actual british people required

[ontology]

Right, I've run into a bit of a brick wall -- well, maybe only plaster -- in the NaNo and need some information from those of you on the f-list who are, unlike me, actually British. The vampire-hunting society turns out not be a Society at all but some sort of government, erm, thingummy. This solves a lot of problems, coincidentally, such as why both Evy and Mr Caruthers are convinced (or ordered) to work for them when they don't agree with the way they do things, and, you know, why they exist in the first place. Now that I've thought of it, it seems very silly that all of the rounding up of undead threats (and calming of any and all other supernatural shenanigans) would be left to citizens; surely there would be a special branch of government/police/something to deal with this. (And so there is!) Anyway: I don't really know how to go about naming this branch of government, figuring out what sort of power they would have and how much, and whether they'd be a sub-division of something else. And what sort of offices people in it would hold. And suchlike. Any help would be very appreciated and possibly rewarded with fresh chocolate-chip pound cake or mixtapes.

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[barefoottomboy.livejournal.com]

*is ashamed at not knowing anything about the structure of UK government, despite being British*

The turn-of-the-last-century UK government will - I imagine - have been rather different to what it is now (hello empire, for one thing!), so I wouldn't worry too much about making it contemporaneously accurate. I'm not sure where you'd find out about historical forms of government, though, so you could probably just go "meh, alternative universe, so I can say what I like" instead.