People's Commissariat for Antics

The People's Commissariat for Antics is the name of the governmental organisation of the Soviet Union which deals with coordinating and organising antics against internal and external enemies, notably Nazi Germany, Nazi German Antic Master Hermann Fegelein, and German leader Adolf Hitler.

Instead of having bureaucratic offices, the Soviet Union had/has people's commissariats (viewing bureaucracies as bourgeois) led by commissars, and the commissariat for antics is no exeption. Various commissariats and governmental bodies of the Soviet Union appear in the Parody Universe and in real-life. The best example is the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD), the secret police under various commissars: Yagoda (1934-36), Yezhov (1936-38, depicted in the parodies), and Beria (1938-1953). The General Secretary of the Communist Party is also in appearence, in the form of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin.

The current (and indeed, only so far) People's Commissar of Antics is Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky, the leader of Soviet Antics.

It is unknown what principles the commissariat is run on, but Stalin once referred to the "Declaration of Soviet Antics"as to why antics should not be performed on him. This differs from the Nazi approach to antics, which involves actively performing them against the ruler with no holds barred. The Soviet approach seems to involve performing them against enemies and not the leader or leadership (although Tukhachevsky still seems to commit antics against Stalin and the communist party leadership anyway).

Trivia
Due to the unique nature of their system in the parody universe, the Soviet Union does not give the leading Antic Master the title of Grand Master. Instead the equivalent is People's Commissar for Antics, as "Grand Master" smacks of being rather lordly, and therefore anti-communist.