a secret, Green, as a tribute, used the name of the settlement when he founded his town in Takavia, after Amarillo annexed it in the province of Takavia Rubia. When Takavia became independent, Mondragon became its capital.

Operation Serpentina
This settlement was established far in the north, north west of Quadakh. The operation was cancelled when, due to a lack of precautions in making the agents look unaffiliated to Amarillo, Quadaki people found out the settlement's link to the republic. The territory it was in was later annexed by Quadakh.