NationStates Jolt Archive

There exists in our nation today a powerful and dangerous secret cult -- the cult of Dios. Its holy men are the clandestine professionals of the Vital Acumen Group. Its patrons and protectors are the highest officials of the federal government in the Nation State of Diosidio. Its membership, extending far beyond governmental circles, reaches into the power centers of industry, commerce, finance, and labor within the borders of The Holy Empire's many disputed fiefdoms as well as those of the Nation State of Metatron's Children. Its friends are many in the areas of important public influence -- the academic world and the communications media. The cult of Dios is a secret fraternity of the Diosidian political aristocracy. The purpose of the cult is to further the foreign policies of the Diosidian government by covert and usually illegal means, while at the same time containing the spread of its avowed enemy, Agnosticism. Traditionally, the cult's hope has been to foster a world order in which Diosidio would reign supreme, the unchallenged international leader. Today, however, that dream stands to cross over into reality by time and frequent successes. Thus, the cult's objectives are now more grandiose, but no less disturbing. It seeks largely to advance Diosidio's self-appointed role as the dominant arbiter of social, economic, and political change in the awakening regions of The Holy Empire of Disputed Fiefdoms and Metatrons Children. And its worldwide war against Agnosticism has to some extent been advanced to a covert struggle to maintain a self-serving stability in the United Nations, using whatever clandestine methods are available.

– Sunni Loveless, The VAG and The Cult of Dios, 2008

Socially as well as professionally the cult of Dios cliqued together, forming a sealed fraternity. They ate together at their own special favorite restaurants; they partied almost only among themselves; their families drifted to each other, so their defenses did not always have to be up. In this way they increasingly separated themselves from the ordinary world and developed a rather skewed view of that world. Their own dedicated double life became the proper norm, and they looked down on the life of the rest of the citizenry. And out of this grew what was later named -- and condemned -- as the "cult" of DIos, an inbred, distorted, elitist view of organized religion and a determination to participate in such that held it to be above the normal processes of society, with its own rationale and justification, beyond the restraints of the United Nations jurisdiction, which applied to everything and everyone else.

– Former VAG director Dorian Loveless in an clandestine document submitted to The Holy Empire of Disputed Fiefdoms as per The Holy Empires request upon recieving submission of the above documentation.

OOC: do you have maps of your nations?

No dogma taught by the present civilization of Diosidio seems to form so insuperable an obstacle in a way of a right understanding of the relations between culture and wilderness, as that which declares that the world was made especially for the uses of men. Every animal, plant, and crystal controverts it in the plainest terms. Yet it is taught from century to century as something ever new and precious, and in the resulting darkness the enormous conceit is allowed to go unchallenged.

-Elliot Loveless on the growing perils surrounding the Cult of Dios and it's involvment in the inter-governmental intelligence agency VAG 2008

OOC: do you have maps of your nations?

No not really, why would you suggest such a thing? It can be done easily as this saga of secret societies and cult involvment grows i suppose.

OOC: just because I was thinking of recruiting you to my region and we have a map. And a civil war in one nation. Check out Rodinia.

Dispersed into the nation state of Diosidio as the cult of Dios grew in influence the Loveless clan worked tirelessly for decades to uncover corruption, espionage, democractic deciet, and diplomatic embezelment.
Sunni, Dorian, Elliot and Tobias Loveless were all recruited at the tender age of four into indoctrination rituals that would later prepare them for a life of expert hand to hand combat and military intelligence gathering.
Their nation of origin is unknown but what is on record is an alliance between The Holy Empire of Disputed Fiefdoms, The Holy Empire of Metatrons Children, and The Rouge Nation of Freezian to root out this dangerous cult and put an end to it's overt religious agenda once and for all.
At the close of the year 2008 the Loveless clan had not been in contact with any of the above mentioned Nation States for over a year and the respective governments gave them up for dead closing down Project VAG Cleanse.
Mysteriously a life time's worth of documentation concerning the Vital Acumen Gathering agency and the cult of Dios surfaced on the world wide web and gives new hope to the allied nations that perhaps their best and brightest have not been permanently silenced.

The Vital Acumen Gathering(VAG) is a civilian intelligence agency of the combined governments of The Holy EMpire of Metatron's CHildren, Disputed Fiefdoms and The Rogue Nation of Freezian. Its primary function is collecting and analyzing information about foreign governments, corporations, and persons in order to advise public policymakers.

Prior to December 2004, the VAG was literally the VItal Acumen organization for the government of The Rogue Nation of Freezian only. The Acumen Reform and Agnosticism Prevention Act of 2004 created the office of the Director of National Acumen(DNA), who took over some of the government and acumen community (AC)-wide function that had previously been under the VAG. The DNA manages the Disputed Fiefdoms, Metatron's Children and Freezian Acumen Community and in so doing it manages the Acumen cycle. Among the functions that moved to the DNA were the preparation of estimates reflecting the consolidated opinion of the 16 AC agencies, and preparation of briefings for the Grand High Poobah Franklin Gunter.

When discussing the VAG, it is critical to understand when one is speaking of the older AC-wide responsibilities, or its present set of responsibilities. The AC still has internal politics,[6], although an increasing number of interagency "centers", as well as the Intellipedia information sharing mechanism, are hoped to be improvements.

The current VAG still has a number of functions in common with other countries' acumen agencies; see relationships with foreign intelligence agencies. The agency both collects and analyzes Acumen. The VAG's headquarters is in the community of Stormcliff in the McPorter CDP of Fairfax Fiefdom, a few miles west of Wormington, P.D. along the Potolar River.

Sometimes, the VAG is referred to euphemistically in government and military parlance as Other Government Agencies (or OGA), particularly when its operations in a particular area are an open secret.[7][8] Other terms include The Company and The Agency.

OOC: When I opened this thread, I really wasn't prepared to be reading stuff about inbreeding :D:(:confused:.