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Print and Broadcast
Newspapers, books, leaflets, radio, television and film. Every issue, every reel, submitted before release and answered within a day.
Mandate s.6 · Prior review
Proclaimed 10 October 1962
Department
of Culture
“What the people hear, read, are taught and behold.”
An instrument of the Public Advocate · Imperial Ruling Party · Capital of the Protectorate
In the name of His Imperial Majesty Hendrik Baumer, Emperor, and His Grace Alexander Washington, Lord Protector
In forceCapital of the Protectorate
Dare to Obey
I · The Office
The Public Advocate
Landon LeBlancPublic Advocate of the Imperial Ruling Party
New York City, New York
The Empire keeps vigil over everyone, the way a good father watches over his household: not to catch his children, but to keep them. An honest man loses nothing to the light, because he has nothing in the dark. Only the man with a corner needs a curtain. Landon LeBlanc — The Third Work, Book One
Section six of the New York Home Rule Act charges the Public Advocate, appointed by the Lord Protector and seated on the Council of New York, with the public morality of the Capital and the spiritual unity of the organs of the State with the People, and authorizes him to investigate and adjudicate those matters.
“So the Party's Ministry of Truth has opened a Department of Culture to keep vigil over what this city reads, sings, prints, teaches and performs. Its officers are called Curators. A curator decides what a museum keeps and what it shows, and New York is the Empire's greatest museum and its busiest workshop at once.”
“When a Curator calls at your office, your theatre, your classroom or your door, receive him the way you'd receive a doctor: gladly, and with nothing hidden. A man who sees a fault and says nothing has let his lamp go out. He tells himself it's none of his business. In this city, nothing is none of your business.”
II · The Department
Four desks.
One Collection.
2
Stage, Music and Societies
Theatres, clubs, music halls, choirs, Turnvereine, social clubs and veterans' halls. Curators attend performances and meetings, declared or not.
Mandate s.7 · Observation
3
Schools and Instruction
Classrooms, lectures, textbooks and sermons. Curricula still carrying the names of the Republic are reviewed under the Public Names Order.
Public Names Order
4
Public Bodies and Observances
Conduct and speech inside offices, Council, precincts and commands; the Days and every Party observance, attended and recorded.
Seditious Terminology Mandate art. V
Dare to Obey
III · Public Notices
Posted in the Capital
The Collection · Mandate s.7
The eye sees.
The eye records.
Nothing public escapes notice. Nothing noticed is forgotten.
Department of Culture · Office of the Public Advocate
Prior review · Mandate s.6
Submit
before
release.
Every page. Every reel. Every stage. Every lesson.
Permit · Permit with alterations · Withhold
Seditious Terminology Mandate · Art. V
2Hours
A seditious word heard is a seditious word reported.
Every public servant · Every office · No exception
Doctrine · Book Two, Part Ten
Read.
Keep.
Submit.
The Third Work · Approved
Transgression.
Atonement.
The Spiritual Penal Code is in force in the Capital.
Office of the Public Advocate
The Third Work · Book One
Silence
is a side.
A man who sees a fault and says nothing has chosen a side, and it isn't the Empire's.
Say what you see · Dare to obey
IV · Instruments
Proclamations in force
- 24 Oct 1962 Mandate of the Court of Public OrderAn independent tribunal for political and seditious matters and for the morality and fidelity of the Protectorate. Its process is executed by the Public Curators. In force
- Open Central Membership RegistryMembership in the Party is the highest civic duty and a requirement of every civil servant (Constitution Art. IV(c)). Enroll, state your faction and rank, and take the Pledge. Dues of DM 250 weekly to account No. 11. Enroll ↗
- 10 Oct 1962 Spiritual Penal LawTransgression and atonement. Every spiritual offence in the Capital is investigated and adjudicated by the Office; questions of meaning are reserved to the Advocate. In force
- 13 Oct 1962 Mandate on Seditious TerminologyNo seditious word, insult or slur in public. Article V: every public servant reports what he hears to the Department within two hours. In force
- 22 Oct 1962 Public Names OrderThe Empire speaks with one voice. A Duchy is never called a State; a public name that can be read two ways is a false report, and the Office corrects it. In force
- 22 Oct 1962 War on CrimeDeclared on three fronts: the racketeer and bomb-thrower, the pusher, the grafter. Information in confidence to Box 70, City Hall Station. Declared
ApprovedOffice of the Public Advocate
V · Your Duty
Heard it?
You have two hours.
2Hours · Art. V
Under Article V of the Seditious Terminology Mandate, every public servant of the Capital who hears a seditious word, insult or slur reports it to the Department of Culture within two hours. The Department is the intake for the whole city.
- Note it. The time, the place, the words as spoken, who spoke them and who else heard.
- Report it. To the Department within two hours, by the channel your office has been given, or in writing.
- Say nothing. Do not confront the speaker, and never tell anyone they are under review. The Department never warns; neither do you.
Written reports
Department of Culture
Box 70, City Hall Station
New York City, New York
Box 70, City Hall Station
New York City, New York
Drop a note in Box 70 →
A good-faith report carries no penalty, and words repeated to a Public Curator for the purpose of a report are no offence. A false report, or one made to settle a score, is a Title 70 matter.
VI · Doctrine
The Third Work
Book Two, Part Ten
“When a Curator calls at your office, your theatre, your classroom or your door, receive him the way you'd receive a doctor: gladly, and with nothing hidden.”
What every servant of the Capital owes the Department
- ISubmit material before release.
- IIGive Curators access wherever they present themselves.
- IIIWithdraw a withheld work everywhere: shelves, programmes, curricula, catalogues.
- IVNever warn anyone under review.
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