IRS

## Description:

The IRS, or Internal Revenue Service, goes by only that name. The organization is dedicated to maintaining balance in the K2 Universe across all aspects and concepts, ranging from money to property to life to death to prayers and emotions and memories, the IRS collects all. The group's name, often mistaken for a reference to the United States's tax-collecting office, is rather a play on the group's physical location; the IRS maintains a headquarters at the center of the Earth, hidden by powerful magic and a surrounding ocean of molten iron and unimaginable gravity. The IRS is affiliated officially with no groups that operate and exist within any of the Realms of the K2 Universe, and draw their authority from the Great Martyrs themselves.

The IRS operates in absolute obscurity; only the most official and powerful of individuals in the Universe, across all Realms, have the influence and authority to be worthy of direct interaction with even the lowliest of the IRS's employees. The group's secrecy lies in their very nature, created as a result of their operations at the highest levels of societies and the Universe itself, taxing even gods and concepts in the same manner as the group collects from the normal people.

### Organization:

#### Population: ~1,000,000,000

Founded in: N/A

The IRS gathers its highest orders, motto, and founding documents from the Great Martyrs themselves, who reserve the right to interfere directly with the group's rulings and the Audits of individuals as they see fit. Operating as the acting leadership for the IRS in the absence of the Great Martyrs, the Tax Board enacts the tenets of the documents given to them by the Great Martyrs and ensures that the IRS operates at peak efficiency at all times. Acting as the Tax Board's right hand, Da Quota is the physical manifestation of the IRS and all of its power, and frequently operates as the "god" or figurehead for the organization itself, being one of the strongest entities employed by the group and acting as the most prolific and dedicate field agent in IRS history. Below Da Quota comes the managers, executives, department heads, employees, automatons, and interns that fill out the billions of employees under the IRS's significant umbrella.

The IRS recruits from mortals that fit the group's moral and ethical standards, and possess the powers and potential to become effective employees. The IRS hires from all groups and races, all genders and kinds of sentient creature from all religions and across all of space and time; if an individual is identified as a potential employee, some representatives demonstrate to the potential recruit the benefits and service offered by the IRS. If the potential recruit should decline, they are coerced or killed for now knowing too much; entrance into the IRS is said by some to be a very overwhelming experience that few people remember fondly, but once one is indoctrinated and initiated and settled in, their minds often warm to the group and its methods. The IRS is also known to maintain a large force of sentient magical automatons, and employ a great deal of Undead amongst their ranks, although all Undead are gifted with sentience upon being hired.

The IRS taxes everything, from concepts to standard forms of currency to souls, and takes great pride in its efficiency and unstoppable nature. The IRS is tasked with maintaining the laws of nature and physics and keeping balance in the Universe, often becoming at odds with very powerful groups and individuals that seek to alter or manipulate the balance of things for their own benefit. The IRS accomplishes its mission unendingly, and has done so since the Universe's creation, and has only expanded its influence and power over time.

The IRS's headquarters, The Contract, is organized into a number of Articles, which act as its levels and primary divisions of the group's extradimensional base of operations. The list of each of the Articles is listed below, accompanied by a short description of each:

1. Preamble: The highest level of the IRS is the only section open to visitors and non-employees; includes basic services, tourism attractions, security measures, customer service and other public offices, etc.
2. Parties: Residential areas and living quarters for the IRS's billions of employees, workshops and commercial zones where the employees spend their off-hours; a city-filled pocket dimension with unknown boundaries, fitted with neighborhoods and sections befit each of the cultures, races, and species employed by the IRS; policed by [REDACTED].
3. Recitals: The layer of the IRS filled with training facilities, armories, and unending libraries and treasuries all filled with the IRS's collected inventory of items gathered over the Universe's existence.
4. Signing Line: The working layer of the IRS created with spatio-temporal contractions to enable nigh-instantaneous movement through the literally-unending lines of desks, offices, conference rooms, break rooms, auditoriums, printing rooms, server centers, and water coolers; the windows that line the "walls" of this layer are actually Divination mirrors used by the employees to watch any point across all of space as a means of recreation at their desks.
5. Fine Print: Torture chambers, interrogation rooms, autopsy chambers and morgues, scrying chambers and Divination pools, and any other tool or location an individual could imagine to extract information from or enact basic punishment upon captured criminals and lowly tax-evaders.
6. IBM (Internal Bureaucratic Management): Bureaucratic Hell for those who evade taxes or break the laws of the Universe in such a heinous way that simple death/undeath/destruction/unending torment in the Afterlife is not enough to exact just punishment upon tax-evaders and law-breakers.
7. Library of Alexandria: Extradimensional pocket space maintained by a special division of the Brothers of Babel that act as agents of the IRS known as Indexers, who are responsible for indexing and maintaining all knowledge contained within all of space and time; what is not written or destroyed by the Indexers no longer happened.