Shikaku-Mon as world travellers

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Originally Posted by Kelly Pedersen

Of course, since Shikaku-Mon has an active and thriving culture of "amateur surveillance", and generally better spy technology than Homeline in general, I would expect that whoever got the Secret first, would not retain it exclusively for long.

For some reason I've always associated the amateur surveilance with brazil. I don't think it actually says that anywhere, its just what has always happened in my head. Its probably fits most of the societies.

I'm not quite sure that the amateurs are really a threat to the government level operatives. They're good at spying, but aren't they also good at counter-spying?