Systems Assessment Committee

The Systems Assessment Committee (SAC), was a special committee formed by an executive order by President Abelin Kramer in 1952 to prepare a secret continuity of government planned which would become NOSTRUM. Originally formed as a forum of 12 people, SAC would grow into an elaborate conspiracy which drew funding and resources from across the government of the Republic Federal of Courmont. Primarily acting through unaware proxies and front-organisations, SAC would engage in illegal and extra-legal activities through-out it's existance before the Conflagration - including blackmail, fraud, and assassination.

Conception
Abelin Kramer was the President of the Republic Federal of Courmont during a period of rapid development in rocketry and space-technologies. Successive briefings with the Committee of Defence National, Strategic Air Command, and other defence organisations caused him to consider orthodox contingency planning to be inadequate. A traditionalist-conservative, Kramer believed that it was inconceivable that the Republic Federal could not exist and only right to plan for its survival.

The Systems Assessment Committee was created by executive order on 3 Frimaire an 1952 to determine the feasibility of planning. On 17 Fructidor an 1953 SAC presented their review of the plans to the President, with the conclusion that it was highly unlikely that centralised emergency planning would be able to recover the nation in the event of total nuclear war.

SAC was given remit then to devise a method through which the survival of the institution of the state could survive a nuclear conflict, with unlimited freedom in the pursuit of options. Presented on 12 Nivôse an 1953, Enduring Legitimate Government Project of Studies Special recommended, amongst other things, the construction of a long-term survival bunker with a viable population, and a legal framework which would allow for the suspension of all civil liberties to divest the government of any legal responsibilities for the care of its citizens.